Alumni Profile - Wit McKay ’78

Wit McKay

Wit McKay ’78 is a freelance photographer and artist in New York City. He graduated from Williams with a double major in History and Studio Art. Wit attended graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his MFA in 1983. There he won an Andrew Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Art and Technology. Upon graduation he left Chicago for New York.

In spite of being completely unqualified he soon found himself employed as a large format still life photographer. Much to his surprise it became a career. He has worked for all of the major auction houses and many prominent art and antiques galleries, producing images for advertising, catalogues, books and sales material. Currently he is engaged as in-house photographer at Salander O'Reily Gallery. There he photographs the entire range of artworks from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Giacometti and Stuart Davis.