DO YOU REMEMBER ME?

I don’t remember what I hiad for breakfast.
I surely hiope it was pancakes.
My computer keeps making me add an “i” when I spell hio. So time for an intro.



I don’t take complaints or compliments. Shoot me a receipt or favorite photo of your grandma. No whining.

I’M WILLIAM HOHE. THIS IS WILLIAMSLENSES.
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LAST UPDATE: March 24th

BOOK GRADUATION PHOTOS HERE

Class of 2025 Graduation Photos - UIUC

     Luly in  Humboldt...(may 2024)




Sean in Lake Michigan...(aug 2024)



Shah in Florence...(june 2024)



Mia for CFE5...(may 2024)



Emily, mud...(mar 2024)




Lydia...(oct 2023)



Jacob for CFE5...(may 2024)




untitled...(feb 2023)



Wild Party...(oct 2023)



The Meantime...(may 2024)






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Page #001 → PHOTOGRAPHY


As a multimedia artist, I find myself blissfully existing most often in the world of photography. When I’m not thinking about dipping my hands or clay, I exist in a place between photographic nostalgic and archive-based intellect. Melding together meaning through objects in a queer perspective on today’s capitalist and American pop cultures. 

Here is a link to my *normal* work. Think events, portraits, the like! 

Commercial Work



Below you can find my archives [artistic]

BY YEAR:

Click, just click it!

If it’s not working right now, that’s not my problem. I don’t run the department of transporation.
2025 [we’re 8 days in]
2024
[End of an Era]
2023 [Marlboro Red Era]
2022 [I like everything]
2021 [William goes to UIUC]
2020 [COVID means business]
2019 [Ok, I’m gay]
2015-2018 [What’s a camera?]
2002-2014 [Prehistoric]


Some of my current favorite photographs, and a little bit about them:



The Fashion Network, Issue #11, “Garden of Destruction” (2023) :

“Cry [My] Heart Out” (2022)

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“Wild Party” (2023)

Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage,  Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.

Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”


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“Heraldo’s Makeup Bag” (2023)

Heraldo is a drag queen and friend of mine who goes by the name “Lydia Ryder.” Taking a moment to bake and looking at themselves in their mirror, I shot a candid of Heraldo in a state between himself and herself. When does Heraldo become Lydia? In what instance is the human left behind and the drag put on?


Performing and putting on a look for a small-scale photoshoot, this composition speaks to not only the artistry and tedious details behind drag makeup, but an ongoing fascination with performance in photography.

Collaborating with Heraldo and Owen (another drag artist not pictured), we investigated and documented going from the self out of drag and the interrogation with the drag persona during this photoshoot. These images were included as part of William’s Summer of Rest & Relaxation and speaks to the artist’s interest and the entertainment they find in watching drag and drag queens.

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“Venus: Caveat Emptor” (2023)
“America’s Favorite Past Time” (2022)


“Self Portrait 1948 (America’s Favorite Pastime)” takes inspiration compositionally and in its namesake from a Frida Kahlo self portrait. Creating a series of costumes and characters, in this instance a baseball-card headpiece, this self portrait contemplates forced masculinity in my youth.


Reminiscing on a lifelong interest in collecting, I wanted to contemplate on my fascination with baseball cards. Both collecting for the sake of objects but also picking baseball players I found either attractive or good looking, what to outsiders may have looked masculine and boyish was much more queer and gay in retrospect. This self portrait features me in blue face paint, while revealing my chest and underwear; balancing between tradition and self-expression, much like Kahlo did in her art and life, this portrait pays homage to the trailblazing painter, takes her compositional strength from the 1948 work, and puts it in the context of a closeted, Midwest youth.


“Stockz & Bondz” (2023)
“We’re All Children Dressed in Adults’ Clothing” (2020)
“Wild Party” (2023)

Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage,  Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.

Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”
“Attic Trip” (2023)
“The Fall” (2023)
“Wild Party” (2023)
“Stockz & Bondz” (2023)
“Wild Party” (2023)

Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage,  Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.

Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”
“Razor Burn” (2022)
“TV Static” (2020)



Page #002 → Videography

In my video practice, I intersect fashion, performance, and time-based media to explore identity, memory, and queerness. In works like To Play A Pawn and their fashion-focused pieces, video becomes a vessel for capturing transformation, tension, and the performative essence of identity. By reimagining fashion shows as living archives and staging time-sustained performances, William queers the constructs of time and space, allowing fleeting moments to linger and narratives to unfold beyond the immediate. Their videos challenge conventional representations, drawing from queer semiotics to encode symbols and gestures that redefine the mundane as extraordinary. Whether showcasing the fluid choreography of garments or the endurance of prolonged gestures, their work transforms video into both artifact and archive, inviting viewers to engage with layered narratives that blur the boundaries between personal and collective memory, ephemeral and eternal.



Short Form Content
 

Miscellaneous


“To Play A Pawn” 5-Minute Supercut Video (from the 32 look collection) [2024]


“To Play A Pawn” Intro Video (from the 32 look collection) [2024]



“Randa Rose NYFW” Video (from the limited collection) [2023]

 

7-Sins Videos (from the 7 Sin Clock Piece in “William’s Summer of Rest & Relaxation) [2023]




“Liminal Space” (A Short Film) [2022]