PhD Modern History, Macquarie University.
MA Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts.
BSc Tech (Mechanical Engineering) University of NSW
 

Major Exhibitions (Solo Exhibitions after 1980)
2004 John Williams. Sydney Diary 1958-2003. Musuem of Sydney.
1999 Portrait of the Month, National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
1998 « Australian Correspondences », John Williams, photograph australien, Historial de la Grande Guerre. Péronne, France.
1997 Twenty Years on the Street: John Williams photographs, 1958-78, Byron-Mapp, Sydney.
Traces 1916-18 — 1988-95, Alliance Française de Sydney.
1995 Traces 1916-18 — 1988-95, Byron-Mapp, Sydney.
1991 John Williams Photographs, (retrospective) National Gallery of Victoria.
1989 John Williams Photographs, (retrospective) Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1986 From the Flatlands, as part of the exhibition Flanders Then and Now, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
1985 From the Flatlands, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
1984 Finding Time, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1983 Living Room Portraits, Gallery A1, Tokyo.
1982 Living Room Portraits, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1981 Living Room Portraits, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
 

Selected Group Exhibitions (after 1980)
2010 Candid Camera Australian Photography 1950s-1970, Art Gallery of SA.
2004 Australian documentary photography after 1946, Art Gallery of NSW.
Photography collection on display, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
1999 Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra. 1999.
The 1970s, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.  
1997 A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
1996 From the Street, Art Gallery of News South Wales, Sydney.
1995 Sydney Photographed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1994 We Are Family, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1986 Flanders then and now, Australian War Memorial.
1984 Segmentations, Friends of Photography, Carmel, Calif., USA.
1983 Continuum 83, 13 Australian Artists in Japan.
1981 Reconstructed Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
 

Grants & Awards
2002 Army Research Grant. German Attitudes and mentality in World War One.
2000 Centenary of the Council of Federation (German Anzacs in World War One).
1999-98 Australian War Memorial (German Anzacs in World War One).
1998 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board. Special projects grant for exhibition at Historial.
1998-97 Goethe Insitut, München. Stipendium (German language scholarship).
1994 Australian Army Research Grant. Research for Anzacs, the Media and the Great War.
1998 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board. Two-year fellowship to fund and develop art practice.
1981 Art Gallery of NSW. Lady Warwick Fairfax Prize for photographic portraiture.

Collections

George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, USA.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne.
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Australian Parliament House.
Australian National Gallery.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Art Gallery of South Australia.
Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Tasmanian Museum and Gallery.
Alburt-Wodonga Regional Gallery.
 

Academic Record.
1999-on Hon. Research Associate, Dept of Germanic Studies, University of Sydney
1998 Visiting Fellow, School of Germanic Studies, University of New South Wales.
1998-95 Visiting Research Fellow, School of History, Macquarie University
1994-89 National Art School, East Sydney (part-time lecturer in art history).
1988-76 Sydney College of the Arts, (Foundation Head, Dept of Photography, Film and Audio-Visual Studies).