Willem Popelier (b.1982, Eindhoven) is a Dutch visual artist focusing on the different uses of photography, especially the photographic representation of identity through portraits. After studying at the Royal Academyof the Arts in The Hague in 2008, he won the Public Prize of the prestigious Steenbergen Stipendium for photography graduates. His project Rejected Identities (2009) was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award for best experiment and innovation and in the same year he received a publication grant from Fonds BKVB to realise his book project _ and Willem, published by Post Editions in early 2010. _and Willem was exhibited at the DutchDoc!Space during the New York Photo Festival and at the 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liège, both this year. He has just finished his master's degree in  photography at AKV St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands.