Story

Wilhelm grew up and invested himself in his talents like any good art persuer. He trained in his artistic craft traditionally, where he started with painting, sculpting, and sketching. It ate most of his time, and as he hoped to make a career of it, photography as a medium caught his attention. He was infatuated when he saved for and purchased his own camera, and still consumed by that same vigor, he persued dangerous avenues to launch his career.

In his early 20s, Wilhelm is more reckless than he could have ever cared to have been. His photography style is up close and personal, and he gets invasive beyond belief. This era of Wilhelm most notably abused his athletic nature to gain access to abandoned facilities and sites for decrepit themes of photography. It's here he discovered a connection to the paranormal, exposed by his photography.

Many of his peers refused to believe him about the ghosts within his photos, despite the several different development techniques that best exposed outlines and faces. This started a phase of Wilhelm that grew a little more distant, focused on his work. He was determined, by his late 20s, to expose some sort of truth. When he finally developed enough of a spectre's facial features to turn it into a police sketch, he was suddenly finding progress for a missing persons case. A full investigation was launched, and for an extended period of time, Wilhelm was under interrogation. Innocence until proven guility benefited him, and he was allowed to continue his work. This cycle continued for four missing persons cases until the same police department finally closed that all four cases held no prior connection to Wilhelm, and he was invited, though he refused, as a private investigator.

Wilhelm now continues this line of work independently, developing more unique techniques to establish himself as a "paranormal investigation photographer." He goes hand-in-hand with police departments but tends to run his own show. Several spectres wish to be seen and are displayed in his gallery, either making a show for the camera or harassing Wilhelm through his lens. Many are forward, hovering inches from the frame or simply being in view. Others refuse to have their photograph taken, and Wilhelm has had to file these locations as off-limits, condemned, or exorcism-worthy. He makes a career of this now, commissioned to investigate haunted sites, shoot around crime scenes and last known locations, or on occasion, hired to shoot weddings.