Bill Diodato has devoted himself to still life and narrative photography for almost 20 years. Refusing to be pigeonholed, he continues to explore the fine line between art and commerce. His images are not just the result of technical achievement, but of a refined aesthetic that captures the essence of his subject matter.  His work is a cultivated response to popular culture and societies acceptance and compartmentalization of fringe subcultures ranging from the revered to the ostracized.  In his body of work on the demise of institutional services, Bill documented Ward 81. Knowing that he would be the last person to document this site, he felt a sense of responsibility to remember the patients who inhabited this all women's ward. The ward, formerly located at the Oregon State Insane Asylum was also the location for the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest". Mary Ellen Mark has said; “Bill’s images confirm the feeling that I always had—that Ward 81 was and still is inhabited by many ghosts.” Of this work stems a limited edition book entitled Care of Ward 81. His second and final project on the subject is a documentation of the cremated remains of psychiatric patients who died at the hospital and were cremated on the hospital grounds, never to be collected by family or loved ones. These photographs represent how much we have come to know about the human psyche.  This project is due for completion and release in 2015. During this final work on the demise of institutional services Bill began working on a series of photographs he created in Marfa, Texas.  Entitled "Hello Meth Lab In The Sun - The Photographs" Bill was asked by his friend and fellow artist Jonah Freeman to create images of the installation from Bill's point of view. Bill created large scale images of this environment that have yet to be publically viewed. These images are not simply photographs taken of an art installation they are photographic renderings shot in several plates and assembled over months of work in his NYC studio. He continues to work on his long standing project Beautiful, Contrived, Awkward People. This project is a reaction to popular culture's perception of beauty and it's quest for perfection. Advertising and the proliferation of this vanity has changed what we believe is real physical beauty... altering expectations of how women "should" look by societal standards.  Cartier-Bresson famously stated "Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact."  These photographs document this "decisive moment" of imperfection.  Ironically, these photographs are not a display of their vanity but a display of their truism.