Walter Wick (born February 23, 1953) is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of picture book activities for young children, I Spy (1992-) and Can You See What I See?

[1] He embarked on a career as a commercial photographer and eventually shifted to photo-illustration for books and magazines.

He contributed to Scholastic's Let's Find Out and Super Science series and photographed hundreds of mass-market magazine covers.

[2] In 1991, Wick began a collaboration with writer Jean Marzollo on the enormously successful I Spy search-and-find picture books.

In 2003, Wick and his wife purchased an abandoned 1920 firehouse from the city of Hartford and renovated the building into an art studio.