Willie Carson (16 July 1926 – 6 October 1996) was a Northern Irish photo-journalist.
After leaving Longtower School aged 10, Carson worked as a salesman for the local Derry Journal newspaper and then in marketing, before deciding to become a freelance photographer.
With the start of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Carson's work, along with many others', became widely viewed around the world, and photographers from all over the world visited and stayed at his home, using his back yard dark room to process their films and his front room to dry their prints.
His funeral was attended by John Hume and Martin McGuinness, and Ian Paisley wrote a tribute to him in the Belfast Telegraph following his death in 1996.
In 2006, a posthumous collection of his photographic work named after his first book of 1976 - Derry Thru The Lens: Refocus - was published by Guildhall Press, in co-operation with Carson's family.