If you are a student or professor, request access to the (Academy of Arts, Berlin). They have a reading room. You cannot take scans out, but you can photograph the reading room monitor with your phone. This is the closest you will get to "Will McBride showing you scans."

Understanding the specific context helps you set realistic expectations about the timing, format, and accessibility of the scans you’re after.

Here is the hard truth for the hobbyist:

The request for "WILL MCBRIDE SHOW ME SCANS" refers to the highly controversial and historical photobook (originally published in German as

I hope you’re well. I recently underwent an MRI on April 12, 2026, and I would like to obtain the final images for my records and to share with my primary care physician.

For collectors, researchers, and art enthusiasts, this phrase has become a sort of Holy Grail query. It implies a desire not just to see McBride’s work on a gallery wall, but to hold a high-resolution, digitized version of it—to study the grain, the shadow, the intimate chaos of his analog prints.