About the American photographer Amani WILLETT (b. 1975)

Based in Brooklyn NY, Amani WILLETT‘s photography is driven by conceptual ideas surrounding family, history, memory, and the social environment. He completed an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, NY in 2012. His first monograph, 'Disquiet', (2013) – a meditation on starting a family in a time of social unrest and uncertainty in America – was selected as one of the best books of the year by PDN, Photo Eye (Todd HIDO) and Conscientious (Joerg Colberg).

Photo books by Amani WILLETT 

'A Parallel Road' (2020); 'The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer' (2017); 'Bystander. A history of Street Photography' (2017); 'Disquiet' (debut book, 2013); 'Street Photography Now' (2012); 'New York: In Color' (2011)


Out-of-print 'The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer' by Amani WILLETT, explores our human desire to escape to find peaceful solitude, far from the burdens of modern society. The series is completed by collages made of historical portrait & landscape images.
198,00 €
Photo volume 'Disquiet' by Amani WILLETT is a meditation on raising a family in a time of social uncertainty. It combines intimate family images with images of US society as well of economic and political instability, in the years between 2010 and 2012.
58,00 € *
'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue
from 34,00 € Weight 0.2 kg