D’Angelo Lovell Williams’ striking portraits of Black queer bodies 🖤 More here ➡️
’ photographs are emphatic, intimate, and visceral. The bodies depicted in them – of Williams and their lovers, family members, and friends – are elastic. They bend, stretch, and pull. Hands reach, touch, and hold, and each gesture is potent with meaning., a collection of 45 photographs chronicling the Mississippi-born photographer’s work.
There, they first encountered the work of Lyle Ashton Harris and the late Rotimi Fani-Kayode, photographers whose works explored Black male bodies and exalted queer desire.“[The work] really started with my relationship to my own body, visualising my own body because I hadn’t really seen it be uplifted,” says Williams.
Williams lays on their mother’s lap, her hand cradling their head. Both look directly at the camera, their gaze firm, the shape and shade of their eyes startlingly identical. A thin string of red gum stretches between their lips. The two pose as mother and child but could easily be siblings, even twins.The book’s title, too, is layered in meaning.
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