#  Carla Williams 

 

 



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Carla Williams is a photographer, archivist, editor, and writer born and raised in Los Angeles. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of New Mexico, she is the author of two histories of photography including *The Black Female Body: A Photographic History* with Deborah Willis. Her first monograph, *Tender*, was published in 2023 by TBW Books and received the Aperture/Paris Photo First PhotoBook Award. Williams is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She exhibits with Higher Pictures in New York and lives in New Orleans.



 

 

 



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