Carla Williams

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 Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award. Williams is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She exhibits with Higher Pictures in New York and lives in New Orleans.