D'Angelo Lovell Williams

D'Angelo Lovell Williams (born 1992) is an American photographer, living in Brooklyn, New York who has made work about queer Black life. In 2022 their book Contact High was published.

Early life and education Williams was born in Jackson, Mississippi. They also attended Skowhegan School of Art in 2018.

Their work was included in the 2020 exhibition and related publication, Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art at Lehman College from February to May 2020.

The series Papa Don't Preach, according to Maia Rae Bachman writing for Musée Magazine, uses portraits of Black queer intimacy to explore "feelings of closeness through kinship."

Personal life Williams lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Publications Books by Williams Contact High. London: Mack, 2022. . With writing by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Papa Don't Preach, Higher Pictures Generation, New York, 2020