Amani Willett is an American photographer; his publisher Overlapse states « [His] photography is driven by conceptual ideas surrounding family, history, memory, and the social environment ».
Amani Willett has published "Disquiet" (Damiani, 2013), "The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer" (Overlapse, 2017) which was reprinted in a second simplified "Cabin Edition", and "Parallel ROad (Overlapse, 2020). His work has also been included in several books, in particular about street photography.
© Portrait taken from a short biography on the Format Festival website (uncredited)
Presentation by Overlapse: " This multi-layered work explores the Black experience of driving in America over the past 85 years. By picturing how it has too often been marked by fear, violence and death, A Parallel Road challenges representations of the American ideal of the road trip that have long dominated our view through artistic and literary media....
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer -...
.Sold out. Presentation of the original edition by Overlapse : "A curious tale spun from the life of mysterious hermit Joseph Plummer, who lived in the woods of central New Hampshire in the late 1700s. Two centuries later an unsuspecting man purchased the mythical loner’s land and built a hideaway cabin for himself – only to discover the legend of Joseph...
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer
.Sold out. Presentation by Overlapse : "A curious tale spun from the life of mysterious hermit Joseph Plummer, who lived in the woods of central New Hampshire in the late 1700s. Two centuries later an unsuspecting man purchased the mythical loner's land and built a hideaway cabin for himself – only to discover the legend of Joseph lurking deep in the...