I’m thrilled to have one of the main exhibitions at the Athens Photo Festival this year.
The Athens Photo Festival 2022 will be on view from June 8 through July 24. A Parallel Road will be one of the featured exhibitions in the Benaki museum.
Benaki Museum / Pireos 138
8 June – 24 July, 2022
Thursday and Sunday: 10.00–18.00
Friday and Saturday: 10.00–22.00
If you are in Boston, my solo show “A Parallel Road” is up at Abakus Projects through June 30th.
The second edition of A Parallel Road is shortlisted for the "Best Photography Book of the Year" at PHotoESPAÑA. Winners will be announced this summer.
Thrilled that “A Parallel Road” was chosen by David Campany and Vince Aletti as a favorite photobook of the year during their recent ICP event.
Last week I had an amazing conversation with Tiziana Dearing from Radio Boston about A Parallel Road. You can hear the 13 minute segment here:
https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2021/03/17/amani-willet-parallel-road
A few months ago I shot a campaign for @apple which features my #hometown of Cambridge/Boston. For the assignment I was as fortunate enough to be able to point my camera at family members and other people and places that helped to define my identity. Now some of those images are billboards in the same community where I was raised. It’s surreal and thrilling. Thank you to @apple and to all the wonderful people who agreed to let me photograph them, especially in this time of Covid.
Very excited to share that I was recently commissioned by Apple to highlight my hometown of Boston/Cambridge for their Black History Month series.
Text from Apple - “Introducing the Hometown series, starting in February for Black History Month. Every day, we’ll highlight the work of photographers from across the United States as they showcase a unique lens on their own hometown. #ShotoniPhone”
Hometown Series — Day 12 of 32: Boston by@amaniwillett. Commissioned by Apple. “Historically, Boston has a reputation for not being the most hospitable place for minorities, especially Black folks. While the city is deserving of this reputation in many ways, there are pockets within Boston, precisely because of this friction, where there are really strong, thriving and supportive minority and Black communities. My aim was to celebrate these communities.”#ShotoniPhone by Amani Willett
I’d never been on TV before! It was amazing to have the opportunity to speak with Jared Bowen from “Open Studio” about “A Parallel Road” in a segment that aired this past Friday. My segment starts at the 6:00 minute mark.
I recently had an amazing conversation with Jon Feinstein from the Humble Arts Foundation about “A Parallel Road.”
