Tender — Carla Williams. Published by TBW Books.
This is a beautiful and moving book about a young, queer Black woman, all self-portraits made in the 1980s-90s. The pictures are candid and humble, but also filled with bravery and longing. The design and reproductions fully support the photographs, presented one per spread so that the reader has sufficient space to engage with all of their poetry and complexity.
Brian Arnold is a photographer, writer, and translator based in Ithaca, NY. He has taught and exhibited his work around the world and published books, including A History of Photography in Indonesia, with Oxford University Press, Cornell University, Amsterdam University, and Afterhours Books. Brian is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and in 2014 received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation/American Institute for Indonesian Studies.
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