From the publisher:
"Both an artist’s book and comprehensive inquisition of D’Angelo Lovell Williams’ work to date, Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualisation of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’ narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows. Williams’s work is guided by their life experience and an interrogation of their own perspective, as well as wider questions around the representation of race, class, sexuality, gender, and intimacy. The title Contact High references the importance of touch and gesture in Williams‘ work, and alludes to heightened senses and intuitive movement.
From self-portraits to collaborations with community, Williams’ photographs visualise the Black body in performative scenes that are theatrical, dance-like, and occasionally mundane, pointing towards collective histories and Black ancestral practices."
23 x 27.8 x 1.6 cm | 104 pages | hardcover