Aishamanne Williams

Aishamanne Williams is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her artistic practice centers around filmmaking, photography and writing. Hailing from Brooklyn, NY with Caribbean heritage, she pulls inspiration from collective lived experiences to create work that feels intimate, nostalgic and imaginative. Her work includes narrative and documentary films, fiction/poetry books, photography and zines.

She seeks to create expressions of urban life that are authentic in documentation and experimental in imagination, investigating both the concrete and that which grows from it. Employing text and image with freedom from a singular discipline, Aishamanne’s artistic practice centers on pouring into a living archive honoring and preserving the beauty of the present. Her aim is to build new worlds for posterity by documenting expressions of identity and culture. Aishamanne received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Design with minors in Film Production and Photography from The New School in 2021. Her film Hoodwear Diaries was featured in Afrikana Film Fest in 2022 and her film A Smaller Sun was featured in Short Side Film Fest in 2023.