Amani Willett is a photographer based in Boston. His work deals with family, history, memory and the social environment. He works mainly in book form. He earned a BA in American Studies and Psychology from Wesleyan University in 1997. In 2012 he earned an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is an associate professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
His books Disquiet (Damiani, 2013), The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer (Overlapse, 2017) and A Parallel Road (Overlapse, 2020) were named best books of the year by photo-eye. His work is in the collections of the Tate Modern, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oxford University and Harvard University, among others.
His book Invisible Sun was published by Dust Collective in 2025. It has 124 pages. His journals were the source material for the book. It combines photographs, many of his children, with images made with AI.
