Clay Williams
@ultraclay.bsky.social
James Beard Award-Winning Photographer. Co-founder of Black Food Folks. Member, Diversify Photo, mpw.74. Occasionally Brooklyn, NYC. http://claywilliamsphoto.com
Proof that I made it outside during blossom season this year… Brooklyn, April 2026. #believeinfilm 🎞️
How the sausage is made. I’ve always been interested in the kind of magic of cooking, turning one thing into another. #Butchery was one of my early subjects as a hobbyist first starting to document food and hospitality. Every now and again I get to go back to it. #believeinfilm 🎞️
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Took a tour of the old City Hall Station last week, brought my Hasselblad along. NYC. April 2026. Shot on Portra 800, pushed one stop. #believeinfilm 🎞️ #subway
Party shots from the 8it Awards last week. Kind of loving the vibe. Flash x film is working for me. Shot on #KodakGold, pushed two stops. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Indirect light was much more accurate than direct hard light. Will likely stick to bouncing light off ceilings and reflectors to keep things simple.
Need to step up my color correction game if I shoot more food on film with lighting. Dishes shot with lighting on Ektar pushed two stops and digital on a 5DIV. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Experimented with shooting food on film with lighting recently and got wild results with color balance and contrast. Not all bad, not all good, but lessons learned, for sure.
Visited the NYC Transit Museum for the first time in a million years today. Took the Hasselblad… #believeinfilm 🎞️
The daily grind. Butchery was one of my first regular subjects when I was starting to shoot food. Had a chance to return to it earlier this month. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Stopped to take my camera out to photograph this truck. While I was framing it, this dude stopped, took his hood down and posed for me. After I waved that I got it, he nodded and walked away. Much better shot than the one I’d planned. Love those moments. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Inspired by the Seydou Keita show at @brooklynmuseum.org, I picked up some African textiles to use as backdrops for my portraits. Looking forward to trying them out in my sessions. Especially that deep indigo. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Portraits at the Black Consciousness Festival last month. We stumbled on it while traveling and decided to stick around. Manaus, #Brazil. November 2025. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Just got my film back from a month in #Brazil and I’m seriously questioning why I came home. #believeinfilm 🎞️
Portraits of Pastry Chef Camari Mick in my studio last month. Shot on my Hasselblad on #kodakgold and #HP5Plus. #believeinfilm 🎞️
How many times is too many to run film through traditional x-rays? Planning out a trip where I’m going to have six flights and probably won’t be able to get around putting my film through the X-ray for any of them. Mostly 100 & 200 speed. #believeinfilm
Howard University’s Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life is the first exhibit devoted to Gordon Parks’ images of Black American religious and spiritual life. Contributor Coley Gray talks with curator Dr. Melanee C. Harvey:
Gordon Parks’ Photography Continues to Inspire Activism and Human Connection
Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival is the first exhibit substantially devoted to Gordon Parks’ images of Black American spiritual life.
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