Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas

Thomas received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and a Master of Arts in Visual Criticism from California College of the Arts in 2004. He also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Africana Studies from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1998. Hank Thomas is the winner of the first ever Aperture West Book Prize for his monograph Pitch Blackness November, 2008.

Thomas's mother, Deborah Willis, Ph.D., is an art photographer and an NYU professor. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow and one of the nation's leading historians of African-American photography and curator of African-American culture.

He makes clear that even the most successful African American men and White Women make good within roles scripted for them by others, in narratives that provide them with few options or real alternatives. Hank willis thomas will be remembered as a photographer about people's race.

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