KELANN
CURRIE-WILLIAMS



ABOUT
CV
CONTACT




WRITINGS
 
 academic articles

PHOTOGRAPHY

  
    row
     haligonia
     uncrown her
     close-ups
     super(i)mposition
     in dialogue
   
 
     17-18
     15-16


DESIGN

      editorial design
      illustrations

      event posters
Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is a writer, lens-based artist, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University where she specializes in visual culture (history, theory, and philosophy of photography), oral history, black Canadian studies, and cultural studies.  Their current work focuses on the histories of image-making and photographic preservation/archival practices in Black Canada during the late 19th to late 20th centuries.
 

Kelann holds a master’s in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Fine Arts as well as a BA in Communication Studies (with a minor in Film Studies), both from Concordia University. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and a member of Post Image cluster (Milieux Institute). Their writing has appeared in the Canadian Journal of History, Philosophy of Photography, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Urban History ReviewQuebec Heritage News, and alt.theatre online.


          a black woman in a yellow coat standing next to a parked bike in front of a store in downtown Montreal. her reflection is seen in the glass windows that she is facing.