Pat Ward Williams (born 1948) is an African-American photographer whose work often engages with the complexities of race, gender, and history.

[1] In 1992, Williams published the exhibition catalog Probable Cause, which contained a series of photographs shown at the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design.

[6] In Williams Accused/Blowtorched/Padlock work she is able to create a direct view and message through her use of text and visual aid alongside the original image of the torture.

Williams enlarges certain aspects of the original image and encases them in an old window frame- like border to bring the viewer to a truly witness what is happening in the photograph.

[11] Williams has taught photography at UC Irvine and as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Technikon Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg.