William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a photography lecturer at the University of California San Diego and Cal State Fullerton. He attained his M.F.A from Claremont Graduate University, a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, and an AA at Fullerton Community College. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He uses photography, installation, public interventions, and archives to address gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. William has residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY,  TILT Institute for Contemporary Image in Philadelphia,  the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Penumbra Foundation, NYC.

William's work has been exhibited and published internationally, including The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Frost Museum of Art, and Princeton Museum of Art. His works have been published in Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and others. His works are in several public and private collections, including the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.