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There's this Black man who's standing in a very calm, still position.

— Chester Higgins Jr.

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The Spirit brought this man into my life, the door opens and here he is.

Viewed his job as a calling and the taking of photographs as a sacrament.

My overall assignment was to create a visual encyclopedia of the life and times of people of African descent.

I wanted to have my images on the world stage.

They found a sense of agency in themselves that they hadn't seen before, that reaffirmed their sense of worthiness.

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