Occupation-photographer
Januário Garcia Jr (1943-2021)
Januário Garcia Jr. hailed from Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state renowned for its significant population of Afrodescendentes, or Black Brazilians....
Moneta Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996)
Moneta Sleet, Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer involved in the Civil Rights movement, was born on February 14, 1926. His parents, Ozetta Allensworth Sleet...
Frank Ocean (Christopher “Lonny” Francis William Ocean) (1987- )
Frank Ocean is a singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer and photographer. He was born Christopher Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987 in Long Beach, California....
Ernest Cole (1941-1990)
Ernest Cole was the first black photojournalist in South Africa. In the 1960s he became one of the first photojournalists to report on...
Ernest Withers (1922-2007)
“Image Ownership: The Estate of Ernest C. Withers” Ernest Withers, a highly accomplished photographer, was born on August 7, 1922,...
Tony Gleaton (1948-2015)
Leo Antony “Tony” Gleaton was an African American photographer, scholar, and artist who is best known for his photographic images...
Addison Scurlock (1883-1964)
Addison Scurlock, photographer, was born to attorney George Clay Scurlock and wife Nannie in Fayetteville, North Carolina on June 19,...
Calvin Littlejohn (1909-1993)
Calvin Littlejohn was an African American photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, who documented the Black community for more than forty...
Charles H. Harris (“Teenie”) (1908-1998)
Charles H. “Teenie” Harris, a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Hill District, was best known for his photographs taken during...
