Photographer Russell Frederick was born to Panamanian parents in Bushwick, Brooklyn.  He fell in love with photography after taking a course at NY’s International Center for Photography, making it his life’s pursuit. Russell has worked for the Associated Press; photographed President Barack Obama’s inauguration; been featured in the MOCADA Museum’s critically-acclaimed show, I AM A [...]

by THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS The first thing that came to mind when I heard about the Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan, on view at the ICP,  was the film “Two Towns of Jasper,” a documentary about the 1998 racially-motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas which I saw at Sundance [...]

Since childhood, where I questioned the absence of my likeness in my Baptist Church books and pamphlets, then later in life, where I questioned the lack of African American images used in advertisements which represented Middle America, I wondered why? we did not exist in the world I lived in. I remember the European image [...]

Thomas E. Askew (1848? – 1914) Atlanta’s first African American photographer. Began his photography career in the 1880s at Motes Studio downtown Atlanta. Later operated his own studio from home on Summit Avenue. Three years after his death, the Great Fire of 1917 destroyed all of his photographic equipment and negatives. “African American History Tour [...]