Chester Higgins, Jr.

Chester Higgins, Jr.
Born	1946 (age 64–65) Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality	American
Field	Photography

Chester Higgins, Jr. is an American photographer.^[1][2][3][4]

Higgins has worked as a New York Times photographer since 1975 and has exhibited in museums throughout the world.^[2] His one-man exhibitions have appeared at the International Center of Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of African Art, Musée Dapper Paris, The Schomburg Center, The New-York Historical Society and the Schatten Gallery at Emory University.

Higgins is the author of the photo collections Black Woman, Drums of Life, Some Time Ago: A Historical portrait of Black America (1850–1950), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, and his memoir Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer's Journey. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has been included in numerous book collections and appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Fortune, Look, Essence and Life.^[5][6]

Chester Higgins Jr is a photographer on a mission. His mission is to embrace, to reaffirm and to challenge. Higgins believes art humanizes us, the subjects of his photographs are most important to him. Higgins gives voice to the unseen interior spirit. His images resonate with a spiritual echo, which maintains the image and frees it from the constraints of time. Much of Higgins’s imagery is inspired by issues of identity. Over the past five decades, he has produced a visual collection of compelling imagery reflecting a sensitive and in-depth diary of his explorations of the human Diaspora and his concern with his own humanity.

Higgins’ images of ordinary moments enable us to see and appreciate the fullness of humanity. Through his interior portraits and studies of living rituals and ancient civilizations, viewers gain a rare insight into cultural behavior, a window to another place and time. “With the camera I embrace the spirit that is the essence of all existence,” Higgins says. “I search for the signature of the spirit in my subjects, and through my art, I become whole.”

References

1. ^ Los Angeles Times
2. ^ ^{a b} PBS
3. ^ Tadias.com
4. ^ Present Magazine
5. ^ Scottnicholsgallery
6. ^ New York Times

External links

• Official website
• Chester Higgins, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Higgins, Chester, Jr.
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1946
Place of birth	Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death