Chester Higgins Jr.
Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer, who was a staff photographer with "The New York Times" for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. His photographs have over the years appeared in magazines including "Look", "Life", "Time", "Newsweek", "Fortune", "Ebony", "Essence" and "Black Enterprise", and Higgins has also published several collections of his photography, among them "Black Woman" (1970), "Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa" (1994), "Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging" (2000), and "Echo of  the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey" (2004). Life and work. Higgins was born in Fairhope, Alabama, and grew up in New Brockton, Alabama. He attended Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where he was mentored by the school's official photographer, P. H. Polk, and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in business management. Higgins worked as a photographer for "The New York Times" from 1975 and exhibited in museums throughout the world. 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". In "Sacred Nile", Higgins narrates the story of the African beginnings of spirituality, antecedents of the Biblical world along the River Nile from the 6,000-foot high mountains of Kush (modern-day Ethiopia) through Nubia (Sudan) down to the ancient land of Kemet (Egypt). Higgins is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City.