Moslem Woman, New York City

Chester Higgins, Jr. was born and raised in Alabama. While attending Tuskegee University, he saw photographs that had been taken by his first mentor P.H. Polk. Polk's images served to dignify African Americans in the rural South during the 1930s. Graduating in 1970 from Tuskegee University, Higgins arrived in New York City and began his professional career.

Higgins' photography can be found within the pages of the New York Times, where he has been a staff photographer since 1975. His photographs have appeared in Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise magazines.

aMoslem Woman, New York City

Chester Higgins, Jr. was born and raised in Alabama. While attending Tuskegee University, he saw photographs that had been taken by his first mentor P.H. Polk. Polk’s images served to dignify African Americans in the rural South during the 1930s. Graduating in 1970 from Tuskegee University, Higgins arrived in New York City and began his professional career.

Higgins’ photography can be found within the pages of the New York Times, where he has been a staff photographer since 1975. His photographs have appeared in Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise magazines.