Chester Higgins Exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery Through June 2026

Photographer Chester Higgins, who spent nearly forty years at The New York Times, is the subject of a solo exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York. Titled 'Chester Higgins: Shared Memories,' the show spans six decades of his work and runs through June 20, 2026. Higgins, raised in rural Alabama during the Civil Rights movement and educated at Tuskegee University, has dedicated his career to portraying Black life across the diaspora with dignity and humanity. In an interview, he discusses how he aimed to counter negative stereotypes by presenting balanced, loving images of African-descended people. He reflects on his time at the Times, where a managing editor credited him with changing how the newspaper's staff saw Black people. Higgins also recounts a formative experience as a student at Tuskegee, when photographs of a protest at the State Capitol in Montgomery depicted student demonstrators as threats rather than citizens, teaching him that a photographer's sentiment shapes their images. His work seeks to capture the 'Signature of the Spirit' and highlight universal human experiences.