He has been a field research photographer for the Smithsonian Institution for more than twenty years and has been recognized through awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Black Arts Festival through its 1994 Living Legend Award. He is president of The Group for Cultural Documentation based in Washington, D.C.
His successful commercial career has included assignments for "Time", "Newsweek", "National Geographic",
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