The photography of Chester Higgins, Jr. can be found within the pages of The New York Times, where he has been a staff photographer since 1975. As one of the premiere African American photographers working today, he continues to exhibit in museums throughout the country and abroad. Mr. Higgins is the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Center of Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. His photographs have appeared in Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise. Mr. Higgins has produced seminal works in the photo-essay form such as the book collections "Black Woman" and "Drums of Life" and most recently, "Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa," and "Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging."