1960, first grade, Haines Elementary School, Chinatown Chicago. The photo that made me become a photojournalist. Shot by teacher Melvin Gaynor. He brought his Nikon camera to after-school social center.

Jan 2021 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ #1960

1972, 12 years after my elementary school teacher, Melvin Gaynor, introduced me to photography, I’m working in a commercial studio. First assignment was assisting with the Keebler cookie, cracker and ice cream cone catalog. It was 3 months of drudgery. I can’t look at Keebler products to this day.

Jan 2021 ⋅

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In Jan 1935, John Charles Robinson (Nov 26 1905 - March 27, 1954) an American aviator from Chicago and hailed as the Brown Condor volunteered for service in the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force against the Fascist Mussolini’s Italian Invasion, which began Oct, 1935.

Feb 2021 ⋅

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1978, Clarksdale, Mississippi. My uncle EC Cosby, just died at 92 this past Thursday, still looking this good. Farmer, landowner, entreperneur, rapscallion, ladies man and slick ass opponent of white supremacy, bruh rabbit, outsmarting the fox.

Mar 2021 ⋅

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