Chester Higgins Photography Exhibit ‘The Intimacy of Prayer’
Monday, December 9, 2024, 9 a.m. – Monday, January 13, 2025, 9 p.m.
With his camera, Chester Higgins “wrestles with issues of memory, place, and identity.” He sees his life as a narrative and his photography as its expression. His art gives visual voice to his personal and collective memories. It is inside ordinary moments where he finds windows into larger meaning. Light, perspective, and points in time are the pivotal elements he uses to reveal an interior presence within his subjects as he searches for what he identifies as the Signature of the Spirit. The work of Chester Higgins challenges us to see the full breadth of our humanity.
Through his portraits and studies of living rituals, traditional ceremonies, and the monuments and ruins of ancient civilizations, viewers gain a rare insight into cultural behavior—a window to another place and time.
These images featured in Butler Gallery were taken in the United States, Africa, and the MENA region.
Higgins was recently honored with his induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame. In 2014 he retired from The New York Times as a staff photographer after 38 years of contributing images to the paper.
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