Goree Island Painter (aka Slave Island Back)

Photography by Frank Stewart (born 1949) African-American photographer based in New York, best known for photographing Jazz musicians.

"At the Slave Castle (in Senegal, a museum and memorial to the victims of the Atlantic
slave trade), we came upon this artist making paintings, but for me it was this strong back of a Black man that caught my attention, a metaphor for slavery."

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Only God to Watch My Back, NY, 1987

Photograph by Frank Stewart (born 1949) African-American photographer based in New York, best known for photographing Jazz musicians.

"This is T.C. (Top Cat), who just got out of jail. I asked if I could take his picture, and he said if I did, he wanted me to show where he got shot in the back. So he took off his shirt
and turned around. Then he said I should wait until he put his metal for survival (his cross) behind him because only God was watching his back."

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