Author

Lester Sloan

Lester Sloan, a 1976 Nieman Fellow, was a staff photographer for Newsweek for 25 years. Prior to that he worked as cameraman/reporter for the CBS affiliate in Detroit. For a period, he was a contributing editor to Emerge magazine and an essayist with NPR’s “Weekend Edition.” He is a freelance photographer and writer based in Los Angeles.

Digital Media Push Images to the Foreground

In the midst of big changes in the working lives of photojournalists, a former news photographer looks at how journalism schools and programs should respond.
September 15, 2007

Watching a Community Changed by Immigration

With African Americans being displaced by Latinos, news coverage of South Central Los Angeles is inflaming tensions, not informing people.
September 15, 2006

Childhood Experiences Shape a Reporter’s Journey

‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’
December 15, 2005

A Long Journey Home

A photojournalist on assignment uncovers dormant feelings about his past and the South.
September 15, 2005

Photographer Gordon Parks Turns 90

‘Gordon is our lamplighter, and I love him for that.’
June 15, 2003

The Story Roy DeCarava’s Photographs Tell About a Different Black America

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of Nieman Reports.]Roy DeCarava doesn’t occupy a space, he blends with it. But to say that his approach to photography is…
December 15, 1999

Roy DeCarava Retrospective

“Bill & Son, 1962,” from ”Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective.”Roy DeCarava doesn’t occupy a space, he blends with it. But to say that his approach to photography is stealth-like is to…
June 15, 1998