From 1986 to present, I have pursued a body of work that drew me into a wide ranging arena of spirituality, photographing culturally significant festivals, rituals and sites. I photographed the Black Indians of New Orleans, the funeral of an Akan priest in New York, an African village in South Carolina, a family reunion in Eufaula, Alabama and the first Black church in America. I found myself equally at home in a Baptist congregation as I was in an Akan African religious ceremony. Whether Islam or Santeria these religious expressions all had an innately African origin as well as the common history of redemption as a spiritual centerpiece.

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The hallmark of all these disciplines is the sustenance that they provide and the active involvement of people in their own redemption.