Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin Luther King

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/761200/michelle-agins-on-perseverance-and-photographing-martin-luther-king/

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.