Louis Hansel Draper

Place: Richmond

Born: 1935

Death: 2002

Biography:

Louis Hansel Draper was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1935. He began studying photography in college and was influenced by his father, an amateur photographer. Draper was a founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a New York collective of African American photographers. He was known for his images of Harlem in the 1960s, as well as his portraits of significant artists, intellectuals, and civil rights leaders. Draper's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among many other museums, public and private collections. He died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2002.