The Jim Alexander Collection

We may have to work twice as hard, but we are twice as strong. Let’s stay in this fight 🙌🏾 Link in stories for more information!

Some gifts carry a moment. Some gifts carry a lifetime.

Jim often tells the story of Navy Boot Camp in 1952 and the yellow box that introduced him to photography. A fellow sailor who owed him money from a dice game disappeared into the barracks and came back with a Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera instead. Jim began taking 50¢ portraits of fellow sailors with that camera, never knowing it would become the start of his legendary life behind the lens.

So days ago, when a young filmmaker surprised him with that very same kind of camera decades later, it was special moment between a veteran documentarian and an emerging artist who understands the journey.

Thank you for your kindness, Tim! And keep on shootin’ 📸🖤 ()

Jim Alexander’s lens has witnessed 60 years of Black history. Hear the stories behind the lens and the story behind the man — a history maker in his own right — on CBS Atlanta Mornings this Friday.

Thanks to , the cameraman Corey, Dr. N’Kosi Oates and the wonderfuo team at Emory! Catch Jim’s segment between 6-7am on CBS Atlanta Mornings, local channel 69 and streaming online!

From the civil rights movement to , the fight for justice continues. Jim Alexander has witnessed it all.

See 60 years of resistance through the lens of Jim Alexander in “SOS: Signs of Struggle,” now at . Come grab your copy of “SOS” at the book signing 2-4 pm on Feb. 7!

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Big thanks to the APEX Museum & all who made it a great opening!

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Thanks to Ernie Suggs and Natrice Miller at UATL for the excellent feature!

Grant helps Emory preserve Jim Alexander's photo archive of Black Atlanta A Getty Foundation grant to Emory will allow Jim Alexander's photographs -- documenting more than 60 years of Black life, particularly in Atlanta -- to be preserved.