Lester Sloan began his photography career as cameraman for the CBS affiliate in Detroit, then worked as a staff photographer in Los Angeles for Newsweek magazine for twenty-five years. His archive contains street photography, reporting, celebrity portraits, and experiments with form, including images of Pope John Paul’s visit to Mexico, the Patty Hearst and OJ Simpson trials, various uprisings, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2021, he published Captioning the Archives: A Conversation in Image and Text with his daughter, Aisha Sabatini Sloan.