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A native of Detroit, Lester Sloan's journalistic career began in the 1960s as
a freelance photographer. The 1967 Riot in Detroit gave him his first taste
of national exposure after one of his photos was published in Newsweek
Magazine. A degree in journalism from Wayne State University soon cemented a
career in his new profession.
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In 1968, the young photographer was hired by the Storer Broadcasting
Company, a CBS affiliate, as a cameraman/reporter. For the next two years, he
covered a variety of stories for his new employer, using his vacation time to
cover the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago for Newsweek Magazine.
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In the winter of 1970, Newsweek offered him a job as staff photographer and
photo assignment editor in its Los Angeles Bureau. There he worked for the
next 25-years, covering stories in the southwest United States, as well as
in Asia, Europe, South and Central America.
In 1972, Sloan's work was part of a 5-man exhibition on 'Textile and Fashion'
at the Los Angeles County Museum. In 1975, he received Nieman Fellowship to
Harvard University. It was during this nine-month sabbatical that he
developed an interest in the German language and literature. Following his
Nieman year, he spent two summers studying German at the Goethe Institute
in Southern Germany.
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Sloan was also the recipient of the John J. McCloy Fellowship, a grant
providing a two-week paid educational tour of Germany. During this time, he
began research about the plight of Blacks in Germany. For many years, he was
a frequent visitor to Germany and was there to cover the historic fall of the
Berlin Wall.
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In 1990, his photographs showing the devastation of crack cocaine on the
lives of young children in a north Philadelphia neighborhood were on
exhibition at the Amerika Haus in Berlin. Concurrently, he had an exhibit of
photos and video interviews documenting the lives of blacks in films in the
United States and Europe. During that same year, Sloan was one of 50 black
photographers documenting the life of Black America in the book,'Songs for My
People." Many of his photographs were published in Crown publication's
'Million Man March' book.
In addition to his work for Newsweek, Sloan is a former Contributing Editor
to Emerge Magazine, The Voice, a black newspaper in London, and a
contributing essayist to National
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Public Radio's Weekend Edition out of Washington. Both his
photographs and stories have appeared in The New York
Times, Time Magazine, US News, Science Magazine, Black Enterprise, The
Crisis, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, and a host of other
publications in the US, Europe and Asia. In addition, he was a part-time
professor of journalism at the University of California's Annenberg School of
Communication.
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He lives and works in Los Angeles, and publishes his own web magazine under
the name LesterSloanMediaGroup.com.
Contacts: lsloan1420@aol.com, www.lestersloan.com.
LesterSloan
PO Box 1305
Los Angeles, Ca. 90049-9305
310-922-7606
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Education
- 1969: Bachelors degree in Journalism at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
- 1975: Neiman Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma: One-year academic
Sabbatical to study German, German Literature and the History of Southern Africa.
- 1977: John J. McCloy Fellowship: Studied the acclamation of Afro-Germans in
Contemporary society.
- 1987: Atlantic Bruke (Bridge) Fellowship: two week sabbatical to study the German Political system.
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Professional Experience
- 1968 to 1970: Storer Broadcasting Company, CBS affiliate station in Detroit, Michigan.
Reporter/Cameraman, covering local news for Detroit and surrounding area.
- 1967 to 1970: Freelance photographer for Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times and Time Magazine.
- 1970 to 1995: Staff Photographer for Newsweek Magazine, working out of the Los Angeles bureau, covering stories in the southwest, U.S., Central and Latin America, Europe and Asia.
- 1990-1992: Contributing editor for Emerge Magazine.
- 1996 to 1999: Contributing Essayist for National Public Radio: Freelance Photographer.
- 2000-: Adjunct Faculty, Annenberg School for Communications.
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Clients
Newsweek Magazine
Time Magazine
People Magazine
New York Times
Skiing Magazine
Los Angeles Times
Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles
Toyota
Nieman Reports
Associated Press
Dallas Morning News
Crisis Magazine
Travel Life Magazine
Los Angeles Time Website
National Public Radio-Weekend Edition
Die Ziet Magazine
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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