Publications by Lester
Books
With Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Capturing the Archives: A Conversation in Photographs and Text, McSweeney’s Publishing (2021)
Articles
The Detroit Stories series, The Huffington Post
“Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited,” May 24, 2009
“Trup," September 29, 2009
“The Old Packard Plant,” September 30, 2009
“Developing an Endgame at the DIA,” November 21, 2009
“Duke! Mama’s Home,” December 3, 2009
“Soupy Sales, The First Birdbath,” March 18, 2010
“Symbol of Black History on the Auction Block,” March 18, 2010
For Nieman Reports
“Photographer Gordon Parks Turns 90,” June 15, 2003
“A Long Journey Home,” September 15, 2005
“Watching a Community Changed by Immigration,” September 15, 2006
Publications about Lester by daughter Aisha Sabatini Sloan
“My Father’s Mariannes,” The Paris Review, November 17, 2021
“My Father Was a Black Photojournalist When There Were So Few,” The New York Times, November 20, 2021
“Visiting the European Homes of James Baldwin, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, and More Black Expats,” Vanity Fair, May 6, 2021
“A Father’s Archives,” Harper’s Bazaar, June 13, 2022
“My father photographed David Hockney and his mother in the ‘80s. It’s an image I haven’t stopped thinking about,” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2025
“Riff on the Caption: A Conversation with Lester Sloan and Aisha Sabatini Sloan,” B&H Photography Podcast, October 28, 2021
Amanda Uhle, “An Interview with Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Lester Sloan about their New Book, Captioning the Archives,” McSweeney’s, November 16, 2021