h. eugene Foster
International Center of Photography/New York University, New York City

h. eugene Foster was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He sojourned for sixteen years in San Francisco where he received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and worked as a guest curator and freelance photographer for the Western Addition Cultural Center  He has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was featured in the Yolo County, California. exhibition Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. His most recent work, Urban Landscapes: South African/USA, was shown at the African-American Institute in Manhattan.

Eugene's work addresses the issue of race and representation; and he questions the ability of photographs, without accompanying text, to appropriately represent "others", even those one is most familiar with. Thus, he believes that text must be an integral part of his work.