Howard T. Cash (born 1953) is an African-American photographer whose work focuses on Africa and the African Diaspora. My photographs are about, “Joy, Love and Celebration life within the beauty of ‘Universal Blackness,’ on a bridge, easily connecting Africa to Africans in the Diaspora. Telling world wonderful stories about our lives is an honor. The essence of life is not what you do for yourself but also how well you can improve the lives of others!”

Being selected to participate in Operation Crossroads Africa’s program in 1978, led me to Ghana and the following year to Nigeria. In 1979 I began my professional photojournalism career covering stories for the Mushin and Ajegunle Standard, Concord Group of Newspapers, Silverbird Productions, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Ophelia Magazine, the Guardian Newspaper and The Associated Press.

Some of my assignments included news and feature photojournalism, magazine and album covers of: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Egypt ’70 Band, Pope John Paul II Visit to Ghana in the 1980 and later to Nigeria in ‘82. I’ve also covered the official 1980 State Visit of American Vice-President Walter Mondale and the ’83 State Visit of Vice-President George H. Bush and in accordance with Presidential State Visits of President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea in 1982, President Humberto Calderon Berti of Venezuela and Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gadaffi in 1983 for The Guardian Newspaper.

Upon my return to America in 1984 I focused my lens on personal assignments covering the African Diaspora such as: “African Dance in Slow Motion,” “The Spiritual Art of Dance,” “Drumming and Dancing in New York City,” “Sunday, Sunday in NYC,” “The Gullah-St. Helena Island,” “Rebuilding Our Lives After Hurricane Katrina,” “Unions, Reunions and Block Parties,” “The Uptown Dance Academy” etc.

In the summer of 2015, my work, under its new Executive Director, Dr. Khalil Muhammad was welcomed into the Permanent Collection of Photographs and Prints Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

“My fine art and documentary photography calls for a conversation in threes: first with myself, second with my audience and finally with history.”