England, from The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience project, 1989
Stephen Marc, photographer
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Stephen Marc (b. Rantoul, Illinois in 1954) is an award-winning photographer and digital montage artist. The focus of his work is the African diaspora and its many forms. He has published three books of his work: Urban Notions (1983), where he explored three black communities in Illinois; The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience: Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England and the United States (1992); and Passage on the Underground Railroad (2009). His Passage on the Underground Railroad is an interpretive program in the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
