Jeffrey Henson Scales

The New York photographer's latest solo show is a time capsule of a cultural landmark where Black community thrived House’s Barber Shop is gone now,...

“When I moved to Harlem in 1985, along with my wife Meg and daughter Coco, I began to photograph Harlem’s streets almost every day when...

Gentrification is a term often associated with evil entrepreneurs, greedy landlords, and cultural suppression. On the flip side, however, upgraded neighbourhoods offer increased safety, higher...

For more than 55 years, House’s Barbershop in Harlem sat at the convergence of Black masculinity, cultural landscape, and ritual—something that Jeffrey Henson Scales captured...

Jeffrey Henson Scales intimate portraits and protest images of the BPP and its leaders offer a rare insight into organisation at a time of societal...

Jeffrey Henson Scales is a New York Times photo editor. His latest book is most compelling in how it helps place the relentless quest for...

Some photographs I took during that time haunt me more than others. Memories, of course, of those who were killed, others who may be still...

New York Times photography editor Jeffrey Henson Scales and ‘unofficial’ Panthers photographer Stephen Shames share the stories behind a pair of new photo books dedicated...

Capturing intimate portraits and protest images of the organization and its leaders in a time of societal upheaval, Scales’s archive lay dormant and forgotten for...

Not long after his mother passed away in 2018, a massive relic from Jeffrey Henson Scales’ childhood was unexpectedly found in his family’s home. His...