Smith, Ming

found: Ming Smith, 2020:galley (Ming was born in Detroit, raised in Columbus, Ohio, and came to New York in the early 1970s. She began taking photographs at a young age, and continued doing so as she pursued a career as a model, later joining the Kamoinge Workshop and publishing early work in The Black Photographers Annual; went to Howard University in Washington, DC; graduated with a BS in microbiology)

found: Artland magazine web site, viewed July 13, 2020(Ming Smith--Photographing Black Culture; born in Detroit in the 1950s, and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Though she started out studying medicine at Howard University in Washington, DC, she soon switched to microbiology; Her marriage to jazz musician David Murray meant that she spent a lot of time on the road touring with various jazz performers)

found: Financial times WWW site, viewed March 24, 2022:Ming Smith: 'Being a black woman photographer was like being nobody', article dated September 26, 2019 (born in Detroit; attended Howard University; lives in Harlem, New York; African American photographer) - https://www.ft.com/content/ea64791c-dac8-11e9-9c26-419d783e10e8