Christine Jean Chambers

As a photographer and a playwright, she helped document the rise of a generation of theater artists who wanted to tell their own stories their own way. Her pictures of actors of color helped document the rise of a newly energized black theater movement that began to emerge in New York. In addition to being a photographer, Ms. Chambers was a playwright. The daughter of a white mother and black father, she frequently explored themes of race and identity. She was proud of being a woman of color, it was being biracial that provided the grist for her writing.