Emotional, close-up portraits of vintage movie actors comprise ... Especially during the early pandemic, he said, black-and-white movies from the 1920s and ’30s became his “comfort food.” ...

In November 2022, the nurse, who lives in St. Paul ... to “Black Panther” actor Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer in 2020. Nigerian-American artist Geno Okok painted the portrait ...

image_caption] Harry Shepherd, an African American photographer who lived and worked in St. Paul between 1880 ... that he specialized in portraits of both African and white Americans.