Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist

Chicago

My home town of Chicago is a place I explored in my formulativfe years as a photographer. I grew up on the Southside, which is where most of these photos were taken. 

  • Young man downtown Chicago.
  • A man heads home after laboring in the stock yards.
  • A child looks at the activity in the alley from the backstairs of the tenement where she lives.
  • This boy was perched on the roof of a garage behind a tenement building in the Bronzeville neighborhood, holding a toy rifle.
  • A black rabbi, of an orthodox jewish community, sang during a sabbath service.
  • These 2 fellows were sharing a soda in a community which had postings around, that stated this is Disciples' gang terrority.
  • This boy was watching the Budd Biliken Parade as it passed by in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago.
  • Vacant lot baseball has been a very common summer activitiy on Chicago's Southside for decades.
  • In the mid to late 70s, summer pop music and jazz concerts were held in the inmates recreation yards at Cook County Jail.
  • Chicago is known for it's barbeque joints. The pork chop shops are plentiful.
  • A child makes a face as the camera shutter opens.
  • A Hari Krishna sings and chants on Wells Street in Old Town.
  • Chicago - Circa June 1974 - A former heroin addict sings a gospel at a methodone clinic during a group therapy session.
  • Young men playing pickup basketball in Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the Southside.
  • A waterbreak during a baskeball pickup game in Marting Luther King Jr park in the Chatham neighborhood on the Southside.
  • A waterbreak during a baskeball pickup game in Marting Luther King Jr park in the Chatham neighborhood on the Southside.
  • A pool hall on 7700 south block on Cottage Grove, where some young men played low stakes pool and watch television.
  • Chicago - Circa July, 1977 - Shooting pool in a hall on Cottage Grove, on the Southside.
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