Walking into Provost Studios for a portrait means walking past photos of these Houston...
Georgia Provost is the president of Provost Studios, poses for a portrait on Friday, June 2, 2023 in Houston. Provost Studios turns 75 this year and have chronicled the Houston community photography since 1948.Mayors, state representatives, police chiefs and Texas Southern University presidents line the walls of Provost Studios in a little house next to Brays Bayou.
If you ask Provost how old she is, she might tell you in months and let you do the math, or she'll quip that she's"31 years old with 51 years of knowledge, understanding, wisdom and experience." But the 82-year-old is still as involved in the studio as ever, straightening out a subjects' clothes, positioning their heads just so, or powdering their faces while Jerome takes their photos.
Photographer Jerome Provost shows off a photo of his father, Herbert, in Provost Studios on Friday, June 2, 2023 in Houston. Provost Studios turns 75 this year and have chronicled the Houston community photography since 1948.Provost Studios shot portraits, events and school photos. Before integration, Georgia Provost recalled, they had photo contracts for about 85 percent of the Black schools in Texas in addition to historically Black colleges and universities across Texas and Louisiana.
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