Photographer Alfred Haymond with Aminah Augustin?28.
When Associate Professor of Sociology Pamela Prickett met Alfred Haymond, a photographer who lost his Altadena home in the 2025 Eaton Fire, she knew she wanted her students to hear his story firsthand.
Haymond’s photographs, which capture everyday Black life in Los Angeles, “help bring some of the theories and histories we read about in class into new, real-life perspective,” says Prickett.
In April, she took a group of her Urban Sociology students to the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona for a private tour of Haymond’s exhibit “Observations in B&W.” Haymond talked about his art and also about the human toll of the fire and how artists have been healing and helping others to heal through their work.
“Alfred depicted what it was like to be in the community of West Altadena,” says Aminah Augustin ’28, “showing how lively, artistic and innovative it was.”