DEVIN FRANCIS

Radiologic Technologist, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL

“He’d take his daughter to school every morning. He’d help her with her homework,” she said. “He just wanted peace to his life and us to have a good life.” “He had a very jovial spirit,” said his youngest sister, Junette Francis. Colleagues admired his work ethic. “No matter where we were in life, he never had less than two jobs,” said Milton Gonzalez, a hospital co-worker. “He was as smart as they come.”

ARTIST - RICHARD LEVINE, born in Newark, NJ is a painter and photographer whose professional career has spanned more than 30 years in the graphic arts.  He studied oil painting for four years with artists Alan Turner and Andrew Lattimore and photography with Gary Winogrand.  Additional studies were at Cooper Union and The School of Visual Arts.  Photo documentary work includes the Darfur refugee camps in Eastern Chad and childhood health conditions in the Mississippi Delta.