At age 87, photographer Allee Wallace said the Holy Spirit motivates him to continue documenting life on San Antonio's East Side.
Bria Woods / San Antonio ReportSan Antonio photographer Allee Wallace is 87 years old and brimming with decades of Texas history that will not be suppressed.
When the tall, soft-spoken but energetic Wallace talks, he speaks mainly of his faith and the practical side of photography. It’s important to remember to have an SD card in the camera’s memory slot, he’ll advise, self-effacingly recalling how he once ran around snapping pictures during a Juneteenth parade before realizing his camera was empty.
Wallace said he got his start documenting the MLK March as a volunteer, then later was hired as its official photographer by the City of San Antonio under then-mayor Henry Cisneros when the MLK March became an official event in 1987. Over the years he has compiled thousands of images of dignitaries attending the parade, along with the throngs of marchers who make the event among the largest in the nation.Sign up to receive The Daily Reach every morning.
“All these photos that he’s taken and that I have taken in our careers as photographers, they’re little snapshots. They’re little epiphanies of what life was like at that time,” Rendon said.Wallace has focused on the local life of his adopted hometown, but the broader history of Black life in America is never far from his lips. At a recent Carver Library presentation on his work documenting life on the city’s East Side since the early 1980s, Wallace began by talking about slavery.
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