Frank
WALTER

Frank Walter was born in 1926 in Antigua, in the Caribbean. Of mixed race and descended from both European slave owners and slaves themselves, at age 22 he became the first person of colour to become manager of a plantation on his native island. The victim of racism and discrimination during his stay in Europe in 1953 to learn new agricultural technologies, he returned to Antigua in fragile health and began photographing, painting, and sculpting. He died in 2009, just as the breadth of his work began to be discovered.