I needed to get out with my camera…so I headed out without any real idea of what I was wanting to photograph or where I wanted to go. Somehow I ended up in a part of town I rarely go to and had never photographed.

Currently this building is the Chatman Health Center of Lubbock; the building was originally the Chatman Hospital. It was opened in 1945 by Dr. Joseph Alvin Chatman and for many years it was the only medical facility in town serving Black patients. The 16-bed hospital had two operating rooms, exam rooms, an x-ray facility, a laboratory, and a nursery.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023