Sherma Chambers
Sherma Chambers was born on the Island of St. Vincent. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 15 and has lived in Brooklyn ever since. Chambers is the mother of three sons, Shomari (29), Shayne (24), and Tyler, who was murdered at age 21 on December 23, 2020. Following Tyler’s death, she became the founder and director of Long Live King Kobe, a New York State nonprofit organization. The goals of LLKK are to support the families and friends of victims of violence and to fund outreach programs for troubled youth.
“These photographs, this story, they are hard to deal with, yet one goes back to the pages because we have the freedom to turn away from the tragedy, but the family and friends of Tyler Kobe Nichols do not. Their tributes are eloquent, as is the testimony in their faces. This is not black-on-black crime, this is the American way of death, as Ostrander’s haunting work so powerfully tells us.” —Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton and Black Deutschland
US Release: May 10, 2022 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781736309322 • 120 pages