The California African American Museum presents Daufuskie Island, the first public display of the black and white photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.  In 1977, the artist began to take pictures of the people of Daufuskie Island—the last of the Sea Islands to be transformed by tourism and real estate development.  Moutoussamy-Ashe’s images convey joy and dignity, while they challenge our understanding of documentary photography.  They reveal life in a dwindling community of African American people whose families had lived in these islands off the coast of south Carolina and Georgia since before the civil war.  The images evoke the shadows of change and the uncertainty that the islanders felt about development—their need for jobs, and the inevitable losses that would follow in the wake of the island’s transformation.  Since these photographers were taken, properties have been sold, golf courses were built, and oyster fishing has vanished.