Starting his career with the ubiquitous Kodak Brownie Hawkeye on the streets of Detroit of the 60’s, Christopher Cushman began photographing his family and friends already driven to document his life. Simultaneously he nurtured his talent for drawing and painting which culminated in his first university degree in illustration and design where he honed his compositional skills. The camera became more central to his creative life in the mid 80’s when he first came out and was encouraged to document his experiences by his first boyfriend. What transpired over the next four decades has been nothing short of an extraordinary journey. The photos of Club Heaven were shot in 1994 for a community zine called KICK! Magazine and they are by any account the only photographs ever to document the club's dance floor. In 2010 Cushman's reportage work was shown at the Pittman-Pucket Gallery in Ferndale in a show titled Fierce! Being Black, Being Gay and were recently re-shown at LGBT Detroit's Offices. A volume of these images is in the works. Select images are now available with a portion of the proceeds going to the Detroit Sound Conservancy's mission to restore the Club Heavens Sound System.