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Getty Images Recently Made Thousands of Photos of Black People in the US and the UK Accessible to the Public

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Getty Images Recently Made Thousands of Photos of Black People in the US and the UK Accessible to the Public

Getty Images' "Black History & Culture Collection" is a collection of 30,000 rarely seen images across the spectrum of colonialism in the UK and the US to raise awareness about Blackness in the UK.

Donney Rose
Jul 13, 2022
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Photo by Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

The age-old adage that a “picture is worth a thousand words” can sometimes be an understatement. Beyond a scattering of words that may associate with certain images are the narratives that a perfectly-timed, well-framed photograph tends to capture. The glare in a subject’s eyes, the arrangement of nature…

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