The impact of her pioneering photography and her advocacy on behalf of those harmed by Purdue Pharma is chronicled in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
In 1921, a mob of white citizens largely destroyed the Greenwood District. Five decades later, Donald Thompson rushed to photograph the community before urban renewal demolished it, again.
From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, Accra Shepp’s protest photographs have dissolved the boundaries between the individual and the collective.