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.
A recent exhibition on the Kamoinge Workshop tells the story of a group of photographers who explored the artistic and political potential of the medium to its fullest.