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Resources for Photographers and Beyond on Anti-Racism
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Black Lives Matter
● Black Lives Matter
● Black Visions Collective
● Movement for Black Lives
Donations / Actions
● Emergency Release Fund (pre-trial release for LGBTQ people)
● Reclaim the Block
● National Bail Fund Directory
● Free Black Mamas
● Bail Funds/Legal Help by City
● Pro Bono Reps Info and More
● Minnesota Freedom Fund
● Communities United for Police Reform
● Justice for Tony McDade Petition
● Justice for Breonna Taylor Petition
● Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet Petition
● Justice for Dreasjon Reed - Donation
● Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
● George Floyd Memorial Fund
● James Scurlock Memorial Fund
Hire Black Photographers
● #HireBlackPhotographers Database on Diversify Photo
● Black Women Photographers (Launching Soon)
● The Black Shutter Podcast: The Voices of Black Photography - Idris Solomon
● Non-Black photographers need to step aside and let Black people tell their own stories. It's
the most helpful thing they can do. - Gioncarlo Valentine for INSIDER
● The Telling of Black Stories: The Importance of Controlling Our Own Narratives - Gioncarlo
Valentine
● Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day - Will Matsuda interviews
Danielle Scruggs, Lynsey Weatherspoon, Wale Agboola, and Brent Lewis for Aperture
● Over 1000 Black photographers to hire, commission, follow and support - Jyni Ong for It’s
Nice That
POC Photography Databases + Resources
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● Color Positive
● Diversify Photo
● MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
● The Everyday Projects
● Women Photograph’s WPOC Database
● Natives Photograph
Photography/Journalism/Documentary
● Pro Bono Artist Consulting for BIPOC Visual Artists
● Support Photographers of Color Petition
● The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography - By the Authority Collective and
PhotoShelter
● Decolonizing Documentary & Journalism - Reading list by Ligaiya Romero
● Been Media - S torytelling Sovereignty
● Violent Protests Are Not The Story. Police Violence Is - Dylan Scott for Vox
● A List For Those Considering Diversity When Complacency Wasn't Enough - By
@PhotoGreenbook
● Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
● National Press Photographers Code of Ethics
● Race Forward’s Race Reporting Guide (2015)
● Fuck Photojournalism - Clary Estes
● How Alexandra Bell is Disrupting Racism in Journalism - The New Yorker
● When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.) - Teju Cole for the
New York Times
● Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color - Tara Pixley for Nieman Reports
● “Blind spots: The dangers of unchecked social bias in race and media” - Shaminder Dulai for
Everyday Projects
● The Western Gaze: On Photojournalism & Challenging Harmful Representations - Tara Pixley
for PhotoVoice
● Time Magazine’s Cover isn’t Bold or Brave. It’s Exploitative - Kainaz Amaria for VOX
● Defining and explaining structural racism - Aspen Institute on Community Change & Applied
Research Center at UC Berkeley
● Photography, Colonialism & Racism - International Affairs Review
● Of colonial photographs and cultural resources: The photographic archive of the Sarawak
Museum - TransAsia Photography Review
● Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands - Journal of Transnational American
Studies
● Inequities Among Photojournalists Produce a Familiar Image - Tara Pixley for Newsweek
● Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - L inda Tuhiwai Smith
○ “The remembering of a people relates not so much to an idealized remembering of a
golden past but more specifically to the remembering of a painful past and,
importantly, people’s responses to that pain.”
● Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it - Lewis Wallace
● The View From Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity - Lewis Wallace
● The View From Somewhere: Podcast - Lewis Wallace
● The Journalists of Color Resource Guide - Accountability Page
● Photos can show protests’ complexity—or they can perpetuate old lies - John Edwin Mason
for National Geographic
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● Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum by Sarah Lewis and Aperture
Photography as Sousveillance - holding police accountable:
● How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct - Palika Makan for Teen Vogue
● Guidelines for Copwatch During Covid-19 by Cop Watch NYC
● Why We Must Continue to Turn the Camera on Police - Ethan Zuckerman for MIT Technology
Review
Protest Photography as Surveillance - incriminating protestors:
● Photos from recent protests used to arrest BLM activists: A nnouncement of Charges Against
Activists Ends in Debacle for MNPD - Nashville Scene
● Police use news media to identify protestors: P olice reviewing pictures, social media, video
trying to identify those breaking the law Saturday - News 5 Cleveland
● ICE uses news media to target immigrants: ICE tracks down immigrant who spoke to media
in SW Washington: ‘You are the one from the newspaper’ - The Seattle Times
● Police Surveillance of BLM protestors: Released NYPD emails show extensive surveillance of
Black Lives Matter protesters - CNN
● Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram surveillance tool was used to arrest Baltimore protestors -
The Verge
● History of FBI Surveillance of Black Americans (COINTELPro): The History of Surveillance and
the Black Community - Electronic Frontier Foundation
● Mysterious deaths leave Ferguson activists’ on pins and needles - EJ Dickson for Rolling
Stone
● Leaked FBI Documents Raise Concerns About Targeting Black People Under ‘Black Identity
Extremist’ and Newer Labels - ACLU
● Berkeley police under fire for publishing anti-fascist activists' names and photos - The
Guardian
● Stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally, called a criminal: how police targeted a black activist - The
Guardian
● “Your Camera is a Snitch” - Bobby London
● “Livestreamers make great informants” - Warrior Publications
Safety
● Physical Safety: Civil Disorder - Committee to Protect Journalists
● Safety for comrades and journalists on the frontlines - Andrew Seng
● The EyesOnTheGround(EOTG) Collective Resource List
Additional Resources on Anti-Racism, Anti-Blackness, Solidarity
● 7 Mental Health Resources for Black People Right Now
● 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship b y Mireille C. Harper
● 6 Ways to Activate Beyond Social Media b y Jezz Chung
● 26 Ways To Be In The Struggle Beyond The Streets
● 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
● Anti-racism resources for white people
● Rachel Cargle’s resource round-up
● Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
● How To Be Actively Antiracist
● 8 Lessons About Racism That Were Helpful to Me as a White Person
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● 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now
● Black & Asian Solidarity in NYC: What We’ve Learned - video
● Reading list: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
● Letters for Black Lives: Open Letter Project on Anti-Blackness
● Black Trans Men Face a Constant Threat of Police Violence
● @mimizhuxiyuan - “To white people and non-black POC”
● adrienne maree brown
● Angela Davis - The Meaning of Freedom
● Template for Holding Your Employer Accountable For Racial Justice
● BLM Reading List - Powells
● BLM Reading List - Feminist Press
● Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
● Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
● “Letters for Black Lives: Open Letter Project On Anti-Blackness” in different languages
● Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (Free PDF attached; direct link here)
● Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People b y Kelsey Blackwell (online article)
● THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE (Free excerpt)
● The End of Policing? by Alex S. Vitale (Free eBook attached)
● So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
● White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
● What Would A Police Free World Look Like? - M PD150
● Jane Elliot - H
ow Racist Are You? (Free Video via Youtube) | M ore on the Study
● I Am Not Your Negro - F ree with A
mazon Prime
● Black Revolutionary Texts - compilation
● 13th - F
ree with Netflix Subscription
● When They See Us - Free on Netflix + D iscussion Guide
● The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 - F ree video via Youtube
● How Racist Are You? - Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise (UK)
● Prompts written by @ jezzchung for non-Black flox
○ In what ways does my proximity to whiteness afford me privileges that aren't
extended to Black and Brown people?
○ In what ways have I been conditioned to believe in the superiority of whiteness?
○ In what ways have I engaged in rhetoric that promotes othering or stereotyping of
Black people?
● The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S. - Smithsonian Magazine
● 1619 Project
To Watch:
● Jane Elliot - H
ow Racist Are You? (Free Video via Youtube) | More on the Study
● I Am Not Your Negro - Free with A mazon Prime
● 13th - Free with Netflix Subscription
● When They See Us - Free on Netflix + D iscussion Guide
● The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 - Free video via Youtube
● How Racist Are You? - Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise (UK)
To Reflect:
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Prompts written by @
jezzchung for non-Black folx:
● In what ways does my proximity to whiteness afford me privileges that aren't extended to
Black and Brown people?
● In What ways have I been conditioned to believe in the superiority of whiteness?
● In that ways have I engaged in rhetoric that promotes othering or stereotyping of Black
people?
● What can I do to better educate myself on the historical context of race in the country and
community I exist in?
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