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🗣️ THE 2024 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH GRANT CYCLE IS NOW OPEN!
You have one month to apply for one of our 5x $5,000 Project Grants.
A huge thank you to
@mpbcom
for making this all possible! Read more + apply by May 15 here:
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Horrified to hear that the
@whitneymuseum
has reached out to a slew of Black photographers informing them that prints acquired via the first See in Black print sale — meant to be a fundraiser for Black social justice orgs — will be exhibited as part of a show opening in 3 weeks.
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Here's a handy list of some independent Black women + non-binary photographers based around the USA for photo editors looking to hire:
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Hello! A friendly reminder that this is a wildly unacceptable way to speak to a photographer, ESPECIALLY if you are four months late in paying said photographer, and ESPECIALLY if you’re the Director of Photography for
@lemondefr
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We're thrilled to present the Women Photograph 2020 Year in Pictures, featuring images from 100 women & nonbinary photographers who together have created a poignant visual record of this... unusual year. Take a look!
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So, at first glance this
@BuzzFeedPhotos
piece "17 Powerful Pictures Of The Protests Through The Eyes Of Black Photographers" is a great idea, until it turns out that photographers were not contacted, asked for permission to run their images, or paid.
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We're thrilled to share the Women Photograph 2021 Year in Pictures, featuring images from 100 women & nonbinary photographers who together have created a visual record of this past year. Check out this year's essay, curated by Tanvi Mishra, here!
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1. Congratulations to the AP photo team that was just recognized by the
@PulitzerPrizes
!
2.
@AP_Images
… seriously?!
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Thrilled to announce the 2018 Women Photograph Grants: $35,000 in funding available to women and non-binary photographers. Applications open April 1!
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.
@Mashable
asked us to come up with a roster of 32 photogs to counter
@NikonAsia
's all-male fiasco. Here it is!
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IT’S HERE! Don’t miss the 2019 Women Photograph Year in Pictures, featuring the work of 100 of our members from around the world. Curated by WP board member
@PGannawayPhoto
!
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We curated a selection of our 100 favorite images of 2018 from
@womenphotograph
members — take a look here!
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This is not a responsible or a respectful way to engage with artists — nor does it feel particularly sound for an institution with a $300 million+ endowment to acquire $100 prints that were priced to benefit anti-racism non-profits.
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It's deeply frustrating to see front pages like this come out of the events of the past week — three photos, three cities, three white male photographers. Photo editors, please consider just how important it is to be hiring Black photographers always, but especially right now.
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YES QUEEN.
Iranian women journalists aren't allowed to cover men's football inside the statium. But Parisa Pourtaherian has reportedly become first woman photographer to cover the top national league, from the top of a neaby roof!
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This is a troubling side-by-side comparison of work from German photographer Maximillian Mann and Iranian photographer
@SolmazDaryani
on Lake Urmia. Mann’s work has been awarded repeatedly, most recently by
@WorldPressPhoto
.
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6.
@TIME
% of images made by women: 41.2%
% of images made by Black photogs: 100%
% of images made by Black women photogs: 41.2%
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Take a look at the
@womenphotograph
Best Photos of 2017 — curated by
@mallorybenedict
and featuring work from 53 of our photographers.
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We're thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2020 Women Photograph Grants!
Congratulations to Tami Aftab, Gabriella N. Báez, Sahar Coston-Hardy, Peyton Fulford, Roopa Gogineni, & Sandra Mehl.
Read more about them + their stellar work here:
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Fueled by my usual cocktail of rage, curiosity, and OCD, I sat down with some of the photo essays giving an overview of what's happening at protests erupting across the USA in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
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We're now rapidly working to put together an Emergency Fund for independent women and non-binary photographers who have been impacted by loss of income due to COVID-19. If you would like to donate, you can go to , and thank you.
Freelance photographers have already been hit hard by COVID19 and will likely continue to suffer as events and assignments are cancelled. Looking for support to create an emergency fund for
@womenphotograph
— please reach out to daniella
@womenphotograph
.com if you’re interested.
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Women Photograph turns FIVE today! We're so grateful for everyone who has supported us along the way. If you would like to help us continue on for another five years, please consider making a donation to help us celebrate this anniversary.
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The Women Photograph Grants are now open for applications! We have 5x $5,000 Women Photograph Project Grants available, and one $10,000 Women Photograph + Getty Images Scholarship available to a student focused on photojournalism. Apply by May 15!
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The 2021 Women Photograph Mentorship Program is now open for applications! We'll pair 24 early career photographers with 24 industry leaders over the course of a year. There is no fee to participate & programming happens remotely.
Learn more + apply here!
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Women photographers who are covering protests happening around the US right now:
Minneapolis:
@patiencezalanga
,
@xinewin
New York:
@GabrielaBhaskar
,
@bessadler
Atlanta:
@lnweatherspoon
,
@AlyssaNo_L
Los Angeles:
@gabriellaangojo
Las Vegas:
@bridgetkbennett
Phoenix:
@caitlin_oh
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A photo editor at a major news outlet reached out to a member of Women Photograph about a potential assignment in a severely hostile environment. After the photographer posed some basic questions about security procedures, she received this response:
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Women Photograph is thrilled to announce our 2018 grantees:
Tasneem Alsultan, Anna Boyiazis, Jess T. Dugan, Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen, Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen, and Nadia Shira Cohen.
See the full announcement, and read more about their work here:
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GOSH I SURE HOPE 50% OF TOMORROW’S FRONT PAGE PHOTOS OF THE WOMEN’S MARCHES ARE TAKEN BY WOMEN.
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Thrilled to announce our first Women Photograph Mentorship Class!
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We're thrilled to announce that the 2021 Women Photograph Grants will open on April 1! We have $35,000 in project grants + a scholarship available. Take a look at the details + meet our phenomenal jury here!
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Women Photograph is 4 years old today!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Thrilled to announce the recipients of the inaugural Women Photograph Grants!
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You all are going to still care this much about women photographers tomorrow, right? :)
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It is both disrespectful and immoral for a commercial for-profit publication like
@NYMag
to ask independent creatives for free work at any point, but even more so now given the risks we all are facing in the field and the financial stress this crisis is placing on all of us.
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We've just opened the Women Photograph Emergency Fund to provide a small amount of one-time support to independent women and non-binary photographers who need assistance. Please spread the word!
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We're thrilled to announce that applications are open for the 2022 Women Photograph Mentorship Program!
If you're a photographer of any age with <5 years of professional experience, apply by Oct 15 to connect with our incredible cohort of industry experts:
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Editorial outlets have an ethical responsibility to understand the security needs of staff and freelance photographers who work for them. Neither asking clarifying questions nor being a woman should be reasons for withdrawing a potential assignment.
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As we close out Black History Month, here's a thread of just some of our favorite Black + African diaspora women and non-binary photographers...
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It's officially December, which means it's time for the Women Photograph tally of the 2020 Year in Pictures slideshows...
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If you’re wondering why Women Photograph is an organization worth supporting, here’s what we did in 2017:
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The Women Photograph 2022 Year in Pictures is live! This collection features work from 100 women & nonbinary photographers who together have created a visual record of this past year, curated by artist and educator Endia Beal. Don't miss it!
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For all of 2017,
@womenphotograph
has been monitoring the lead photo bylines by gender for 8 newspapers. Here are the results.
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We're thrilled to announce the 2021 Women Photograph Mentorship Class! Our program will pair 24 early career photojournalists with 24 industry leaders over the course of a year. Connect with next year's mentees and check out their work here:
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2021 Women Photograph Grants!
Eli Farinango (
@eli_farinango
)
Golden (
@goldenthem
)
Lia Latty (
@lialatty
)
Kathy Anne Lim (
@kathyannelim
)
Danielle Villasana (
@davillasana
)
Tshepiso Mabula (
@tshepiso_mabula
)
More:
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We're thrilled to announce our 2019 grants cycle, with $35,000 in project funding available for women & non-binary photographers! Applications open on April 1, and the final deadline is May 15. Get those project statements ready!
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@Dorgon
The art was sold as a fundraiser. The artists did not receive any compensation. A major museum with a poor track record with POC artists will now profit off of ticket sales from people going to see this work without the artists receiving a dime. Not how acquisition should work.
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
Let's make sure we hire, publish, promote, support, and appreciate women and nonbinary photographers today and every single day of the year!
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Here's a handy thread on the gender breakdown of the 2018 Pictures of the Year slideshows that we'll keep going this month:
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This year, Women Photograph was able to distribute $75,000 in emergency funding to 178 women & nonbinary photographers from 50 countries in critical need of support. We're so grateful to all of the organizations and individuals who helped support our community — thank you!
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This week
@NewYorker
photo editor Whitney Matewe is curating our instagram, sharing the work of Black and African-American women and non-binary photographers celebrating Black identity. Don't miss the work of Djeneba Aduayom, Kennedi Carter & SHAN Wallace:
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How is it possible that not one of these 66 images was made by a woman photographer?
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Women Photograph is officially two years old today! 🎉 Head on over to to browse the site and discover some new talent, and if you'd like to support the work that we do (as a newly minted nonprofit), you can donate here:
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Every day, the Women Photograph data team records the lead photo bylines from the front pages of 8 major newspapers. Here are the results from 2020.
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The 2022 Women Photograph Grants are now open! We have $45,000 available in project grants to fund the work of women and nonbinary photographers working in a documentary capacity. Read more at the link below, and get your applications in by May 15!
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We're trying something new this year and launching our first open call for new members! If you're a woman, transgender, or nonbinary independent photographer with 5+ years of professional experience, please fill out the form below + help us share widely!
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Just because one editorial outlet legally got away with embedding Instagram photos does not mean it's a morally acceptable practice. It is predatory to exploit the work of Black photographers for clicks always, but ESPECIALLY right now. Pay them.
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Fuck Gatekeeping – A Professional Photographic Knowledge Base
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Since 2017,
@womenphotograph
has:
— Distributed $80,000+ in grants
— Connected 44 emerging photogs w mentors
— Provided travel & emergency support for 63 photogs
— Run 2 skills-building workshops
If you'd like to support, please check out our print sale!
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The Women Photograph data team continued to monitor the lead photo bylines of 8 major newspapers for every day of 2018, tallying up the number of images made by women photographers. Here are the results.
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Thrilled to announce launch of the inaugural
@WomenPhotograph
Grants, in partnership w/
@pulitzercenter
+
@onabags
!
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Hire Black photographers. Hire Black women photographers. Break this system of institutionalized storytelling that creates content about marginalized communities without ever allowing them to be the authors.
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Applications are now open for the 2018-2019 Women Photograph Mentorship Program! Early career photographers looking for long-term support, apply by July 15 here:
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Well, you picked 24 photos taken by 24 men, so I'd say yes.
The
@Newsweek
photo team highlights some of the most impactful images of 2016. Did we miss any? Let us know!
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The 2021 Women Photograph Workshop is scheduled for August 18-21! We have a fun lineup of artist talks, trainings, & demonstrations and are opening the workshop to all women & nonbinary photographer participants until registration is full — sign up here!
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Why, exactly, is this the image being used to promote the
@PicoftheYear
+
@Newseum
exhibition? Is this the best work to represent what photojournalists do?
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HI HELLO ARE YOU CHECKING YOUR YEAR IN PHOTOS SLIDESHOWS BEFORE YOU PUBLISH THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY INCLUDE A DIVERSE RANGE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS?
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.
@Reuters
photographer
@LeahMillis
was the first woman in history to photograph the State of the Union from the floor pool position.
Remember the State of the Union speech that happened earlier this week?
I have a couple things to share about it. (Is this where I say THREAD?)
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On a happier note: both the
@nytimes
& the
@washingtonpost
front pages today feature lead photos from women —
@meghandhaliwal
and
@vanhoutenphoto
respectively!
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For the love of god, please hire people with uteri to cover reproductive rights protests in the USA. American women are living through the loss of our bodily autonomy, at least let us be responsible for producing the visual history of this moment.
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IT'S TIME: Here's an ongoing thread for the gender breakdown of the 2021 Year in Pictures slideshows...
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Pretty solid Google Doodle for Gerda Taro's 108th birthday:
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WE'RE LIVE!
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Meet the 50 participants of the inaugural Women Photograph + ONA Workshop @ Photoville!
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Women Photograph condemns the arrest of photojournalists working to cover protests erupting around the US in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
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We're thrilled to announce the 2022 Women Photograph Mentorship Class!
Our program will pair 24 early career photojournalists with 24 industry leaders over the course of a year.
Connect with next year's mentees and learn more about their work here:
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It's December, which means it's officially time for the Women Photograph gender breakdown of the 2019 Year in Pictures...
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In an ironic twist, only 20% of the photographers in this photo essay on “female pioneers thriving in once-male domains” are women.
To mark
#InternationalWomensDay
, photographers around the world captured women breaking down barriers of gender bias.
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Women Photograph is thrilled to announce our second class of mentees!
Connect with them here:
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HELLO IT IS MONDAY SO IT IS TIME FOR THE WEEK IN PICTURES GENDER BREAKDOWN. THIS WEEK WAS VERY BAD AND I FEEL LIKE YOU ALL ARE GETTING COMPLACENT. SO I AM GOING TO YELL THIS WEEK'S STATISTICS. LET'S BEGIN.
#WPGB
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It's Women's History Month!
...and it's also time to look at how women photographers were represented in the news in 2021.
For the past five years, the Women Photograph data team has been recording the lead photo byline from the front pages of eight international newspapers.
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The Week in Pictures Gender Breakdown (
#WPGB
) for 2/22/2021, by % pix made by women:
1.
@Reuters
: 40%
2.
@photosSMH
: 31%
3.
@Guardian
: 30%
4.
@TheAtlPhoto
: 25.7%
5.
@BBC
: 20%
6.
@CNNPhotos
: 9.8%
7.
@WashingtonPost
: 6.7%
8.
@AP_Images
: 0%
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THREAD: Here's an ongoing breakdown of the 2022 Year in Pictures slideshows by gender...
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It takes a lot of womanpower to run
@womenphotograph
. Please meet the two newest members of our team:
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Just finished the latest round of updates to the Women Photograph database, and it now contains 750+ photographers based in 99 countries. Are you a woman or non-binary photog based in Africa, Central Asia, the South Pacific, the Baltic states, or the Guianas? Get in touch!
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📷: Jessica Christian (
@jachristian
)
The fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities. Protecting our planet is on the ballot. Vote like your life depends on it—because it does.
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@stellabugbee
@NYMag
@TheCut
It's a shame that your solution for a project that sounds like it was largely sourcing work from women is to cancel it altogether rather than find the funds to appropriately compensate photographers for their time and labor.
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🗣️ THE 2023 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH GRANT CYCLE IS NOW OPEN!
You have one month to apply for our 5x $5,000 Project Grants or the $10,000 WP + Leica Grant.
Thank you to
@NikonUSA
,
@LeicaCameraUSA
, and
@mpbcom
for making this all possible! ✨
Apply by May 15:
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Meet the participants of the 2018 Women Photograph Workshop @ Photoville!
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Important: today's front page coverage of the Blasey Ford + Kavanaugh hearings. On the
@nytimes
A1, four photos by women photographers (
@erinschaff
+
@gdemczuk
), on the
@washingtonpost
front page, 2/3 images by women (
@melinamara
).
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QUEEN
"I started taking pictures when I was 4, but I started with the camera when I was 2."
Moyinoluwa Oluwaseun is the 7-year-old superstar photographer from Nigeria who is snapping all the stars! 📸👧🏾🇳🇬
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Thank you so much to everyone who applied to join Women Photograph in December! We're so sorry we're behind schedule — we received 2,000+ applications and our selection committee is working hard to review all of your work. We'll be in touch with all of you very soon!
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The cover of this week's
@TIME
Magazine was photographed by 23 year old Hannah Beier, who's about to graduate with the class of 2020. See more of her work here:
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@Guardian
% of images made by women: 14.3%
% of images made by Black photogs: 0%
% of images made by Black women photogs: 0%
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