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Photographers Passionately Explain Why Black Photographers Matter

Cassius Life sat down with four amazing Black photographers, Joe Chea, Andrew Fennell, Chuck Marcus, and Jerome Shaw, who continue to use the craft to tell Black stories and capture Black subjects properly. They spoke about what inspired them to pick up a camera, and all of them had different reasons.

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