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A Chocolate Lens

How do you take a picture and tell a whole story? A Chocolate Lens chronicles Steven Cummings’s photographic journey through a disappearing Black Washington. His approach was simple: use the camera lens to find the power amidst the storm. His images are a love letter to Black people across America.

A Chocolate Lens

21m 8s

How do you take a picture and tell a whole story? A Chocolate Lens chronicles Steven Cummings’s photographic journey through a disappearing Black Washington. His approach was simple: use the camera lens to find the power amidst the storm. His images are a love letter to Black people across America.

Episodes

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    A Chocolate Lens

    21m 8s

    How do you take a picture and tell a whole story? A Chocolate Lens chronicles Steven Cummings’s photographic journey through a disappearing Black Washington. His approach was simple: use the camera lens to find the power amidst the storm. His images are a love letter to Black people across America.

Schedule

  • A Chocolate Lens: TVSS: Staple

    A Chocolate Lens

    Sunday
    May 25

    30 Minutes

    A chronicle of Steven Cummings' photographic journey through a disappearing Black Washington.

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