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Power behind the lens: the hidden language of photos

Look closely at these pictures. The way things are framed, lit, and positioned isn't random - these choices shape how we see people and cultures. This gallery shows how photography's techniques create a specific framing, a specific gaze, often used to reinforce unfair power dynamics and racial stereotypes.

Museum of World Culture

The Congo State; The Congo Free State; Democratic Republic of Congo; …

TopFoto

Original Caption: Primitive bakery - age old customs survive among Grand Canyon Indian tribes . Navajo Indian women of Grand Canyon , America , grinding corn and making bread in their primitive bakery . Despite the march of progress the methods employed a…

TopFoto

A young Roma boy tries to pull off a Wellington boot from Norman Dodds MP at their camp - 8 January 1962

TopFoto

The Epsom Spring Meeting. Roma 21 April 1920

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Romani woman - c. 1944

Museum of World Culture

011148c; Belgian Congo; The Congo State; …

Museum of World Culture

The Congo State; The Congo Free State; Democratic Republic of Congo; …

Deutsche Fotothek

Group portrait of seven Tutsi men in festive clothing; DFG project: worldviews (2015-2017), record author: Deutsche Fotothek/SLUB Dresden (DF)

Finnish Heritage Agency

sisällön kuvaus: Kuvassa ainakin Albin Savola ja Alma Kestilä.

Austrian National Library
Austrian National Library

Initiationsleiter links und sein Gehilfe.

Austrian National Library

Karawanne at Rutshuru River.

Austrian National Library

String instrument

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The "scooter" in embryo - four short round logs and a branch or two have enabled this dusky young gentleman to make a useful if primitive vehicle with which to amuse himself in his native wilds on the Ivory co[a]st of East Africa. Let…

Institute for Tropical Scientific Research

Monographic bibliographic item

Deutsche Fotothek

Länderkunde | Ethnographie, Europa | Siebenbürgen