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said “The Harlem neighborhood was both its essential subject and intended principle audience,” despite few
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can be translated to “a group of people who are working together” from the Kikuyu language, which is spoken in Kenya primarily. The intent of the group is to cultivate a supportive and yet critical artistic community that captures black life in all of the photographers' vast experiences of it.
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