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Dozens of individuals, including Chicago Tribune journalist Clarence Page, above (right), brought family photographs to Maryland’s SilverDocs film festival to be scanned for the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, a user-generated, web-based, and interactive archive of African-American photography, which producer Thomas Allen Harris, above (left), believes will bring hidden and forgotten history to light.

Family photographs have long played an important role in accessing the past—and now an innovative web-based multi-media project has started archiving thousands of African-American family photos in an attempt to explore lives and history through this uniquely intimate lens.

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is the brainchild of Thomas Allen Harris, a New York-based documentary filmmaker. He is on a campaign to encourage African Americans to share the contents of their old family albums with the world via the web.

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