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Legendary photographer Stephen Shames on having a traveller rather than tourist mindset

Legendary photographer Stephen Shames on having a traveller rather than tourist mindset

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May 31, 2025
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In the 1960s, American photographer Stephen Shames befriended and photographed activists and revolutionaries such as Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers.

In the following years his photographs covered everything from civil war in Lebanon to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from photographing street kids to child soldiers, and much more. To gain t…

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