In this episode KhaRå Martin, Toronto actress and filmmaker, takes us on a unique trip through Black Canadian history, exploring the complexity of the Black gaze with renowned photographers and curators. Plenty of Black Canadian history lives in boxes and photo albums stored in basements and attics. The photo of Viola Desmond by an unknown photographer, published in the Halifax Clarion over 70 years ago, has made her one of the most recognized faces of Black resistance in Canada. Black photography has captured our Black Canadian social movements and civil rights struggles.

Michael Chambers is an acclaimed, creative Black photographer specializing in photographing people and stretching the limits. James Russell, freelance journalistic photographer, Liz Ikiriko, curator at the Art Gallery of York University, Robert Small, artist producing Legacy posters, and Al Hamilton, founder of Contrast newspaper, are some of the photojournalists who have expanded our understanding of the Black experience in Canada and countered unconscious bias. Collectors and galleries are helping to present Black culture and history to Canadians through photographs, and to inspire through the arts.  Library and Archives Canada is working on digitizing and making the works of picture makers accessible. We salute these photographers, curators and archivists who have worked to ensure we are not erased, that people can continue to see us, hear us and find us.