San Diego-based portrait photographer Alanna Airitam understands personally that representation matters. Even as a child, she was aware that no one in the museum portrait galleries looked like her. And as an adult, she knows all too well that black people are constantly being portrayed negatively in the media. Alanna grew increasingly frustrated with the non- and mis-representation of

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