"Poets, prophets and reformers are all picture makers—and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievement."⁠ 19th century abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, who understood that photography would become the dominant language of our times. Those who wielded the camera or exercised control over their own image, would be the writers of history.⁠ A medium that has always aspired to the democratic, today photography is in the hands of more people than ever before.⁠ To mark #WorldPhotographyDay, our Story explores the images that cut through the visual noise. ⁠ 📷: South African singers Albert Jonas and John Xiniwe, of The African Choir, in a staged photographic portrait session, 1891. The choir, drawn from seven different South African tribes, toured Britain from 1891 to 1893 to raise funds for a technical college in their home country | London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images | gettyarchive | #gettyarchive⁠ ⁠ #londonstereoscopiccompany #hultonarc...