BLACK HISTORY MARCH VOLUME: III [part 1]photographed by Anthony... (Untitled is the Title)

BLACK HISTORY MARCH VOLUME: III (part 1)

photographed by Anthony Bila Location: Soweto, South Africa

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Black History March is an ongoing project series, now in it’s third year, this project seeks not only to commemorate and remember various time periods in African history and it’s diaspora through words, motion picture and still photography but to celebrate it. The body of work through all three volumes serves as an ode to black history. Each volume of work speaks to a different time period, a different place, different people but all African.
- See more at: anthonybila.tumblr.com & Black History March Volume i here:on.be.net/1nz3GUn & volume ii here:on.be.net/1ualCoC

I purposefully launched this project a month after the Black History Month actually occurred, it’s traditionally held in February but I wanted to dispel the notion that black history needs a ‘special month’, the shortest month of all no less, dedicated to it as commemoration and remembrance of the rich incredibly vast history of Africa and it’s peoples.

My thoughts about black history are that it should be venerated just as any other significant part of history is, at every given opportunity. The name of the series is a double entendre. March being the month we are in and march in the sense that we soldier on, as a people moving forward but never forgetting to reflect and look back at where we have come from. Something I believe we should all do.