Through A Lens Darkly

Wednesday 7 November, 9pm PBS America

According to American artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems, she realised early on that there was “really something wrong with the way the black subject had been imaged” in the media. Moving away from pictures that project racist distortions, this documentary shows other kinds of images, including photographs from family albums that offer a far more nuanced window on AfroAmerican life in the past.