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Photographer Lola Flash is honored for creating images that challenge invisibility

Lola Flash has challenged gender, sexual and racial preconceptions, and in the '80s was a key figure in ACT UP. Now she's being honored for sustained achievement.
Lola Flash

, and are just a few of the women who appear in "SALT," a portrait series by . They're all over 70 years old, still actively engaged in their lives' work. Flash says the portraits are meant to challenge the way our society looks at these women: "I would say up to the age of 25 or 26 we're the girls, right? And then after you pass over this

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