A photographer captured portraits of underrepresented people working at Google, Facebook, and Apple
Helena Price
Silicon Valley has always battled a diversity problem, but in recent years, it's been getting extra attention. According to reports released by the largest tech companies in 2015, the stats are pretty dismal. Women hold only 18% of Google's tech jobs. Only 1% of Twitter employees are black. At Facebook, barely 3% of workers are Hispanic.
Helena Price, a photographer who lives in San Francisco, captured this underrepresented slice of Silicon Valley in 2016. For her new project called "Techies," she interviewed and took 100 portraits of coders, designers, and CEOs who work in tech and come from diverse backgrounds. It features an eclectic mix: women, people of color, immigrants, people without formal education, people over 5o, LGBTQ people, and the disabled.
She hopes to challenge stereotypes of those working in tech and encourage companies to hire and retain a more diverse workforce. All of the portraits are fair use.
"I created this with the hope people will take the content, digest it, tear it apart, analyze it, repurpose it, and build new things with it," Price told Business Insider.
Take a look at the featured workers, including employees from Facebook, Google, and Apple.
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