Never underestimate the power of a photo — “Black Love” co-founder Tommy Oliver certainly doesn’t when creating his annual “Father Noir” visual memoir. While photography is a celebrated and evocative medium, for many decades, the art form was frequently used as a means of critiquing, belittling, and degrading the Black citizens of this country. As Princeton professor Tina M. Campt highlighted in her book “Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe,” photos “played a dual role in rendering the history of African diasporic communities, because of [their] ability to document and simultaneously pathologize the history, culture, and struggles of these communities.”