Picturing 'techies': photo project captures the unseen diversity of Silicon Valley

'Techies' is one photographer's mission to tell the stories of Silicon Valley's minorities, and to disrupt your idea of what a tech worker looks like

Prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently wrote that "software coding is quite possibly the most inviting, inclusive profession ever" and linked to a study reporting that many coders are self taught. What he didn't notice: the study also says the profession is 92.8% men.

Helena Price, a photographer and former startup worker, is on Monday launching the largest oral history of discrimination in Silicon Valley - a series of 100 portraits of "techies" who fall into those forgotten categories.