Category: Street Photography
I have been photographing protests, demonstrations, rallies, marches for over half a decade now; I have seen people passing out markers to write on their own bodies legal aid and bail bond telephone numbers to call in the event of arrests, I have seen volunteers hand out bottles of water and granola bars, even hand sanitiser and masks in 2020, but never have I seen anyone hand out borscht.
I spent the next several hours running with stampeding protestors as the police charged, photographing make-shift barricades from trash dumpsters, a police cruiser flipped on its side, another on fire, protestors getting arrested, all before running out of film and realising that I should head home to safety.
On the day of this writing, April 29, 2020, Chicago and the State of Illinois are in the 39th day of shelter-in-place.
All of a sudden, a woman stood up, walked down the aisle, yanked off her pants, and began to dance.
To say that things have gone arseways at the moment is a bit of an understatement.
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