cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
– John Abernathy
Amazing shot
Also I can’t help but laugh at the idea that the photographer in this moment was in fact not taking the guy’s camera…but instead, getting the shot
Picture of the year. In January.
Minnesommalia
Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.
TREES ARE FREE ROPE IS CHEAP LYNCHING IS EFFECTIVE
I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic
Beautiful shot
This picture will be shown in History. It shows in so many ways whats going on and what is at stake. Wow.
Hope that both photographer got Out of that well
For real. This is photo of the year material.
And it’s only January 17. I don’t look forward to the horrors to which we will bear witness the rest of the year.
That is an amazing shot.
This will end up in history books
winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don’t see
It’s being recorded and the world is watching. It will be in some history books but who will have access to those books is a bigger question.
doomer here.
Mankind will extinguish itself and there won’t be any history or its books.
This guy dooms
Didn’t know you could Doom on lemmy
You can run Doom on just about anything.
Wouldn’t that be nice? Too good to be true, though.
Neo-Confederates proved that was not the case a long time ago
The rest of the non-fascist world is watching. The US isn’t the entire world believe it or not
This idea that “history is written by the winners” is bullshit and literally only favors fascists. It’s the main reason for a lot of the “clean wehrmacht” myths and is the entire thing that the “lost cause of the confederacy” thing revolves around.
In one of the John Green history videos, he covers Viking raids on Great Britain. Often, the Vikings left after raiding an area, so the history was written by the surviving “losers”. John’s comment was that in cases like that where history is written by the losers, they are bitter about it.
I think the bitter comment lines up with your examples like the “lost cause” narrative, too.
Fuck that’s a great pic.
We all love to shit on journalists because most of the time they deserve it, but some of them are honestly doing heroic work and are fundamental in times like these.
And it’s also a great case for why photographers have not been made obsolete by AI, but quite literally the opposite.
There’s a reason the press is often referred to as “the fourth branch of government”. Journalists that do their job properly are absolutely critical to the proper functioning of a democracy.
We all love to shit on journalists
no, “we all” don’t
“Those that pass themselves as journalists” maybe
Hopefully wins an award.
Photographers and journalists are two separate groups though. Photographers are the admirable ones for collecting facts and putting themselves in actual danger.
Journalists, however, oftentimes take these facts and spin them for ad revenue, political gain, or their own career advancement
I do photography but not really for journalistic documentation, journalists can use photography to do journalism but photography isn’t inherently journalism. Some journalists are more biased than others but they’re all journalists.
oftentimes take these facts and spin them for ad revenue, political gain, or their own career advancement
That’s not a journalist, that’s a propagandist
All journalists are propagandists due to the nature of journalism. The decision, conscious or due to ideological alignment, on what facts to emphasize determines the narrative a journalist is promoting.
Last time the US president surprised the press by invading a country without warning, Panama, the first question asked was “were any US soldiers injured”. This doesn’t require any lies, but it did more to influence the way Americans thought about the surprise war than any lie they could have promoted.
we attacked another country
to
are we hurt?
is crazy work
Unfortunately they’ve been one in the same in the US for many years
Could you not? I work for a citizen journalism network and shit like that is incredibly harmful.
Any opinion that’s pushed is propaganda, it’s not inherently bad.
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
Whoever told them that was almost certainly an elementary school teacher who didn’t know any better.
30 years later and the album is just as relevant as the day it released.
I love the classics but does anyone have recs for modern day rebellion music? I saw dropkick Murphy’s released a track “citizen ice” but I would love additional recommendations. Open to any genre that harshly criticizes the current state of ‘gestures broadly’
death grips and machine girl probably
Sum 41 - We’re All To Blame
The theme and antics in the music video are chosen on purpose. And 20 years later are downright prophetic despite being targeted at an entirely different era.
I’ve really been digging Cheap Perfume lately. It’s pure feminine rage, which I’m an absolute sucker for. I would start with “it’s okay to punch Nazis” but I think almost everything on their newest album is pretty good.
Destructo Disk seems pretty good too but I haven’t dug into them as much
I’m also on the hunt for modern day rebellion music.
Grandson is probably the closest still making music. Just went independent last year. Have seen them twice, their shows are like going to a protest. A lot of love and anger in the crowd.
You’re gonna have to dig real deep for that one. Moat, if not all, record labels are zionist owned. It’s why you hear very little about Israel from today’s black hip-hop artists.
Americans do seem to be these daya
Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.
Another hero being molested by Trump goons.
Oddly, when I search for it in Google or Bing, it doesn’t show up; but when I ask Google Assistant about a photograph of reporter throwing his camera to another reporter on FB, it returns only the T*****s post.
Only the what post?
the T*****s post.
