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
Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.
I take it back, the last shot Abernathy took is the stuff of Pulitzer’s. Holy shit that’s good.
This photo is going to be studied in history books!
His website: https://www.abernathyphoto.com/minneapolisstreetphotographer
Notice his other work:
https://www.abernathyphoto.com/food
See if you can find a pattern that leads to that last 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
Bystanders write history as well.
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
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.
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
This is the shot Pulitzer’s are made of TBF.
That camera looks like it was in flight.
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
30 years later and the album is just as relevant as the day it released.
Oh god, he meant base plate, not bass plate 🤦
Minnesommalia
TREES ARE FREE ROPE IS CHEAP LYNCHING IS EFFECTIVE
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
Expected to see something like this from Iran, but nooooo.
Hard to get much Out of there atm With internet being Cut Off…
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.
I’d argue any “journalist” deserving of being shit on are not doing anything that could be described as “journalism”
Yeah this is what I meant, those that smear the profession
Hopefully wins an award.
Which I’m sure Trump will demand he give to him
(but on a less cynical note, I agree, this deserves an award, both for the photographer in the photo and the one who took it)
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
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
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.
That’s not saying your association is also bad, to the contrary that it’s very much needed to fight back against the “journalism” that is complicit or scared
Any opinion that’s pushed is propaganda, it’s not inherently bad.
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
We all love to shit on journalists
no, “we all” don’t
“Those that pass themselves as journalists” maybe
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.
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.
