This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.
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
Right but the issue is when that line is arbitrarily drawn. For example think back to Covid. We can’t argue it wasn’t a significant event, but at this point the pandemic and it’s restrictions are in the past. That’s a period of time people remember, but it’s not a daily part of life. Sure the disease still exists, but the mass testing sites, mandatory masking, the empty towns, etc. are all things of the past.
And yet that began only a little less than 6 years ago. I would argue that period fits many of the criteria of a historic event, even if it was so recent.
Anyway, I’m not even saying all of this to change your policy. I’ve just always found it an interesting piece of theory. There are plenty of other communities where one can go to see recent images. I just like discussing how we view and define history. Especially when it comes to assigning an arbitrary cutoff