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
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.