Nice story, very evocative images. The image is where the politics resides. Which is the why the US Congress wants to suppress Tik Tok, the first amendment, small business, and privacy be damned. And if it wasn't for the phone video we would never have known about Rodney King and how the police behaved in minority warehoused communities. It hasn't stopped or slowed police violence because they have seen their funding increase with Biden. But Floyd's and Arbery's killer did go to jail, an earthquake in US white black racial dynamics with immense markers like the acquittal of the killers of Emmett Till.
"The image is where the politics resides" is a good, pithy statement. And it's true that mobile phones have made it possible to record and share video evidence of racial violence and other crimes that might otherwise go unreported. It also enabled Aaron Bushnell to live-streamed his self-immolation on Twitch, an act of extreme protest that I see you have written about. As someone who does not live in the United States, I'm glad that I'm not facing what you've described as the "miserable choice we have in November between an active genocidist and a concentration camp for immigrants demagogue".
Thank you for these marvelous photos--and your nuanced analysis of the politics of photography, a subject given scrutiny in the US at least since Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" prompted questions about editing, framing, posing, etc. I agree with Gladwyn's encapsulation: "the image is where politics reside." And I appreciate your care in selecting subjects and their expressions (along with the written words that also accompany them). What I see here is a commitment to peace from a broad representation of the Dunedin community and that gives me hope. There is power in these images.
Thanks, Suzanne. The protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have continued here, as they have in many parts of the world. We meet every Saturday at the Otago Museum at 2:00 in the afternoon and march to The Octagon in the centre of Dunedin, where there are speeches. It's a bit like church.
Nice story, very evocative images. The image is where the politics resides. Which is the why the US Congress wants to suppress Tik Tok, the first amendment, small business, and privacy be damned. And if it wasn't for the phone video we would never have known about Rodney King and how the police behaved in minority warehoused communities. It hasn't stopped or slowed police violence because they have seen their funding increase with Biden. But Floyd's and Arbery's killer did go to jail, an earthquake in US white black racial dynamics with immense markers like the acquittal of the killers of Emmett Till.
"The image is where the politics resides" is a good, pithy statement. And it's true that mobile phones have made it possible to record and share video evidence of racial violence and other crimes that might otherwise go unreported. It also enabled Aaron Bushnell to live-streamed his self-immolation on Twitch, an act of extreme protest that I see you have written about. As someone who does not live in the United States, I'm glad that I'm not facing what you've described as the "miserable choice we have in November between an active genocidist and a concentration camp for immigrants demagogue".
Thank you for these marvelous photos--and your nuanced analysis of the politics of photography, a subject given scrutiny in the US at least since Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" prompted questions about editing, framing, posing, etc. I agree with Gladwyn's encapsulation: "the image is where politics reside." And I appreciate your care in selecting subjects and their expressions (along with the written words that also accompany them). What I see here is a commitment to peace from a broad representation of the Dunedin community and that gives me hope. There is power in these images.
Thanks, Suzanne. The protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have continued here, as they have in many parts of the world. We meet every Saturday at the Otago Museum at 2:00 in the afternoon and march to The Octagon in the centre of Dunedin, where there are speeches. It's a bit like church.