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After I shot Georgetown, I decide to venture a little closer towards the White House - the epicenter of the protest because the protesters want to irk and vent there frustrations directly at the them sitting president - Donald J. Trump.
As I walked down Connecticut Ave NW toward the White House, you can see all of the graffiti in black, red, white, and other colors of spray paint on street signs, statues, and monuments, walls, everywhere.
In the background I can hear the chants and roars of crowds towards the White House and Lafayette Park on 16th St, NW,
I decide to try my luck - I lost control of my curiosity. I had to document this. [Note: I am inspired by Devin Allen, a reknowned street photographer who adopted Gordon Park's style of photography. Check him out on Flickr (bydevinallen) and on Instagram.]
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
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One week later, organized protests and marches commenced on 16th Street to Lafayette Square in front of the north lawn of the White House. Organizations showed up in full firce and the energy was at a feverish pitch. I was walking up 16 St. from the White House when I noticed this group marching and chanting down 16 St. I had to get this shot by running in front of the group while walking backwards because I have a long lens on my camera.
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I will be posting a series of photos recounting the historic protests in Washington DC that gripped and polarized the country. I will be begin with the protest that erupted after the death of George Floyd.
The next week after the after the massive protest on May 31, 2020 I was in Arlington, VA just across the river from Washington DC. I felt the gravity of DC pulling me and my curiosity got the best of me. I watched the melee unfold on the local news the prior weekend and wanted to see with my own two eyes what the area looked like. However, I was very, very concerned about catching COVID because we were right in the middle of a pandemic and there was no vaccine at that time.
But I felt the need to document what I could so that I could share the story from a local's eyes.
So I eased into DC starting in Georgetown - the popular shopping and night life area, not the mention the prestigious university. This photo shows a restaurant boarded up with BLM posters on it hoping to ward off any destruction. Shades of the protests and destruction that happened on U St NW Washington DC after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in April of 1968.
History repeats.
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
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This is a bit of guerrilla art on Queen Anne, incomplete because the artists were detained by the cops for "gang graffiti".
Because the SPD doesn't have bad enough optics already?
Black Lives Matter, people.
I recommend checking out what people have done on the chain link fence around the White House, where a very scared man is living.
Richmond, Va / USA - August 8th, 2020: A young man sits and looks at the vandalized Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue after protests at the new Marcus David Peters Circle. The Confederate statues have been a controversial issue for years and became a visual symbol in the Richmond George Floyd Protests in the summer of 2020.
US Bureau of Land Management Ranger, Albuquerque Field Office, New Mexico
2006 Chevy Silverado 2500HD
Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren BDe 4/4, 22, departs Bahnhof Grütschalp with RE751 10:44 from Grütschalp to Mürren, hauling a single freight wagon
I found no shortage of stores downtown who support the Black Lives Matter cause. This one is very low key; it took me a minute to realize what the initials meant.
I've always liked that feather!
In the summer of 2016, the BLM Burns District continued its partnership with the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon Archaeological Society and conducted archaeological excavations at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter site in southeastern Oregon.
The site, discovered in 2009 by BLM Archaeologist Scott Thomas, has hosted archaeology field schools since 2011. In 2015, it became internationally known after archaeologists found a small stone tool under a layer of volcanic ash from a volcanic eruption about 15,800 years ago.
This tool suggests one of the oldest known human occupations in the western United States.
The 2016 excavations encountered significant rock and boulder debris, resulting from at least two occasions of portions of the rock wall calving or breaking off – probably around 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. These rocks limited access to the ground beneath them, and many were removed only after drilling and splitting reduced them to removeable sizes.
In coordination with the BLM’s Scott Thomas, Dr. Patrick O’Grady with the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History directed excavations for the fifth year in 2016, and Jordan Pratt, graduate student at Texas A&M University, served as the excavation’s site supervisor. Volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society, students from the University of Oregon, and archaeologists from the BLM conducted the excavations.
Video by Greg Shine, BLM
Richmond, Va / USA - August 8th, 2020: A young man sits and looks at vandalized Robert E. Lee statue sits on Monument Avenue after protests at the new Marcus David Peters Circle. The Confederate statues have been a controversial issue for years and became a visual symbol in the Richmond George Floyd Protests in the summer of 2020.