Canon AE1 + HP5

BLM protest in Oakland, California

In Foresthill (CA) for the American Fire, 2013.

Demonstratie Erasmusbrug Rotterdam

Babes of Bangkok International Motor Show 2016 !

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

@laurenrushingphoto

Baltimore wandering

BLM 22 approaching Murren.

16 Spokane artists created this mural for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Chicago Mayor calls in 'census cowboy'

#BLM #blacklivesmatter

San Diego, CA

#blacklivematters

#stopasianhate

chinatown, l.a.

Out walking again, dodging raindrops

7 in series

Shot on 35mm Camera

California Student’s Peaceful Protest for Black Lives Matter : BLM

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M7 + 35mm f1.8 Nikkor

Student volunteers painting the Black Lives Matter Mural on the east side of the CommunityWorx building in Carrboro.

Sunset Park. Brooklyn, NY

July 5, 2020: Confronting July 4. A March to honor Black and Indigenous Activists, Brooklyn

Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen–Mürren (BLM) class Be 4/4 number 22 between Grütschalp and Winteregg.

San Francisco Street Painting

El Boeing 787-9 de Etihad levantando el vuelo de Madrid destino Abu Dabi. Portando el sticker "China Shopping Festival 2017".

26.11.2017

AIRCRAFT

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

AIRLINE

Etihad Airways

REGISTRATION

A6-BLM

TYPE CODE

B789

CODE

EY / ETD

MODE S

8964BD

San Francisco Street Painting

Across from Wrigley Field

Marcus David Peters Circle, Richmond, VA

Black lives matter.

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You’re Not Black – Amy Saunders

I sit with them at lunch

Fried chicken on my plate

I eat with a knife and fork

“You’re not black, if you don’t use your hands to eat”

Yet I know that hands tied up the strange fruit on the trees in the south

The fruit for the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop*

I don’t recognise the Caribbean music, or the Afrobeats

I only know of Liszt, Chopin and Ludovico Einaudi

Whose names you’ve probably never heard

“You’re not black, if you don’t know this beat”

Yet, I am familiar with the beat of pounding

Pounding of sugar cane, the whipping of backs

The cries and screams of my ancestors

Ring loud in my head centuries later

So how dare you? How dare you put me down!

Question my ethnicity, I’m still a shade of brown

And I’m sorry if I don’t live up to your ‘black norms’

But I live in a world with segregated dorms

Society crushes me, tells me I’m ugly

But copies my features, they must think it’s funny

I’m not trying to in any way be mean

But I live in a society covered in white sheen

Sorry to Bother You, but I should Get Out

’Cause The Hate U Give leaves me with no doubt

That I am not The Help, the help that you need

But the Hidden Figures are clear to see

That I should stop trying to be ‘Black’ and just try to be

Me

*from ‘Strange Fruit’ by Abel Meeropol

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, Amy Saunders was only 13 years old when she wrote this poem.

Demonstrator from the Black Lives Matter protests in London UK. Shot on a Sony A7r with. Carl Zeiss ZA F2 8 lens with a 49mm Grey Heliopan Filter.

Baltimore wandering