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Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!
I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly
More context from John Abernathy's instagram (the "Getty photographer" in the original post):
This is our POV of being detained.
Reposting to properly credit and thank Pierre Lavie. I wasn’t able to tag him in the first post, and his work here deserves to be seen. The moment I went down was captured by @just1dudewithacamera. He was only a few feet away. That image exists because he was there and kept shooting.
I want to be clear about something else too: I’m not a Getty photographer. I wasn’t assigned or supported. I was there on my own, doing the work because someone needs to be close enough to show what’s actually happening.
As ICE agents and border patrol police moved in, it wasn’t just a body they restrained.
It was a perspective.
A witness.
A set of tools meant to show what power looks like up close.
People keep asking how I had the presence of mind to keep shooting. To throw the camera while being tear gassed, pepper sprayed, and pinned under a pile of agents.
I wasn’t thinking about fear. Not until the moment I thought I might pass out.
I threw my Leica so the image wouldn’t be lost. Not just from my camera but from this city, this community, this country. The world needs to see what’s happening here…
Too many images disappear into evidence lockers.
I didn’t want mine to.
I was pinned face-down, with knees on my back, and detained. Tear gas was deployed. I was pepper sprayed directly in the eye. Earlier I had been shot twice by less-lethal munitions. I couldn’t breathe. I told them I couldn’t breathe.
The last two images I took while I was being attacked, and moments before ICE and border patrol agents swarmed me without warning.
People keep saying the same thing: that this image feels like being there. That it looks the way it felt to be detained.
The camera didn’t stop working.
Neither did the witness.
That’s the work. That’s why I’m here.
This is Trump’s America.
Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!
I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly
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