Black Lives Matter
An ongoing photo series of the Black Lives Matter movement organized protests in New York City and Baltimore.
America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and the largest prison population in the world. There are 2.4 million people behind bars. The Guardian's The Counted reports 1,145 people have been killed by police in 2015 alone in the United States. A disproportionate number have been black.
These photographs are from protests in New York City, as well as Baltimore, ranging from December of 2014 to the present. Images taken in Baltimore are from April 28th, 2015.
In our current time of media saturation, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, create a very short lived reactionary cycle. Each protest I’ve been to has come after a sensational event caught on camera. The chokehold of Eric Garner, the death of Freddie Grey, the shooting of Tamir Rice, the dashboard video of Sandra Bland, and of course the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death, have all incited protests. Collectively, they have driven a nation to once again rise up against an onslaught of unjustified deaths, systemic racism, a corrupt financial system, and against militarized police forces.