From the eyes of Teju Cole

The above photo was taken by Jonathan Bachman during a 2016 Black Lives Matter rally in Baton Rouge after the murder of Alton Sterling. It is a powerful picture of Ieshia Evans, mearly 18 years old, standing defenseless and unarmed against two heavily armed soldiers while awaiting arrest. I really like how the way the photo is taken; we know that they are just running to detain her but in the moment it seems like they are taken aback and scared of her? Teju Cole describes her as “almost to be levitating,” which is another perfect way to look at this photograph. I really like how he describes the photos in the article as if they were all shot to depict a super-hero. With the recent Black Panther movie being released, it is clear now that many more childern will have superheros to be able to look up to and in respect to this photo, not all superheros have to be fictional.

 

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/magazine/the-superhero-photographs-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fon-photography

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