cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
-- John Abernathy
This will end up in history books
Land of the free.
Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.
Fuck that's a great pic.
We all love to shit on journalists because most of the time they deserve it, but some of them are honestly doing heroic work and are fundamental in times like these.
And it's also a great case for why photographers have not been made obsolete by AI, but quite literally the opposite.
I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic
Amazing shot
Also I can't help but laugh at the idea that the photographer in this moment was in fact not taking the guy's camera...but instead, getting the shot
Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.
Another hero being molested by Trump goons.
Picture of the year. In January.
That is an amazing shot.
Oddly, when I search for it in Google or Bing, it doesn't show up; but when I ask Google Assistant about a photograph of reporter throwing his camera to another reporter on FB, it returns only the T*****s post.
This photo is going to be studied in history books!
His website: https://www.abernathyphoto.com/minneapolisstreetphotographer
Notice his other work:
https://www.abernathyphoto.com/food
See if you can find a pattern that leads to that last shot.
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