Images of Protest
From the 2010 season. I returned from a fantastic trip to Guaymas, Mexico and straight into the anti-Olympic protests and street carnage. The action was close to where I live, so I took my camera into the streets to record the action. One of the most interesting aspects of packing around a high end camera...is that everyone automatically assumes that you belong there. So...I got up close and personal to both the police and the protestors. At one point, during the G-20 protest, a masked girl asked me what I was doing taking all those pictures....and she said that I was "scaring them". I thought that this was interesting because I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a sun bleached baseball hat...standing in front of a crowd of people in masks, dressed head to toe in black. Mostly it was a personal experiment on my part in getting interesting and edgy photos, that I would normally not consider taking. These photos are from an altercation between Blac Bloc members and t...