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
Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.
I take it back, the last shot Abernathy took is the stuff of Pulitzer’s. Holy shit that’s good.
This picture will be shown in History. It shows in so many ways whats going on and what is at stake. Wow.
Hope that both photographer got Out of that well
For real. This is photo of the year material.
And it’s only January 17. I don’t look forward to the horrors to which we will bear witness the rest of the year.
Thats what I’m Kind of afraid of …
One year since “Cybertruck on fire in front of Trump building” - seems like new year is ths time for photos of the year!
Expected to see something like this from Iran, but nooooo.
Hard to get much Out of there atm With internet being Cut Off…
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
This is the shot Pulitzer’s are made of TBF.
That camera looks like it was in flight.
I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic
Picture of the year. In January.
Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.
TREES ARE FREE ROPE IS CHEAP LYNCHING IS EFFECTIVE
Trees are free rope?
Forgot a few commas I think.
This photo is going to be studied in history books!
That is an amazing shot.
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.
Minnesommalia
Oh god, he meant base plate, not bass plate 🤦
Beautiful shot
Was that from today? I heard there was going to be a (counter?) protest today. Not exactly sure where around the MPLS area, though. Just knew a lot of people were not wanting to be in the cities today.
This will end up in history books
winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don’t see
Bystanders write history as well.
Neo-Confederates proved that was not the case a long time ago
It’s being recorded and the world is watching. It will be in some history books but who will have access to those books is a bigger question.
doomer here.
Mankind will extinguish itself and there won’t be any history or its books.
This guy dooms
Didn’t know you could Doom on lemmy
You can run Doom on just about anything.
Wouldn’t that be nice? Too good to be true, though.
The rest of the non-fascist world is watching. The US isn’t the entire world believe it or not
This idea that “history is written by the winners” is bullshit and literally only favors fascists. It’s the main reason for a lot of the “clean wehrmacht” myths and is the entire thing that the “lost cause of the confederacy” thing revolves around.
In one of the John Green history videos, he covers Viking raids on Great Britain. Often, the Vikings left after raiding an area, so the history was written by the surviving “losers”. John’s comment was that in cases like that where history is written by the losers, they are bitter about it.
I think the bitter comment lines up with your examples like the “lost cause” narrative, too.
