MetaFilter posts tagged with protests and photography

The Regime Reels

netbros — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:46:09 -0800

Kosoof—Arash Ashoorinia's Photography —including today's Ashura protests in Iran. The protests in Iran today on the Islamic holy Day of Ashura have been significant and violent, with multiple deaths reported including the nephew of opposition leader Mir-Hussein Moussavi. There are several sites live-blogging the events: Enduring America NY Times The Lede Iran News Now — [twitter feed] The Daily Nite Owl And video compilations: [some videos and images display brutal violence] Tehran Bureau Enduring America Opposition group Jaras Please note all sites are very busy today and may be slow to load.

An outlaw view of the underbelly of the beast during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:16:02 -0800

Fear and Loathing in Denver, Colorado - August 24-28, 2008.

Inaugural protest pics

jperkins — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:24:15 -0800

Inaugural protest pics (series begins at that photo): Kevin Smith attended the inaugural protests and took some (IMHO) really good photographs that you weren't likely to see on any of the mainstream media outlets. Outside of the subject matter itself, I enjoy his photos and wanted to share these given this sets timeliness. In particular, I like this one and love this one. Non protest pics can be find by using the first link and then navigating back through his archives.

Naked Power: The Homeland Security Collection

madamjujujive — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:08:12 -0800

Homeland Security - multimedia artist and activist John Douglas portrays himself as a one-man citizen soldier army in a series of provocative photographic tableaus. NSFW.

Aerial photos used to estimate crowds at demonstrations

twsf — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:25:02 -0800

So just how many protesters WERE there at the anti-war demonstration? Throughout history organizers give a higher turnout estimate and police give a lower one. The San Francisco Chronicle hired an independent third party to take aerial photos and estimate the number of demonstrators last Sunday, and the results show a crowd count much lower than what either the organizers OR the police had estimated. In Washington, DC, as USA Today notes, the Park Service "counted crowds for decades until 1995, when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan threatened to sue after Park Police estimated attendance at the Million Man March at 400,000." Is having an accurate count a good thing? Will anyone care?

sudama — Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:10:52 -0800

FTAA Diary is a 48-page zine (available for download in pdf format) chronicling the experiences of folks who protested in Quebec. Illustrated with powerful black and white photos, the narratives personalize the events like no journalism could hope to.