Women's March on Washington |
Candid portraits from the Women's March on Washington in D.C. created on January 21, 2017. I wanted to focus on the faces - the humans beyond the signs and slogans.
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Why I March.
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I'm an artist and I need to bear witness and understand this from my first person perspective.
I'm a human and I need to participate in history - not scroll past it. I'm a teacher and I need to be able to tell my students that hatred is not winning in this world - and believe it. I'm a veteran and I have an old pair of boots that were made to march. Since the march, the need for documentation has only grown, and it is my responsibility to share my gift in the arts to record this moment in our history. I believe this is an important time in the history of America, and that documentation of such events is important. I have a gift for documentary photography, and I try to use this gift to contribute. @womensmarch #WhyIMarch |
After January 21st, the events that have followed have now grown beyond a march to a movement. I cannot stay silent. I marched in these boots for nearly 8 years in the military so that I can now choose to march for what I believe - and so that you can choose not to because of what you believe. Either way I've never remained silent on what was in my heart - everything I do comes from love and open-mindedness. Choice is this amazing thing we have - some have - and to believe we are not at risk of losing choice is to forget those who marched for it first. It remains blind to all the other human beings in our world without choice. We will not go back. I was there and the Women's March was about the choice to be there - Or not. History is made whether we agree with it or not - and I was a witness to history this weekend. It was loving, peaceful and restorative for me, and reignited a hope and fire that was fading - a hope I need to continue to teach in public education. #WhyIMarch #womensmarchandbeyond
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