Rian Dundon: How Many Cameras Does a Protest Need?
Rian Dundon
Seeking out the stories flying under the national radar, The Nation and Magnum Foundation are partnering on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers.
This week, Rian Dundon shows us whats on the other side of the lens as livestreamers and citizen journalists provide constant footage of BLM protests in Portland.
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“Filmers that the protesters considered to have a conservative bias, or suspected of being police informants, were routinely set upon and ejected from demonstrations. Members of the press struggled to reconcile subjects’ privacy concerns with the demands of breaking news reporting. The visual nature of the protests combined with the sheer number of cameras contributed to a layering effect, as if every image were now a picture about how pictures were being made.”