Reposted by David Mayne (Project Yma/Here)
My friend Shaun has written a great piece on this recent photograph of a Black woman surrounded by masked men, and the ripples of meaning that spread from it.
'The camera had recorded a fraction of a second. The meanings attached to that fraction of a second accumulated rapidly afterwards.'
theblkgze.com
The afterlife of a photograph
When a photograph becomes iconic, what happens to the person inside it? A reflection on memory, recognition and photography's ethics.