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DOCUMENTING HISTORY

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America, I was but nine years old and did not understand the tumult.

I believe we are at another pivotal moment in our history, and I am documenting it—so that a nine-year-old of today might understand the protests of 2025 in sixty years.

Having started this project in February 2025, this movement has drawn me to dozens of rallies, protests and marches. I have made more than 25,000 photographs.

Reportage such as this nearly always best produced in black + white, to show the emotion and fervor of the day, without the visual distractions of a color photograph.

Historians seem to agree on this moment's significance. Political history professor Heather Cox Richardson recently said 2025 is like no other year in American history for more than 100 years. Erica Chenowith of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Crowd Counting Consortium likens today to "an American spring."

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