Scenes from Work as Photojournalists are Increasingly Caught Up in the Protest Field – Reading The Pictures

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Scenes from Work as Photojournalists are Increasingly Caught Up in the Protest Field – Reading The Pictures

These photos of Columbian photographer Luis Robayo demonstrate how much photojournalists can be absorbed by the protests they cover.

via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2021/05/photojournalists-moving-targets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29

That’s how AFP photographer Luis Robayo captions two Instagram posts featuring recent images of himself on assignment covering protests in Columbia (1, 2). The protests started in opposition to a tax reform bill and then quickly escalated into expressions of outrage against police violence, government corruption, a poorly handled pandemic, and increasing poverty.

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