Flash Points – The New Yorker

Flash Points

Philip Montgomery’s scenes from Baltimore, Ferguson, and Newark are reference points in a much longer lineage.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/flash-points-ferguson-baltimore-newark

Montgomery’s photographs capture the humanity of people for whom this lineage is not an abstract concern. There’s a woman, palm to the sky, anguish etched in her features. We know nothing of what happened immediately before that moment, but we’re tragically familiar with what she’s gone through