We The People

This photo was taken January 19, 2017 at a protest on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The image depicts an adult – possibly a mother – and a child watching on from the safety of their 5th avenue apartments as the world churns and changes below them. The separation of the two characters, both from each other but also from the people on the street, hints at the isolation, helplessness and complacency felt by the American people in relationship to the growing cracks within our Democracy. The gestures of the child – active, curious, climbing on the windowsill for a better view – and the adult – on the phone, worried, listless – show two reactions to the same moment in time, separated by...View all