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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

-- John Abernathy

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a good sign for the current state of press freedom.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago

The cool thing about the press is that somehow people will still report what you are doing, so they just managed to get a really powerful pic out of it.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

ah land of the free

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

This is a photograph that’s going to end up in history books.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This could be an Iran photo.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

We live in Temu Iran

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

Oh, good for him!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago

GREAT shot! Thanks for your service in defense of America.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago
[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

This goes hard.

[–] Ansis100@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Throwing a Leica like that shows commitment!

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Leica’s have been used to take some iconic photos by conflict photojournalists since at least WW2. Absolutely crazy that the camera didn’t get damaged, but Leica’s have definitely see some abuse over the years.

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-story-of-sean-flynns-leica-m2.html?m=1

Also, while you or I might see that and wince because of the potential damage to an expensive piece of kit, to him it’s just a tool that allows him to do his work of photographing, and preventing ICE from deleting those photographs that serve as a record of what’s happening in Minneapolis right now would probably worth any amount of cameras to any of the photojournalists there right now.

This is seriously a stunning photograph.