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Photograph of a speaker at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles
- Photograph by
- Oliver, Tommy, American, born 1984
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Floyd, George Perry Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
- Lacey, Jackie, American, born 1957
- Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles, American, founded 2013
- Date
- June 3, 2020
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6720 pixels × 4480 pixels
- File size: 172.29 MB
- Caption
- Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
- Description
- A digital, black-and-white image of an unidentified protester speaking at a Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles protest against District Attorney Jackie Lacey in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The image was taken from below, looking upwards towards the speaker, who is wearing a black short sleeve T-shirt, ripped jeans, sunglasses, a black baseball-style cap, and has a small, black leather backpack strapped to their front. The protester is speaking into a microphone held in their proper right hand. Attached to the backpack is a small cardboard placard that reads [LET THE / YOUNG / PEOPLE / LEAD![underlined]] with the hashtag [#BLMLA] written vertically along the bottom left edge of the placard. In the background is the Hall of Justice and a white, multi-storied building with rows of windows.
- Place captured
- Downtown LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- digital images
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- Justice
- Photography
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Urban life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
- Object number
- 2021.31.31
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Tommy Oliver
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.