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Photograph of a child at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles
- Photograph by
- Oliver, Tommy, American, born 1984
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Floyd, George Perry Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
- Date
- June 6, 2020
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3624 pixels × 6720 pixels
- File size: 139.37 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 child protester participating in a Black Lives Matter protest in Century City, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The little girl is shown left of center. She is seated on an adult's shoulders towards the back of a tightly packed crowd of protesters, high above the others. She is holding the base of a pointed wooden rod attached to the bottom of a protest sign. She is holding the paper sign above her head. The front and back of the paper sign are attached to the rod with black binder clips on the top and bottom. The sign has handwritten block text on the front that reads [BLACK / LIVES / MATTER]. The girl is wearing a dark short sleeve T-shirt with two light stripes on the sleeves and a floral patterned face mask that covers her nose and mouth. In the foreground is a blurred crowd of the faces of the other protesters, many of whom are wearing face masks. In the background are light tone building structures with large, vertical slats.
- Place captured
- Century City, 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
- Children
- 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
- 2021.31.54
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Tommy Oliver
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.