The story behind the photo … Patrick Hutchinson carries a white protestor to safety in London. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
The story behind the photo … Patrick Hutchinson carries a white protestor to safety in London. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Lou Mensah explains why the new season of her podcast about art, race and identity examines the defining images of 2020 and beyond, from BLM protests to Vogue covers and Trump supporters
Mon 25 Jan 2021 08.28 EST
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Lou Mensah spent the 1990s working in PR but her favourite part of the job was not the to and fro with clients. What she really liked was meeting and briefing photographers. So when she fell ill at one point, a friend gave her a camera and said: “If you’re well enough to go out today, just take some pictures.” And Mensah did.
The real ‘People of the Year’ workers & oppressed people of the world!
A WW commentary
By Devin Cole posted on December 16, 2020
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 17 2020: Public health workers, doctors and nurses protest over lack of sick pay and personal protective equipment (PPE) outside a hospital in the borough of the Bronx on April 17, 2020 in New York, NY.
In what can only be described as a big middle finger to healthcare workers, essential workers and all workers and oppressed persons who are rising up against police terror and fascism, the bourgeois weekly Time has named President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its Persons of the Year.