In response to my last blogpost, Dorte Toft (Danish blog) pointed out that Jonathan Bachman’s picture also had many visual similarities to the picture of Tess Asplund standing up against a neo-nazi march in Sweden. Look and compare.
Note: there is a major difference between the two situations, in that the neo-Nazis in Sweden doesn’t represent the official Sweden, but they are alike in the sense that the depict a woman standing up against injustice.
I suspect that you have all now seen this photo from Baton Rouge by Jonathan Bachman
This is a photo that probably will become iconic, showing a brave woman standing in the path of the police dressed for a riot. It looks like the photo is taken just before the two policemen uses force on her.
When looking at the photo, I can’t help seeing a parallel to another photo of someone standing still in the path of violence.
Many people will find the comparison between the use of tanks on Tiananmen Square and the use of police in Baton Rouge as over the top, but it is a valid comparison – the difference is just a matter of degree rather than of type.
Yes, I know, this blog has been pretty much missing in action for a month now. I apologize – that is no way to behave when you’ve just moved your blog.
The silence is mainly due to two facts:
I won’t promise daily blogposts any time soon, but I will try to write something a bit more often.