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Untitled

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Digital Photograph

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Crowd control presses forward to end the assembly before it escalates further. A woman stayed seated as the world moved around her, and she nursed the child in her arms as her form of protest to the world happening around her as she knew it. Strangers joined her, seating themselves and protecting her and her child from being trampled by the swelling crowd. Twenty two people were arrested. The woman with her child walked home free.

A surreal contrast in the beauty and innocence of children and chaos.

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Helana Michelle Gustin

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2020-05-01
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