Twenty Twenty Protests

The only political conflict that I’ve ever photographed was the George Floyd protests during the summer of 2020. Like other people, I was jobless, reeling from the onset of the pandemic, and then mortified by the murder of George Floyd. In May, 2020, the culmination of those feelings came to a peak when people started rioting in Philadelphia and across the nation.
    I regularly biked into Center City to witness the unrest. One day, I saw a group of people rising up to tear down the Frank Rizzo statue.

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The photograph motivated Meg Onli, the curator for the ICA at the time, to start the Art for Philadelphia Bail Fund. She asked me if a print of the image could be included along with works from other artists to help raise money in response to the uprisings.