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This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Counter argument. There’s plenty of other communities for this post. Leaving it up is saying it is so important it has already made history. This is the first I’m seeing this post.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 9 hours ago

Leaving it up, in this case, is less an assertion of its historicity so much as its importance (important insofar as we're living through a fascist fucking regime) and that there was, strictly speaking, no prior rule mandating any age for photos.