D.C. Protest I

Christopher Barker

D.C. Protest I

During a relatively peaceful 2002 protest against the World Bank in Washington, D.C., anti-war demonstrators began to change the situational climate of the march. Tensions between protesters and police, who were expecting a violent demonstration, began to rise. Police began to arrest everyone that they managed to surround inside Pershing Park, guilty, as well as innocent bystanders alike. In relative anticipation of the police’s reaction, this young man wrote the telephone numbers of civil defense lawyers on his arms before the demonstrations even began.

Pershing Park, Washington D.C.

September 2002 on Nikon N90s

Here are the rest of the images from this series:

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D.C. Protest I by Christopher Barker
D.C. Protest I by Christopher Barker
  • Jen Cannella

    Jen Cannella

    Fantastic Image!

  • Lena Bartle-Smith

    Lena Bartle-Smith

    love all your work, i find it inspring, this one particularily remarkable, the intensity and black and white are excellent

  • Jef Harris

    Jef Harris

    I really like how the ends of the ties are blurred.

  • Charles McKean

    Charles McKean

    Fab

  • Shannon Clough

    Shannon Clough

    Great picture!

  • Adam Speedie

    Adam Speedie

    Amazing shot. it says so much

  • Christopher Barker

    Christopher Ba...

    Thank you all for your wonderful comments, I appreciate your opinions.

  • shawhouse

    shawhouse

    wow, great capture. perfect frame.

  • Bluetiger

    Bluetiger

    Nice photo journalism shot!

  • kateee

    kateee

    wow!!

    stunning!!

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    Fantastic work. I hope to see so much more of your great work!

  • Christopher Barker

    Christopher Ba...

    Thank you all, you are too kind.

  • Peter Davidson

    Peter Davidson

    Simple and effective image.

  • Philip Rogan

    Philip Rogan

    I have been at a few demonstrations, mostly as a filmmaker but with my sympathies firmly in the protesting camp and have always found the common sense and preperation of protest organisers to be an example to any business. Prepare, stick together and keep the head seems to be the motto.

  • Oliver Andrews

    Oliver Andrews

    Very Nice, moody, and conveys the feeling of the event.

    Great capture!

  • 4getsundaydrvs

    4getsundaydrvs

    i love it

  • Peter Zentjens

    Peter Zentjens

    Very strong image, specially with the story that accompanies it.

  • Preech

    Preech

    that is a very good image

  • CATNIPMEOW

    CATNIPMEOW

    RIGHT ON !!!!! This is awesome….......
    I protest on behalf of animals….....the police are not usually involved but some people like to say alot of mean things and get very righteous so you learn really quick that you just smile and wave…......

  • shawhouse

    shawhouse

    congrats on being featured. how you?

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Thanks shaw. Things have been hectic.
    Hope all is well with you.

  • Lauren Marr

    Lauren Marr

    WOW!!!

  • starvinartist

    starvinartist

    Fires inspire

  • hallucingenic

    hallucingenic

    great capture!

  • tdub303

    tdub303

    awesome capture

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Thanks tdub. Unfortunately I had to get arrested to get this one. Somethings are worth that extra effort!

  • tdub303

    tdub303

    haha. i have done some stupid things and gone places i should not have “just for a photo”, too….

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Awesome! Well we have that in common then!

  • ozlat

    ozlat

    well captured… that’s all we need to see

  • Christopher Barker

    Christopher Ba...

    Thanks Ozlat.

  • shanghaiwu

    shanghaiwu

    I like your work

    awesome

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Thanks a lot Shanghaiwu, I appreciate you stopping by to check it out.

  • shanghaiwu

    shanghaiwu

    it was your latest that caught my eye 1st…

    brilliant

  • Cathy Carbonaro

    Cathy Carbonaro

    Fantastic!!!

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Again, thank you very much Cat!

  • Michael Lane

    Michael Lane

    Interesting shots mate. Nicely captured. I really like this image

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Much appreciated Michael.

  • Marcella Chestnut

    Marcella Chestnut

    Was wondering how you got this shot. Suspicions were confirmed upon reading the previous comments above. It strikes me that this image may represent the first steps toward walking the walk. How far you’ve gone…

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    True. You can’t really go much further without actually participating in the act itself..

  • bearpaw

    bearpaw

    full on….very powerful shot….

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Thanks a lot BP. This one almost landed me in jail longer than previously intended. Thanks for looking!

  • Jan Timmons

    Jan Timmons

    All three DC protest photos convey tension, distrust – very moving. Fits with the irony with which you write in your profile self-description. Alaska?

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Ha. Irony…I’ll go with that. Film photography is a dying breed and it saddens me to see it go. I am a very distrusting individual and I feel that I can tell a lot about a person from one encounter and from then on, the walls go up, or the tend to hover until some other flag goes up….

  • Mark Hayward

    Mark Hayward

    this is a brilliant documentary shot…great work!!

  • Christopher Barker

    Christopher Ba...

    Thanks Mark. I appreciate he kind words!

  • Jane Keats

    Jane Keats

    Clever man and wonderfully expressive picture!

  • Christopher Ba... replied

    Thanks a lot Jane. I like how much of a story that this image can tell with so little…...

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