It’s kind of a funny story. After a long absence I was trying to get back in with the Willamette Week (a local newspaper) as a freelance photographer. It was the aftermath of the May Day protests. I heard there was another labor rally going one and I asked if WW if they needed any photographs. They said they already had someone taking pictures, but they could use more. It was an ongoing story, and they were going to need a lot of photos about it. Now, I thought that “it” was the labor dispute between a local union and Powell’s chain of bookstores. After all, that was what the rally was about. So I photographed the protest. In fact I shot 5 rolls of the protest. I turned them all into the Willamette Week. When the next issue came out I discovered that the story they were covering was the police presences, since there had been some controvertial uses of force during the May Day protest. Needless to say, my photos were of no help and none were bought. But, while looking at them tonight, as I was filing some old work, there were a bunch I really liked. So I thought I would publish a couple here.
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