Document Resistance

If we don’t document what’s happening, who will? Take pictures of resistance: protests, graffiti, or things you witness.

When possible take pictures from multiple angles — it helps establish legitimacy. Post your pictures with a few words of context.

How to do it:

Train your artist’s eye. Watch around you for juxtapositions and interesting images that tell a story. You don’t have to be a professional photographer or writer to share information. In these days of fake stories and news, it’s important that a story emerge from multiple sources with different points of view. (Literally and figuratively.)

Learn how to use your phone. Search, or ask a young person to teach you. Get familiar with cropping, adding text and stickers, and taking video. Think about the images you see on your feeds: are they vertical or horizontal?

You’re carrying tools in your pocket a WWI journalist could only have dreamed of. Put them to use and flood the zone with reporting. Be careful with facts, and avoid faces unless you’ve asked first, or in cases obviously designed for attention (like costumes.) You can use your phone’s sticker function to cover faces with hearts in other situations.

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