Misan Harriman reflects on Peter Magubane’s legacy, the duty of photographers to protect history, and the devastating failure of the world to protect Palestinian journalists. 📲 Follow @dredhasan.bsky.social | @sumudpod.com | @misanharriman.bsky.social | @watermelonpictures.bsky.social
"A lot of young people DM me saying, how do I get followers? And I'm like, you're asking me the wrong question. You have to put the camera down before being a photographer and ask yourself why you should hold the camera. We lost Peter January this year, 2024. And now I'm meeting David, the man who for 30 years was the custodian of all of the stories he had captured. They went through everything together. So basically this was in June, 1976. Sweater uprising. And this was in a place called Alex. The police had asked him to expose his form to light and he refused. They subsequently broke his nose and obviously he relented and the form was exposed to light. He would shake his head and he'd go, you know, Dave, my nose healed but those images, I lost them forever. That was our history. Hmm, those fools lost our history. South African close friend and photographer of Nelson Mandela. His photography of the struggles of apartheid had a profound effect on me as a young person. He was not an activist. He was a freedom fighter. He was a freedom fighter. Such a powerful moment in the movie. I think of Palestinian journalists that have documented their own annihilation, sometimes live on air, how our global society of journalists have failed. It's the biggest killing of journalists we've ever seen."
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Misan Harriman reflects on Peter Magubane’s legacy, the duty of photographers to protect history, and the devastating failure of the world to protect Palestinian journalists. 📲 Follow @dredhasan.bsky.social | @sumudpod.com | @misanharriman.bsky.social | @watermelonpictures.bsky.social