This was at the Grande Floral Parade in Portland Oregon. This lady was yelling quite a few racist remarks to a large group of visitors. She was making quite a scene in front of her young son and the rest of us that were there. The police came and tried to calm her down but she just became more angry. They finally handcuffed her and took her away in the police car with her young son. It was really quite a sad scene. I don't know what happend to the young boy.
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A powerful and evocative image, yet disturbing nonetheless. I think that the look of distress on the mother's face is so incongruous with her actions, the concerned look on the boy's face so painful to see. A brave and poignant image, made more special and riveting with the selective desaturation. Bravo.
Many thanks for filling in the details on the exceptional candid shot that you took. The picture had made me feel sad enough already but in my minds eye I had imagined that she had been arrested for shop lifting, to know that if was for shouting racist abuse makes the photo even more shocking, it creates a third an even more disturbing juxtaposition, the distress of her expression: the beauty of her face: the ugliness of her mind
I keep wanting to put this in my favourites but then thinking that in a way - because of the nature of the shot - it would be wrong to trivialise the moment this way. All I can say is that it is genuinely the most striking image that I have seen on DPC and you should take a great deal of pride in your ability to have captured it so meaningfully
to those who thought this was "over the edge" she was in public and she was disturbing the peace. If it is photojournalism and it was on the front page of the newspaper would this be wrong? This is a powerful picture, that fact that it did evoke such intense reaction makes it a great capture. I wish I voted...
Your shot has generated so many interesting comments. Being able to evoke such powerful emotion from your viewers is remarkable. I commend you on a shot nicely done.
As someone who has consistently tries to protect the rights of young children. I am somewhat offended by this particular photograph the subject matter for this challenge was a candid and indeed this is a candid. However, a candid of this sort showing the pain and suffering of the mother while she is humiliated and arrested in front of(what can only be assumed to be), her own child. I find this to be somewhat offensive. I could understand if you are trying to show the pain and suffering of someone being arrested in a war-torn country and taken off by a corrupt government and police, but to display this image in the context of this particular challenge, I feel is unnecessary at best.
Please understand that I'm not trying to suggest that you are intentionally trying to further humiliate the mother or the child pictured in this photo, but I will ask you one question, after taking this photo did you go and ask the mother if you could use it in this manner?
Again, I don't mean to sound callous, but I've never taken an image, kept an image, printed an image or posted an image of the human subject without first asking permission.
I find this hard to explain because I do understand that you can never ask every single person that's in your photograph if you can post their photo or print their image, but I always ask the person who is the focal point of my photo, because they're the reason I took it in the first place.
I am truly sorry if I offended you with my opinion but sometimes people feel strongly toward one thing or another for strange reasons.
Nice capture - Good emotion and makes you look - Many in this challenge don't. Not too sure about the selective colour as this is more arty than real life.
OMG is this for real??? I am going to mark it as if it is (whilst maybe hoping that it isnt). Very distressing look on the womans face has been well captured and the young boys blank confusion adds to this
Great desat job as well
This picture bothers me and I hope you will reveal all after the competition. Having said all that if I look at it dispassionately I have to say its a great image and worthy of a 10
Way too intrusive for my taste. If this is just photojournalism, why have you desaturated your backgound? Photojournalism still needs to be artistic. The composition doesn't work well here, the police officers need to be facing the camera more. There's not enough sense of context for this to work well as photojournalism.
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