Peter van Agtmael

Portraits

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  • USA. Detroit, MI. 2013.
  • 2017. Boston, Massachusetts. USA. Attendees at the Boston Free Speech Rally and counter protest on Boston Common. 50 members of the Boston Free Speech Coalition were met by 30,000-40,000 counter protestors, galvanized by the deadly rally in Charlottesville the previous weekend. The counter protestors feared that the event might be another pretext for expressing white supremacist views. Though the organizers billed themselves as libertarians, several prominent members of the {quote}alt-right{quote} were listed as speakers. The event was largely peaceful, though right wing and libertarian elements that entered the crowd to express their views were usually shouted down or chased off to the cry of {quote}Nazi.{quote}
  • 2019. Tecate. Mexico. A woman singing at a cafe by the Mexico-USA border.
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  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2013. A resident of Nabi Saleh after a screening of 'Thank God It's Friday,' a documentary by a Belgian filmmaker about the weekly protests in the town. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue to use it.
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  • 2017. Bashiqa. Iraq. A portrait of a young Yazidi girl.
  • 2017. Monroe County, West Virginia. USA. Coal miner at Pay Car Inc. No. 58, a Southern Coal Corporation underground coal mine.
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