{"id":51300,"date":"2021-02-24T03:27:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T03:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/24\/how-baltimores-freddie-gray-protests-shaped-this-photographer\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T03:27:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T03:27:03","slug":"how-baltimores-freddie-gray-protests-shaped-this-photographer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/24\/how-baltimores-freddie-gray-protests-shaped-this-photographer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Baltimore\u2019s Freddie Gray Protests Shaped This Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"HFxfkKLbG9c\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If I don&#8217;t have a camera, I don&#8217;t feel safe. And that camera beings me a sense of safety. It doesn&#8217;t fix everything, but it gives me a form of safety. Knowing that I can go out and document and make photographs that could potentially help change things.&#8221; Michael McCoy told VICE News. <\/p>\n<p>In times of protest, the work of Black photographers is often as much about capturing life as it is to preserve their own. &#8216;Shutter&#8217; is a look behind the lens into the stories they tell, why they tell them, and the beauty and burden of their photographic work. Check out more episodes here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jAP_c8Ob4WY\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/jAP_c8Ob4WY<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/24\/how-baltimores-freddie-gray-protests-shaped-this-photographer\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I don\u2019t have a camera, I don\u2019t feel safe. And that camera beings me a sense of safety. It doesn\u2019t fix everything, but it gives me a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51301,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51300\/revisions\/51301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}