Perspective: Photographer Jordan Conway spent time with activists occupying land just outside Atlanta that is set to become a public safety training center projected to cost upward of $90 million.
For more than a year now, activists have been occupying an area of land just outside Atlanta that is set to become a public safety training center projected to cost upward of $90 million. The activists call the planned center “Cop City” and have clashed with authorities there. A few days ago, a person was killed,Photographer Jordan Conway recently visited the area and spent time documenting what’s going on from the activists’ perspective.
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to use photographs alone as a way to fully represent such challenging and difficult issues. While camping in the forest, I struggled to feel as though I could do justice to the beauty of the Weelaunee forest. … Once there, I began to lose the sense that I was simply in a place, and more so as though I was intimately part of a place. Reckoning this feeling with the contrast of intermittent gunfire echoing through the trees from the police’s nearby shooting range, or of construction equipment since sabotaged and destroyed sitting vacant and burned, routinely put into perspective the stakes at which the occupiers were faced with.
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