Iran Protest in Atlanta

Last Saturday I went to the CNN center to take a few photos of the protest for Iran. It was very hot and humid and the crowd just grew every hour that I was there. The protest was rather large and for the most part a peaceful one. There were some conflicting views from different people at the protest but for the most part everything was cordial.

There was one incident that irked me. Three guys came up to me and told me to stop taking photos, and one of them even threatened to break my camera. I found this extremely ironic considering they were protesting Iran's governments suppression of Iranian's protests and speech. They even took me to a police officer. Who told them (like I told them multiple times) that they are on public property which means photography is fair game. If they didn't want to photographed maybe in the future they shouldn't protest on public property (kinda defeats the purpose of a protest) and maybe not protest in front of one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world.

Those guys clearly don't know what living in a free society is about. This comes with the territory. The rest of the people I had the chance to talk to were very nice and we had great discussions. Typical example of a few ruining the image of many.

I had a fun time and more importantly got some great images.






























Enjoy.