Dazed Magazineのインスタグラム(dazed) - 8月11日 02時38分

The #Ferguson uprising, a year later:

On August 9 2014, 18-year old #MichaelBrown, an unarmed black man, was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. A year on, and yet more black Americans have died at the hands of the country’s heavily armed police force.

Things are a long way from perfect, but the uprising in Ferguson in reaction to Brown’s death has sparked a global conversation and a new wave of activism that’s fighting for racial equality and against police brutality. St Louis photographer Melissa Spitz has been documenting her home city since November 2014 and engaging with protesters who’ve spent 365 days on the streets of America campaigning for justice. "As a local and a person who grew up in St. Louis County, the signs of institutionalized racism were prevalent," says Spitz. "I witnessed the police conducting unnecessary searches of friends and was even asked, “What are you doing with them?” while riding in cars with people of colour. Fearing the police is normal in St. Louis, even as a white woman. The media’s portrayal of Ferguson and of people of colour in the United States over the past year has been predominantly negative. My own community and the country at large are denying its history while simultaneously shaming the individuals affected by it. I felt the need as a documentarian to investigate a place that was in close physical proximity to me, but one that I had been cautioned to never experience." – words @thomasgorton ? @nothing_to_worry_about #dazedinstastory

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