Context, the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood. I believe that the context behind the image, is as important as the image analysis itself
The context behind my image, time magazines front cover for May 11th 2015, are that there are riots being undertaken in Baltimore due to police brutality against young black males in America. The image is an illusion back to the riots in Baltimore back in 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray, These particular riots in 2015 are happening at the time because on the 12th of April 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Junior, a 25 year old African-American man was arrested by Baltimore police department, Gray was …show more content…
Allen has a job that involves with him working with and helping autistic children and is happy about his choice to document his life through the use of a lens.
Below is a quote from an interview that time magazine had with Devin, he is talking about the riots in Baltimore.
These are some other photos that Devin Allen took around the time of the riots and the retaliation after Freddie Gray’s death, thing that all of them have in common is that they all have a black and white filter, they have a “black people are hard done by” theme and they all are taken due to police brutality, the topic in which Devin Allen launched his career off.
What is happening in the image? The image shows us a black male running away from the oppressing riot police as they try to diffuse the riots that are being undertaken is Baltimore due to Freddie Gray’s premature death in the hands of policeman in the year of 2015. The date in which the original image was posted to Devin Allen’s Instagram was the 25th of April 2015, but the image I am analysing is the magazine cover that was published on the 11th of May, 2015, this is the original image that Devin posted to social
The context behind my image, time magazines front cover for May 11th 2015, are that there are riots being undertaken in Baltimore due to police brutality against young black males in America. The image is an illusion back to the riots in Baltimore back in 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray, These particular riots in 2015 are happening at the time because on the 12th of April 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Junior, a 25 year old African-American man was arrested by Baltimore police department, Gray was …show more content…
Allen has a job that involves with him working with and helping autistic children and is happy about his choice to document his life through the use of a lens.
Below is a quote from an interview that time magazine had with Devin, he is talking about the riots in Baltimore.
These are some other photos that Devin Allen took around the time of the riots and the retaliation after Freddie Gray’s death, thing that all of them have in common is that they all have a black and white filter, they have a “black people are hard done by” theme and they all are taken due to police brutality, the topic in which Devin Allen launched his career off.
What is happening in the image? The image shows us a black male running away from the oppressing riot police as they try to diffuse the riots that are being undertaken is Baltimore due to Freddie Gray’s premature death in the hands of policeman in the year of 2015. The date in which the original image was posted to Devin Allen’s Instagram was the 25th of April 2015, but the image I am analysing is the magazine cover that was published on the 11th of May, 2015, this is the original image that Devin posted to social