It’s not often that you come across a powerful image such as this. Photographer Jonathan Bachman took this photograph, of Ieshia Evans, at the Baton Rouge protests. The demonstrator stands peacefully in the middle of the road as police officers look as if they’re rushing towards her.
Time magazine hunted down Bachman to ask him about the shot. “I had gone to bed and when I woke up and went right back to Baton Rouge,” he says. Not even when the BBC sent him an email with questions did he understand that his photograph was going viral. Then, his father called. “He said, ‘John, your photo is all over the Internet.’”
“I knew it was a representation of what was happening in Baton Rouge at that moment,” he said. “But I really, honestly, never thought it was going to be something like this. I had no idea I would be talking to everyone these past few days.”
The freelance photographer humbly gives the protester all the credit saying, “People have been trying to talk about me, but really it’s that woman that made the photo.”
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