A Lifetime in Photography – Stephen Shames
Black Panthers by the side of the stage at a ‘Free Huey’ rally in DeFremery Park, Oakland, California, 1968. ‘What interests me is not someone’s starting point, but their journey,’ Shames said. ‘My journey as a photographer started during the 1960s when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. I got to know the leaders of the anti-Vietnam war and the Black Power movements, including Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, who became a mentor. Seale and the Panthers taught me how to see a community that was not my own from the inside’
Photograph: Stephen Shames/Polaris/Visa Pour L’Image
