Justice
Documenting Scenes of Modern Revolution
Jessica Lehrman’s photographs capture the strength of protests, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.
A year after she moved to New York City in 2010, the photographer Jessica Lehrman got a call from her parents. Occupy Wall Street had just set up its first tents; they told her to get down to Zucotti Park. When Lehrman arrived, “it was pouring rain, and there were maybe ten people under a tent,” she says. “And I thought: This is the revolution.”
The scene was one of many sites of conflict Lehrman has documented in her work, collected under the title Revolution. A full-time photographer based in New York, Lehrman shoots a range of subjects. She spent some time photographing a nightclub on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and can often be found pointing her lens through the crowds at the city’s music venues.