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minus-squarenslatz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·11 months agoColman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoReminds me of this famous picture too: I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.
minus-squarenslatz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·11 months agoBelfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.
minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoIt looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:
minus-squaregovernorkeagan@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoThat lawnmower looks like a hoover
minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoBeats raking, I guess
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoTheir ether? No; the guy has a rifle.
Colman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
Reminds me of this famous picture too:
I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.
Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.
It looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:
That lawnmower looks like a hoover
Beats raking, I guess
They look staged as fuck
Their ether? No; the guy has a rifle.
Swipe text typo fixed it.