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born 1977 England
Misan Harriman (born 15 December 1977) is a Nigerian-born British photographer, entrepreneur and social activist. As well as being one of the most widely-shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement, Harriman is the first Black man to shoot a cover of British Vogue.
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I want people who are scared and angry to look at someone that looks differently to them and see a human being.
When people are confronted with truth, they embark on their own process of recognition.
You have to let the great joy and beauty of the world be seen, but also the rage, the injustice of it all.
Somehow I’ve been quite allowed and able to function in a society that doesn’t usually accept that.
I once said that to be an artist is to watch the sun rise and set with the devil next to you.
No matter how much commercial success I achieved, I knew that would never be enough.
To really be an artist, you have to allow what you see to haunt you.
It is easy not to care when a crisis does not touch your doorstep.
Photography, like protest, is about bearing witness.
I don’t have any more tears after seeing a man that looked like me be murdered by the police.
What I can do is work on people who might listen to me or engage with my art, and recognise that we can be better.
This is the quiet power of photography. It builds bridges between strangers, between nations, and between struggles.
Hope lives in a place where you allow the world to hurt you enough to know that you are stronger than the worst it can offer.
I have chosen to make my sword and shield my lens and my voice.
To feel, in itself, is to resist.
I think that all artistic voices right now, especially those who are not going to [remain silent], need to be protected and amplified by the communities that believe that universal human rights matter.
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