Black Lives Matter March - Hollywood, California, June 7, 2020

The Art

There is a specific kind of energy right before a march begins. I took this as crowds were converging on Hollywood in June 2020. You can feel the anticipation in the air‚ people moving with purpose, heading toward the starting line together. It captures that moment where individual strangers start becoming a collective force.

The Artist

Shannon Black’s work is a search for the extraordinary within the ordinary. For over 30 years, the New Zealand-born, California-based artist has documented the world through a lens of quiet, essential stillness. Whether through cinematic digital collages or raw street photography, her process focuses on uncovering the hidden narratives that live underneath the noise of everyday life.

In her documentary and protest photography, Shannon focuses on the individual experience within the collective. Amidst the chaos of a crowd, she isolates the solitary moment—the quiet friction of resilience and the personal gravity of the people involved. Her work is defined by a natural solitude that emerges without intention, inviting viewers to sit with the unnamable feelings found in moments of true, solitary observation. Through the interplay of light and shadow, Shannon transforms the passage of time and the beauty of decay into a dreamlike reflection of the world as she sees it.

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