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Holding Onto You: Photographs as Protest Signs

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Susan Meiselas Body of National Guardsman, killed during the taking of Jinotepe, being burned with the official state portrait of President Somoza. Nicaragua. 1979. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Micha Bar-Am Palestinian woman showing the photo of her missing son during the fighting. Lebanon. Sidon. July 1982. © Micha Bar-Am | Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos Hamas party demonstration to comemorate the death of Yechia Ayash considered responsable for bombings, killed by the Israelis. A Palestian woman holding out a photo of her son. Gaza. © Nikos Economopoulos | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Ashraf Abu Lipta's family holds the picture of their son, a local leader of the Palestinian Popular front, killed in February 2004 by an IDF targeted assassination operation in Rafah. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
On the "Greek Line". Mother of missing soldier.
Jean Gaumy Mothers and widows of young soldiers killed on the front. The Behesht Zahra cemetery. Tehran. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins El Salvador. 1984. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Abbas Rioters burn a portrait of the Shah as a sign of protest against his regime. Tehran. Iran. December 1978. © Abbas | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas Kurdistan. Iraq. 1991. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas Photographs of Kamaran Abdullah Saber 20 years old, held by his family at Saiwan Hill cemetery. He was killed in July 1991 during a student demonstration against Saddam Hussein. Kurdistan. 1991. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas Photographs of 20-year-old Kamaran Abdullah Saber are held by his family at Saiwan Hill cemetery. He was killed in July 1991 during a student demonstration against Saddam Hussein. Kurdistan. Northe (...)
Larry Towell Police and GAM (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo or Mutual Support Group) protestors confront one another during the Day of the Army. A poster of a disappeared man lies on the ground between them. Guatemala Ci (...)
Larry Towell Sioux protest camp. Child and poster of Berta Caceres, Honduran human rights and environmental activist murdered on March 4, 2016, at the age of 44, for opposing a hydroelectric project. Between 2 (...)
Ferdinando Scianna Buenos Aires. Argentina. Parents of desaparecidos. 2002. © Ferdinando Scianna | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Headquarters of the "Mothers of May Square." Buenos Aires. Argentina. Images of a generation of students, intellectuals, and unionists missing or assassinated between 1976 and 1983. Every Thursday (...)
Patrick Zachmann A "Mothers of May Square" rally. Every Thursday, since 1977, they assemble before the governemental palace to claim their "missing" relatives.This association of mothers had only twelve members i (...)
Patrick Zachmann Family members holding photos of their relatives, missing during the Pinochet regime. "Where are they?" Santiago. Chile. 1998. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Families of ex-prisoners murdered under the Pinochet regime, at memorial constructed at ex- torture center "Villa Grimaldi." Santiago. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos Holding a portrait of her son, missing since the war in 1974, a mother protests against the continued occupation of Northern Cyprus. Ledra Palace check point. Nicosia. Cyprus. 1997. © Nikos Economopoulos | Magnum Photos
Holding a portrait of her son, missing since the war in 1974, a mother protests against the continued occupation of Northern Cyprus. Ledra Palace check point. Cyprus. 1997.
Susan Meiselas A funeral procession for assassinated student leaders. Demonstrators carry a photograph of Arlen Siu, an FSLN guerrilla fighter killed in the mountains three years earlier. Jinotepe. Nicaragua. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Larry Towell Posters of some of Guatemala's 40,000 disappeared persons inside the GAM (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo or Mutual Support Group) meeting house after a National Palace demonstration. Guatemala City. Guatemal (...)
Larry Towell A GAM (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo or Mutual Support Group) protest the annual "Day Of The Army." They are demanding the whereabouts of their disappeared loved ones. Guatemala City. Guatemala. 1987. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
Paul Fusco Women In Mourning And Outrage, New York City. They appear at anti-police brutality rallies, drawn together to share their crosses of sorrows, losses and grief in silence, giving witness to pain tha (...)
Peter van Agtmael Spectators at the entrance to an invitation only, socially distant, drive in rally with Joe Biden and Barack Obama on Halloween. Flint, Michigan. October 31. 2020. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Alex Majoli Disputed territory of the West Bank. Ramallah. Demostrators take to the streets to rail against prison conditions and the security wall. Israel. 2004. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos