For two weeks now in downtown Atlanta, as in every other major city in America, people have flooded the streets demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality. Photographer Wulf Bradley travels 40 minutes from his small town of Villa Rica, Georgia to capture the protests, and with his camera captures the stories told by the crowd. “I tend to look for people that I feel are the protagonist of the scene,” he wrote in an email. “The emotionally complex character in the frame that you first align with. The character that teaches you the moral of the story.”
His favorite photograph, he said, is one that he calls Beauty in Pain, in which a young Black man holds a bright bouquet of flowers while chanting with the crowd, his face mask pulled down to his chin. “It was one of two photographs that I felt needed no explanation,” Bradley said. “It was complete transparency without a word. He was how we felt.”
Ahead, a look at more of Bradley’s work capturing the Atlanta protests, which he said he hopes will accomplish one thing: “Equity in this country. Nothing more. Nothing less.”