Check out Cackling at Fascism: How Washington Learned to Laugh Last in the Washington City Paper, which features several of my photos.
I’m obsessed with the resistance street art of Washington, DC.
PosterTifa
It started with the Sandwich Guy posters, the Banksy-style artworks that memorialized a moment of resistance to the occupation of the city. Trying to pin an assault charge on a guy for throwing a soft roll at a federal officer was absurd. The poster was an equally absurd response to this abuse of the justice system.
Our elites failed us by ushering in Trump 2.0 but the people hadn’t surrendered and were busy responding with the only tools they had: art.
I’d find the posters early in the morning, wheat pasted to construction sidings and boarded-up office buildings (DC has a lot of those downtown). There was a spot on M St NW that got all the new posters. A fresh work of satiric bile, inspired by the latest atrocities, like a newspaper of the voiceless.
Statue Wars
Installations like the Trump-Epstein Friendship Statue mocked the endemic corruption of the regime.
The smart thing would’ve been to just ignore this temporary installation but instead the regime, as dumb as they are cruel, destroyed the statue of Trump and Epstein intertwined. Don’t tell me that art doesn’t work.
You can learn more about how the nation’s capital got creative to get back at the regime in Cackling at Fascism: How Washington Learned to Laugh Last, an article in the City Paper featuring my photos of Sandwich Guy posters, the Trump-Epstein Friendship Statue, a golden throne for Donald and more.
Trump promised us a golden age – well, we know how that went. If you want more resistance art from DC, check out my online album The Golden Age of Street Art.
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