Tina Yee is a multimedia journalist at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York. Over the last year, she has frequently covered Black Lives Matter rallies and protests through live-tweets and photo galleries.
“I love protests. There’s a lot of things that go on. It’s where the American principles of freedom of speech really take place. To me, it’s just another protest,” Yee said. “In covering any other protest, I try to find balance between who is attending, who is being represented, who is being shown. Am I shooting the same people? Sometimes you have to because they’re organizers, but I’m always looking for all the different things that happen in a protest: people praying, people meditating, you know, the whole range... Also, sticking true to what’s truly happening.”
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