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Peace March

Antiwar Demonstrators March Toward City Hall
North Broad Street
Circa 2003
Jim MacMillan

I don’t exactly remember this march but I do remember covering numerous antiwar marches in Philadelphia during the days leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. I usually resisted filing pictures of people holding signs, partly because word editors always liked them so much, but I made an exception this time for some reason. I like that I can see part of the white facade of the old Daily News building in the background.

This photograph was captured with a digital camera, probably a Nikon D1H and and 80-200 Nikon zoom lens, though I usually would have cropped it form there to clean up the edges and straighten the horizon. I found this metadata attached to the file: Several groups totaling about 1,000 high school and college student peace protesters marched through Center City Wednesday. Date: 3/5/03, Time: 4:54:12 PM, Shutter: 1/640, f:4.0, ISO:500, lens:80.

From the exhibition:

Portraits of Philadelphia: Photographs by Joseph V. Labolito and Jim MacMillan, 1981-2023

On exhibit through March 31, 2024 | more info
Talk and reception: December 8, 2023 | free tickets

Partner

I am honored to share this exhibition with Joseph V. Labolito. Visit: labolito.com

About the exhibition

In this exhibit, we explore the images of two photographers, Joseph V. Labolito and Jim MacMillan, as they traveled around Philadelphia. Both captured unique human experiences, whether it was Labolito documenting neighborhood life or MacMillan following protestors marching through the streets. The contrast of the two photographers’ work as they moved about the city can be clearly seen in their photographs. While Labolito’s photographs in black and white are purposefully framed and occasionally posed, MacMillan’s color photographs were captured quickly and candidly in a way only a news photographer can. Both were trying to capture a fleeting moment in the city.

By creating a mixed gallery of their work, the viewer is surrounded by the city through their eyes. Combining images from these two collections, both recently donated to the Special Collections Research Center, we aim to demonstrate how everyone has a different perspective of the city they live in, and how two completely opposite experiences could happen right around the corner from one another. The viewer moves through the exhibit as an experience, surrounded by images of the city they may or may not remember, as the city is ever evolving.

Exhibit production by Brenda Galloway-Wright and Ann Mosher, Special Collections Research Center

Location

Charles Library at Temple University
1st Floor Exhibit Space
1900 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Hours | Parking and Transportation

About me

My usual home page will return after the exhibition but until then I will post any new photos here: Course of Life

By Jim MacMillan

Jim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, as well as the the assistant director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.

During his photojournalism career, MacMillan spent 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and worked for The Associated Press in Boston and then in Baghdad during the war in Iraq, after which his team was awarded The Pulitzer Prize. He has also been recognized with the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, a National Headliner Award and the Pennsylvania Distinguished Visual Award for coverage of the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center.

Previously, MacMillan was a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, the Journalist in Residence at Swarthmore College, a Fellow with the Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and a Practitioner in Residence at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University.

He was also an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University and the Knight Fellow in Medicine/Health Sciences Journalism with the Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan. Previous faculty appointments include the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Swarthmore College, New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute and Klein College.