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A Bushwick Photographer’s Collaboration With Shepard Fairey Has Already Impacted the Women’s March

French-Senegalese Photographer Delphine Diallo's portrait of a serene child was adapted into an illustration by iconic street artist Shepard Fairey.

A Bushwick Photographer’s Collaboration With Shepard Fairey Has Already Impacted the Women’s March

A Bushwick Photographer’s Collaboration With Shepard Fairey Has Already Impacted the Women’s March

French-Senegalese Photographer Delphine Diallo's portrait of a serene child was adapted into an illustration by iconic street artist Shepard Fairey.

A Bushwick Photographer’s Collaboration With Shepard Fairey Has Already Impacted the Women’s March
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One protest image that will be in wide circulation at the Women’s March in Washington D.C. this coming Saturday has roots in Bushwick.

Local photographer Delphine Diallo worked with street artist Shepard Fairey on the piece. Fairey, whose portrait of Barack Obama is immediately recognizable to anyone who lived through the 2008 presidential election, illustrated a peaceful Diallo portrait (pictured below at center).

“We the people protect each other,” reads the caption on the Diallo-Fairey collaboration.

The portrait is one of six images produced by the progressive organization Amplifier Foundation as part of a campaign called ” We the People ,” which aims to “disrupt the…

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