Įvans was named AfroAmerica Network Black Woman of the Year for 2016 and was chosen to one of the BBC's 100 Women for that year. In December 2016, Evans met Bachman for the first time at a symposium on news photography organized by Reuters and the International Center of Photography. She is originally from Brooklyn and is a licensed practical nurse in Pennsylvania.
Ieshia Evans Įvans, the subject of the photograph, was 35 at the time it was taken. Awards īachman's photograph of Evans standing as the two police officers charge towards her was awarded first prize for Contemporary Issues in the 2017 (60th) World Press Photo Contest. The photograph was included in The New York Times ' "The Year in Pictures 2016". Smith to write a poem on the subject of the image. Įvans was interviewed by Gayle King for CBS This Morning, and the public radio program Studio 360 later commissioned Tracy K. A high school student attacked by police dogs in Birmingham, Alabama. One man staring down a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square. There are images that are impossible to forget, searing themselves into our collective consciousness.
Yoni Appelbaum commented for The Atlantic: The photograph drew comparisons to images of previous civil rights demonstrations as well as the image of " Tank Man" taken during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. It joined a small group of other images connected to the Black Lives Matter movement", including images of a man throwing a tear gas canister back at police during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Bree Newsome taking down a Confederate flag at the South Carolina State House, and activist DeRay Mckesson being arrested in Baton Rouge, also while protesting Sterling's death. Teju Cole, writing for the New York Times Magazine, said that "in spite of, or because of, its simple narrative, Bachman's photograph became an icon. The German television channel n-tv described Evans as the "icon" of the protest. Multiple media organizations described the image as "iconic". She was detained, held overnight and released on the evening of the next day. Įvans was attending her first protest when she was arrested, having traveled to Baton Rouge after seeing news coverage of the shooting of Sterling. The photograph became a viral phenomenon on social media. The image shows a young woman in a flowing dress standing with her arms crossed facing down a line of heavily armed police while two armored officers rush forward to put her in handcuffs. At the protest on July 9, 2016, which followed the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and of Philando Castile in Minnesota by police officers, Ieshia Evans was photographed by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters news agency confronting a line of police in riot gear.
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