Modern Resistance in America

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

By J.M Giordano 

I grew up in a lower middle class, white neighborhood and only attended community college. I saw Trump coming a mile away. What I didn’t see coming was the sheer will of an almost unstoppable resistance to him and the racist and brutal policies that followed him – or, having already been weaved into the bloody fabric of American history, amplified. Police killings and brutality, outward racism, and sharp increase in white supremist crimes were all part of Trump’s gift to America’s conservatives. But for every action…people took to the streets across the US by the thousands. I started documenting the resistance movement during Trump’s rise to power. I continue to do so. 

Joe Giordano has been documenting protests in America for the last five years. These are some of his photographs which act as a glimpse at modern resistance in the USA. 

Civil rights leader Congressman Elijah E Cummings speaks at an anti- trump rally in Baltimore.
Street medics help a victim of a police pepper spray attack at the Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington D.C. on August 12.
BLM sign covered by police.
Federal police watch over a BLM march in Washington. 
Protestors run from police as smoke from fires started by rioters rise in the distance, in the wake of Trumps Inauguration.
An anti-Trump protestor sweats in a gas mask during the riots following the Inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington DC
A Baltimore activist leads a march following the death of George Floyd. 

J.M Giordano is an award-winning photojournalist based in Baltimore and co-host of the photojournalism podcast, 10 Frames Per Second. In 2015 he was short-listed for the National Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize.