Season of Discontent
by Richard Keshen
More and more as I go out on the street to shoot some photos I end up running into a protest of some sort. We seem to be going through a season of discontent as new hot spots pop up around the world almost on a weekly basis. Add to these the climate protests, animal activist protests, women's marches, regional and local political protests, etc.
I just came back from traveling through Prague and Vienna. Not expecting the protests to be any less in Europe than in North America, I ran into a new protest almost every week during the five weeks of journeying through these cities.
These photos were taken at a protest in Vienna. Protests like these have been popping up all throughout Europe with the Syrian Kurds protesting against Turkey and it’s strong man leader Erdogan.
Bob Dylan in 1963 wrote his song The Times They Are a Changin as an anthem for change at that time. Interesting that things change and nothing remains the same yet these lines still apply to the times we're experiencing today:
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
