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date: label: Date
content: June 7, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Tommy Oliver, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Janaya Khan, Canadian, born 1987
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: George Perry Floyd Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
notes: label: Caption
content: Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
label: Description
content: A digital, black-and-white image of Janaya “Future” Khan addressing protesters in Hollywood, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Khan is standing above the crowd and the image is taken from directly below them. Khan is shown from the knees up, in profile, facing the left edge of the image. They are speaking into a microphone held in their proper left hand and looking up and into the distance. Khan is wearing a black, short sleeve T-shirt, black pants, and has a dark bandana tied around their forehead with a knot at the front. Standing on Khan’s proper right side is a man partially obstructed by Khan’s body. He is wearing a black surgical mask, dark rimmed glasses, and a dark baseball-style cap worn backwards. In the foreground, on the left, is the top of a man’s head. In the background, is the white El Capitan Theatre with its elaborate theater marquee at the front.
place: label: Place captured
content: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of Janaya Khan at a Black Lives Matter protest in Hollywood
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Gender
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: LGBTQ
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.31.64
objectType: label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Tommy Oliver
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 6720 pixels × 4480 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 172.29 MB