A cropped version of this photo I shot on Friday is getting a lot of attention; I don't mind the crop but I do prefer the full version, so I'm putting it here

Some thoughts about shooting this photo and its usage. This happened at around 1:45 a.m. on Friday night, after a large protest and a huge police response 1/6

I did not post the photo as part of my coverage that night, for a couple of reasons. First of all, on the most basic level, I work for @oregonian and we have standards about nudity in photography and knew we would want to have an editorial discussion about it first 2/6

I was also very wary of the fact that, while a powerful moment and a very brave thing of the person to do, it’s not really representative of the night overall or the protests as a whole

I did post it as part of a photo set on my personal social media and it took off from there. Now that it is widely distributed I decided to post it mostly from a photographic perspective because the LAT crop (which I told them I would be fine with) is not the best version of it

I would encourage anyone seeing this photo now to seek out the totality of the coverage of what has been happening in Portland since late May, not just from my paper but other local outlets and the myriad of independent journalists who are out there every single night

I’d also note that I’m far from the only person to have shot this, and others almost certainly have better images than I do, of this moment and many others. Please seek out the totality of their work as well 6/6

Also I'm just realizing that my first tweet here has an error in it... this was actually Saturday morning, near the end of the protests that began on Friday night (though folks have probably already figured that out)