People keep asking me what it's like photographing the anti-ICE protests outside Delaney Hall in Newark.

The general perception is of a nonstop war zone. That's probably the biggest misconception people have after scrolling through photographs online. They see the pepper spray, the flashbangs, the clouds of CS gas drifting through the street, officers in riot gear, protesters in zip ties, and they imagine the whole day unfolds like an action movie stuck on repeat.

It doesn't.

Most of the day is waiting.

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Every photographer who has thought about photographing a public space knows the low-humming anxiety of the "worst-case scenario." The fear of someone seeing and confronting us remains one of the steepest mental hurdles to actually getting started in street photography. For years, it was mine. We convince ourselves that the moment we are noticed, the world will grind to a halt and anger will follow. But what actually happens when the nightmare comes true?

On a summer Saturday morning, I had the dubious pleasure of finding out.

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There is a particular kind of expectation that follows you when you say you are in a country hosting a World Cup. It is not always spoken out loud, but it sits there in the background of conversations, in messages, in assumptions that come almost automatically, as if geography alone were enough to place you inside the flow of the event.

You are here, therefore you are inside it.

It sounds logical until you actually walk through the city.

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Your best portrait gear does nothing if the person sitting in front of the lens looks stiff and posed. That truth reshapes how you approach every shoot, and it costs nothing to apply. 

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If you open the main compartment of your backpack during the day, your packing system is working against you. Every zipper you fumble with, every sack you dig through, and every rain cover you peel off burns energy you could spend covering ground. 

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Getty Images has killed its $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock, refusing a condition set by UK regulators that would have forced Shutterstock to sell off its entire editorial photography business. The deal had already cleared US antitrust review with no strings attached, which makes the UK objection the single reason two of the biggest names in stock photography will stay separate.

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