[Images] Documenting Moral Mondays, Camera And Canvas

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[Images] Documenting Moral Mondays, Camera And Canvas

吉彩网网站 | By Carol Jackson

Published December 20, 2013 at 5:00 AM EST

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Photographer Dave Otto took this image. It has become one of the iconic images of the Moral Monday protests. William Barber, the president of the NC NAACP is in the center, surrounded by community leaders.

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Painter David Taylor turned the photo into a painting. "[It's] as if the beginning of the flood of protesters starts here. "

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Dave Otto captured Senator Earline W. Parmon (left). William Barber listens.

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This painting only focuses on Senator Parmon. "I didn't want William Barber to dominate too many of the paintings. I also thought this face says it all. " - David Taylor

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Dave Otto's photograph of police, waiting to transfer new inmates.

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"The stance of the police shows their training. It also appears that they are ready for a popular uprising." - David Taylor

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Dave Otto captured many arrests, including this one.

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"This seemed the easiest of the paintings, so I did this one first. My confidence has grown with each painting." - David Taylor

Barber listening to a speaker, painted — "This was the second Moral Mondays painting I did. To me it is an iconic image of William Barber. He is a really big man. He's partly behind the speaker, and yet he fills the right front of the painting."

They are both named David. is a photographer, is a painter. Together, they are providing some of the most stunning visual images related to the Moral Monday protests.

David Taylor went to one protest by himself. "I just kind of wanted to be a part of it, but I felt like an outsider. I didn鈥檛 know where the event was, I wasn't sure how to get close to the speaker. I didn鈥檛 even take my camera."

Dave Otto, on the other hand was determined to participate. He took his camera, and was eventually arrested.

When Dave the painter saw Dave the photographer's images, they agreed to work together.

The two men hope to create a traveling exhibition of their work.