Bruce Lee action figure with black background

Fervent Jan

Tsunami Green

Man Chung

person reading book on brown wooden table taken at daytome

Thought Catalog

two childrens reading book while sitting on brown sofa

Ben Mullins

a house with a wooden fence and a wooden gate

Lawrence Krowdeed

I was born and raised near the monuments of Richmond VA. I took this one day while I was photographing with some friends because I have so many memories of playing on something that today is a topic of controversy. While other people remember the slavery of the South, I remember playing knights and dragons, or fighting Darth Vader with a lightsaber in the lawn below it. I felt that it was a photograph that would give many people the opportunity to share their own views of what the statue means to them personally.