“I thought about photography all of the time, I dreamed about it. I was totally in love.”⁠ Jill Freedman, who has died aged 79.⁠ Joining the Poor People's Campaign for her first self-assignment in 1968, the New York-based photographer found solidarity in struggle and love where it was challenged to survive.⁠ Freedman's camera was both a tool of her compassion and her commitment to see, rather merely look. Be it living in her Volkswagen Kombi for two months while documenting performers in a travelling circus, or sleeping on the station floor to cover the firefighters of New York, all lives were deserving of her unflinching eye - even those she had to strive to capture.⁠ Director of gettyarchive, bob_ahern, worked with Freedman and here suggests a fitting tribute.⁠ "Jill once said of the camera that, “It’s the only machine that can stop time itself,” celebrating it as a weapon of power and influence, and of course in the right hands it is.⁠ So go on. Pick it up. And show the world what’s...