# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B3cpA-InmbC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16447148-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/4c59ef9e16.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-10-10T18:20:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

“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 on your mind."⁠
Follow our bio link for a look at the work of the great Jill Freedman.⁠
📷: London, 1969 | Jill Freedman/Getty Images ⁠
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