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Image ID# 7027
Purchase A License To Use This Image Buy A Print Or Product Featuring This ImageThis classic photo of an angry mob of people advancing by torch light at night captures the imagination and resonates with any situation in which a vast number of people join together in outrage. Every person in this dangerous crowd of people is model released. They are carrying pitchforks, ax handles, a machete and torches. Some of them shake their fists in rage. The crowd is diverse in ethnicity, age, and gender. This is truly a universal group of ticked-off people. This could be a picture of a demonstration against political repression...a social media revolution.
This iconographic mob of angry people makes a great stock photo for illustrating a wide range of concepts. This is a picture of people connected in outrage by social media. This can be a photo of social networking bringing people together for a cause. One theme in this mob picture is people joining together in supporting a cause, while another idea illustrated is that of public outrage. Are these people acting together against a corrupt politician, or a dishonest retailer? Are they angry at a perceived religious transgression, or the high price of a commodity such as oil, gas or food prices? I suppose a case could be made that this image can illustrate a perverse kine of teamwork. It certainly represents adversity, challenge and obstacles. It is also an image we can all identify with on a very visceral level.
Every individual in this rioting crowd photo is model released. I photographed the people, faces contorted with anger, individually over a period of about a year. I used Photoshop to composite the scene into a cohesive group image, albeit a very angry group! This image becomes, in effect, a parody and uses such symbols as pitch forks, ax handles and torches to take the image to such an over-the-top cliche that it becomes humorous. So not only is it a great image of a scary, angry mob, but it is a funny picture of an angry mob. I was careful to craft it in such a way that it can be easily cropped as a square, horizontal or vertical. It even works well as a thumbnail making it effective for use on the Internet and even mobile devices such as smartphones.
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