This montage of photos was taken over two days at the London protests, accompanied by music I made to process the feelings of seeing George Floyd’s murder and the global events that followed.

Although the soundtrack is melancholy in nature, it was made prior to the photographs being taken, and at the second protest in Hyde Park, I, along with countless others, saw anger turn to hope when seeing how many people of all hues were quite literally putting their bodies on the line in a global pandemic to be shoulder to shoulder with each other and make a stand.

We did not stand two metres apart, and it was worth the risk to help children like Max have a future where they don’t have to question whether their lives matter. So I stand with him.

About the artist

Michael is a musician and producer with bipolar disorder who operates under the name ‘Frequency.Fixer’, @Frequency.Fixer, with several multi-genre albums available on all platforms. He is a photographer, film-maker, poet and sound healer.

As a neurodiverse artist, he channels the intense emotions he experiences due to his condition into multiple strands of art, often woven into multimedia pieces. His practice is concerned with portraying authenticity to enable audiences to empathise with emotions and experiences outside of their neurotypical blinkers.

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