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Jean-Pierre Laffont's Two Decades of American Protest

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Jean-Pierre Laffont's Two Decades of American Protest

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Jean-Pierre Laffont spent two decades photographing protests, countercultural gatherings and civil unrest across America. The Guardian has published a selection from that body of work, with Laffont's own account of the people and events he documented.

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