"Not Mere Pixels on a Screen": What Chicago's Student Encampments Actually Look Like
Select images from one of Chicago’s movement photographers of student encampments at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, DePaul University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Many of the images being shared and circulated about the encampments on college campuses across the country are centered around police assaults on student, faculty and community protesters. These images are critical, but they do not tell the whole story.
Chicago movement photographer Sarah-Ji has been documenting the growth of student encampments in the city as well as the collective and intergenerational efforts that have gone into building, maintaining and using them in the struggle to end the genocide in Gaza.
“So many of these photographs that I’ve captured with my camera are not mere pixels on a screen for me,” Sarah-Ji says. “I know that I’m watching history unfold.”
Below is a small selection of Sarah-Ji’s photos of Chicago’s student encampments.
