DC's Streets of Rage

I don’t think the world knows that on any given day in Washington, DC, the streets are pulsing with defiance—two, four, six protests erupting all around the city. Whether they draw 30 people or 3,000, every event features the critical urgency to maintain democracy — the freedom to speak out and protest against the evils of fascism and its puppets.

These protests happen all around DC, from the gates of the White House to the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, from the towering Washington Monument to the marble steps of the Supreme Court. I’ve followed the cry for justice outside the Department of Treasury, the Heritage Foundation (birthplace of Project 2025), even at drag story hours—anywhere resistance takes root and refuses to bow.

In an era of disinformation and deliberate erasure, I hope my photographs can cut through the fog—to show the world what resistance looks like here. Not just the thousands of messages on cardboard, but more.

This is our record. We are here. We will not be silenced.

Robin Fader

Robin is a Washington, D.C.-based, multi-Emmy award-winning commercial producer and photographer. Her career has allowed her to split her time among corporate portraiture, advertising and documentary photography projects. Currently her documentary focus is on activism, protests, social justice and pro-democracy themed photography, particularly as it relates to reproductive freedoms.

Robin’s photos have been featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley, Canadian Broadcast News, Washingtonian Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, Shutter Magazine, Michigan Today, on NBC Washington, DC, and in Transition, a documentary photography book. She has also co-authored the award-winning documentary photography book 2020 Unmasked.  Her work has been shown at the International Center of Photography, NYC; Photoworks at Glen Echo Photo Slam 2021; Rise up.BLM Photo Exhibition 2021, Washington, DC; and FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, 2022.

Robin has thrice been named (2022, 2023, 2025) winner of the documentary photography category by the International Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, 2025 Pollux Award Documentary Photography Series Winner, and twice (2022, 2023) a winner in the International Photography Award for Events and Social Causes.