In the summer of 2020, as more than 200,000 protesters took to the streets in the UK to protest the violent death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, Misan Harriman grabbed his camera and joined them. He produced raw shots of the masked marchers: pumping their fists into the air, carrying homemade cardboard Black Lives Matter signs, and wearing “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts. His monochrome images introduced a new generation of protesters , who use smartphones to organise movements and social media to record injustice. “We’re not as different as the news media and algorithms tell us,” Harriman tells GQ a couple of days out from the fifth anniversary of Floyd's death. “We’re better together.”

But in 2025, tensions remain high. BLM murals have been painted over, while

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