“The concerned photographer finds much in the present unacceptable which he tries to alter. Our goal is simply to let the world also know why it is unacceptable.”
--Cornell Capa (b. 1918), photographer
Freed was one of five photographers selected by Cornell Capa to shoot for and be shown in the "concerned photography" Exhibition. Freed was a long time member of magnum working in the documentary mode.
shown above is the cover of and one photo graph selection from Freed's photo series and book titled "police work". This book came 12 years after Freed's more famous work "black In White America", which had him documenting the "African American struggle for self definition in mid 20th-century America." Like many other of the magnum photography members the majority of his work following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other struggles for civil rights as well as photographing in Berlin around the cold war and the construction of the wall was through the lens of social documentary for with the goal of social justice.
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