In the wake of the shooting deaths of 12 French cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris earlier this month, rallies and protests erupted in several nations around the globe, involving millions of participants who took to the streets to express their reactions to the attack and to the cartoon itself — calling out for both for the right to freedom of expression and for censorship of Muslim sacrilege.
In Paris, the largest rally since the liberation of the city during the second world war took place within one week of the attack, involving over 3.7 million people and including world leaders such as British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in addition to French President Francois Hollande.
In this series, “The Face of Charlie,” Parisian photographer Andrea Peter Fly captures in vivid detail the individual face of those protesters who took part in the January response to what many considered to be an attack against France itself and human rights in general.
Andrea Peter Fly is a Paris-based photographer whose driving passion is documenting with photography issues that involve humanitarian concerns. She is also active in the domains of fashion, events and celebrity photography.