Boston Responds to Trump, Musk and the Oligarchy
Edward Boches | Massachusetts, United States
Photographer: Edward Boches
Exhibit Title: Boston Responds to Trump, Musk and the Oligarchy
Location: Massachusetts, United States
While the Democrats appear incapable of mounting any kind of response or resistance to Trump's flurry of orders and ongoing threats, activists, women, students, workers, teachers, the LGBTQ community and other concerned citizens joined a grass roots movement to protest nationwide on Feburary 5, 2025.
What started as a conversation on Reddit among a few friends, and a subsequent post by Reddit user u/Evolved_Fungi (since archived), turned into a nationwide protest against Trump, Musk, the oligarchy and the oppression rapidly taking over the country. For a week or so many thought it might be a scam, attributed to the right wing of America, designed to actually identify via face recognition the anti-Trump crowd. But it turned out to be a genuine protest. In Boston, the crowd was larger than any protest in years. Starting outside the State House, marching to the Federal Court House, and returning to the Common and State House, the protest went on for a good four hours. Maybe longer. The movement, despite having no leader, no platform, and pretty much nothing more than opposition to Trump, continues. I do, however, wish that the speakers (socialist party and workers party members) who typically take over these things would come up with something to be for, not merely the standard no fascism statements that permeate these things. Even Cambridge State Senator Sal DiDomenico offered nothing other than “I stand with you and we’re not going to take it.” I talked with him afterwards saying he needed to come up with a what he’s for message. He agreed and claims he’ll work on it. We’ll see. Too bad Bernie’s too old. I had to leave in dire need of a bathroom (never any porta potties at protests). When I complained to an older woman that they should have facilities, she said, “Oh, honey, I'm wearing my Depends. I come prepared to these events.”
Edward Boches is a Boston and Cape Cod - based documentary photographer.
Interested in how photography can connect us, help us understand each other, and inspire empathy, Boches has photographed such diverse communities as inner-city boxers, former gang members, Black Lives Matter activists, transgender men and women, pro-life and pro-choice advocates, women shellfishers, and homeless writers. He makes it a point to meet and photograph at least one stranger every day.
His work has shown in museums and galleries that include the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester; the Bronx Documentary Center in New York City; the Cambridge Association for the Arts; the Plymouth Center for the Arts; the Providence Center for the Photographic Arts; Bob Korn’s Workspace Gallery on Cape Cod; and in Boston at both the Bromfield Gallery (online) and Panopticon Gallery among others.
Boches’s work has also been distributed internationally by the Associated Press and has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Sun Magazine, Zeke Magazine and the Provincetown Independent, where he is a regular contributor.
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