A Moment On The Metro

I took this photo of my family in 2010 while we were living just outside of Paris. We were heading home after a day in the park and there was a sweet moment with a gentleman sitting next to us, which I photographed. I uploaded it to my personal Flickr account and sent it to a few friends. A few years later we started getting emails from friends asking if we thought the subject of a meme floating around looked familiar - it did, as someone had used my photo, retitling it NO ONE IS BORN RACIST. Since then it's never stopped spreading. It's been seen by millions of people around the world with all kinds of bias and assumptive narratives imposed upon it. In 2019 we returned to Paris and reconnected with the gentleman on the train, and learned about his own experiences with this as well. — Sean Bonner Photograph 2010, minted on OpenSea in an open edition in March 2021.