Say Their Names

Painted on the pavement, a face looks skyward — immortalized not in marble or bronze, but in the colors of community, protest, and pain. Around it, offerings of flowers and handmade signs bear witness to a nation’s collective reckoning. The words “Black Lives Matter” rise behind the portrait, echoing through time as both declaration and demand.

For the exhibit “Never Forget,” this image stands as a visual prayer — for justice, for remembrance, for humanity. It speaks of the lives taken too soon, the voices that refuse silence, and the hope that memory might yet be the soil from which equality grows. The wilted flowers at the foreground remind us that remembrance is not passive; it is an act of love, of courage, and of continued resistance.

Through color and grief, this photograph urges us to never forget — not just the moment, but the meaning.