Photographer's images of Charlotte riots on display

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Photographer Alvin Jacobs Jr. captured images one year ago in the heart of uptown Charlotte and at the height of the city's unrest.

“It was not only unrest,” Jacobs said. “It was not only an uprising. It was a voice and a voice of the people.”

Those voices were heard in the days after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott who had a handgun.

Jacobs said he was there to capture that messages and what the protesters had to say.

“Even if it's through the lens of a protest, through an uprising, through as some would like to call a riot,” Jacobs said. “They're still humans. There's still humanity in protests.”

His work is featured at the Levine Museum in an exhibit called “Know Justice, Know Peace.”

His photo journey through the nation's unrest, now five-years long, depicts images from Standing Rock, Ferguson, Baltimore, Charlotte and Charlottesville.

“I'm not creating the narrative,” he said. “I'm just reflecting it.”

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