Bing Guan Photograph Headlines NY Times Article "Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says"

April 2, 2025 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography

 Via The New York Times

April 2, 2025

Guan's photograph was originally published in the NY Times May 1, 2024 edition.

photograph of NY police in riot gear using alevated stairs mounted to a truck to enter Hamilton Hall through a second floor window at Columbia University
Bing Guan
New York Police officers in riot gear enter Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, New York, May 1, 2024

Columbia University’s move to use police force to clear demonstrators from a campus building last spring could potentially have been avoided, as some students were urgently asking if they could leave voluntarily, according to a report released Tuesday by the university’s senate. --full article


Monroe Gallery will exhibit this photograph and other examples of Guan’s work at the 2025 Photography Show presented by AIPAD in booth #C8, April 23 – 27 at The Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

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