Colman Doyle's 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
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Reminds me of this famous picture too:
I find it funny that they're either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.
It looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here's a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:
That lawnmower looks like a hoover
Beats raking, I guess
Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.
They look staged as fuck
Their ether? No; the guy has a rifle.
Swipe text typo fixed it.