Here's a short piece we shot spontaneously and unplanned last week in Washington D.C. and edited this week documenting one of many ongoing protests against the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

What we love as both a street photographer and as a documentary filmmaker is that you’ll go out with a camera on a day and not be sure what you’re going to film, but when you find yourself in the right places at the right times, magic can happen.

As a filmmaker who’s basically had to edit every one of our films ourselves, we’ve come to learn a great deal about editing - which is where the documentary is oftentimes written. Since we love us some good protest photography or footage, using the edit to find a mini three act story in this one manifested around the songs that were sung. As we also got about another 1/3 of footage that didn’t make the final edit of other aspects of this protest which didn’t feature singing, and thus didn’t so much advance the narrative.