Misan Harriman: Shoot the People

Ultimately, Shoot the People succeeds more as a celebration of photography than as a portrait of a single photographer.

Shoot the People thrives on its visual storytelling, amplified by composer Nik Ammar’s score, which is string-forward, strumming our inner fire to help us fight harder for change.

As it stands, Harriman emerges from this film as a talented, self-taught photographer: articulate, fluent and candid about his wealthy and privileged background, which allowed him to witness a certain kind of British overclass racism up close.

By the time that viewers reach the end of this gushingly reverential and wholly uncritical account of someone who can state, unblushingly, that he wishes to “carve out the purpose he is here for”, they might be forgiven for asking whether that purpose is entirely admirable.