Leica Store in Soho looted in New York protests
Jun 2, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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During Sunday’s protests in New York city, luxury stores were ransacked, and Leica Store SoHo was among them. The store had its windows smashed and a lot of gear was stolen. According to witnesses, this looting could have been organized, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the protests that have been happening across the US.
The store owner, Elliott Kurland, has been repairing and selling Leica gear in this store for seven years. “I was going to come here about 2, 3 o’clock in the morning,” Kurland told CBS2. “My brother said, ‘Don’t go. You’ll get killed.’”
The next day, Kurland’s neighbors came in with boxes of gear that they’d manage to save. Christiane Lemieux is one of them, and she lives across the street of Leica SoHo. Together with her family, she brought some of the salvaged gear back to Kurland. Speaking to CBS2, she said that she sympathized with demonstrators. “They have a right to march and to protest,” she said, but noted that this didn’t have anything to do with peaceful protests from the night before. “Five cars came up. Everybody got out. They had no license plates on the front of their cars. They hit every store in our neighborhood. They got in their cars and drove off,” Lemieux told CBS2.
She added that she understands people want to “take things out on corporations.” She added, however: “This is a man. This isn’t a corporation.”
The damage is still being assessed and there is still no exact data on which gear was stolen. However, if you notice any suspicious listings for Leica cameras and lenses, make sure to contact the authorities.
[via Leica Rumors, CBS2 New York]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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16 responses to “Leica Store in Soho looted in New York protests”
That camera store in Chicago was opened for 121 years and now it’s a pile of ashes ??
Should that not be ‘protestors’ instead of ‘protestants’
Charlie Bruce yeah that’s a whole other can of worm’s ?
It’s the Greens again, slipping in their prejudices!! ?
Leica M10 shots from the DC protests:
https://johnnymartyr.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/one-photographers-experiences-the-george-floyd-washington-d-c-protests/
on the plus side all the cameras have serial numbers and when ever someone post a photo online with one of the said camera, which they always do. the police will know where to go and arrest the said person
“The Protestants are revolting!”
“Finally: something we agree on.”
Looting and protest are two different things… no one I know of supports Looting and destruction of property as a form of protest.
Bhavin Shah you need to expand your circle of friends. I know many people who feel chained to the bottom of America’s caste system. Their position is that American slavery stole from their ancestors. American descendants of Slavery provided the labor that made America wealthy. That wealth still exist just as the oppression and racism fostered by slavery still exist. Since the racial wealth divide is as pervasive as it is and shows no signs of reversing, if we and that includes me, are not allowed to share in the wealth, then no one will have it. By hook or crook….
“What do you think of the murder of George Floyd?”
– “…Who?? Look, I’m just here cuz Leica’s stuff is priced to hell.”
It’s the closest thing a lot of us will ever get to actually owning a Leica.
People have to separate that there are protestors and there are asshole looters. They are not the same.
Unless it was a gang of photographers. Good luck selling anything. Fn losers!!
:::pulls out 2cm violin and uses tooth pick to play out the sorrows::::
Just look for anyone selling them to the pawnshops they haven’t burned yet. The people selling for nickels on the dollar are most likely the thieves
Leica would most likely be on the blm side. They helped Jews escape the nazis.