THE ANGRY WHALE

a web zine by columbia sc photographer sean rayford

Soda Citizen: Josh Bumgarner vs. the Giant Duck

December 13, 2016
Sean: Would you rather fight one donkey-sized duck or 100 duck sized donkeys? Josh Bumgarner: I’d probably go with the one donkey-sized duck. Yep. I would fight a four o...
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Soda Citizen: Aaron Graves on What Makes a Good Donut

December 12, 2016
Sean: What makes a good donut? Aaron Graves: A good yeast donut or a cake donut, you can dunk it. The cake or the yeast part isn’t too sweet so that the glaze or whateve...
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Photos: Anti-Trump Protest in Columbia, SC

November 12, 2016
Just before I left Friday night's Anti-Trump protest in downtown Columbia, a couple hundred demonstrators held hands on the statehouse grounds near the intersection of Ma...
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Photos: Gunpowder Residue on Last Day of the Trump Campaign

November 08, 2016
"Do you photograph fireworks or some other substance with gunpowder?" asks a friendly secret service agent named John in the lobby of the Dorton Arena in Raleigh, NC. Th...
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Photos: All-American Halloween in the Soda City

November 01, 2016
I went to Autozone last night around 8:30 p.m. and picked up a camouflage hat with a black and white American flag patch. I added that to a few items I already possessed:...
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"Inundated" - A visual journey through historic flooding in 2015

September 29, 2016
Not long after light broke on the morning of October 5 of last year, I pulled a u-turn at Harden and Gervais streets. On assignment for Getty Images, I followed a rescue...
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Photos: Fifth night of Charlotte protests draws large youth crowd, families, remains peaceful

September 25, 2016
At two a.m. this morning outside of the Omni Hotel in uptown Charlotte, NC, the fifth straight day of protests ended with a solemn gesture of unity and a promise to retur...
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Photos: Pride in the City - Columbia, SC

September 04, 2016
Yesterday morning I got up at four a.m. to drive over to Gate 2 at Fort Jackson. Another in many recent newspaper assignments following a handful of recruits through thei...
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Photos: Hoechella showers West Columbia in Glitter

August 28, 2016
If you attended the second day of Hoechella on Saturday at New Brookland in West Columbia you'll probably remember it as that time the power went off during Can't Kids' s...
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Photos: Football means that Halloween is coming

August 22, 2016
There was a high of ninety one today in Columbia, SC and my roommate remarked how nice it was when he walked out of the house around one o’clock this afternoon. Folks on...
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