Kid Rock in the company of famed Pulitzer Prize winning documentary photographer David Turnley may seem like an odd blending of worlds. However, Turnley, having grown up in Indiana, is a product of the same Midwest that gave us Robert Ritchie (aka Kid Rock). Frustration with social ills and a plea for the curative power of love, the subject matter of the song "Amen," are good matches for Turnley's career of exposing humanity in the midst of war and upheaval.
From photographs of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa to the days in which Chinese citizens rose against their government at Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Turnley emerged as one of the most gifted photographic interpreters of the power of the human struggle against injustice. Turnley's direction of the video to accompany "Amen," Kid Rock's second single from the album Rock N Roll Jesus, is compelling and powerful. Kid Rock says it is the best song he has ever written.
Watch "Amen."
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