Posts Tagged as ‘Photojournalism’

October 12, 2009

Protesters on the Roof of Parliament

Yesterday at around 3pm a group of 50 activists from Greenpeace broke onto the Parliamentary estate and climbed onto the roof of Westminster Hall to protest against what they see as a weak government position on climate change.

The protesters stayed overnight on the roof for what was quite a cold night.  During the night around [...]

October 11, 2009

The Speakers of Hyde Park – the American and the Socialist

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Another Sunday, another visit to Speakers Corner.  My brother is down visiting at the moment so I took him with me, and luckily I got to use his excellent Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 lens, which is perfect for this sort of photography.  After using the lens today it has [...]

September 29, 2009

photomonth 09

So we’re about to head into October and in London that means one thing – the UK’s largest photography festival, photomonth hits East London.  The festival boasts over 150 different events and exhibitions and is spread across East London.  Somehow last years photomonth completely passed me by and I didn’t attend one single event, terrible [...]

August 14, 2009

From the Archive – Strangers into Citizens

(To see the video in HD please click on Vimeo)
With a lack of anything much else to post at the moment I thought I would dig into the archives to show you something.  Back in May I went to the Strangers into Citizens protest in Trafalgar Square which was attended by 1,000s of people.

Strangers into [...]

July 21, 2009

Photography is not a crime!

Today I experienced what many, many other photographers have experienced in London (and elsewhere) in recent years.  I got stopped taking pictures by someone who didn’t know what they were talking about.  I was lucky, I wasn’t stopped by the police, I was just stopped by a member of TFL staff.
I was on my way [...]