Archive for June, 2009
Gawber Street Festival
The Gawber Street Festival, possibly London’s smallest street festival. Tower Hamlets, East London.
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No Borders
Refugees from the war in Afghanistan shelter in the ‘jungle’, woods in Calais where they are forced to sleep rough.
Approximately 800 people are living in squalid conditions, one in five are unaccompanied minors. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) plans to open an office in Calais to address the humanitarian crisis. France.
BBC News story here
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Basking in Bow
Man sunbathes on an estate in Tower Hamlets. East London.
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Watching the Watchers
Police body wrap a FIT Watch protester Val Swain mother of three from Cardiff, who was photographing officers without identify numbers conduct stop and searches at Climate Camp near Kingsnorth coal fired electricity station. Rochester, Kent.
First Class, Second Class?
Postal workers strike against job losses, downgrading and threats to the service. Poplar and Isle of Dogs Delivery Office. Tower Hamlets. East London.
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Pearly Queens
Pearly Queens of Hackney and Clapton, dressed in a traditional Cockney costume covered in mother-of-pearl buttons on the London underground travelling East. London.
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National Photography Symposium
Presented by Redeye
From 6pm on 19th June to 2:30 pm on 21st June 2009
Location: Chetham’s Library, Manchester, M3 1SB
Amongst many other events throughout the weekend I will be speaking on this panel:
Photographers, the police, security and privacy. Will anti-terror laws and paranoia kill off street photography? Are we seeing a change in the public’s attitude to being photographed, and how restrictive could the law get? Diane Smyth (BJP), Jess Hurd, David Hoffman and Andrew Wiard.
For booking information click here
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Where is Rosa?
Students occupy SOAS over the immigration raid and the deportation of 9 ISS sub contracted cleaners who had just had a unionising fair pay campaign.
National Refugee Week. London.
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World Naked Bike Ride
World Naked Bike Ride. London.
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BNP – Off Our Streets
BNP leader Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons flanked by security are forced to flee a press conference by anti fascist protesters. College Green, Westminster. London.
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Murderers, torturers.
Defaced army recruitment poster. Hackney, London.
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MP’s – Wanted
Hazel Blears MP – Wanted. The Government of The Dead try to arrest MP’s for fraudulent expenses claims. Westminster Parliament. London.
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