Posts Tagged ‘flag’
Out, Proud and fighting for his life
Nazir Uddin, a 22 asylum seeker is asking for the government to protect his life. Muslim Asian, Bangladeshi proud gay man, disowned by his family and under threat of deportation back to Bangladesh where he is under threat from an Islamic extremist group.
I was approached by Nazir and asked to take his photo and he told me his story, he wrote his own caption details. It is an honour to help him tell his story. This is his first UK Black Pride in Haggerston Park, East London.
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National Front Grantham
Clashes break out and arrests are made as anti-fascist protestors try to stop a far right National Front march in Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. National Front supporters unfurled a Confederate flag to show their solidarity with the far groups of recent events in Charlottesville, America.
After the initial clashes, the National Front were allowed to march through the market town, hold a short rally in the town square and march back to the pub in the rain.
© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk
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Stop The Massacre – Sanctions Now – Free Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Campaign project a Palestinian flag onto the Houses of Parliament saying Stop The Massacre – Sanctions Now – Free Palestine. Westminster, London. @PSCupdates
© Jess Hurd/PSC
Read National Union of Journalists press release – NUJ photographer defends copyright and moral rights of Gaza picture
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Note: Some people have raised questions about the authenticity of the image. Let me clarify. This image is not a fake. I was commissioned by PSC to take this image when it was projected by a professional team, Bluman Associates shortly after midnight 1/8/14. I shot a long exposure, with tripod, f8, from the pavement down the beam of the projector, as advised by the team. This does, it seem create an optical oddity. The nearer you are to the projection beam, the truer the image, i.e. less fall-off around the building. It’s physics. The Report Digital video is here, shot from a bit further up Westminster Bridge by video journalist Jason Parkinson.
A previous image projected by the same team also shows the anomaly but from a less pronounced angle in a photograph by Andy Aitchison for Public and Commercial Services Union.
Abandoned Brolly
Abandoned, broken, Union Jack umbrella during the storms. Westminster, London.
© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk