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New Earth mural by Bow School students to highlight the environment to COP 26 leaders, East London.
Also a cover feature in the Sept issue of the National Union of Teachers Educate magazine.
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 5:27 pm
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Politics,
Protest,
Trade Union |
Bow School,
Climate,
Climate Change,
COP 26,
East London,
EDU Education,
Education,
Environment,
leaders,
London,
mural,
New Earth,
School,
Student,
students,
Tower Hamlets
20 Years of Stop the War – A Visual Retrospective
Really excited to be part of this exhibition celebrating 20 years of Stop the War with Banksy, Vivienne Westwood, David Gentleman, KennardPhillips & others.
8-19th September 10am-4pm every day until 19th Sept (except Mon 13th)
@ Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, 181 Bow Rd, London, E3 2SJ
All images © Jess Hurd To license please contact: jess@jesshurd.com
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Stop the War demonstration against attack on Iraq, Embankment, London. 15/02/2003
School kids take strike action against War with Iraq and march to Westminster. Bow, Tower Hamlets, East London. 20/03/2003
Parliament Square installation by anti war artist David Gentleman. Each drop of blood is meant to represent the estimated 100,000 lives lost in Iraq since the occupation began. Stop the War Coalition demonstration, Westminster. 18/03/2006
End The Blockade: Stop Arms Sales To Israel: Bring The War Criminals To Justice: Free Palestine. Hyde Park, London. 01/10/2009
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Friday, September 10th, 2021 at 12:22 pm
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20 Years of Stop the War - A Visual Retrospective,
art,
Bow,
Bow Arts,
David Gentleman,
East London,
Exhibition,
February 15th,
Free Palestine,
Gallery,
Installaation,
muslim,
Muslim Association of Great Britain,
Nunnery Gallery,
Palestine,
Parliament Square,
Peace,
protest,
School kids,
Stop the War,
strike,
Student against the war,
students,
Tower Hamlets,
walkout,
women
Queer Night Pride, Hackney, London.
All images © Jess Hurd
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Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 5:01 pm
Frontpage,
Protest |
demonstration,
East London,
Gay,
Hackney,
LGBTQIA,
London,
Pride,
protest,
Queer,
Queer Night Pride
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Slum Landlord Protest organised by Tower Hamlets Community Housing residents protesting about massive service charge increases for housing and appauling living conditions, Watney Market, East London.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Frontpage,
Protest |
affordable homes,
BAME,
Charges,
demonstration,
East London,
housing,
landlords,
London,
protest,
Rates,
residents,
service charge,
Slum,
THCH,
Tower Hamlets,
Tower Hamlets Community Housing
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Monday, May 10th, 2021 at 8:18 pm
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Tower Hamlets Community Housing residents protesting about massive service charge increases for housing, Watney Market, East London.
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 5:32 pm
Police officer is stationed outside a cannabis factory crime scene in a residential tower block where the electrics were overloaded and caused cables to burn, Tower Hamlets, East London.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 at 4:42 pm
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cannabis,
cannabis factory,
CLJ,
Crime,
Drugs,
East London,
growing,
Law,
plants,
police,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets
Ambulances and Thank You NHS tribute outside the The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel, East London.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 at 3:14 pm
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Ambulance,
ambulances,
Barts Trust,
Covid,
East London,
Hospital,
National Health Service,
NHS,
Pandemic,
poverty,
Rainbow,
Royal London,
Thank you,
Thank you NHS
Last week I spent a day documenting Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in Tower Hamlets. I was intrigued to see what life was like on the Covid frontline and how restrictions were implimented. It also happened to be Keyworker Week.
The classes are in “bubbles” so teachers and children from the same class do not need to mask up, unless the teachers are in communal areas like the dinner hall.
I started with breakfast club at 8am, then I photographed the parents bringing their children to school, emerging through the fog. The first thing they have to do is sanitise their hands. Then it was a staff weekly briefing, online of course, from separate rooms. The staffroom had been repurposed as a music room and there were big X’s on the seats so staff don’t sit down. Another room is used as a staffroom with a through-flow of air and a table each, socially distanced.
There are different entrances and exits for classes to go out for breaks and children have their own box of sports equipment and games to play outside. The corridors are cold as winter begins to bite and windows have to remain open.
Lunchtime was forensic, with bubble tables cleaned down between each sitting and classes alternating between packed lunches in classrooms and hot meals in the canteen. All the staff wore masks or face shields. Meals are delivered to children who need them at home.
The day ended with an online school assembly.
Then home time!
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 at 8:22 pm
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Children,
Covid,
East London,
Frontline,
Key Worker,
Key Worker Week,
Lansbury Lawrence Primary School,
London,
Pandemic,
Primary,
restrictions,
School,
Teachers,
Tower Hamlets
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Crane collapses in Watts Grove a working class estate in Bow, E3 killing one woman and injuring four and destroying two homes. Tower Hamlets, East London.
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 at 7:33 pm
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Focus E15 Mothers socially distanced demo, Brimstone House hostel to Carpenters Estate where there are still 400 empty homes in the shadow of Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford, Newham. © Jess Hurd
Solidarity chain linking the 1km distance from an overcrowded hostel in Newham (Brimstone House) to the hundreds of empty homes on a council estate around the corner (Carpenters Estate). A council estate right next to the Olympic stadium where 400 flats have been left empty to rot for over 13 years.
Newham council has the worst record on homelessness in the country and one of the highest mortality rates for COVID 19 – how dare the Labour council leave homes empty during a pandemic.
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Monday, June 29th, 2020 at 9:22 am
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Protest |
Brimstone House,
Carpenters Estate,
Covid,
East London,
Empty Homes,
Focus E15,
Hostel,
housing,
Newham,
protest,
Socially Distanced,
Stratford
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NHS heros graffitti by artist Owe 1 during Covid 19 lockdown in Shoreditch, East London.
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Monday, May 25th, 2020 at 1:55 pm
Art,
Frontpage |
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid_19,
East London,
Graffiti,
heros,
lockdown,
London,
NHS,
Shoreditch
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Helen bangs her saucepan from a tower block during a Thursday night clap for carers and the NHS during Covid 19, Tower Hamlets, East London.
East London ❤️ #NHS still clapping! #clapforthenhs #ClapForCarers#ThankYouNHS #coronavirusuk #coronavirus #clapforNHS
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Thursday, May 14th, 2020 at 7:47 pm
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clap for carers,
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid 19,
Covid_19,
East London,
Health,
London,
NHS,
Pensioner,
Pots and pans,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets,
Virus,
vunerable

Please Believe These Days Will Pass, Covid 19 posters in Bethnal Green by artist Mark Titchner, East London.
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 at 1:13 pm
Art,
Frontpage |
art,
Artist,
Bethnal Green,
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid 19,
Covid_19,
East London,
Flyposting,
London,
Mark Titchner,
Please Believe These Days Will Pass,
Politics,
Virus
East London ❤️ #NHS #clapforthenhs #ClapForCarers#ThankYouNHS #coronavirusuk #coronavirus #clapforNHS
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 at 8:34 pm
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clap for carers,
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid_19,
East London,
Health,
London,
NHS,
Rainbow,
Thank you NHS,
Tower Hamlets
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Tribute to NHS staff and key workers during the Covid 19 lockdown, Roman Road, E2, Tower Hamlets, East London.
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 at 1:29 pm
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Cover_19,
E3,
East London,
key workers,
London,
NHS,
PPE,
Roman Road,
social distancing,
Stay at Home,
Thank you NHS,
Tribute,
Virus
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Apsana Begum General Election Labour Party campaign launch with Diane Abbott MP and Matt Wrack, FBU in Chrisp Street Market for Poplar and Limehouse constituency, East London.
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Saturday, November 9th, 2019 at 3:16 pm
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Apsana Begum,
BAME,
Bengali,
BME,
campaign,
Chrisp Street,
Chrisp Street Market,
Diane Abbott,
East London,
FBU,
General Election,
Labour Party,
London,
Matt Wrack,
MP,
muslim,
Poplar,
Poplar and Limehouse,
Vote,
woman
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London Renters Union and Sisters Uncut protest outside Hackney Town Hall about the treatment of housing activists in Marian Court, a controversial redevelopment plan, East London.
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Monday, September 16th, 2019 at 8:06 pm
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Council,
Council housing,
demonstration,
East London,
Eviction,
Hackney,
Hackney Town Hall,
Homerton,
London,
London Renters Union,
Marian Court,
protest
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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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Sunday, July 7th, 2019 at 6:11 pm
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Asian,
Asylum,
Asylum Seeker,
Bangladesh,
Bangladeshi,
Deportation,
East London,
Extremist,
flag,
Gay,
Haggerston Park,
Human Rights,
Islamic,
LGBT,
muslim,
Nazir Uddin,
Rainbow,
Religion,
religious,
Religious Hatred,
Religious persecution,
UK Black Pride,
Young,
youth
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Monday, May 27th, 2019 at 3:10 pm
Community activists erect spoof street signs highlighting the levels of local E2 drug dealing, apparently the cheapest heroin in Europe. The anti drugs street art campaign called the Columbia Road Cartel has been commissioned by the Weavers Community Action Group. Shoreditch, East London.
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018 at 8:42 am
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Anti Drugs,
art,
campaign,
Campaigning,
Columbia Road,
Columbia Road Cartel,
Crime,
dealing,
Drug Dealing,
Drugs,
E2,
East London,
London,
Protest demonsrtation,
Shoreditch,
street,
Tower Hamlets,
Weavers Community Action Group
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Saturday, August 4th, 2018 at 12:53 pm
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attempted murder,
cordon,
Crime,
E3,
East London,
Forensic,
Forensics,
knife,
London,
police,
policing,
search,
Stabbing,
sterile area
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 at 3:27 pm