One thing I didn’t mention in my earlier piece on the Photo-Forum meeting was what in some ways was the highlight of the meeting for me. Jeff Moore had invited photographers to send in up to 12 images from their coverage of events related to the attack on Gaza, and had put these into a slide show.
Most of the pictures were from the many demonstrations in London – as you can see from My London Diary I covered eight of them in January, (with another two so far this month – too late to send in for this event.) So I had plenty of pictures to choose from, despite having lost most of my work – an 8Gb card full – from the big march on 3 Jan (see Lost Masterpieces?)
Unfortunately this is a show that won’t be available on-line, because as well as containing some pretty good pictures it was also a great lesson in different approaches to events. Because so many of us had sent in work they had to be show a little too fast on the evening.
What I can show is my own set of 12 images, appearing on the blog at 450 pixels wide, but as usual here you can see them larger by loading the actual image in your browser. In Firefox you right click and select ‘view image.’ If you still use Internet Explorer there is probably a way to do it, but the best way would be to upgrade to Firefox!
Tony Benn emerges from the BBC after delivering a protest letter about their failure to run the Gaza appeal, Jan 24
Demonstration at the Egyptian Embassy, 2 Jan
Protesters burn Camp David photo at Egyptian Embassy, 2 Jan
Women with Palestinian face colours at the start of the Jan 3 march
Protesters carry a coffin in Jan 3 march
Young protesters opposite the Israeli embassy, Jan 7
On the march, Jan 10
Opposite the Israeli Embassy on Jan 10
Opposite the Israeli Embassy on Jan 10
Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstration at the Egyptian Embassy, Jan 11
Police clear demonstrators from outside the BBC, Jan 24
In Portland Place at the rally on Jan 24
Largely missing from my coverage were violent incidents with pictures of demonstrators attacking police and – rather more evident in the photographs shown – police attacking demonstrators – and these produced some of the more interesting pictures in the show. Partly mine was a deliberate choice of how I wanted to present the events – these incidents were only a very small part of the whole – but there were other factors, not least that these demonstrations often dragged on fairly late into the evening and I had other things I wanted to do. These were events being covered by large numbers of press photographers – unlike some of those I cover and I didn’t feel my presence was needed.
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