{"id":18682,"date":"2026-03-08T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18682"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:09:39","slug":"international-womens-day-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18682","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day – 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong>: I’m not sure if this march on Friday 8th March 2002 was the first International Women\u2019s Day event that I photographed, but it was the first that I published on My London Diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back then all the pictures I published were in black and white, though I was also taking pictures in colour but was unable to easily digitise them. I still have to do so for many of the colour pictures I made on film, though I did make prints of a few of them in my darkroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking through these pictures I recognise quite a few faces I still photograph at protests, among them the founder of the Global Women’s Strike and the the International Wages for Housework Campaign Selma James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selma and other women from the Crossroads Women\u2019s Centre<\/a><\/em> in Kentish Town are still there at many of the protests I photograph, with banners from some of the various women’s groups based at the centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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International Women\u2019s Day seems to have become much more widely celebrated since 2002, or at least getting more media attention, though this seems still very much around the very real problems faced by middle class professionals (including of course women in the media) than those faced by by working class women, refugees, asylum seekers, poor women being targeted by social services, those with disabilities, sex workers, victims of domestic violence, rape etc which are at the centre of this event and continuing protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in 2002, I didn’t write much about this march, at least in partly due to ignorance, but also I seldom wrote much about the events I was covering as I had a full-time job writing about photograph on the web, as well as my own photography – where the pictures I submitted had only brief captions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The 8 March is a World Woman’s Day and was celebrated by some as a Global Women’s Strike. The march in London stopped outside key sites including the War Office and World Bank for speeches.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was the full set of textt and images I posted in 2002 on My London Diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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