{"id":299,"date":"2008-05-22T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-05-22T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:04:33","slug":"journey-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday I was a demonstrator with a camera rather than a reporter, going with a coachload of others from a church a few miles away to Birmingham. Ten years ago I’d made a similar journey to form a human chain around the conference centre where heads of government from around the world were meeting; I think the 70,000 of us were the first major demonstration at a G8 meeting, and we put Debt Relief very firmly on the political agenda.<\/p>\n


\nMethodists from Worcester caught in the chains of debt, Birmingham, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n

Digital showed its strength again, when we went into the rally in the same conference centre that the G8 had used. The lighting in the hall wasn’t bright, but I was still able to take some nice sharp images with the 20mm from my seat, although it was a pity that the 18-200mm VR lens had jammed the previous day. The picture below, taken without VR, was at 1\/125th on a Sigma 55-200mm lens at 200mm (300mm equiv) full aperture, ISO 1600, and is sharp and relatively noise-free.<\/p>\n


\nAnn Pettifor (Advocacy International and Operation Noah, previously of Jubilee 2000)<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a long day – but interesting, although the final demonstration proved a bit of a challenge – a human pie chart to illustrate that 20% of debt has been dropped but 80% still remains. Here’s my best effort.<\/p>\n

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