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\nRomanians protest in Trafalgar Square against cyanide mining that would destroy heritage site Rosia Montana and threaten massive cyanide pollution of the Danube and Black Sea.<\/small><\/p>\n

I seem to be getting further and further behind in posting my work on My London Diary<\/a>, and further still in posting about it here.\u00a0 There are various reasons, for this, some personal which I won’t bore you with, but mainly because there have simply been so many events for me to cover in the last couple of months.\u00a0 The pace of protest seems too have ratcheted up and I’ve had many more messages inviting me to cover events. Of course I can’t be everywhere, but I do my best to cover the things I have a particular interest in,\u00a0 and the 30 or so events listed here for September kept me busy.<\/p>\n

I work differently from the typical press photographer, as readers of some of my posts will know. Often when I’m covering an protest I’ll be there as the protesters arrive and set up, and will stay as long as I can while things are still happening, telling the story of the event through a series of images – which you can see in my edited version (sometimes too loosely edited) on My London Diary<\/em>. Eventually.<\/p>\n

Of course a newspaper or magazine generally only wants a single image, seldom the text about the story and never the story in a set of pictures.\u00a0 At an event where I spend several hours taking pictures, it isn’t unusual for a press photographer to arrive, spend five minutes arranging a group picture, and leave, or sit down in a corner, get out a notebook and file his or her pictures.\u00a0 I try to get my pictures to the agency – selected and properly adjusted where necessary, captioned and key-worded – along with the story, by the end of the day. Though sometimes the day ends around 1 or 2am, and the story follows the pictures the following morning.<\/p>\n

Their way of working reflects a different kind of interest, and one that is far more closely geared to the market.\u00a0 I don’t mean it as a criticism when I talk about the difference, and in some respects I admire their professionalism, but we have different motives. At times they take pictures that I look and and think that I wish I had thought to approach the subject in that way, though more often I find them rather formulaic. Some of my pictures are like that too, and I often find that the images in a set that to me are least interesting are those that my editors at Demotix like to promote, and which are used by the press.<\/p>\n

I like to write here more about the photography of many of the events, which delays me more.\u00a0 Some events go entirely smoothly, with no photographic or other issues and unless I have something particular to say about them I don’t write about them on >Re:PHOTO, but quite often there is a story to tell – if only about how I messed things up.<\/p>\n

There are other photographic items of photographic news and opinion that I like to share with my friends – around 3000 visitors a day – on this site;\u00a0 the occasional review, links to photography in the press, in galleries and on the web and my own thoughts and prejudices. Thanks for your interest.<\/p>\n

September 2013<\/h2>\n

Save Rosia Montana – No Cyanide Mining<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSudanese Call for Regime Change<\/a>
\n10,000 Cuts – Deaths After Atos Tests<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nExpress Stop Sponging Off Migrants<\/a>
\nHizb ut-Tahrir Women March for Syria<\/a>
\nPaddington Basin<\/a>
\nDruids Celebrate Autumn Equinox<\/a>
\nWorld Peace Day<\/a>
\nSave Whipps Cross Hospital<\/a>
\nNational Gallery Human Chain over Arts Cuts<\/a>
\nIran ‘Release Sunnis, Don’t Hang Them’<\/a>
\nAurora tells Shell – Stop Arctic Drilling<\/a>
\nMalta Day Procession<\/a>
\nSecular Europe Protest<\/a>
\nLewisham Hospital Victory Parade<\/a>
\nArms Trade Die-In at Parliament<\/a>
\n9\/11 Protest at US Embassy<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOccupation at DSEi Arms Fair Continues<\/a>
\nWreath for Victims of London Arms Fair<\/a>
\nOccupy vs the Arms Fair<\/a>
\nSilvertown<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMusical Protest against Arms Fair<\/a>
\nTower Hamlets United Against the EDL<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAnti-Fascists Oppose EDL<\/a>
\nEDL March returns to Tower Hamlets<\/a>
\nDPAC take Pants to IDS<\/a>
\nEnd UK Caste Discrimination Now<\/a>
\nDPAC Picket Ministries<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHands off Syria<\/a>
\nLove Russia, Hate Homophobia<\/a>
\nDPAC at BBC – Tell The Truth<\/a><\/p>\n


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