{"id":943,"date":"2010-03-11T22:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=943"},"modified":"2010-03-11T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:52:39","slug":"million-women-rise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Million Women Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographing last Saturday’s ‘Million Women Rise<\/em>‘ march in London would have been rather easier if I had shaved my beard off. The march was a ‘women only’ event, although I’m fairly certain that there were a few men marching in the thick of it with their partners.<\/p>\n

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The previous day I’d told one of the women photographers I was working with about this event, and she was able to photograph it in the way I would normally work, getting into the right position and making contact with people as she took their pictures, while I was limited by having to stay on the sidelines – except at the head of the march.<\/p>\n

Of course there were plenty of women on the march who wanted to be photographed, and some even rushed across to make sure I photographed them, or slowed to make space so I could read their banners, but too often I was further away than I would have liked, or could not get a proper line of sight.<\/p>\n

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So these two women from the ‘Stripping The Illusion<\/em>‘ campaign against lap dancing by Object<\/em>\u00a0 were carrying placards in the shape of teacups, protesting against the ridiculously named ‘Spearmint Rhino’ which they have given an “Award\u00a0 for the biggest misuse of the word ‘Gentleman<\/em>‘” (shown on the left hand placard) but I didn’t manage to show them well enough to use an image and thus mention them when I wrote about the event. Nor did I manage to get a picture of the woman behind them with her placard about <\/em>Shirin Alam Holi<\/em>, a 28 year old Kurdish political prisoner in a Tehran jail sentenced to death in January for “warring against God” by working with a Kurdistan opposition group. And I’m sure there was much more I missed, both in the march and by not attending the rally at its end. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course I did manage to take some pictures, even some I like, but so many times I wanted to get closer and couldn’t. Standing on the sidelines I sometimes felt rather more like a voyeur than I like, having to use a longer lens than usual.<\/p>\n

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I did step a few inches into the road to take this picture, and just a few more inches to take the next frame which showed more of the text on the banner. Immediately one of the stewards was at my elbow, requesting politely that I show my support from the pavement and not from the road.<\/p>\n

I’m not complaining because I feel hard done by. Rather just that I wasn’t able to support the event as fully as I would have liked, and as I have managed to do at other women’s events. You can see some of what I did manage to do on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographing last Saturday’s ‘Million Women Rise‘ march in London would have been rather easier if I had shaved my beard off. The march was a ‘women only’ event, although I’m fairly certain that there were a few men marching in the thick of it with their partners. The previous day I’d told one of the … Continue reading Million Women Rise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}