Continuing my choice of favourite images from 2014.
It’s hard for any photographer to choose his or her best images, and impossible to really view one’s own work objectively. I can’t divorce these images from the people and events and feelings when I made them. There are also some things I photograph out of duty rather than love and which I really don’t want to remember and have avoided selecting. So these are my personal favourites. Others might make very different choices.
In making my selection – limited to landscape format pictures for the slide show – I also decided against including the portraits of politicians and others well-known to the media, though one or two have crept in. Others who appear here are well-known to those who regularly attend protests that the media usually ignore. I also have not chosen more than a single image from any event.
Today I’m posting the images I’ve chosen from the middle of March to the early in June, in date order:
People’s Assembly Budget Day Protest – Downing St, London. Wed 19 Mar 2014
Stand Up to Racism – Westminster, London. Sat 22 Mar 2014
Teachers March on NUT Strike Day– London. Wed 26 Mar 2014
Probation Officers Strike for Justice– Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London. Tue 1 Apr 2014
Axe the Bedroom Tax at One Hyde Park– One Hyde Park, London. Sat 5 Apr 2014
Bill Gates end support of Israeli child torture– Cardinal Place, Victoria, London. Thu 17 Apr 2014
G4S Occupied on Palestinian Prisoners Day– Victoria St, London. Thu 17 Apr 2014
May Day March for Bob Crow & Tony Benn– Clerkenwell, London. Thu 1 May 2014
IWGB Cleaners at Royal Opera– Covent Garden, London. Sat 3 May 2014
Support Harmondsworth Mass Hunger Strike – Harmondsworth, Middx. Mon 5 May 2014
Bin British Gas– QEII Centre, Westminster, London. Mon 12 May 2014
Save Independent Living Fund– Dept of Work & Pensions, London. Mon 12 May 2014
Gove “Read-In” protest in DfE– Department for Education, Westminster. Fri 30 May 2014
Indian Gender/Caste Violence Victims– Indian High Commission, Aldwych, London. Wed 4 Jun 2014
G4S AGM Protest Against Human Rights Abuses– Excel Centre, Victoria Dock, London. Thu 5 Jun 2014
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