Stillness and Movement II

During my last crit concerning this project it was suggested that I need to make some descisions concerning the photographs I decide to use in my work. I do tend to take rather a lot of photographs and find it very difficult to narrow down the ones that appeal to me. Usually the mass of them that I decide on are a narrowed down selection! But at the same time, I felt that the point of having so many different textures and images was that each one was from a different gravestone, each one representative of a different person. To narrow that down to two or three photos seems to me to defeat the point. So this was an attempt at trying to do something different with them for now.

G20 - day two.

These are some images from the G20 protests taken on April 2nd. Most are from people and organisations protesting other issues not directly related to G20. These were mostly situated near the Excel centre where passionate but peaceful protests were being conducted. Some of these images are also from nearby the Bank of England where the atmosphere was more tense. There was a strong police presence here towards the late afternoon but the atmosphere was quite pleasant until even more policemen appeared and protesters and onlookers were forced back away from the bank down the side streets. Many, including myself, were jostled by the surging crowd and these was a commotion as one youth was escorted away by the police. Although the atmosphere was terse and there was much abuse being directed towards the police force, the situation remained under control and I witnessed none of the violence reported from the day before.

More information on the G20 summit can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2009/g20/default.stm