International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s day. These photographs celebrate women the world over. I hope they challenge the idea that progress is largely brought about by men. We still have a long way to go before injustice based purely on a persons sex is eradicated. Each year new photographs are added to this International Women’s day blog.
Bangladesh 1992
Women in Liverpool 8, 1981
Photomontage 2013
Workers on strike, East London c.1988
Women in launderette, Liverpool 1980
Bangladesh 2008
Women against Racism, London 1992
Protester at anti nuclear rally. Brighton sea front early 1980's
East London 2010
Trade Union banner at the TUC anti Racist Demo. Spitalfields 1994
Woman preparing herbs & spices in a village outside Dhaka, 1992
Pat, stallholder at the Bethnal Green Road market, 1992
Belle protesting with others outside a BNP election meeting, John Scurr School 1986
Belle is addressing the anti racist demonstrators standing outside the school in front of her.
Andrea addressing the BNP who were inside the school, 1986
The police ensured that the BNP were allowed into the school hall. School children had produced their own exhibition on the life and story of Anne Frank. This was damaged by BNP members.
Protesters against estate sales march down Cambridge Heath Road, 1984
A dance performance at the Spitalfields Community Festival. Spitalfields market, 1997
The London based American composer Lola Perrin, 2009
Lola works closely with Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell and has composed the music for their latest silent film Going East.
Portrait of a centenerian woman, Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992
Women protestors outside the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, 1984
Whitechapel 2011
These two women were lobbying the then Liberal Council in Tower Hamlets against cuts in Council services.
Demonstrators against war in Iraq, 2003
Over a million people demonstrated on the streets of London to voice their opposition to military action against Iraq . There were also anti-war gatherings in Glasgow and Belfast – all part of a worldwide weekend of protest with hundreds of rallies and marches in up to 60 countries.The demonstration ended in Hyde Park where demonstrators listened to speakers from around the world. Women speakers included former minister Mo Mowlem, Vanessa Redgrave and Bianca Jagger. Playwright Harold Pinter made a rare public speech, saying America was “a country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug”.
Anti fascist protester, 1995
Unison Shop Steward Sarah Jane, 2010
Whitechapel 2013
Nurse Louige, 2010
Two women anti racist protesters, 1988
Three women at the TUC anti racist demonstration, 1994
Lone young woman anti racist protester, 1994
Women workers in a tea garden, Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992
Sandra Esqulant, 2008
Hazuan Hashim and myself made a film about Sandra. Intended as a portrait of London’s East End through the eyes of pub landlady, Sandra Esqulant who has been running the Golden Heart pub for over 30 years. Adored by everyone around her, the film captures a slice of her life in and outside the pub she has run continuously for over 25 years in the East End of London. Listed as one of the most influential figures in the art world, her wit, warmth and eccentricity leap out of the screen. Sandra’s affectionate recollections of the old and new East End are realized through archive photography, which captures the changes in and around Spitalfields over recent decades. You can watch the entire film here.
wonderful philip
love june
Love it xxx
Hey Phil, this is a remarkable collection of wonderful women. Thanks love Maggie
dear phil,
a much need needed record of women’s work in tower hamlets over the decades and a fitting tribute to all these women on international women’s day
thanks
julie begum
thanks you Phill
and I hope to see you soon
Thank you for sharing this with us all, lovely person, beautiful pictures, heavenly music. A wonderful space in my hectic day, a credit to International Women’s Day.
Great collection Phil. Some of those pictures took me back! XX
Great combination including our burdens. A
wow… they are amazing 🙂
Hi Phil
What a lovely collection of pictures. A nice way to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Lots of love to you Phil,
Alexis
a great collection of photos Phil and I bet there are a few thousand more in your archives
love – Jil XX
Thanks Phil: wonderful photos which remind us what is great about women, and East London. x
Great set of photos Phil, thanks
Wonderful pictures, thank you for sharing them. A nice way to celebrate women is to show how engage they are with the world.
Super photographs Phil and a great way to celebrate International Womens Day Good to remind everyone that cuts and wars disproportionately affect women and children How about including your Mum in the next line up – she deserves it!
Phil, amazing!
There is something in Your Work that makes me to look at the picture again. Some times – again and again.
You my comrade are a genius