International Women’s Day 2017
Today is International Women’s day. I hope these photographs challenge the false notion that progress is largely brought about by men. Each year new photographs are added to this International Women’s day blog.
Members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association at the recent London demonstration to save the NHS
Bangladesh 1992
Liverpool 2016
Save the NHS. London March 2017
Women in Liverpool 8, 1981
Whitechapel Market 2002
Save the NHS. London March 2017
Photomontage 2013
Workers on strike, East London c.1988
Liverpool 2016
Women in a launderette, Liverpool 1980
Bangladesh 2008
Women against Racism, London 1992
Liverpool 2016
Protester at anti nuclear rally. Brighton sea front early 1980s
East London 2010
Liverpool 2016
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
Liverpool 2016
Brick Lane c.1984
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.
Save the NHS. London March 2017
Portrait of a centenerian woman, Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992
Brick Lane c.1983
Women protestors outside the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, 1984
Whitechapel Road c.1983
Save the NHS. London March 2017
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