International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s day. These photographs illustrate 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 sexism is eradicated.
Bangladesh 1992
UCU picket fighting for a fair pension. Liverpool, March 7th 2018.
Students on the picket line supporting the UCU. Liverpool, March 7th 2018.
Audrey White, Liverpool 2018.
On strike in Liverpool 2016.
Women in Liverpool 8, 1981.
Whitechapel Market 2002.
Workers on strike, East London 1988.
Student with a message. Liverpool, March 7th 2018.
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 an anti Racist Demo. Spitalfields 1994.
Woman preparing herbs & spices in a village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh 1992.
Pat, stallholder at the Bethnal Green Road market. East London 1992.
Liverpool 2016.
Brick Lane c.1984
Portrait of a centenerian woman, Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992
Brick Lane c.1983
Women protestors outside the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, 1984
Whitechapel Road. East London 1983.
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