UAF, EDL and Pleasure : Ten years in the past on Saturday twenty ninth June 2013 my work started in Hyde Park the place anti-fascists had gathered to oppose an EDL march – for which only a few had arrived. I left to {photograph} the 2013 Pleasure London occasion.
UAF Oppose, EDL Don’t Come – Hyde Park
Police had banned the EDL from marching previous the East London Mosque in Whitechapel and from any meeting or procession in Woolwich the place Lee Rigby had been cruelly slaughtered below the Public Order Act.
As a substitute that they had allowed a march by the EDL from Hyde Park to a rally close to Parliament, and had additionally allowed Unite In opposition to Fascism to march in protest in opposition to the EDL.
However the two EDL leaders, Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carrol had referred to as themselves ‘charity marchers’ and had turned up in Tower Hamlets and been arrested by police. This information was relayed to the UAF supporters in Hyde Park they usually gave a loud cheer. There have been at most 100 of them, they usually had meant to march to the place to begin of the EDL march, however not one of the EDL had turned up. I left to {photograph} Pleasure.
Extra at UAF Oppose, EDL Don’t Come.
Pleasure Celebrates Love and Marriage – Baker St – Trafalgar Sq.
Over 150 teams had turned up for the 2013 Pleasure Parade to welcome the equal marriage Invoice in England and Wales and rejoice the love that binds the London LGBT+ neighborhood collectively and hyperlinks it with the broader neighborhood.
They included lots of the figures I had photographed at earlier Prides through the years – comparable to ‘The Queen’ , together with some I had photographed again within the Nineteen Nineties.
As all the time, among the costumes have been spectacular, whereas others have been, frankly, simply very odd. However selection is after all the spice of life, and there was actually no scarcity of spice.
My footage present lots of the people collaborating, in addition to smaller teams, however no the extra business features of the parade which now are inclined to dominate. And I additionally like to point out these utilizing the event to make a political level. Pleasure remains to be for some a protest.
After photographing the marchers in the beginning – all the time the place essentially the most attention-grabbing images of the occasion might be discovered, I made my technique to Trafalgar Sq. to {photograph} folks arriving on the finish of the parade.
By the point the march ended I’d been by myself ft too lengthy and went dwelling.
Many extra footage at Pleasure Celebrates Love and Marriage.
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