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Schifflersgrund Border Museum in the municipality of Asbach-Sickenberg (Thuringia). The museum is located on the former border strip of what used to be the inner-German border between Hesse and Thuringia and is a memorial to the division of Germany.
Visiting this museum was really a moving experience. Citizens have secured parts of the border fortifications, including an observation tower and the longest original section of the former inner-German border fence, preserved in their original condition.
This museum is much less touristy and much more 'authentic' (absolutely 'no-frills' and certainly rather humble in terms of the facilities and exhibits used) than what you can visit in Berlin.
I have lived in Germany for six years now and I often forget that this country was once divided, but at the time I followed the fall of the Berlin Wall with much trepidation on television and in the newspapers (I was a child, but very interested in current affairs and my father had been to both Berlin and Moscow in the 1980s for university research and had told me a lot about these places).
Last month I rather randomly ended up spending a few days in this former border region and took the time to get to know some of the stories of the people and the villages that were separated by an insurmountable border for forty years - right in the middle of Europe.
Not only are the traces of history well preserved in many places in this region, often thanks to the efforts of citizens who do not want the events of the past to be forgotten, but my impression is that traces of the past are also very visible in the architectural style and the state of preservation of villages that are less than five kilometres away from each other and that the inner German border used to separate.
Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund, Asbach-Sickenberg, Werratal, Thüringen, August 2022.
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Unsurprisingly, Stockholm City Centre was pretty deserted on the night of the terror attack. It was quite eerie.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I knew County Hall, and the Greater London Council (GLC), very well in the 1970s. That was because I was local government researcher and correspondent for Thames Television – in those days, the national ITV station that also served the London area.
Thames took its local government reporting very seriously (and received plaudits for it). And so we come to this TV studio photograph – the set of our open-ended results programme not of a general election, but of the local election across the 32 London boroughs that comprised the GLC.
We've just completed a run-through and it's shortly before we go on air on 9th April 1970. That’s me on the left in shirtsleeves talking to Roy Fewins, the floor manager. Seated to the right at the election results desk is the legendary Alastair Burnet with Peter Tiffin, the studio director (standing). Then Peter Taylor, who’s discussing possible election outcomes with a psephologist whose name I can’t now remember.
And just look at the cutting edge technology… that election ‘swingometer’ next to Alastair!
By today’s television standards, the set design was very simple: 'GLC 70', underneath which are 32 squares, each one representing a London borough.
Boy, did we all work our socks off – and the programme delivered the results. We came off air at around 2am, adrenalin flowing like mad, knowing we’d done a good job for London.
Digitised Kodak Ektachrome print
Please do us all a favour and go quickly.
This morning's newspapers headlines, now old news as he's delivered a resignation speech at lunchtime today.
Supermarket newspapers, Tesco Poole Quay 07.07.2022
Townend's family library, which was started 400 years ago, is made up of around 1,500 books which cover many diverse topics; from novels and poetry to farming, religion, law, medicine and current affairs. The books were apparently well loved and used by the family, (and in many cases their neighbours too) based on the physical evidence they contain, such as greasy finger marks, gravy stains, and corners turned over.
The library contains 45 entirely unique books – ones that have not survived anywhere else in the world. Some of these are delightful slightly bawdy storybooks – called chapbooks.
These were designed for the slightly lower echelons of society, and as such, would have been viewed as being beneath national institutions such as the British Library.
An example of one of the chapbooks is ‘The Crafty Chambermaid’s Garland’ from 1770. It tells the tale of a rich merchant who falls in love with his mother’s maid.
He tries to seduce her, but she knows he isn’t interested in marriage so she decides to play a trick on him. She invites him to her bedchamber – only she gets a toothless old hag to get into the bed and pretend to be her.
Needless to say the amorous merchant gets quite a shock, and runs screaming down the stairs! The plucky young maid’s efforts pay off though – the merchant’s family are so amused by the story that they decide to let him marry her, in spite of her lowly background. [National Trust Townend Website]
Donald Trump in prison uniform, chained to fence, The High Line, Meatpacking District, Manhattan, NYC. 2019.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
While attending the Trans Resistance Rally event at Bristol as an out-of-work freelance photographer, looking to freshen up and improve my skills, I was looking around for anything interesting going on.
I saw this person with the short black T-shirt carrying a megaphone, and started speaking, but soon found there were problems with the megaphone. While trying to get it working, the other two came over to help out.
I was trying to get a better angle, and hope to include the troublesome megaphone in the shot, but figured that the problem could be short lived, they could simply have sorted it out within a matter of seconds, so I didn’t want to risk missing the photos by moving around and looking for a better angle.
I simply started taking the photographs, while at same time attempting to move around for a better viewpoint. But as I figured, they didn’t take too long to try to get it working.
It was shot in colour, I converted it into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, and cropped it while in Adobe Photoshop.
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a photo of a lady, I think a transgender lady, whom had this impressive black outfit, including what looks like an oversized vinyl record as a hat, completed with a good looking label. Really impressive headgear.
Back in the old days, sometimes records like those, commonly a 12 inches diameter record played at 33 and half rpm (revolutions per minute), is often known as a LP meaning long play, and usually good enough for a full-length album. That’s why I give it the title of The LP Lady.
The photograph was converted to Black and White in Adobe Lightroom, for a good old fashion newspaper like image.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Christmas decorations in what would usually be one of the busier streets in Central Brussels. Again, pretty empty during the state of emergency.
Part II
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[polish language spoken, subtitles in English]
Under the lining of dreams (OBEnauts) is a reportage, made in 2008 at OBE fans camp in Poland. OBE means Out of Body Experience, NDE means Near Death Experience and LD means Lucid Dreams. Style of this documentary video is a freestyle speaking at close up camera shoots. It support the sincerity of speaking people and their emotions. Director and crew are not intervene in the set and not manipulate anything, so sometimes it is an impression of somehow incoherence and naivety etc. However after 12 years director thinks, that this video may be interesting in a light of current affairs. Director thinks, that image still present some of the Truth.
Written&Dirrected: Mateusz Droba, cinematography: Paweł Dunia, Marek Czarnik, Mateusz Droba, editing: Mateusz Droba, music: Krzysztof Jaros, production: Marek Czarnik & Mateusz Droba, Poland 2008.
This version is (c) to PLEOROMA & Marat Dakunin 2022
Director's Statement 2008 & 2020
Film został zarejestrowany na zlocie fanów tzw. "OBE" w 2008 r. Przedstawiłem swobodne wypowiedzi uczestników, bez żadnej ingerencji i bez montażu reżyserującego wypowiedź itp. W bliskich ujęciach dokumentalnych, na twarz, mówiące usta, mimikę, starałem się oddać "prawdę mówiącego". Wydaje mi się, że film pokazuje szczerość wypowiedzi. To, o czym i jak, wypowiadają się Bohaterowie, cechuje w moim przekonaniu znaczne pomieszanie fantazji, pewnych przewidzeń, dopowiedzeń i mylnych interpretacji, nie przeczy to jednak temu, że jest tu także obecna Prawda.
Tę prawdę, choćby w tym materiale było jej niewiele, chciałem pokazać. [Marat Dakunin, 2008]
Obecnie, chciałbym dodać jedno: Z wiedzy, jaką udało mi się uzyskać, z najbardziej wiarygodnego Źródła, tzw. OBE - LD itp. nie nadaje się w zasadzie do niczego innego, jak do rozrywki (entertainment). Tak więc, ponieważ obecnie, sytuacja wzywa raczej do pracy, a nie rozrywki, prezentuję ten film jako ciekwostkę. [Marat Dakunin, PLEOROMA, 2022]
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
Those two people wearing white hard hats and yellow high visibility vests, may be staff for a business (like a building business) or an organisation (like country council) that support the LGBT.
Here, they are chatting to each other while they, like many other people, were waiting for the Pride Parade to get underway.
Notice in the background, to the right of the photo, another person wearing a hard hat, this time a blue one.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Interesting alleyway in the Mission of San Francisco. When I come to visit from time to time I've noticed that the art work changes.
A snatched photo while moving from one location to another. A very nice arcade in Brussels, normally packed, less so during the state of emergency.
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High Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
The photograph was taken on High Street, roughly near to the High St Arcade, entrance.
Those people were holding up the colourful balloons designed to spell out the word PRIDE. They are the ones at the front of the parade, and in this photo, they were not far from where High Street ends, and becomes St Marys Street.
Notice the security officers and police officers at the front escorting the parade leaders, and also notice the other journalist also at the front (like the cameraman seen in file 0240).
This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride the year before, and my fourth photojournalism kind of photography. I was simply being an unpaid freelance photographer, taking the photos in order to build up experience and portfolio.
That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for good shots.
At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography missions, I use sun cream.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
The photo was taken on Castle Street, about half-way between the junctions of High Street and Womanby Street. This location is very near the Revolution restaurant and the Castle Arcade entrance.
This was my fourth attempt at photojournalism kind of photography, my first was during college, and that was like over 30 years ago. This is my second time doing photojournalism of a Pride parade, the first one was just a year before this.
The people standing on the road, in the background, are the ones who have taken their places in the parade. They are simply waiting for the start time, for the parade to move which at that time wasn’t due for maybe half an hour or so.
The people on the sidewalk, heading away from the camera, are actually more people simply going to join the parade. They may be heading to the read of the parade and join in at the back of the line. It is possible that a few of them may join their groups that are already in the parade. Note one of them is carrying a drum.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Düsseldorf-Hafen means the harbour of Düsseldorf. More than that, Hafen is the name of the Düsseldorf district in which the habour is located.
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being. As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
Mainly third sector businesses were attracted to move to the Hafen: media companies, but also fashion and design offices. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. There is also Düsseldorf's local radio station, Antenne Düsseldorf, in the harbour. CNN used to have an office there. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
The Hafen district itself contains some spectacular post-modern architecture, most famously three twisted constructions by Frank Gehry. Other than that there are many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district. But one of its main attractions, the beach bar "Monkey's Island", had to close for the sake of one further newly planned upscale hotel.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
There was a protest by transgenders in Bristol, one of the many around the United Kingdom, in respond to the Scottish Supreme Court ruling.
I went there as an out-of-work freelance photographer to do some photojournalism of the event.
At that time I took this photograph, everyone was still gathering, and the protest was still building up. They were simply milling about while waiting for the start of the march, you can see a few people sitting down, seen on the bottom of the photo.
While they were getting ready, there was music going on, and this guy with a flag on their back, was doing some dancing. They were one of the very few who was doing some dancing, as the rest was really milling about.
The photo was taken more or less approximately 45 minutes before the protest start marching into city centre.
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Not my photo; I came across it after someone else posted it on their Facebook page. From time to time I follow current political affairs in the USA. All of the American TV networks broadcast their content in Saskatchewan, some with their own noticeable slant on what's going on. The Canadian and British networks that we get here also cover US current affairs thoroughly. Thus, it's almost impossible not to hear about what's happening south of our border every day. This caricature by Barry Blitt seems to me to reflect some of the strong positions that are being taken there now; and not only in the news media.
Barry Blitt was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning. More info here: www.pulitzer.org/article/qa-2020-editorial-cartooning-win...
Shows better larger; press L and fill your screen.
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Cathedral Plaza, at the south end of High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Sunday 6th March 2022, at around 2pm to 4pm.
About the photograph.
Those shots were in colour, I converted those two into black and white.
In this photograph, this is the same man as in file 0036 (the one that comes before this photo). The reason he looks like he is higher up than the rest of the crowd is because he was standing on the steps of the Edward Elgar statue.
The last time I attended a protest to try to do some photojournalism kind of photography, was back in 1987-89 during my college days.
Since then, been trying to get a job in photography or graphic design. Got married, started having kids, then got a divorce and became a very busy single parent and full-time carer. Now that my kids are older and left home, I’m free and independent, so I decided to try to get back into doing photography. I need to refresh my skills anyway.
In the first week of March, 2022, I heard that there was a planned protest in Worcester which is the nearest city, so the night before, I charged up my Nikon’s batteries, formatted the memory cards to make sure I have plenty of storage space left for more photos, and made sure my photography kit bag is ready.
On the afternoon of Sunday, I drove to Worcester, parked my car at the car park, and walked over to the Cathedral Plaza, which is where the protests were due to start. At that time (March 2022), the Knife Angel, a 27 feet tall sculpture made out of knives seized by the police, was on display.
As the 2pm start was approaching, more and more people arrived there, I would say there was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. At least 4 or 5 different guys took turns to speak out their statements, while some people held up their placards. There wasn’t much of a protest, but then again, it is because Worcester is a small city compared to other major cities where protests were taking part on massive scale.
I tried my best to do a photo-journalism kind of photography, I went around the crowd and took as many photos as I could. Those are just the few good photos I could find out of the approximately 400 photos I managed to take.
About the overall subject.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on the 24th of February 2022, and in a short space of time, many Europeans, Americans, mostly and mainly anyone of “Western” lifestyle, people living in free countries, with freedom of speech, of choice, of votes, many of them started taking to streets to protest against the Russian invasion.
There were so many signs in various languages, often advising that Russia should leave Ukraine, stop the war, Putin being a war criminal, and so on.
This protest that I attended to take the photos, was organised by the Worcester Trades Union Council, and was listed on the Stop the War Coalition website, under the No to War in Ukraine protests section. This was just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protests happening all around the world on Sunday 6th March, in respond to President Putin‘s decision to attack Ukraine.
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A Mil Mi-8 helicopter of the Air Force of the former National People's Army of the GDR (East Germany), originally designed by the Soviet Union. This is the same model that was used to drop radiation-absorbing materials into the 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the explosion.
This helicopter is on display, together with other East German aircraft and vehicles dating back to that period, at the Schifflersgrund Border Museum in the municipality of Asbach-Sickenberg (Thuringia). The museum is located on the former border strip of what used to be the inner-German border between Hesse and Thuringia and is a memorial to the division of Germany.
Visiting this museum was really a moving experience. Citizens have secured parts of the border fortifications, including an observation tower and the longest original section of the former inner-German border fence, preserved in their original condition.
This museum is much less touristy and much more 'authentic' (absolutely 'no-frills' and certainly rather humble in terms of the facilities and exhibits used) than what you can visit in Berlin.
I have lived in Germany for six years now and I often forget that this country was once divided, but at the time I followed the fall of the Berlin Wall with much trepidation on television and in the newspapers (I was a child, but very interested in current affairs and my father had been to both Berlin and Moscow in the 1980s for university research and had told me a lot about these places).
Last month I rather randomly ended up spending a few days in this former border region and took the time to get to know some of the stories of the people and the villages that were separated by an insurmountable border for forty years - right in the middle of Europe.
Not only are the traces of history well preserved in many places in this region, often thanks to the efforts of citizens who do not want the events of the past to be forgotten, but my impression is that traces of the past are also very visible in the architectural style and the state of preservation of villages that are less than five kilometres away from each other and that the inner German border used to separate.
Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund, Asbach-Sickenberg, Werratal, Thüringen, August 2022.
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Castle Street, near the junction with High Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
I was attempting to take a wide photo of the many people at the front of the parade, which you can see in the background. This security lady mistakenly thought I was trying to take a candid photograph of her, so she simply posed for me.
It was only when I noticed her, that I informed her I was taking a photo of what’s behind her, and asked if she could pose again, so this time I would take a portrait photo of her, she simply happily posed again.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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President Barack Obama talks to an audience of young people at a Town Hall meeting during his visit to London last week.
Otto Schade.
Donald Trump v's Kim Jong Un, all the beauty and positivity in this world is at risk from a pair of total idiots !.
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
The photo was taken on Castle Street, about half-way between the junctions of High Street and Womanby Street. This location is very near the Revolution restaurant and the Castle Arcade entrance.
This was my fourth attempt at photojournalism kind of photography, my first was during college, and that was like over 30 years ago. This is my second time doing photojournalism of a Pride parade, the first one was just a year before this.
I was looking around at people, trying to find something interesting, something story like, and I noticed the two people in white T-shirts asking the security guy for directions on where to go. So I took some shots.
Here, the security guy is seen pointing out to the couple, on how to get to where they want to go to.
The couple are also pointing in the directions of where to go. In most cases, humans often subconsciously do the pointing while listening, as if their hands are helping make a mental note of how to follow the directions. In most cases, they are often pointing as if confirming the directions from the guide.
Note the BT Group logo on their white T-shirts, it would appear that those two are working for BT and BT is supporting the LGBT parade. Also note the woman’s impressive colourful stripped trousers.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Anchor Road, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken near the end of the Bristol Pride parade march, at Anchor Road.
I had been walking alongside the parade, doing documentary and photojournalism kind of photography as I went along with the Pride march.
Anyone in the parade would take up to about an hour to get from the starting point to the end point. However, as I sometimes walk back and forth while trying to find some shots, it had taken me about a couple of hours to go from the start to the end.
Here, I took as many photos as I can of those people reaching almost the finish point of the march.
At one time between 1987 to 1989, I did try taking photos of a protest march while at college, but have not done any photojournalism kind of photos for a few decades, until that day, so I was still inexperience in the field of photojournalism.
The Bristol Pride was the first of big current affairs event that I attended and took photographs. For me, this event acts like a refresher course, to practise doing a photojournalism kind of photography.
I hope I’ve done okay with those the event, if you want to see more of the Bristol Pride photos, there is an album on this subject in my Albums section.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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Lower Castle Street, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About those photographs.
The 2022 Bristol Pride started at Castle Park, moved into Castle Street, and turned left into Lower Castle Street, heading north towards Penn Street. Those photographs were taken somewhere near the NCP Broadmead car park next to the Marriott hotel. It was approximately about 15 minutes after the start of the march.
I took up a position near the car park’s entrance. In the wide photo (0251), you’ll notice the KEEP CLEAR wording painted on the road, and the lowered kerb (in American-English: “crub”), that is where the entrance to the car park is.
This was where I spotted the guy with baseball cap, sunglasses, and a rainbow mask around his face, holding up a placard. I had noticed that thousands of people on the march had showed their faces, only a very rare number would choose to hide their faces.
In the second photo (0263), I zoomed to the 200mm length and took some shots of the guy. I have no idea who he is, when preparing the photos for uploading to Flickr, I simply called him “The Masked Man.”
It had occurred to me that I had taken zoomed in photos of him for uploading to Flickr or Instagram or whatever, to showcase my experience and skills, and considering that he wants his identify hidden, he may want his privacy.
So I went over to him, to ask him for his permissions. Here is where it gets interesting…
Bearing in mind that I am a deaf person with speech impaired, often mispronouncing my words, and that he is wearing a mask over his mouth, making lip-reading impossible for me.
So how do we communicate with each other? No problem! The simple fact is…
Days before coming down to Bristol to cover this event, I had prepared some kind of ID tag of my own, stating that I’m a photographer and that I’m deaf. On the other side was a simple typed text, that simply asked “May I have permissions to publish the photos online? I ask out of respect because you are clearly seen in the photographs.”
On this day, at that point, I went up to him, and I said to him “Excuse me, I’m deaf.” Then I held up the back of my ID tag, let him read the wording.
Even thought he’s wearing a mask around his mouth, so if he were to say something like “Sure, go ahead.” It would be impossible to know, but no problem there. As he knows I’m a deaf person, all he did was simply nod his head.
When I was in my last year at a deaf school, I told the hearing teacher that I wanted to get into college and study photography. I was told that I can’t become a photographer because I’m deaf and how am I supposed to communicate. Even my mother agrees with the teacher and wasn’t supportive of my aims.
It’s not like I wanted to become a wedding photographer, which would need a lot of communications between the photographer and the wedding party.
My mother, her friends, the teachers, and most other people, were all wrong. Even thought it is difficult for me as a photographer to do this kind of photography, it should be seen as a challenge to overcome, not a barrier.
So, I got his permissions to publish the photos, and there it is.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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As well as providing radio and television services for the UK, thanks to the BBC World Service its influence stretches across the planet: it broadcasts in more than 40 languages 24 hours a day, and reaches an average of 210 million people a week through radio, television. streaming, mobile phones and the internet.
At home, the BBC not only produces programmes across the spectrum – news, current affairs, comedy, drama, music, documentaries, children's programmes and outside broadcasts, for example – but it also provides an important network of local and regional radio and television services. And through its Children in Need telethons, it raises huge sums of money for under-privileged children – an extraordinary £1.4 billion since 1980, and still counting.
All this, and much more, for a UK licence fee of 43p a day. And no advertising or commercial breaks.
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Cathedral Plaza, at the south end of High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Sunday 6th March 2022, at around 2pm to 4pm.
About this photograph.
The last time I attended a protest to try to do some photojournalism kind of photography, was back in 1987-89 during my college days. Since then, been trying to get a job in photography or graphic design. Got married, started having kids, then got a divorce and became a very busy single parent and full-time carer. Now that my kids are older and left home, I’m free and independent, so I decided to try to get back into doing photography. I need to refresh my skills anyway.
In the first week of March, 2022, I heard that there was a planned protest in Worcester which is the nearest city, so the night before, I charged up my Nikon’s batteries, formatted the memory cards to make sure I have plenty of storage space left for more photos, and made sure my photography kit bag is ready.
On the afternoon of Sunday, I drove to Worcester, parked my car at the car park, and walked over to the Cathedral Plaza, which is where the protests were due to start. At that time (March 2022), the Knife Angel, a 27 feet tall sculpture made out of knives seized by the police, was on display.
As the 2pm start was approaching, more and more people arrived there, I would say there was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. At least 4 or 5 different guys took turns to speak out their statements, while some people held up their placards. There wasn’t much of a protest, but then again, it is because Worcester is a small city compared to other major cities where protests were taking part on massive scale.
I tried my best to do a photo-journalism kind of photography, I went around the crowd and took as many photos as I could. Those are just the few good photos I could find out of the approximately 400 photos I managed to take.
About the overall subject.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on the 24th of February 2022, and in a short space of time, many Europeans, Americans, mostly and mainly anyone of “Western” lifestyle, people living in free countries, with freedom of speech, of choice, of votes, many of them started taking to streets to protest against the Russian invasion.
There were so many signs in various languages, often advising that Russia should leave Ukraine, stop the war, Putin being a war criminal, and so on.
This protest that I attended to take the photos, was organised by the Worcester Trades Union Council, and was listed on the Stop the War Coalition website, under the No to War in Ukraine protests section. This was just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protests happening all around the world on Sunday 6th March, in respond to President Putin‘s decision to attack Ukraine.
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The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath, moving to its current premises in 1989. Since its inception, Lilliput has published over 400 titles, ranging from art and architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, to essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry.
So, anyone who happens to follow me on Instagram will have seen this before, but I felt it was time to move on from my set of photographs from my week's stay in the Peak District just prior to lockdown.
For my day job, I'm a sound engineer at the BBC, in the Radio Current Affairs department. We mainly produce programmes for Radio 4 and the World Service, but also I've mixed documentaries for Radio 1, 2 and 3 there as well.
There is still very much a need for at least one of the sound engineers to be in the building on a daily basis to help keep the studios functioning as well as continuing to edit and mix our programmes.
So during this lockdown period I have been carrying on going to work at New Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus. I've modified my daily commute to cut out the local train that gets me from Wimbledon Chase to Wimbledon, and also the tube I used to catch from Vauxhall to Oxford Circus. Which leaves those parts of the journeys for me to walk. It all adds up to just shy of 10 miles per day all in, and I've managed it for the past three weeks without too much fatigue to my feet and legs so far!
Up until now my favoured route has taken me along the Albert Embankment and then past the Palace Of Westminster, which is generally a nice long stretch of walkway.
Lately though it's become increasingly crowded with joggers and dog walkers so I am modifying it to cross over Vauxhall Bridge and then left before Tate Britain and then up Marsham St and Great Smith St en route to St. James's Park and then Green Park.
One morning last week I was particularly taken with the clarity of this view over to the Palace Of Wesminster, the stillness of the Thames, and the wonderful blue sky reflected in the water. This was a quick snap using my trusty old Sony RX100 MK3 compact camera.
It'll be a significant moment when the renovation works have finished and we can see (and hear) it in all its glory once again in a few more years ...
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Junction of Penn Street and Broadmead, outside of entrance to Cabot Circus, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About this photograph.
The Bristol Pride parade was marching northwards up Penn Street, and I was walking alongside, taking documentary and journalism kind of photos of the march.
By this point, I reached the entrance to Cabot Circus, across from Broadmead, and stayed there for a moment, looking for any shots to take.
At the junction of Broadmead and Penn Street, on the other side of the road from Cabot Circus (which would be behind me).
This lady is holding up a Christian signs that reads ”Made in the image of God.”
I figured to try and get some shots, in case they may make good documentary photos.
In this part of the area, there were a handful of Christians or other people who believes in different religions, and they were there as the Pride parade marched through.
It’s possible that some of them have different options on the Christian views of the LGBT ways, it’s hard for me to tell which of them supports or against the LGBT.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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No Parking sign / Free Palestine on 'London brick' wall of the Apollo Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London, UK. The West End theatre was opened in 1901 and is a Grade II listed building.
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Canon’s Road, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken near the end of the Bristol Pride parade march, at Canon’s Road, just off Anchor Road.
I had been doing documentary and photojournalism kind of photography as I went along with the Pride march, trying to take various photos.
Here, I stood aside, and took some photos of people walking past.
This group of people, those three ladies, they saw me taking photos of them, and stopped briefly to let me take some shots.
I did not want them standing there, looking like a protest instead of a march, so I stepped back and signalled them to come forwards, and started shooting as they walked.
Then I asked them if they have any objections to my posting the photo online, they told me it’s fine, and agreed to my posting online.
The banner they are displaying, the Old Castle Green is a LGBT friendly pub in Bristol. Behind them is Sparta, which is a gay sauna, but according to Google, it had closed down.
At one time between 1987 to 1989, I did try taking photos of a protest march while at college, but have not done any photojournalism kind of photos for a few decades, until that day, so I was still inexperience.
The Bristol Pride was the first of big current affairs event that I attended and took photographs. For me, this event acts like a refresher course, to practise doing a photojournalism kind of photography.
I hope I’ve done okay with those the event, if you want to see more of the Bristol Pride photos, there is an album on this subject in my Albums section.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
You are welcome to comment on my photos, but do NOT use canned comments, which are pre-prepared comment codes that talks more about the groups than about my photos. Those will be deleted. The Comment Box is NOT an adverting billboard for groups.