Eros or Agape?
Anti-cuts protestor. London, March 26th. This, and several other pictures I took at the demo, are featured in Solidarity All Around, by Charlie Bertsch. I used another photo I took at the same event for Joe Lockard’s Common Protests.
Archived entries for United Kingdom
When German is Useful
Having a parent who survived the London Blitz, I found the language a bit startling. White City, London, 3/27.
Hijab and the Market
The lead photo from my new article, Cultural Programming, in Tuesday’s Souciant. Taken in Torino, mid-May.
Feature photograph for Joe Lockard’s Common Protests. Shot in London on March 26th, at the anti-cuts protest.
High Street Blues
My take on last week’s London riots was published in Tuesday’s edition of Souciant. Part first person, part political analysis, it’s the last in a series of pieces I’ve been writing about England. It’s also intended copy for a UK-focused chapter in my new book.
Give ‘em Enough Armored Vehicles
Brixton High Street, 5:00PM. Police reinforcements headed south, towards Croydon. For additional London riots photos: http://bit.ly/nxK6E2
All in the Family
A poster for an event I’ll be speaking at on Sunday, in London. Hosted by congregation Bet Klal Israel, it will take place between two and six PM, at the Unitarian Church, 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, Notting Hill Gate, W8. I’ll be discussing the fate of Israeli democracy, and Israel vs. Utopia.
Pennies From Heaven
Demonstrating against David Cameron’s fiscal policies. Trafalgar Square, London, March 26th.
Cult of Personality
There’s no arguing that Wikileaks has performed an invaluable public service.
However, these stickers, featuring Julian Assange, make me slightly uneasy.
Brick Lane and Portobello neighborhoods. London, January-March 2011.
Highlighting a Cliché
I’ve never been a fan. However, I couldn’t help but want to own this image. The Arabic script, the metal screen, are so hackneyed, they’re almost a self-parody.
A great way to ironize the late guerrilla leader’s foreignness, that Guevara will somehow always be ineffable, beyond reach. Golborne street. London, 03/08.
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Dubstep Democracy
With the exception of albums such as Kode 9 and the Spaceape’s Memories of the Future, and Dusk and Blackdown’s Margins Music, dubstep is not known to be political. Reflective of its contexts, like Burial’s debut, certainly, but a protest idiom, like punk, well, no.
Recast as a soundtrack to an anti-government demo, it starts to make more sense. Not that Skream was hired to DJ the event. Nonetheless, this unintentional collage, of a protest flyer, pasted over a gig poster, makes us hear British politics a bit differently.
Soho, March 10th.