Protest Stories
Let’s walk, make some noise, create history.
“History isn’t something you look back at and say that it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are very impulsive and of the moment. But these moments are cumulative realities.”
These photographs explore the stories of Britain is Broken, Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, Just Stop Oil, Animal Rebellion, Child Q, Ogoni 9, LGBTQ+ Lives Matter and The Young Communist League.
(2019 – 2022)
This year there has been an unprecedented wave of simultaneous protests and non-violent civil activism. Everyone has the right to peaceful protest, the bedrock of democracy. While there is no specific right in law, it is enshrined in the rights to freedom of expression & assembly, and directly incorporated into domestic British law by the Human Rights Act. Limitations to that right to protest have been passed in England this year as the 2022 Public Order Bill. It marks the most repressive legislation of the modern era.
This project was created with young people and intergenerational communities from Hackney and across London. Thank you to everyone, who has supported this project.
Visual Storytelling and Art direction by: Don Travis and Wayne Crichlow
The photographs in this exhibition may contain words that are considered adult, so apologies to anyone this may offend. We felt it necessary to include the voices of everyone and not just the few. These images are not direct political messaging but reflect people and groups asking for positive change.
