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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.
The No to War in Ukraine protest was arranged by the Worcester Trades Union Council and took place in Worcester on Sunday 6th March 2022.
It was happening just a stone’s throw from the Knife Angel sculpture which was on tour around the United Kingdom, and at that time, was in Worcester.
In the photographs, this lady was taking photos of the Knife Angel, and as you can see in the background in one of the photos, a crowd of people attending the protest.
She is wearing a leopard print faux fur coat, with blue jeans tucked into knee-length boots.
Notice that she’s wearing gloves on her left hand, but her right hand is bare, as she needed to operate her Apple iPhone.
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, I had 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 happening.
There was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that, maybe up to a hundred. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. It 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.
About the protest.
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.
About the Knife Angel.
The Knife Angel is a 27 feet tall structure, it is a sculpture of a weeping angel, and was made with 100,000 various knives. The knives were mainly anonymously donated and handed in through knife banks, with some knives seized by the police.
The sculpture was created to highlight the knife crime in the United Kingdom, and try to educate young people of the behaviour.
When the structure was completed in 2018, it began a nationwide tour around the UK, often on display in a city for a month, before moved to another city for another month.
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