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JON BALDWIN appreciates the way Steve McQueen has curated the evidence of our resistance, and is inspired by their cumulative effect
Andrew Wiard
Demonstration against the imminent invasion of Iraq by Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain, 15 February 2003
[© Andrew Wiard / reportphotos.com / Courtesy of Andrew Wiard]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest
Turner Contemporary, Margate
CONCEIVED by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, Resistance recently opened in Margate, Kent. This is a curation of photographs chronicling and bearing witness to popular protest in the UK.
It spans a turbulent century, from early faded images of suffragettes in 1903 to the anti-war protest of 2003 on the cusp of the proliferation of camera-phones.
The people are seen standing up for women’s rights, workers’ rights, queer rights, disabled rights, the environment, and standing against fascism, racism, post-imperialism, nuclear arms, and war.
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