G20 photos

They don't make riots like they used to....................

I really like your pictures Will, taking photos of people taking photos is great entertainment.

Thankyou VeeVee

yeah, they're a great set of shots. If somehow very damning.

They don't make riots like they used to....................

Now that was a right proper riot - trafalagar square, charing cross road and half of Oxford Street completely trashed - cars ablaze and old bill on their toes - and I only popped out to the shops ;)

yeah, they're a great set of shots. If somehow very damning.

Thanks

I remember going on a poll tax march.

I was being pushed around in a buggy by my mother.

As for the rest of 'em, if you don't take pictures, you weren't really there. Ditto any gig you have been to in the last 5 years. To think that getting out a camera used to mean... er, what exactly?

Bollocks. I quite like going to a gig once in a while and staying near the back NOT taking pictures.

I've just come back from Bishopsgate this evening and I was sickened by the amount of photographers there - seemed like more than the police! All waiting around for something to happen, check out this shot here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/apr/01/g20-protest?picture=345361854

Cracking shot, but - 2 protesters, 20 photographers. Hmmmm...

Oh, and Will - you certainly have the right idea. Your shots sums up how I feel.

I saw some coverage of when those guys first smashed the window.. One middle-aged guy was trying to get them to stop and was shouting 'no violence,' trying to be the voice of reason but nobody listened to him.. Pretty much the whole crowd was goading them to smash the windows and applauding each smash..

If I were there protesting today that would have been the point at which I left.

fucking posing protesters only there so they could get photographed and have the photo as their facebook profile image.

I don't see a problem with taking photos. Indymedia and all that - don't hate the media, become the media. If and when anything kicked off, you would have the evidence that it wasn't because of rabid, foaming at the mouth, hate filled anarchists, but rather over-enthusiastic police in robocop outfits.

fucking posing protesters only there so they could get photographed and have the photo as their facebook profile image.

hahahaha

If I were there protesting today that would have been the point at which I left.

You weren't allowed to leave

fucking posing protesters only there so they could get photographed and have the photo as their facebook profile image.

:P

the digital revolution has led to an increase of camera carrying and photo-taking across all aspects of our life, not justs protests....concerts for example have changed massively too, how many camera-phones and compacts do you see at gigs nowadays? shall we slag concert attendees off for recording their life in images too?

yes lets.

I think it's a bit different at concerts. You've paid to see the band, not a 1-inch high digital representation on an LCD screen on the back of your camera. Take the odd photo, but don't try and record the whole show and miss the actual experience!

But I do carry my camera everywhere, and try to take photos everyday.

Tight jeans, cider, lfgss member?

Also Amy Whitehouse Wanna be girlfriend.

I've done so much event photography in the past, that I don't generally take any camera gear to events and especially not to gigs etc, as I am there to have a good time not to take photo's. I do still of course love to use my camera recreationally, but at a gig for instance I would rather spend all my time enjoying the acts, and having a good time with my mates.

Sexy eyes.

Xzibit rolls into town

I took one photo yesterday, of the horses cos they're beautiful. i had the exact same thought as WW here, wanted to take pictures of the photographers mostly. But then just rode away on my bike smoking a roll up. As you do.

the digital revolution has led to an increase of camera carrying and photo-taking across all aspects of our life, not justs protests....concerts for example have changed massively too, how many camera-phones and compacts do you see at gigs nowadays? shall we slag concert attendees off for recording their life in images too?

I think that is what we are saying here, the world is turning into a big photo :)

Sexy eyes.

the one on the left yeah. the other is out of line

I took a photo of a wicked stripped down BMX with massive handle bars being ridden by.. oh a photographer.
I also took a photo of my pint next to a window and a women breast feeding her kid next to railway line.

£10 says mine are more interesting than 98% of those taken at the protest!