Brexit: Day One — photos from protest in London

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Hi everyone,
Not sure how much coverage the UK-EU referendum is receiving outside Europe, but thought I’d share these photos I grabbed this past Friday. This was the day all of us in the UK awoke to the referendum results. Figuring there would be a lot of unrest in the capital, I headed down to Whitehall and Downing Street after work; sure enough, the protests (while small for London) were underway.

Photos and further context here: https://colepeters.exposure.co/brexit-day-one

Photographed with the M Typ 262 and 28mm Elmarit-M (IV).
 
Well shot series Cole. I like the POV with the 28mm amongst the action.

One small thing - I find the dark shadows too compressed in some of the pictures ("Boris is a Johnson" and the following picture of the girl on the wall holding the "UK+EU" sign).

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.

kind regards,
 
This is nice work, thank you for sharing. I particularly enjoy the various emotions through their expressions in each scene.
 
Brexit: Day One — photos from protest in London

Brexit: Day One — photos from protest in London

I love it too. Among other things it once again proves to me that black and white is the right choice for documenting events like this. It takes off everything superfluous to focus more on the subject. (imho)
Nice compositions too.
 
Thanks for sharing those, Cole. Nice work indeed.

I read that among millennials 75% voted remain, and this demonstration, at least, conveys that. Too bad, it's really THEIR future.

John
 
It's been on the front pages of all the major newspapers here in the US. Lots and lots of coverage. I'm sorta wondering what the protests are about though? Unless something was not on the up and up in the votes, that would seem to be that.

This is a handy website below for world newspapers (although you have to remember that just 6 corporations control 90% of the news in this country).

I sometimes like to read the Russia Times, or RT, which is apparently a sort of FOX News online paper. Great fun to see the events of the world from another perspective, and I am always curious to hear what the news is of Edward Snowden, someone I consider to be a modern day hero.

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
 
cole said:
Not sure how much coverage the UK-EU referendum is receiving outside Europe, but thought I’d share these photos I grabbed this past Friday.
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On the RFF, we have been gifted with some "clever and subtle" figments of analysis about this, coming from a place named Lapine, in deep south Alabama.

Nice and refreshing series, thanks a lot Cole. My favorite so far is that Winston Churchill clone pointing something out to a bobby with his cigar, with that girl looking quite doubtful.

This is nice to see that all those young guys and gals have understood what the European common hope was (still is) carrying over. Contraringly to their elder fellows (who voted Thatcher back in the 1980s and now candidly discover what kind of Europe has been set up, and have decided to leave what they had wanted to build a few decades ago - how cynical is this), they haven't known any war, but they at least seem to realize that the ideal of the EU was one of the reasons for the longest time of peace the western Europe has gone through since the Roman Empire.

There should be interesting photos to take in Ulster sooner or later. Unfortunately, the dark 1970s and 1980s are back for people living there.
 
Thanks again to everyone for the feedback. Glad these are providing some worthy coverage.

Highway 61 said:
This is nice to see that all those young guys and gals have understood what the European common hope was (still is) carrying over.
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Agreed. A lot of us who have immigrated to the UK, and particularly those of us under 50, are pretty uneasy about things right now. (And to be fair, a lot of those under 50 who were born here, and some others still from older age brackets, are too.) We can only hope things won’t be as bad as they look right now. But right now, it’s looking like pretty dark times.
 
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