Exhibition
TAKING THE STREET - GLOBAL PROTEST
24 Jun 2011 – 28 Aug 2011
Event times
2pm to 7pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 140 Vaughan Road
- West Harrow
- London
- HA1 4EB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- West Harrow tube Metropolitan line - 2 mins walk to gallery. 20 mins from Baker Street.
- Harrow on the Hill - 10 min walk. 15 mins from Euston.
TAKING THE STREET - GLOBAL PROTEST
About
Usurp Art Gallery's summer show presents 10 years of intrepid work by Jess Hurd, a photojournalist and campaigning photographer involved in people's struggles for dignity and freedom internationally.'Taking the Street - Global Protest' features photographs and video from Egypt and the UK, and marks the 10th death anniversary this year of Carlo Giuliani, killed by police at a G8 demonstration in Genoa. Reflecting on the political power of documentary photography and international movements, 'Taking the Street - Global Protest' informs and inspires.
Jess Hurd works with a broad range of campaigning grassroots organisations on social issues ' the revolution in Egypt, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, the Zapatistas in Mexico and urban social movements in Brazil, India, China and Africa. Her images and photo-essays are used by newspapers, magazines, trade union journals, NGO's and movements of social change through her library 'Report Digital'. As a passionate advocate of press freedom, she is one of the founders of the 'I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist' campaign, a founder and organiser of Photo-Forum, Chair of the London Photographers' Branch of the National Union of Journalists, a member of the International Federation of Journalists, and the British Press Photographers Association. www.jesshurd.com
