Living in London I saw "The occupy movement" first hand. I went to quite a few protests and spent a few nights at the camp (due to friends forcing me it wasn't really that comfortable but there was many musical artists that played free entertainment at night as well as free food.) At one of these protests I had just started to really like film photography so I took a few snaps. I never really put them onto the internet until this January.
One photo from that day I put onto Devientart. It is of this little girl who was with her parents, she stole her mothers sign and started marching up and down outside St Pauls with it. I did't think much of it other than she was enjoying herself. So I took a very quick picture that came up kind of blurry because the girl just wanted to march.
I forgot I put this image ono the internet until tonight when I logged onto the site and had hundereds of comments left on the photo and 8,000 views. The picture had been featured with this note next to it "A child representing adult's opinions makes for a thought-provoking image" The image of a small girl with a sign had got so any people angry/happy/confused/political it was strange that an image I had taken with no thought had spurred an argument between people. I suppose that's just the power of an image. Anyway i'm just happy to have made people think and that not many really notice it was actually out of focus (I'll pretend it was ment to be)
Here is the image:
And here is the link to the thread on the image:
http://lydiapourmand.deviantart.com/art/Occupy-343645583And here are a few other snaps from that day:
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