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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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