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20 from 2020

20 images Created 8 Jan 2021

To say that 2020 was an unusual year would, of course, be an understatement. As for so many, it became a year absorbed in trying to protect loved ones and to safeguard the more vulnerable. Documentary work as a photographer necessarily had to take a backseat, to the point that for long periods of the year it simply did not happen. A small price to pay when so many have suffered so much.

Little over a week into February, I found myself having to shield for medical reasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, switching soon after to home schooling for the remainder of the spring and the summer terms. I then worked occasionally from the summer onwards, but always on subjects of interest which afforded relative safety and where good social distancing was possible. That, of course, meant many compromises and having to pass on events in core subject areas that I would ordinarily have covered.

Thank you to all those I pictured during 2020 and to all of you who have done so much to keep us safe and well, not least in the NHS.

Special thanks also to all the brave activists who made huge sacrifices in striving every single day in the most challenging of circumstances to try to preserve our precious environment for all at a time of climate emergency. The climate emergency is more pressing than ever after a year of pandemic.
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  • Denham, UK. 24th July, 2020. Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion, including Swan (l) and Larch (r) on a line above the shallow river Colne, try to protect an ancient alder tree from destruction in connection with works for the HS2 high-speed rail link in Denham Country Park. A large policing operation involving the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police as well as the National Eviction Team was put in place to enable HS2 to remove the tree.
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  • Windsor, UK. 4th June, 2020. Hundreds of young people take part in a peaceful protest march in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The march, along the Long Walk in front of Windsor Castle, was organised at short notice by Jessica Christie at the request of her daughter Yani, aged 12, following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of police officers in Minneapolis in the United States.
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  • Denham, UK. 8th December, 2020. Hampshire Police officers remove Dan Hooper, widely known as Swampy during the 1990s, from the river Colne for arrest. The climate and roads activist had occupied a bamboo tripod positioned in the river the previous day in order to delay the building of a bridge as part of works for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link and a large security operation involving officers from at least three police forces, the National Eviction Team and HS2 security guards was put in place to facilitate his removal.
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  • Windsor, UK. 27th August, 2020. Shoppers wear face coverings in Peascod Street. Tessa Lindfield, the Director of Public Health for Berkshire, has urged residents of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to follow social distancing guidelines following a significant rise in the number of positive COVID-19 tests there over the past week.
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  • Harefield, UK. 14th January, 2020. Freeman, a Stop HS2 activist, takes refuge in a tree as enforcement agents working on behalf of HS2 Ltd attempt to evict activists from a wildlife protection camp close to Harvil Road. Part of the nearby Harvil Road camp had been evicted by bailiffs the previous week. 108 ancient woodlands are set to be destroyed by the high-speed rail link and further destruction of trees for HS2 in the Harvil Road area is believed to be imminent.
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  • London, UK. 2nd January, 2020. A keeper displays Kate, a Mexican red-kneed spider, during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo. Every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and invertebrate is counted - a total of more than 500 different species - as part of an almost week-long audit required by the Zoo’s licence, with the information recorded then shared with other zoos via the Species360 database.
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  • Denham, UK. 29th September, 2020. Environmental activists observe tree surgeons working on behalf of HS2 Ltd, facilitated by security guards, felling trees in Denham Country Park for works connected to the HS2 high-speed rail link. Anti-HS2 activists based at the nearby Denham Ford Protection Camp, who are trying to prevent or delay the destruction of the woodland, contend that the area of Denham Country Park currently being felled is not indicated for felling on documentation supplied by HS2 Ltd.
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  • Windsor, UK. 17th September, 2020. A red deer stag is pictured in front of Windsor Castle at sunrise. The deer park enclosure in Windsor Great Park is home to a herd of around 500 red deer descended from forty hinds and two stags introduced by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1979.
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  • High Wycombe, UK. 10th August, 2020. Young environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion prepare to attend a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates Court. The activists, who are predominantly teenage and who are opposed to the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link, had been arrested whilst standing on a bridge on a public footpath in Denham Country Park by police officers using powers under the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1992.
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  • Windsor, UK. 31st August, 2020. Local residents and visitors enjoy subsidised Bank Holiday Monday lunches at a Japanese restaurant on the final day of the government’s Eat Out To Help Out meal scheme. Many restaurant owners have called for an extension to the scheme introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to try to help preserve hospitality jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • West Hyde, UK. 9th October, 2020. Anti-HS2 activists use tripods to blockade one of several entrances blocked to the Chiltern Tunnel South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link. The protest action, at the site from which HS2 Ltd intends to drill a 10-mile tunnel through the Chilterns, was intended to remind Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he committed to remove deforestation from supply chains and to provide legal protection for 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030 at the first UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30th September.
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  • Salisbury, UK. 5th December, 2020. Over one hundred people, including local residents, climate and land justice activists and pagans, take part in a Mass Trespass at Stonehenge. The trespass was organised in protest against the approval by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps of a £1.7bn project for a two-mile tunnel beneath the World Heritage Site and a further eight miles of dual carriageway for the A303, as well as the government’s £27bn Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2).
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  • Denham, UK. 13th July, 2020. A view of woodland in Denham Country Park expected to be destroyed for HS2 Ltd as part of works connected to the HS2 high-speed rail link. HS2 is currently projected to cost around £106bn and will remain a net contributor to CO2 emissions throughout its projected 120-year lifetime.
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  • London, UK. 11th January, 2020. Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Opposition, addresses the No War on Iran demonstration in Trafalgar Square organised by Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to call for deescalation in the Middle East following the assassination by the United States of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent Iranian missile attack on US bases in Iraq.
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  • Denham, UK. 29th September, 2020. Tree surgeons working on behalf of HS2 Ltd fell trees in Denham Country Park for works connected to the HS2 high-speed rail link. Anti-HS2 activists based at the nearby Denham Ford Protection Camp, who are trying to prevent or delay the destruction of the woodland, contend that the area of Denham Country Park currently being felled is not indicated for felling on documentation supplied by HS2 Ltd.
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  • London, UK. 3rd September, 2020. A troupe of clowns joins fellow climate activists from Extinction Rebellion attending a ‘Carnival of Corruption’ protest against the government’s facilitation and funding of the fossil fuel industry. Extinction Rebellion activists are attending a series of September Rebellion protests around the UK to call on politicians to back the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill) which requires, among other measures, a serious plan to deal with the UK’s share of emissions and to halt critical rises in global temperatures and for ordinary people to be involved in future environmental planning by means of a Citizens’ Assembly.
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  • Denham, UK. 6th February, 2020. Environmental activists from Save the Colne Valley, Stop HS2 and Extinction Rebellion walk at a snail’s pace along a road in order to block a security vehicle and truck delivering fencing and other supplies to be used for works associated with the HS2 high-speed rail link close to the river Colne at Denham Ford. Works planned in the immediate vicinity include the felling of trees and the construction of a Bailey bridge, compounds and fencing, some of which in a wetland nature reserve adjacent to a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation (SMI).
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  • London, UK. 17th November, 2020. A new billboard advertisement produced by PETA UK, a UK-based charity dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. The advertisement, which features an image of Max the Shelter Dog, is intended to highlight the issue of celebrities and influencers purchasing ‘pedigree’ and ‘designer’ puppies from breeders at a time when thousands of dogs are waiting to be adopted at local shelters and rescue groups, including many acquired during the first coronavirus lockdown and then abandoned.
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  • London, UK. 4th September, 2020. Tree protector Larch Maxey from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, addresses a protest rally from high up in a large plane tree in Parliament Square. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • London, UK. 6th September, 2020. The Blue Rebels cross Westminster Bridge with fellow climate activists from the Ocean Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion during a colourful Marine Extinction March. The activists, who are attending a series of September Rebellion protests around the UK, are demanding environmental protections for the oceans and calling for an end to global governmental inaction to save the seas.
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