15th Aug, 2009: Thousands of British citizens came together today to disrupt the BNP’s annual ‘Red, White and Blue’ festival. The opening day of the British National Party’s propaganda event in Derbyshire was widely disrupted as protesters blocked roads, physically stopping BNP members and potential … Read More →
Category Archives: Photojournalism
Community Garden At Risk
The Lewes Road Community Garden in Brighton, featured in my previous blog, is at risk of total closure. This week, a private security firm locked the gates and declared the site closed to the public. The land is privately owned, but has been unused for … Read More →
New Palestine gallery
Pride by Josh Jones For the first time, an online collection of the best of my photojournalism in Palestine has been created. The series focuses on human rights issues for Bedouin people, farmers, and other locals living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The … Read More →
Pride
Bedouin children in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. The children of this valley are put at constant risk by the live-fire exercises that Israeli military conduct in the area. Their mother told me how soldiers would set off explosives of all sorts, from gas … Read More →
Milking
While visiting the home of some Bedouin farmers in occupied Palestine, I was invited to try milking a sheep. I was rubbish. Honestly, it’s harder than it looks. And it really feels funny, like a warm furry water balloon. Later that evening, the farmers treated … Read More →
Mother
A Bedouin farmer in the Tubas region of the West Bank, occupied Palestine. She told us the plight of her children. The family farm is often surrounded by Israeli military exercises. Image and text © Josh Jones 2008.
Strength
Kalim, local councillor, shows me the positions in which he and other inmates of the prison were forced to stand for days on end. This building was built by the British during the Mandate control of Palestine, and was later used by the Israeli military … Read More →
Strength II
Khalim is sitting in the courtyard where he and other Palestinian political prisoners were kept chained and hooded. He explained how he was commonly kept awake there for a number of days; soldiers would pour freezing water over anyone who appeared to fall asleep. The … Read More →
Jobs, Education, Peace: Protest at Labour Party Conference
27th Sep, 2009: While Labour began its Party conference, Brighton seafront hosted thousands of people calling for ‘Jobs, Education and Peace’. The national protest, supported by major trade unions and left-wing parties, also ran under the banner ‘Rage Against New Labour’. The protest passed without … Read More →