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Mark Kerrison 📷
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Photojournalist focused on the environment, human rights & social justice. NUJ. Occasional posts about music, languages and 父.

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UPDATE: Thames Valley Police have advised that no charges will be brought against four men arrested after these images, among others, of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle on 16th September.

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October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Respond to the UK government's consultation on late payments and poor practices. The National Union of Journalists has responses to support your submission. This is an important opportunity for every freelance journalist. #StopTheFreelanceRipOff: nuj.org.uk/resource/stop-the-freelance-rip-off.html
October 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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London, 18/10/2025. Climate campaigners protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to call on the UK government to reject Equinor's application to develop Rosebank, the UK’s largest undeveloped oil field. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
October 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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London, 13/10/2025. Pro-Palestinian campaigners, including family members, protest outside Woolwich Crown Court in solidarity with the Filton 24 on the occasion of a bail application hearing. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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London, 11/10/2025. Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian campaigners take part in the 32nd National March for Palestine since October 2023. A handful of pro-Israel counter-protesters are arrested while trying to block the march. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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London, 4/10/2025. Around 1,000 people attend Defend Our Juries' Lift The Ban silent vigil in Trafalgar Square. The Metropolitan Police make 492 arrests, of which 488 for supporting proscribed organisation Palestine Action. See also warning at link. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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London, 7/10/2025. University students march from KCL to SOAS via LSE and UCL to mark 'the second anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Gaza’. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Tonight my thoughts are with the twelve brave souls on board the Madleen. Aid workers, journalists, campaigners & a MEP. All non-violent, all on the Madleen only because our governments have failed to act to prevent a genocide & are now failing to provide aid to a population being starved in Gaza.
June 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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New armoured trucks trialled by the Met Police are Israeli Plasan SandCats, widely used by Israel in Occupied Palestine. Plasan supplied c. 700 before Israel invaded Gaza in 10/23, where it has since committed war crimes, crimes against humanity & acts of genocide. So many ethical questions arise.
June 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Free Alaa campaign asks David Lammy to 'Free Alaa Now'. UK-Egyptian writer & pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el Fattah has been a political prisoner in Egypt for 10 yrs+. His mother Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike since 29/09/2024 & now risks sudden death. www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
June 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The first day of spring (Windsor, 20/03/2025).
Out for a stroll with a camera for the first time since nerve surgery over 5 weeks ago, albeit still for the time being a pocket camera operated using a rather clumsy left hand.
A copse and pasture are pictured bathed in late afternoon sunlight from behind an oak tree on a warm first day of spring.
March 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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(see link above)

Also trying not to be too concerned that the government's 'Intelluctual (sic) Property Office' responsible for this vital consultation cannot even spell the name of their department correctly...
@chrisbryant1962.bsky.social
Screenshot of link for the Copyright and Ai Consultation from the Government's Intellectual Property Office showing it spelled as 'Intelluctual (sic) Property Office'.
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Winding down in preparation for surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation, I today very much enjoyed a quiet couple of hours browsing Colin Wilkinson's magnificent 'Coal Faces', a fitting photographic epitaph to the British coal mining industry. Available at: www.imageandreality.co.uk/store/p/coal...
Black and white image of the front cover of Colin Wilkinson's book 'Coal Faces' edited by David Gilbert Wright. Black and white image of pp. 106-107 of Colin Wilkinson's book 'Coal Faces' showing (left) an image by Roger Hutchings of a picketing miner being arrested by two police officers at Gascoigne Wood Colliery during the miners' strike and (right) an image by Roger Hutchings of three police officers behind riot shields at Gascoigne Wood Colliery during the miners' strike. Black and white image of p. 41 of Colin Wilkinson's book 'Coal Faces' showing an image by Martin Mayer of Arthur Scargill surrounded by Yorkshire miners after walking out of a conference on productivity four months after the miners' strike. Black and white image of pp. 110-111 of Colin Wilkinson's book 'Coal Faces' showing (left) an image by Roger Hutchings of two NUM members returning to work at Maerdy Colliery after the miners' strike and (right) an image by Roger Hutchings of two redundant miners reflecting on the miners' strike at Miners' Welfare at Manton Colliery.
February 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Three women wear Scold’s Bridles, used to silence medieval women who spoke out, amid flames symbolising the world burning during a protest outside the Royal Courts to highlight the silencing of UK climate justice activists (London, 29/01/2025). Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
Three women dressed in black, two in front and one in the middle slightly further away, stand in front of the Gothic arched main entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice wearing iron Scold’s Bridles (torture devices used in the Middle Ages to silence women who had spoken out). Flames from a blowtorch appear behind them and in front of the arch to symbolise the world burning.
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The National March for Palestine (London, 18/01/2025). Probably the most inappropriate, disproportionate policing I've seen in the UK for an entirely peaceful demonstration, causing Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch to raise concerns. Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Climate activists from @campaigncc.bsky.social gather by the US embassy before US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in solidarity with those on the climate crisis frontline & in protest against his climate denial (London, 11/01/2025).
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A climate activist wearing a black puffer jacket, a red scarf, a green beret and glasses is pictured holding a placard produced by the Campaign Against Climate Change which features an image of President-elect Donald Trump's head and, above it, the words 'Trump: Climate Disaster' against a red background. She is standing in front of the US embassy in London.
January 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Hundreds of Orthodox Jews protest outside Parliament & Downing Street against proposed legislative changes which they consider to be anti-religious, antisemitic & anti-democratic in the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill (London, 08/01/2025).
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About a dozen Orthodox Jews are pictured in two rows, including senior rabbis seated in front, during a protest in Parliament Square, London, against proposed legislative changes in the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill. One at the front on the left is reading from the Torah.
January 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Thank you to Mick Lynch, the outgoing General Secretary of the RMT union, for having shown our politicians that it is possible to provide well-argued and informative straight answers to all journalists' questions (and also for having rinsed those unwise journalists who tried to pull a stunt on him).
Head and shoulders image of Mick Lynch, in a grey jacket and v-neck pullover and a blue and white check shirt, holding a microphone as he addresses a crowd (unseen) at a pro-Palestinian rally in 2022. The background is blurred.
January 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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These are a few images I pulled out from 2024, for reasons as much journalistic, or occasionally even sentimental, as aesthetic or technical. Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
January 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Just tipped this over a 10,000 steps average on NYE after a couple of long, necessarily exercise-free, absences during 2024. I’ll likely have an op this year but I mustn’t leave it so late again. Happy New Year to you all!
January 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Harrods nightshift cleaners represented by @uvwunion.bsky.social, predominantly migrant workers, strike against a new Harrods leave policy which severely restricts their ability to take time off to visit their families abroad.
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Striking Harrods nightshift cleaners and supporters show placards and signs contrasting the luxury department store's profits with their low wages to Harrods customers inside the store sitting around a table attending a Christmas workshop as they march past.
December 23, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Another cause once espoused by Sir Keir Starmer has been jettisoned without even a glimpse of compassion or empathy. WASPI women, seen here outside Parliament last year, are denied recompense for being disadvantaged by the 1995 Pensions Act.
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A WASPI woman stands outside Parliament holding a large purple banner reading 'No Notice No Letter No Pension'.
December 18, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Last Saturday's Rally for Palestine in Parliament Square, London, which was followed by a candle-lit vigil outside Downing Street in remembrance of the 44,500 people killed in Gaza over the past 14 months.
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Kites bearing letters spelling the term 'Genocide', flowers and children's toys are displayed in front of the barrier outside the gates of Downing Street. Police officers stand behind the barrier. Activists holding a long red banner bearing the words 'You are complicit' in white letters are pictured against a backdrop of the Houses of Parliament. Two activists stand behind a banner outside Parliament, one in the middle holding a placard reading 'Starmer has blood on his hands' and 'Free Palestine', with a row of Metropolitan Police officers blocking their path in front. A large group of activists holding Palestinian flags is pictured after dark in the road outside Downing Street.
December 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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7½ years on. So much evidence, but still no charges.
Members of the Grenfell community walk behind a banner reading 'United for Grenfell' holding green Grenfell hearts and placards reading 'This much evidence, still no charges'. Grenfell Tower, covered in green and with two large green hearts and the words 'Grenfell. Forever in our hearts' at the top, is seen illuminated behind them.
December 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Supporters of the London Renters Union march through central London to a branch of Foxtons estate agent to demand rent controls across the UK. According to Zoopla, rents have increased by 27% in the UK since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and are now rising fastest in cheaper areas.
Supporters of London Renters Union march along a street of terraced townhouses in Bloomsbury, London, behind a banner reading 'Rent Control Now, Homes For People Not For Profit'. A London Renters Union activist walks holding a microphone in front of a stack of removal boxes bearing messages such as 'Cut The Rent' and 'No Fault Eviction' outside a branch of Foxtons estate agent. Handmade signs prepared by London Renters Union activists bearing messages 'Abolish Foxtons & Co', 'Honk if your rent is too high', 'A safe and affordable home is not a commodity, it's a human right', 'Cut the rent' and 'Everyone is a priority need' are arranged outside the window of a branch of Foxtons estate agent. Activists from London Renters Union march along Oxford Street carrying removal boxes and handmade signs bearing messages such as 'Rent Controls Now'.
December 15, 2024 at 9:46 AM