Fragile (like a bomb)

One of the changes to feminist protests in the last few years is the inclusion of young children at the marches, a necessary, welcome and happy occurrence that reminds us that hope and resilience bring us closer to one another.

Fragile (like a bomb)

My photographic practice is concerned with the relationship between time, memory and experience.  In an image devoid of cars or technology, the protests continue to highlight the same issues over which our mothers and grandmothers took to the streets: the value of work and fair pay; bodily autonomy and personal safety.

As a demographic group, women, in the inclusive and universal sense, have had to fight to be seen, to be afforded rights that ought to have been theirs at the outset from virtue of being human and to have a seat at the table. Yet, in 2024, even in societies where gender equality is considered resolved, women - all women - still face bias, exclusion and violence.

I have made these works to document the state of womanhood in the here and now. I live in London, where the number of feminist protest movements, year on year have declined. Paradoxically, these are urgent times where divisions threaten to further erode our social bonds. I love the energy of the crowd, the anger and the frustrations, the sense that things will get better. We are seeing more children coming out with their parents and carers and it is a joy to see and to know the work we do is carried on into a generation that is socially and politically conscious of the world we live in.