Tag: London

  • 30 April 1978

    40 years ago today – Red Saunders recollects the RAR Victoria Park Carnival: On Sunday 30 April 1978, 80,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square, and danced their way through the East End to Victoria Park in Hackney for the first big Rock Against Racism Carnival Against the Nazis. RAR had emerged in reaction to an alarming […]

  • My Europe

    The end of the era perhaps? A new chapter? Of history. Of my history. I spent my twenties struggling and fighting to get the European passport. I finally did, just weeks after I turned 30. Inner drive to be at home in Europe was huge – would not have had the energy and the resources now. London happened […]

  • Autumnal sketches

  • 12.12.12 Looking up

    © Asya Gefter

  • London town anti-clockwise

    © Asya Gefter

  • Clorinde @Trangallan

    The Clorinde boys – brothers Simone and Andrea Salvatici with David Harris and Derek Yau in the background – performing at Trangallan in Newington Green. My camera seems to coping just fine.

  • Rushmore primary school

    On invitation of Rachel Turner I spent June 25-26 documenting Olympic march at Rushmore primary school and a day trip with Year 4 pupils along the river Lea and Regents canal, to the Fish factory and the Victoria park. © Asya Gefter

  • One Good Thing About Music

    Opening of the photography exhibition by David Corio at Chats Palace. I escaped all the hard work and was left with pleasant tasks such as designing a flier and helping Peter Young to hang the frames. One Good Thing About Music is an exhibition of photographs of some of the world’s most influential international musicians […]