You probably thought from the title you were going to see some really shocking photographs from a really violent protest? Not here. These were the protests from the end of the year about the tuition fees rocketing to £9000 a year, which I chose to incorporate into my first project of the semester based around the recession. I photographed many aspects of the recession - supermarkets - which businesses are failing and which are surviving (I have a particular series of photographs recording the amount of people who entered Poundland in the space of half an hour) but the most interesting photographs I ended up with was the photographs from the Student protest that took place in the centre of Birmingham last December. They were mild riots that the Police were monitoring, but it was still a really good atmosphere to be photographing in, as everyone was so passionate about what they were doing, and I enjoyed taking the route of showing how the recession was also affecting young people.
I am not in support of the Riots that took place this summer in London and wherever else they spread too. It isn't right to smash up other peoples possessions, homes and lives in vain of your own boredom and arrogance. The protests I photographed were peaceful protests, and I would take no involvement or play any part in any violence cause by any protest or riot.
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