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On Sunday 15th June people in cities around the world were invited to fly kites in solidarity with Gaza, in order to raise voices, make noise, and stand up for Palestinian rights.📍Whitstable @kitesinsolidaritywhitstable invited people to come along to an event from 11am until 2pm at the Peace Bench at Keam’s Yard.
Food was shared amongst the group as families and individuals made and decorated their kites. The weather was bright and sunny with enough wind for the kites to fly up high in the sky. It was a powerful and novel way of showing support for people in Palestine.
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Story originally appeared here: https://www.gerryatkinson.com/whitstable-kites-in-solidarity-with-palestine/
Gerry Atkinson:
Training as a photojournalist, I started recording political protests in London in the 1990’s. I spent 18 months volunteering with CWERC, an NGO in the Philippines, recording the lives of indigenous women for an audio-visual ‘Weaving our own Dreams’. I moved on to New Zealand for 4 years working for newspapers. On returning to London I organised a collaborative project with people with mental health problems to produce ‘Through the Lens’ documentary photography exhibition.
My MA research in 2010 resulted in a book ‘Shades of Other Lives’, a series of windows at night, developed in reference to Labour Party comments that “We are all middle class now”. In 2011-2012, I spent 10 months in Greece, Cape Town and New Zealand working on documentary projects. Recent community projects are ‘Our Work of Art 2018-2019’. I have an NUJ Photojournalist Press Card and am currently discussing new ideas and collaborations.
I studied at Leicester University, the London College of Communication and the University for the Creative Arts.
I have extensive solo and group exhibition experience including the British Museums landmark exhibition “Rice and Life in the Philippines”. My work has been published in newspapers, books and magazines and is held in private collections.
To see more of Gerry’s work, please go to: https://www.gerryatkinson.com/
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