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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. www.markkerrison.com/portfolio www.instagram.com/markkerrisonphoto All images © Mark Kerrison.

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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 04/09/2026
Notting Hill Carnival 60th Anniversary - community politics and the sound systems www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 30/07/2026
Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 20/06/2026
4 hours responding to the DfT’s Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement consultation on proposed amendments to the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) convinced me that it’s a tickbox exercise to pay nothing more than lip service to equality responsibilities and UK climate commitments.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 19/06/2026
An hour outside Ascot on Gold Cup Day is more than enough for one year. A camera-shy David Sullivan, some plucky animal rights campaigners - 56 horse racing deaths at Ascot since 13/7/2007 - & the usual parade of finery or the grotesque depending on your view. www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 16/06/2026
First new London work for 7 months due to health issues - I wouldn't have chanced it for anything but Grenfell.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 16/06/2026
9 years after the Grenfell Tower fire, some bereaved & survivors remain so traumatised by lack of action against those responsible for the deaths of the 72 that they feel unable to attend the Silent Walk. Everyone should be there to stand with and for them. www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 29/04/2026
20 years ago, the first song I scrobbled on last.fm was Oumou Sangaré's 'Djorolen'. It is now much changed from the friendly, interactive music community found there then (no streaming/radio since 2014), but I was surprised to discover today that this valuable music resource has been around so long.
last.fm
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yet again, I am begging y’all to credit the content you are sharing. Aside from it being the right thing to do, in this day and age, it really helps with media literacy and AI fakery. The CNN watermark is not enough, IMO. Took me abt 30s in Google to find Kenny Holston/NYT/Pool
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 23/02/2026
One of mine used as the basis for an interesting front page exclusive by the iPaper highlighting Peter Mandelson’s fast-tracked Downing Street security clearance.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 22/10/2025
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. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 21/10/2025
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
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 21/10/2025
Excellent opinion piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Liew, which strips away the hyperbole to identify some of the politics behind football support in Israel.
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 20/10/2025
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...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 19/10/2025
Imagine being a Prime Minister who went out of his way to have reversed an operational decision based on considered expert safety advice so that the uber-racist Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans can come to the UK to cause havoc. Keir Starmer has lost the plot. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
timesofisrael.com
Police cancel Tel Aviv derby after fans riot at stadium
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 17/10/2025
Sir Keir Starmer has many questions to answer over Gaza, but I never imagined he'd back the virulently racist away support of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I wonder which of their songs he's going to sing? Their anthem, the 'Rape Song'? 'Death to the Arabs'? Or the one about there being no kids left in Gaza?
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 16/10/2025
Excellent. More of this, please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval
Owners of large cars such as SUVs would be charged more to encourage switching to smaller vehicles.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 14/10/2025
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...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 12/10/2025
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...
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“The Conservative Party should properly communicate and clarify the specific reasons for not granting these journalists access to its conference. Once again, the NUJ calls on all political parties to uphold media freedom and democratic accountability.” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
bylinetimes.com
Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 09/10/2025
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...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 08/10/2025
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...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 06/10/2025
Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says the move would be welcomed by journalists.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 06/10/2025
These accounts sound very plausible to me. I was also denied water & access to medication when detained in Israel & soon found the bites to corroborate rampant bed bugs in the cell. All pales in comparison, though, to the ritual violence, humiliation & abuse endured by Palestinians in Israeli jails.
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 07/08/2025
Well, this is odd. An image of an XL Bully accompanied by my byline. Only the image wasn't taken by me and nor would I know where to begin in identifying an XL Bully for captioning purposes. www.mylondon.news/news/uk-worl...
mylondon.news
XL Bully defendants include 'gang member' and 2 prisoners
XL Bullies became a banned breed in December 2023, while existing owners must have a certificate
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 01/08/2025
... father-in-law bringing home the sweetest watermelons in Hungary in the '90s and, of course, of the West Bank where the watermelon is imbued with so much significance. 2/2
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 01/08/2025
I love synchronicities. Listening to Frank Zappa's (instrumental) Watermelon In Easter Hay, I've just been offered a slice of watermelon. Watermelons always conjure up memories for me: of rows of watermelon stalls on roads out of town in Lazio & Campania in Italy in the '80s, of my late... 1/2
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 28/06/2025
I last saw Neil Young perform live in 1979, on the Rust Never Sleeps tour. He'd already had 16 years on the road. Almost half a century after Rust Never Sleeps he still looks and sounds in remarkably fine fettle and the sound he gets out of Old Black is still instantly recognisable and quite unique.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 28/06/2025
That said, The 1975 can do one with their 'we're apolitical now' (nothing can be more political and entitled than using your headline slot on the Pyramid Stage to say you've turned apolitical during a genocide).
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 28/06/2025
Glastonbury. I've become such an old softy. Shedding tears when Lewis Capaldi's eyes brim as what seemed a very large chunk of a 200,000 crowd sang along to Someone You Loved and not being far off again when CMAT introduced Take A Sexy Picture Of Me with a moving account of how she came to write it.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 12/06/2025
Everywhere on @theguardian.com: 'In a world where telling the truth has never been more challenging, your support keeps the Guardian fearless, independent, and freely accessible to all. Support a free press that speaks truth to power.' On The Guardian front page: A government PR handout photo!
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 11/06/2025
Deeply sinister and well worth a read. Especially, but not exclusively, for journalists.
declassifieduk.org
Illegal police raid on my home won’t stop me covering Gaza
The police broke the law when they ransacked my house. When will they stop harassing pro-Palestine journalists?
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 09/06/2025
This UK Defence Journal article, in rebutting suggestions that the Madleen was subject to RAF surveillance, raises so many more questions re the UK’s active role in Gaza where war crimes, crimes against humanity and a likely genocide have been committed. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-aircraft-...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
UK aircraft not helping Israel threaten ‘aid ship’
A Royal Air Force surveillance flight over the Eastern Mediterranean has been misrepresented by some news outlets as somehow aligned with Israeli threats toward the UK-flagged aid ship Madleen.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 09/06/2025
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.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 08/06/2025
British photojournalist hit by non-lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
British photojournalist hit by non lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests
Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 06/06/2025
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.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 05/06/2025
You seem to have forgotten your sponsored trip to Israel where you were welcomed by at least one individual statements made by whom were cited as evidence of genocidal intent in a genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 03/06/2025
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...
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 28/03/2025
No crystal ball was required to predict that the Met Police would, as in the past, stretch to the very boundaries (and beyond) increased powers given to them to clamp down on the right to protest. Is this really the repressive model for a society that this Labour government wants to see for the UK?
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 22/03/2025
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.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 21/03/2025
Feeling remarkably well rested without the 4:30 am roar of a jet engine coming into Heathrow to start my day.
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Luca @lucaneve.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Verità e Giustizia per Mario Paciolla! 19.03.25 Justice For Mario Paciolla UN Aid Worker Allegedly 'Suicided' In Colombia #NoiNonArchiviamo #PHOTOS -> www.lucaneve.com/gallery/19-0... #NonArchiviamo #MarioPaciolla #Paciolla #Rome #Italy #Roma #Italia
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19.03.25 - Justice For Mario Paciolla UN Aid Worker Allegedly 'Suicided' In Colombia #NonArchiviamo - Images | Luca Neve
Do not copy, screenshot, screengrab photographs for personal or professional or Social Network use whitout permission, it is theft. Please contact luca.neve@hotmail.com
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 19/03/2025
Finally, a discussion on this topic on UK broadcast media is centred around International Humanitarian Law, rather than around statements emanating from a state led by a fugitive from justice still wanted by the ICC for suspected war crimes in Gaza. www.channel4.com/news/israeli...
channel4.com
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill hundreds, Francesca Albanese reacts | podcast
Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and her opinions have sparked controversy in the past.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 18/03/2025
Important exhibition at a time when representations of Palestinian identity and culture are being erased in so many different ways.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 18/03/2025
Where today are the politicians who had been stressing yesterday the importance of upholding the 'international rules-based order' in relation to Ukraine? I guess over 400 murdered in Gaza during a ceasefire, overwhelmingly women, children and the elderly, must be a bit awkward for them.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 10/03/2025
49th story on the BBC News mobile website. Where would it be placed if the headline were reversed to ‘Gaza to cut off electricity supply to Israel, minister says’? Collective punishment is, of course, prohibited by international humanitarian law.
bbc.co.uk
Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, minister says
Eli Cohen's announcement on Sunday came one week after Israel cut off all aid supplies to the territory.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 07/03/2025
He’d do better to apologise for Britain’s horrific crimes against enslaved people in Jamaica and elsewhere.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 07/03/2025
Guessing that it’s the anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-war, Rastafarian, pro-liberation, pro-self-determination, pro-social justice content of Bob Marley’s entire life’s work that ‘King’ Charles identifies with? Was he ever more tone-deaf? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
King Charles reveals his personal playlist, from Marley to Kylie
King Charles III is launching a personal playlist of music from the Commonwealth that lifts his sprits.
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 26/02/2025
The Scotsman pays tribute to former chief photographer Allan Milligan. The gallery displays many historic images, but that of DI George Johnstone of Special Branch being slashed by a youth in Glasgow during a pro-IRA march in 1971 has long been fixed in my mind. www.scotsman.com/news/scottis...
scotsman.com
'Photographer's Photographer' Man behind six decades of iconic press images dies
Scotsman photographer Allan Milligan worked for the paper for 40 years
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 25/02/2025
(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'.
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