Londoners Series: Anti-Apartheid Protestors, South African Embassy, 7 January, 1989

As their sign spells out, anti-apartheid protestors had been camped outside the South African embassy across from Trafalgar Square for almost three years, protesting the South African government’s continued imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. This was day 995, and a homeless man stops to ask for a light while a couple of the protestors warily watch him. Just over a year later, Mandela was released in February 1990, and the camp was abandoned. Only fifty feet up the street,  a large group had set up cages on the steps of St Martins-in-the-Fields church and were on hunger strike protesting the jailing of dissidents in Iran. In the late 1980’s, protests abounded in London.

Kodak b&w negative film, pigment print

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Reference No. 1989-0107-11