Protest Photography
Daniel Trilling | London Review of Books | 20th November 2025
London has witnessed street protest for ever. What do photographs of those events tell us? One writer thinks they are a valuable record of social history – who knew that the National League of the Blind protested in 1920 for better rights? The meaning behind some images is not always clear – police surveillance photos sometimes resembled those taken by the protesters. Claims this writer, the show affirm that “we are here, we are alive, we matter”. Says another it is “an exhibition stuck in the past”.