This project documents mass demonstrations in London against the current and former UK government's complicity and inaction over the Gaza genocide, recording ordinary people reclaiming the streets as sites of solidarity, grief, and resistance.

For the past two and a half years, streets around the world have become sites of public assembly, where ordinary people have voiced their shock and outrage not only at 'Western' complicity in the genocide in Gaza, but also at the inaction of the powerful in preventing it. Nowhere has this been more visible than in the repeated national demonstrations in central London, where individuals continue to gather from across the country and march toward the heart of political power to pressure the British government to end its support for war crimes and call for an end to the occupation of Palestine.

These images are an endeavor to record and preserve what has been consistently absent from mainstream UK news coverage: hundred and thousands of people, traveling from across England and beyond, transforming London’s sites of imperial memory into living spaces of resistance, mourning, and dissent.

The first photograph below was taken on October 21, 2023 - two weeks after the outbreak of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. At the time, at least 4,385 Palestinians were killed, including 1,756 children, and 13,561 people had been injured. In this image, demonstrators have climbed the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus. Raising Palestinian flags above the crowd, they turned the site of imperial memory into a living commemoration of resistance and dissent. As policing shifted in subsequent demonstrations, access to major monuments was tightly controlled and the spatial possibilities for protest in the UK have only grown more restricted.

For the past three years, I have been documenting the solidarity movement for Palestine in London and neighboring cities. Like the global movement itself, this ongoing project will end when the occupation of Palestine ends.