The Lost Moment gallery of photographs was a very intense and moving exhibition that expressed photographs of the universal civil rights movements. It showed how although the protests and marches were held for different purposes during a similar time frame they were all interconnected through the civil rights movement.
The exhibition space expressed images by Steve Shapiro about the civil rights movement over the segregation of blacks in America. his photos , in my opinion, showed real depth in the way the photos showed expressionless faces of all these people fighting to be heard because the colour of their skin neglects to let them have a voice. As you moved through the gallery it would appear as if you were walking by a timeline of photographs, the second set of photographs in the entrance room was in relation to the protest in London in March 1968 about the Vietnam war against the US military forces and how they felt it should have been prevented and soldiers returned .The photographs shown were taken by the Magnum photographer David Hurn who documented this protest which took place outside the US embassy, these photograph even included the actress Vanessa Redgrave when she was young and by having her it made it feel real and not just a history. Another photograph of his , showed the active police as they used there bodies as a barrier against the people and how brutal they could be in preventing the protest from continuing. David Hurn is very influential photographer and his work very recognised for his memorable photographs. Then we move to Prague where we can see the very raw photographs of Ian berry which were about the Anti-Russian protest. His photograph of a women shows a sense of peace amongst the faces of the men who she is talking too as if they are the calmness in the midst of so much chaos where as she flushed and is mid speech about something she is passionate to release to the men in my opinion. There is another photograph that depicts a child holding a riffle which to me shows how innocence of children was broken and removed from them. Then as you moved through the Exhibition to the area that had been devoted to troubles in Northern Ireland , Buzz Logan who documented Belfast in August 1969 which is where he was from. He photographed both Civil rights protests in Belfast which were mainly photographs which showed police lined up as human barricade and then they had barbwire on the borders between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , which really highlights the problems that were so hard on the people of the two countries and how it could reoccur now with the current and coming issues with Brexit.
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