London G20 Protest 01/04/09 from Ollie Wainwright on Vimeo.

My friend and colleague, the veteran photographer David Hoffman, is targeted and attacked by a police officer in full riot gear, 3 minutes and 22 seconds into this excellent film by Ollie Wainwright.

David was documenting the G20 protest at the time.

MARC VALLEE injured by police on demo in Parliament Square, 9 oct 2006. Published here by kind permission of David Hoffman. (c) David Hoffman, 2006.

Photomonth, the east London photography festival which has more than 80 exhibitions and events in 50 galleries and spaces in east London is always well worth taking a look at. The last time I had a show at Photomonth was back in 2001 and I enjoyed the experience greatly.

David Hoffman – who took the above picture of me – has an online show for this years Photomonth which you can take a look at here.

“Photographs of protest and confrontation that make up a slightly more radical representation of Britain on the streets over the last 30 years than the Tate thought fit for your delicate sensibilities.”

David Hoffman’s show is a response to the Tate Britian exhibition “How We Are – Photographing Britian” which was held this year. When I was going around the Tate show I kept on thinking that I was glad I had not paid to see it (thanks Greg) and I ended up thinking more about the gaps in the show then what I had just been looking at. So it’s great to see David Hoffman’s online show as it goes some way to filling in a few of those gaps in our photographic history here in Britian.

www.davidhoffman.co.uk/photomonth