Betty Dempsey

Photojournalist

Featured Work

Please enjoy a small section of my work covering UK protest movements over the last three years.

batman at Hackney Town Hall, 06/24 Sisters wrapping keffiyehs at the National March, 09/24 Thousands march with PSC in torrential rain, London Palestine Action supporter in red jumpsuit outside court for the Filton18 Thousands march with PSC in torrential rain, London, 07/25 Hundreds of police at Parliament Sq for Defend our Juries Demo, 08/25 London Healthworkers march through the East End against Barclays Bank, 06/24 Crowds at the FCDO after the pirating of the Handala, 06/25 Pal Action protestor flipping the bird through police lines, 06/25 National March forming up, 06/2024 Terror Suspect head to head with officer in nailbiting stand-off, 08/25 crowds wait for speeches at Downing Street, 09/24 Terror suspect waves defiantly from police custody, 08/24 several marches converge with Youth Demand on Picadilly circus, 11/24 QMUL students grow jasmine as a symbol of Palestinian resistance, 06/24 Youth Demand shutdown central london with red hands and smoke grenades, 06/24 protest organiser leads chants through a megaphone, 06/24 Youth Demand organiser informs seated protestors of police manouvres, 06/24 Marching with a banner reading 'Keir Starmer - War Criminal' through the PM's constituency, 07/25 crowds at westminster gather to leave toys for Gaza's children, 12/24 Haredi Jews in shtreimels line the road as the march approaches, 06/24 protestors drum and chant as YD block the road at Marble Arch, 07/25 two arrestees submit to their fate at a Youth Demand sit-in, 06/24 police at Whitehall kettle a funeral march marking 1 year of genocide, 10/24 crowds gather outside the RCJ as Pal-Action request an appeal against proscription, 07/25 a face in the crowd conveys many unsaid feelings at a vigil for murdered journalists, 08/25 a face swathed in red banners on the fountain of Eros at Picadilly, 08/24 young people gather in their hundreds to pay tribute to Lebanon after Israels unprovoked aggression, 09/24 QMUL student leads the protest with a by now infamous megaphone, 07/24 crowds swarm Downing Street to demand an end to UK complicity in genocide, 09/24 friction between crowds and police as controversial Palestine Action ban comes into force, 06/25 Youth Demand activists raise red hands as they stop traffic at Oxford Circus, 06/24 London demonstrators carry a coffin for Anas Al-Sharif after his assassination by the IDF protestor holds aloft a red smoke grenade, 04/25 Stop Arming Israel banner raised at Picadilly Circus, 08/24 PSC and others march up Embankment in pouring rain, 07/25 a lone anti-migrant protestor behind a line of police, 08/24 a masked drummer surrounded by smoke at a youth demand action, 07/24 SOAS students call an emergency demo after the piracy of the Handala, 06/25 London journalists pay their respects to Anas Al-Sharif after his murder, 08/25 stewarding the march, 07/24 thousands march against racism and discrimination in London, 02/25 London healthcare workers and their allies lead the fight against UK complicity in Israel's crimes, 06/24 Youth Demand stop traffic at Picadilly Circus during the peak of Christmas Shopping, 12/24 crowds shelter under the bridge at Embankment while forming up for the national march, 07/25 students protest the eviction of the student camp at LSE, 02/24 masked protestor surrounded by green smoke, 06/24 QMUL students march back to campus from their court hearing, 07/24 a little boy chants into a megaphone outside Hammersmith police station after Filton arrests, 08/24 students set off yellow smoke grenades at the SUTR march, 02/25 a protestor draped in the Palestinian flag surveys the march below him, 12/24 funeral march marking one year of genocide arrives at Downing Street, 10/24 Front line stewards of the National March, 06/24 Crowds turn out for Palestine, 05/24 antifascists turn out in force to defend the community, 08/24 stewards hold hands to contain the enormous volume of the national march for Palestine, 06/24 the National March pours down the embankment of the Thames, 06/24 Whitehall full for Palestine after 12 months of genocide, 10/24 students rally in force at LSE, counter-protested by a handful, 10/24 a young woman shouts and raises her fist, Whitehall 05/24 New Year on Vauxhall Bridge, the second of the genocide, 01/25 a flag flies in solitude in the sand outside the US Embassy, 10/24 protestors march from Whitehall to Palestine House in memory of martyred journalists, 08/25 protestors peacefully occupy the road ahead of Pal-Action proscription, 06/25 Protestors march against the genocide in Sudan, 04/25 protestors march with images of over 300 journalists murdered by Israel, 08/25