Pete Dewhirst
United Kingdom
EUROPE
I am a well travelled award winning freelance photographer currently based at Swindon, Wiltshire, UK and Andalucia, Spain.
In my short career so far as a professional photographer I have had a certain amount of success.
I have been published in both English and Spanish newspapers and magazines and used in websites in the UK and Spain.
I have been awarded a Highly Commended for my images by The UK Picture Editors Guild.
I have also published a successful book of images and poems based around the Wootton Bassett Repatriations.
I have had a successful exhibition of my work covering the Carillion Swindon GWH Strikers
I am also a member of the NUJ
Open for commissions.
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Two of the three Scottish Soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb on 30th April 2013 have been repatriated through RAF Brize Norton on their way to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
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Several different unions and political groups including Radical Bloc and Save the NHS marched through and protested in Bristol against the selling off of the NHS and fighting the cuts and anti austerity measures.
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Workers Memorial Day was commemorated in Bristol by holding a service at Bristol Cathedral followed by laying of wreaths. Amongst the speakers were Michelle Stanistreet GS of NUJ and Dave Smith of Blacklist Support Group.
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A 20 foot model of St George and hundreds of school children paraded through Swindon Town Centre on St Georges Day.
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Despite heavy showers at times a small group of supporters of the Parkinson's Awareness Week performed a flash mob in Swindon Town Centre.
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Swindon carried on as normal and did not mark the funeral of Margaret Thatcher by not even putting the news on to The Big Screen despite locals requesting it.
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The Good Friday Semana Santa procession of Our Lady of Delores took place in Baza, Granada Province, Andalucia, Spain.
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Beverley Callard, Ray Quinn, Jess Robinson and Duggie Brown the cast of the block buster show The Rise and Fall of The Little Voice carried out a photoshoot at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon.
