Carl Court http://www.carlcourt.com Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:50:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A very belated update… http://www.carlcourt.com/2011/12/05/a-very-belated-update/ http://www.carlcourt.com/2011/12/05/a-very-belated-update/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:16:37 +0000 Carl_Court http://www.carlcourt.com/?p=337 Finally! Some 3 months (and several hundred website tweaks) later, I’m going to shamelessly blow my own trumpet and mention a very happy night at the 2011 UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards where I won the News Photographer of the Year category. Read on to see the winning pictures…

Police officers make a desperate attempt to hold back rioting students at the Millbank Tower Conservative Party headquarters as a protest against an increase in tuition fees grew violent and a large number of demonstrators successfully stormed the building.

A man holds up a poster of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei after running onto the artist’s sunflower seeds installation at the Tate Modern to protest against his imprisonment by the Chinese authorities.

A police officer has his face covered in paint after being hit by a paint balloon as a protest against alleged corporate tax evasion outside Topshop grew unexpectedly violent.

Larry the indesicive Downing Street cat is 'encouraged' inside number 10 by a police officer after keeping the doorman waiting.

A youth smashes a bus stop in Whitehall, central London, during one of a number of violent protests against an increase in tuition fees.

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