As well as perhaps two thousand people of all ages taking pictures, the event was also enlivened by several pieces of street theatre, including the Vigilance Committee with a man on stilts wearing a number of CCTV cameras accompanied by a male and female vigilance officer, who picked on individuals and questioned them, taking their fingerprints before finding them guilty and sentencing them to a choice of six years hard labour or contributing to the Vigilance Committee. Three Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence also came along and added a little colour (or pallor) to the event.

A BBC News reporter, standing in the middle of a crowd of experienced journalists used to recording large events was howled down after giving a report in which he gave the number attending the protest as "three hundred." Clearly there were at least 1500 taking part, although others estimated 2-3000. It was not a good advertisement for the competence or impartiality of the BBC who appear to have a policy of playing down dissent; their reported numbers for other events I have attended have also at times been laughably low.

The event organisers had not applied for permission to hold the event and it would have been illegal, but I was told that it seemed the authorities had put in an application on their behalf without informing them.

A longer report with more pictures is on Demotix:
 http://www.demotix.com/news/229071/photographers-not-terrorists
and I'll put more pictures on My London Diary later.