These pictures are from a march I heard out of my window. It was so loud, on one of the main boulevards in Budapest. At first it took me a while to figure out what the march was about. There were hardly any young people, which was the first thing I found unusual. Most protests/ marches have a lot of young people in the ranks. The people in the marches went back up the boulevard about 1 kilometre. It was a march of lots of different countries trade unions, with t'shirts, banners, megaphones, whistles etc. Everyone had cameras. There were lots of journalists photographers, but so many of the people taking part in the march were recording and taking pictures constantly. I wanted to make some record of my own.
The videos here are a couple I made on the day. The first is of an elderly lady dancing to the band set up on the stage where there were speakers from the trade unions. She wasn't marching. I think she was Hungarian and possible homeless. I don't think she was involved with the march, she was just enjoying the music and the crowd. The other video is of a piece of police tape fluttering in the wind, to the music.
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