South East Network of Disabled People’s Organisations (SENDPO) is completely run by disabled people and aim to protect and advance their human rights in today’s society for a better living of people affected by disabilities.
I was very happy that I could help them today by documenting their Annual General Meeting in Gatwick.
Today I was commissioned to photograph a very special event at Gordon Square in London Bloomsbury, the unveiling of Indian Princess Noor Inayat Khan’s bust, by Princess Ann.
The story of Noor is a fascinating one yet so tragic as she left London during the second world war to volunteer for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Paris and eventually was recruited by the Special Operation Executive, a secret organisation set up by Churchill to free Europe against the fascist regime. Noor was a radio operator then and managed to pass on information for 3 months until found by the Germans, brutally tortured and eventually killed. But she never revealed a word about herself or her colleagues to the enemy, shouting Liberte’ until the end.
It was Shrabani Basu, an Indian journalist that a few years ago started a campaign to get Noor recognition in the UK and in her native Indian community.
I was really honored that I could capture today’s very important moments of her memorial being unveiled.
Marta
