By LAUREN HALLIGAN
Features Editor
Kelly Pfeister, in-house photographer at The Chronicle, has already had her work published in the esteemed New York Times, and now she’s gone international!
Pfeister spent her Fall 2012 semester studying at Regent’s College in London, England, where she took thousands of photos.
One particularly striking shot captured police officers lining the streets of a protest in London, in the midst of a downpour. Pfeister submitted the shot as part of her final project in her photojournalism course at the college.
While she is now back on her native side of the pond, studying in her junior year at Saint Rose, Pfeister’s photos are still making a lasting impression in England.
The photo was part of the Visualeyes Photographic Exhibition, featured on opening day of the Regent’s Art Festival. The exhibition was opened by Principal of Regent’s Aldwyn Cooper.
Pfeister described the memorable scene: “On November 24, despite the rain, thousands of people gathered in front of Downing Street in London to take part in the march to the Israeli Embassy, to protest the violence towards Palestinians from Israel. Whitehall and the roads to the embassy were closed off to traffic so that protesters could walk in the street.”
A meaningful cause, this protest was hosted by the Stop the War Coalition. “I would often go to protests in London because they were exciting and I got to meet a lot of different people. – We don’t have anything like this in Albany,” Pfeister said.
