Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza and activists try to hinder the shooting of a minke whale by the Yushin Maru No.2 catcher ship. Photograph: Kate Davison/Greenpeace
Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd were favorite post topic for a while, but long time no see. With a major anniversary, a look at images seems a fitting tribute:
On the organisation's 50th anniversary, former head of photography at Greenpeace International talks about the motives behind the creation of its picture desk
Vega boarded by French commandos in Moruroa, 1973. Photograph: Ann-Marie Horne
Fifty years ago, on 15 September 1971, a ship named the Greenpeace set out to confront and stop US nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka, one of the Aleutian Islands in south-west Alaska.
Two years later a small boat called the Vega, crewed by David McTaggart, Ann-Marie Horne, Mary Horne and Nigel Ingram sailed into the French nuclear test site area at Moruroa, French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. Photographers had been using their images for years to publicise situations around the world. But Greenpeace was a young organisation pioneering a new kind of activism: this was the moment they began to realise that capturing images of what they were doing and seeing would play a vital role in their work. Read more of this post
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