Photograph, surveillance image

n 1913 Scotland Yard commissioned a photographer to take surveillance images of the most militant suffragettes. Many of the images were taken whilst the photographer hid in a van in the yard of Holloway prison with a long range lens poised to take grainy shots of the women as they came to exercise in the yard. The images, such as this, clearly depict the women as being weakened by hunger-strike. The photographs were widely distributed to public buildings such as museums and galleries to prevent the militants entering and causing damage to property.