PHOTOGRAPHS
The Arctic Sunrise near the Prirazlomnaya oil rig, on its way to protest against offshore drilling in the Arctic.
Dimitri ‘Dima’ Litvinov. Born in Russia, raised in internal exile in Siberia, educated in America, he lived with his family in Sweden before sailing to the Arctic.
The 61-year-old American captain Pete Willcox on the bridge of the Arctic Sunrise, four days before the protest.
Frank Hewetson (yellow helmet) keeps watch as Sini Saarela climbs the side of the Gazprom-owned oil platform. Kruso Weber, hanging above her, is already attracting spray from a water cannon.
A Russian coastguard officer pulls a gun on the protesters.
Phil Ball filmed the first soldier rappelling onto the deck of the Sunrise. He later hid the camera card in the sole of his boot.
Dima is pushed to the ground outside the bridge door, minutes after soldiers started landing on the Arctic Sunrise.
Footage shot by Phil Ball of the Russian security services seizing the ship at gunpoint.
British activist Frank Hewetson at Leninsky District Court in Murmansk, where he was told he would be jailed while the authorities investigated an allegation of piracy.
Sini Saarela from Finland at her appeal hearing in Murmansk.
A smuggled image of one of the cells at Murmansk SIZO-1, where the Arctic 30 were held.
The outside wall of Murmansk SIZO-1. At night the windows would be connected by ropes that formed the doroga – the road.
Another view of the prison’s exterior.
Mads Christensen with his wife and colleague Nora at the Global Day of Solidarity in Copenhagen.
Two weeks after the ship was raided, 1,300 people marched past the Russian Embassy in Helskinki, one of 135 protests held in forty-five countries on the same day.
British activist Phil Ball at his bail hearing in St Petersburg. Sewed into his T-shirt are the words SAVE THE ARCTIC! in Russian.
Ben Stewart and Ben Ayliffe watching the live feed from court on the second day of the bail hearings.
Sini Saarela, Alex Harris and Camila Speziale.
Group shot of the Arctic 30. They are, from bottom left: Denis Sinyakov, Kieron Bryan, Roman Dolgov, Mannes Ubels, Frank Hewetson, Phil Ball, Ana Paula Maciel. From upper left: Iain Rogers, Sini Saarela, Camila Speziale, Gizem Akhan, Alex Harris, Cristian D’Alessandro, Hernan Orsi, Pete Willcox, Anne Mie Jensen, Faiza Oulahsen, Jon Beauchamp, David Haussmann, Marco ‘Kruso’ Weber, Ruslan Yakushev, Colin Russell, Paul Ruzycki, Alexandre ‘Po’ Paul, Dima Litvinov, Anthony Perrett. Missing are Francesco Pisanu, Andrey Allakhverdov, Tomasz Dziemianczuk and Katya Zaspa.
Pete Willcox with his wife Maggy. Before sailing for the Prirazlomnaya Pete sent Maggy a postcard, saying: ‘If the Russians keep their sense of humour, I think this is going to be a fun action.’