Guardian Photos of the Day: Luke Jerram's Pollenarium Premieres at Emerge East Festival
On September 11, 2026, Luke Jerram's Pollenarium made its debut at the Emerge East festival in Barking Riverside. The Guardian showcased a photo gallery highlighting several significant events, such as the UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tramway in Glasgow, honoring over 600 individuals lost to HIV and Aids. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, toured the Bayeux tapestry at the British Museum. In Vercelli, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni inaugurated the Risò rice festival. The Icons of the Sky event at Longleat House featured hot-air balloons. Additional images captured a Mediterranean black pig in Greece, a painted foot on Ganesha in Hyderabad, and various global happenings, including the Solheim Cup, a 9/11 memorial in New York, and Ukrainian personnel in Donetsk.
Key facts
- Luke Jerram's Pollenarium premiered at Barking Riverside's Emerge East festival, commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham.
- The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was displayed in full for the first time in Scotland at the Tramway in Glasgow, representing over 600 people lost to HIV and Aids in the UK.
- The quilt is part of the world's largest community art project, started in the US in 1985 by activist Cleve Jones.
- Kemi Badenoch visited the Bayeux tapestry at the British Museum in London.
- Giorgia Meloni opened the Risò international rice festival in Vercelli, Italy.
- The Icons of the Sky event at Longleat House in Wiltshire featured more than 100 hot-air balloons.
- A Mediterranean black pig swam near paddleboarders on Atokos, an uninhabited Ionian island in Greece.
- An idol of Ganesha had its foot painted ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India.
Entities
Artists
- Luke Jerram
- Cleve Jones
Institutions
- Creative Barking and Dagenham
- Emerge East festival
- Tramway
- British Museum
- Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes
- Los Angeles Rams
- San Francisco 49ers
- SOS Mediterranee
- Ocean Viking
- The Guardian
Locations
- Melbourne
- Australia
- Cromvoirt
- Netherlands
- Atokos
- Greece
- London
- UK
- Barking Riverside
- Wiltshire
- Longleat House
- Vercelli
- Italy
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Manila
- Philippines
- Kathmandu
- Nepal
- New York
- US
- Salerno
- Donetsk
- Ukraine
- Kyiv
- Trishuli
- Glasgow
- Scotland
- Hyderabad
- India