Bradley Secker

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Napa on the Aegean: A Turkish Wine Region Re-emerges

Recent work from Turkey’s Aegean wine route, published today in the NYT 🍾🍷 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/t...

Freelance realities (part 2) ...a follow up and update to part one, 16 months on

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Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures It was the place to be through the 1980s, a nightclub where Johnny Rotten and Kim Wilde rubbed shoulders with the Beastie Boys and, er, Mel Smith. David Koppel’s new book captures it all

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Elon Musk tells the UK to Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 15/09/2025 · 41m

Always a good listen, but especially this episode about the far right rally in London over the weekend. Elon Musk’s appalling call for violence, and the lack of response by the British gov & left to tackle rising far right wing sentiment doesn’t really bode well podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

YouTube video by BBC Global The boy who shot the Vietnam War | BBC Global

The 12 year old boy who photographed the Vietnam War youtu.be/eglvKJymfEc?...

Art class

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image – in pictures Images chosen by 24 international newspaper picture editors will compete at this year’s Visa pour l’Image for the Gökşin Sipahioğlu by Sipa Press Daily Press Visa d’or award

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YouTube video by BBC The Russians need to reprogramme Melania Trump! - BBC

Given her latest speech about robots - seems like the best day to share this youtu.be/PmuR2XFxkdU?...

Burkina Faso's junta passes law banning homosexuality Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday unanimously passed a law banning homosexuality as part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation. The new law, which aligns with a broadening crackd...

Yet another country steps backwards on gay rights in Africa www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

Nuts and bolts Taking you behind the scenes of a recent on-and-off project about leg lengthening in Istanbul, with actual nuts and bolts.

Behind the scenes of an assignment - from researching a topic, to pitching, and hopefully publication. In my latest Substack post, I answer some of the how-to questions, I often get asked by earlier career photographers bradleysecker.substack.com/p/nuts-and-b...

Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking.

Well, I'll keep on the booze and fags then, at least they're enjoyable, not like these horrendous heatwaves www.wired.com/story/your-b...

‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth pa...

"'Being short is a curse': the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened" by ‪Ruth Michaelson and @bradleysecker.bsky.social. [4/5]

‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany Ten years after Angela Merkel declared ‘We can do this’ at the height of the 2015 migration into Europe, Syrian refugee Somar Kreker looks back at his 44-day odyssey

Beautiful long form photojournalism by Alessio Mamo ‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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Influencer Faces Three Years in Prison for Filming 12-Second Video Around Turkish Flag Investigators found the influencer's video on social media.

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Beloved and bemoaned bots A positive use for generative A.I. images

Exploring a possible positive use to A.I. generated imagery. My latest Substack post open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

Belatedly sharing the lovely spread my leg lengthening photos got in last week’s Guardian Saturday Magazine, alongside a sensitive and insightful feature by @ruthmichaelson.com - available to read online now

I've been lowkey obsessed since @bradleysecker.bsky.social told me that (mostly) men were voluntarily having their legs sawn in half at Turkish clinics with names like (no joke) "Wanna Be Taller" and then stretched a mm at a time. Great (if gross) to see his photos here w/ @ruthmichaelson.com story.

FMA condemns the killing last night of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military and stands in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, at least 178 of whom have been killed by Israel since the conflict began. Journalists are #NotATarget.

The troubling ways a heatwave can warp your mind A bit of sunshine can cause many of us to dream of ice cream, sunbathing and beaches, but warm weather can also make us violent, grumpy and depressed. Why?

Interesting article about the correlation between higher temperatures and higher crime rates / worse mood. As a fan of all the other seasons instead of high summer, here's to autumn ASAP! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Culture Picture Editor, The Observer | The Observer What’s the job?

Job opportunity - The Observer is looking for a picture editor (photo editor) at the Culture desk - observer.co.uk/about-us/car...

Isn't it ironic The cheeky, the funny, the unexpected, the absurd - intelligent juxtaposition in visual storytelling / news photography

Isn't it ironic - my latest Substack musings on enjoyable juxtaposition and irony/satire in photojournalism and beyond open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

Four dead in Turkey wildfires as blazes continue across Greece Thousands evacuated from the Turkish city of Bursa and from near Athens as heatwave sparks fires throughout southern Europe

Four dead in Turkey wildfires as blazes continue across Greece

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How reality TV has changed the way we think - for the better When the first series of Big Brother launched, one critic denounced it as a "smearing of excrement" over TV screens. So, exactly 25 years on, how has reality TV affected viewers?

25 years since Big Brother first hit British screens! I was hooked on that first series, and the most wonderful thing was seeing Brian Dowling, an openly gay man, very camp, selected by the British public, to win the show. He will forever have a special place in my life www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well if you want to feel like an old bastard, @bsky.app Bluesky now lets you 😂 - apparently I passed in fractions of a second. The days of getting ID-ed are long gone

Nvidia CEO Says He Has Plans to Either Change or Eliminate Every Single Person's Job With AI Wall Street was bristling earlier this month as Nvidia, the "chip" monopoly behind the AI boom, hit a record market value of $3.92 trillion, just eclipsing Apple's record of $3.915 trillion set last D...

"In mid-2024, a study of 2,500 workers found that 77 percent reported decreased productivity and even higher workloads when using AI. Just under 40 percent of workers reported increased workloads caused explicitly by AI's sloppy mistakes."

Data diarrhoea Archiving our deluge of data for the future

Latest substack post - considering how we will archive and store our photography, and online lives, in a digital age. bradleysecker.substack.com/p/data-diarr...

More unimaginable scenes from Syria, as hundreds of Druze crossed from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights border into Syria, and vice versa, to visit family they've been separated for decades www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here We are on a path to where social media will feed you hyperpersonalized AI slop about anything and everything.

The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here

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