@gblee.bsky.social
Writer. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. Pr. émérite, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. Gen editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本 跨文化. www.gregorylee.net
#streetphotographer #photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical
'Woman sitting out in winter"
Hunan, Changsha
February 1980
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B&W photograph from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
#streetphotographer #photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical
'Buying breakfast on the street Hunan, Changsha '
(Deep-fried doughnuts similar to churros)
February 1980
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B&W photograph from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
#photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical 'Woman pushing baby carriage in backstreet Beijing ' 1981 © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social B&W photograph from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
#photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical
'Woman pushing baby carriage in backstreet Beijing '
1981
© 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
B&W photograph from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
#photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical 'Women and jeep in Beijing backstreet' 1981 © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social Digging out some B&W photigraphs from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
#photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white #China #historical
'Women and jeep in Beijing backstreet'
1981
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Digging out some B&W photigraphs from 45 years ago. Fujica ST605 35mm SLR on Chinese B&W film.
'Seafront at Bari, Italy' © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
#photography #b&w #blackandwhite #black&white
'Seafront at Bari, Italy'
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#photography
"Tourists menu-gazing'
Monopoli, Italy
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Martin Parr's "Benidorm, Spain, 1997" at International Festival of Photography and Art Monopoli, Italy in September 2025. 📷 © @gblee.bsky.social
#photography
Martin Parr 'Global warning'
Until 24 May 2026, the Jeu de Paume is exhibiting 180 works by the late Martin Parr...
Below my shot of Parr's "Benidorm, Spain, 1997" at International Festival of Photography and Art Monopoli, Italy in September 2025.
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#photography #environment #plastic
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Plastic pellets are washed and dried under the sun at a recycling zone on the banks of the Buriganga River
Photograph: Syed Mahabubul Kader/Zuma Press/Shutterstock
via @theguardian.com
#photography
Kapisillit, #Greenland
A reindeer skull and antlers put on display by local Inuit people
Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters
via @theguardian.com
Nuuk, Greenland A woman takes a photograph of an ice block in the harbour Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images via @theguardian.com
#photography #landscape #seascape
Nuuk, Greenland
A woman takes a photograph of an ice block in the harbour
Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images
via @theguardian.com
"The moon up close" Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
#photography #nightsky #moon
"The moon up close"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
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#photography #nightsky #moon
"Moon through clouds"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
📷© @gblee.bsky.social
#photography #nightsky #moon
"Me watching the moon or the moon watching me?"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
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On the corner of a busy road in Hong Kong 1988, with expensive hotels, jewellers, people on the pavement and cars and busses in the background
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Once upon a time on Kimberley Rd.
Hong Kong 1988.
#OnceUponATime #HongKong #ClassicMono #StreetPhotography #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #KimberleyRoad #Travel #marjamjars #BrowsingOldPhotos #Humansofbluesky
#BlackandWhitePhotography
Porcini mushroom, fennel, Chinese mustard greens and potato at Yuan, Central, Hong Kong, China. #hongkong #restaurants #bars @yuanhongkong
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#addBirder #phtography #birds
'Baby jay'
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, July 2025
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Indeed. 月兔
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"The moon up close" Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
#photography #nightsky #moon
"The moon up close"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
📷© @gblee.bsky.social
#photography #nightsky #moon
"Me watching the moon or the moon watching me?"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
📷© @gblee.bsky.social
#photography #nightsky #moon
"Moon through clouds"
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 31.i.2006
📷© @gblee.bsky.social
Excellent street photography via Lucien Lung www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Havana, a ghost town battered by shortages and US threats
By Jean-Philippe Rémy special correspondent and Lucien Lung photographer via @lemonde.fr
Excellent three-part reportage and #photojournalism, but very depressing reading. Poor #Cuba.
Read it in English here www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères. La « petite désescalade » promise par Trump n’a pas duré longtemps, stoppée par l’arrestation de deux journalistes et celle de militants ayant manifesté dans une église. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
31.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 69 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1"... last year, we received approximately 1300
applications for eight fellowships ..."
Why do they still ask people like me to review a proposal?
How on earth is a commission going to make an informed decision?
#academia
#highereducation
#jobmarket
#ichbinHanna
La justice avait annulé le licenciement d’une infirmière à cause de son couvre-chef, mais les Hôpitaux de Paris ont décidé de la sanctionner à nouveau, par huit mois de suspension. La soignante dénonce un « acharnement ».
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Well there we have it. This morning's Guardian contains that rarest of rare journalistic events; the Zero Star Review. It is of course for the hagiography of the year #Melania.
31.01.2026 11:52 — 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
Sophia Chikirou, candidate à la mairie de #Paris pour La France insoumise (LFI) - ses postions pas claire (www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...) et trop claire (la #Chine ne serait pas une dictature www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...).
31.01.2026 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hong Kong, early 2000s. #FoodOnFriday #HongKong #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #Photography
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Wagtail taking off over water, splashes from its feet, reflection where it's so close. Wings blurred in motion.
Wagtail take off.
Fairly cropped, they're not big birds and it was 20m away.
#birds #photography
#photography #birds
'Nuthatch - Looking for that special seed'
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