AJ Perez

Hackney. 05.11.2025.

Great news about the age requirement! Being 52 years old, it is frustrating to see open calls for “new talent” and then realise you have to be under X age. Why?!

I am all for giving opportunities to young people, but we need to separate being young from being “new talent”

A Mystical Ornithology – by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts Acclaimed poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham tends to reverent exchanges with the migrating birds that stop over at his home in rural South Carolina in this film by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin Jame...

An inspiring short film on Emergence Magazine about the ideas of poet and ornithologist BJ Roberts, directed by Jeremy Seifert:

emergencemagazine.org/film/a-mysti...

Interesting topic! I’ve signed up for the remote call bc I can’t be there that evening, sadly.

Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

Four arrested on “suspicion of malicious communication”. Meaning of course that the government thinks for you and you have to obey or be arrested. Such is the state of things in this country.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Loses for whom? Millionaire investors. Not artists. That’s not the art world. Or it shouldn’t be. It’s just another investors’ world. They would invest in bottled poo if they could resell it.

Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

Here we go. This was of course the aim all along, to stop people from saying anything against the genocide and Apartheid happening in Gaza. Disgraceful. I will never again give my vote to Labour.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same algae, setting the stage for a self-sustaining system to build habitats on the...

Amazing, let’s continue destroying this planet so future generations can go and enjoy algae on Mars

www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

Interesting retrospective exhibition of Edward Burra in Tate Britain. His landscapes have an other-worldly aspect that makes me want to be walking on that land. #art

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit!

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students of the uni of Westminster MA in photography and emerging media. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit! At Ambika P3, in their Marylebone building just opposite Baker Street tube station.

Drop by Ambika P3 Marylebone Rd to see fresh work by the Westminster MAs in Expanded Photography, and Art & Emerging Technologies 11-7 thru Tues 2 July

Such a good exhibition ! I el was inspired by every single one of them. Congratulations!

This is everywhere in this country. It’s basically the same problem as people thinking that nature = fields of wheat and hedgerows, because they’re nice to look at, and they are so because of our innate attraction to order, it’s my best guess. 300 years of “landscape” art is probably also to blame.

Join us for the PV of 'Test Site', a show by graduates of the University of Westminster MA Expanded Photography and MA Art & Emerging Technologies
26 June, 18:30-20:30, Ambika P3 Gallery
Show continues 27 June – 1 July, 11:00-19:00 
 
Free booking for PV: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-expande...

Police arrested autistic activist in supported housing as part of Quaker raid operation Exclusive: Joe Booth, 23, says he has PTSD after arrest in which seven officers entered his flat when he was in bed

This is past Orwellian, we are living in a police state that arrests anyone who gives any indication of wanting to protest government actions. This is what face detection is for.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very interesting compositions! shame that I missed this. It will teach me to check out your feed more often :).

But also, I can’t stop thinking of the cost of those sliced 8x10 colour negatives! My hand trembles just with the thought of cutting through those.

Ooh! Amazing, thank you!

I really wanted to attend this one but could not make it. At least this made me aware of Hammond’s work!

Ed Adkin’s exhibition at the Tate Britain in London is one of the best I’ve seen in some time.

The problem with it is that there are so many ideas and emotions contained there, that you need to visit it a few times.

If you are into photography art and looking for something to read, David Bate’s Photography won’t disappoint !

This is in Tate Modern’s shop but it is online too.

My article in @artsprofessional.co.uk following the launch of the Framing the Future report this week.

www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

Signs of life on a distant planet? Not so fast, say these astronomers Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

I’m afraid it is not as clear as the authors of the paper want us to believe. Universities act today like for profit businesses: it is probably marketing bluff.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A few moments from the last week on the Northern coast of Galicia, Spain.

Demand the government reinstate Great British Railway’s public interest duty - respond to the consultation | We Own It The government's plans to scrap our rail's duty to be accessible and environmentally responsible must be stopped.

Stop the gravy train! Labour is taking rail franchises in the UK into public hands - but the trains themselves are still privately owned. Train-owning firms took £3.6 billion dividends in the last decade. Take 1-min to tell the govt to stop the gravy train: weownit.org.uk/act-now/grea...

More images taken last weekend for the series on parks on London suburbs. This one is in Bethnal Green, so arguably not quite the suburbs. Same Welta 6x6 camera and still looking for those atemporal images portraying, hopefully, the sense of spaces away from the capitalist race-to-nowhere outside.

And yes, the ebook price is more reasonable, but I avoid ebooks, I spend enough time looking at screens as it is!

I imagined so. Thank you for the reply anyway!

The Photographers Gallery, London: new work of Cristina de Middel follows on her previous work, but it also feels fresh. It documenta the Mexican communities alongside the US border. It manages to avoid falling into the known stories around it, while still touching on those stories of emigration.