Bertrom.

Thoughts echo within me each time I enter a wood.
The overstory.
Those myriad trees reflect my own tale,
each time I set foot in those quiet spaces,
where the deadened silence brings back forever,
sometimes fetid childhood memories.

Christine, 1976/8.

“She was very keen that the cigarette smoke and grotty ashtray should be in the picture to bring me down to earth.”

Anthony Eyton.

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.

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Whitby.

Please use front door.

Homai Vyarawalla was India's first woman photojournalist. Her images documented her country, notably its struggle for independence, from the 1930s until the '70s.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

Reducing inequality is a political choice made more difficult by “fragmented electorates, under-representation of workers, and the outsized influence of wealth.
The tools exist. The challenge is political will.”

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Tom Waits.

Illustrations Matt Mahurin.

It was a great day, back in the 70s when I discovered Closing Time.
It was a bolt from the blue.

Sorry, I’m not allowed to argue anymore.

Yes it has…

Whitby.

It has everything.

Susan Todd obituary — The Guardian Director, actor and a co-founder of Monstrous Regiment, whose work would concentrate on women’s experience

RIP Susan Todd.
An inspiration in my own theatre productions.

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The tragic loss of Trish Keenan.
A unique voice, an extraordinary woman.

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Imagine how many more there are..🤔

Georges Seurat.

Seated Woman with a Parasol.

(study for La Grande Jatte).

1884/85.

Vivian Maier.

Untitled.
1971.

Gunnar Lundh.

Sweden in the late 1930s.

Saul Leiter.

Early Black & White.

Late 1940s-50s.

🫣

Let me know what you think.
I was able to eventually screen it to my photography students which had a nice symmetry to it.

There is..

Amazon Prime apparently Cathy.

A remarkable woman. Have you seen the doc Cathy?

Vivian Maier.

I haven’t posted any of her work for some time, so I’ll put that right.
Vivian was a truly remarkable woman and a visionary photographer.
Her story began for me in 2007, and I was able to include it, as it unfolded in my film and photography classes.

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Hervé Guibert.

1980.

Suzanne and Louise is a story of devotion and desire. Almost all its images are domestic portraits of the titular sisters, the author’s great-aunts, who live together in a hôtel particulier in Paris’s fifteenth arrondissement.

Helene Schjerfbeck.

The Tapestry.

1914-1916.

Let us avoid executing so precisely and exactly that our work closes the way instead of opening it.
Let us imply.

Back to their roots: a brief history of trees – in pictures — The Guardian Over 120 years ago, a monumental work recording more than 500 species of tree in Britain and Ireland was published. A new version focuses on the pioneering images it contained

Over 120 years ago Henry John Elwes and Dr Augustine Henry embarked on an epic project to create a comprehensive catalogue of British and Irish trees.
Wonderful.
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I was in bed with a bad bout of flu and my partner came to tell me. I sat in front of the television in a fit of delirium which made it even more horrendous.

Eric Watt.

Girl At Chalkmarked Wall.

1960s.

'Peace and love'.

John Lennon.

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Joseph McKenzie.

1929-2015.

Often referred to as the ‘father’ of modern Scottish photography.

He produced some of the largest studies of the changing face of Dundee and the children of the Gorbals, inspired by the work of painter Joan Eardley.