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FRSA, Writer, Photographer, PhD Research, Brighton Uni Hereford Photo Festival Director, Chair, Patron 1995-2010 Humanists UK Chair 2006-16 Director, tech startup companies,1976-2022 New Topographic photography - social/cultural issues www.robertashby.net
Trumpster the Dumpster.
We can’t do “Spitting Image” satire of Trump, he is both subject of the performance providing the crass maga behaviour and its satirical ridicule at the same time. Everything about Trump’s behaviour is already exaggerated beyond satire. He is his own parody.
Photo by Doug Mills of The NY Times. Trump, a hulking figure in black, trudges alone across a tarmac. An imminent threat to the world.
And now something positive:
solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.
☀️ 💨
#TippingPoint
Source: dr.dk
DONE
Coombe Farm Housing Development, Saltdean, East Sussex, 2025. My project, "Some New Developments", on property development on the edge of the South Downs. I have photographed at this site for 2 years - houses are now finished, only a few occupied, so it’s like a ghost village right now.
Coombe Farm, Saltdean, East Sussex, 2025. My ongoing project, "Some New Developments", on property development on the edge of the South Downs in Sussex. I have photographed at this development for 2 years - houses are now finished, only a few occupied, so it’s like a ghost village right now.
Martin Parr - great photographer, social commentator and promoter of the photobook as a major format of artistic expression. We will miss his ironic wit and authority - but what a legacy of images that will endure.
I made a difficult decision in September to not go to a big meet-up of my American wife's family because
1) my comments in social media & my profile in the humanist movement, might mean not be let in
2) it would feel complicit with a regime like my parents spent WWII 5 years in London resisting.
Coombe Farm, Saltdean, East Sussex, 2025. My ongoing project, "Some New Developments", on property development on the edge of the South Downs in Sussex. I have photographed at this development for 2 years - houses are now finished, only a few occupied, so it’s like a ghost village right now.
4...We must all support the BBC now, before the trumpers get their hands in it.
3...This is about the continuing attacks on democracy and truth worldwide by the autocracies and their dogmas of unrestrained capitalism and power corrupting justice. They want to close down one of the few unbiased beacons of truth and decency in the world.
2 ...that day in day out shows how corrupt, biased and venal most of the rest of the world’s media really are. THAT is what the populists are really trying to shut down. This isn’t just about a few errors of editing and judgement.
1 The Big Beautiful Communicator - our worldwide unique and wonderful truth and arts broadcaster has made a mistake about what Trump said. But for the past 100 years it has demonstrated how to be a national treasury of honest journalism and high class entertainment,
Whilst a lower pound is a negative virility symbol for politicians, as up to 75% of FTSE company profits are from overseas sales, that means the profit they report in pounds goes UP if the pound goes down!
Applied Ignorance
Actual Incompetence
Amazing Ineptitude
Automated Ingratiation
Absent Intellect
Abandoned Integrity
This project looks very interesting, particularly the idea of looking at the statues and other monuments that surround and are the context for the central decision making location for a country, which will, inevitably have become out of date culturally over time, but will be resistant to change.
Dairy, meat, chocolate, coffee. So the answer to beating inflation is clearly tea drinking vegetarianism, my diet anyway 😀👍
"Status Urban Vanity", some prints in the exhibition of my work on inequality at Mid-Street Lab, Kemptown, Brighton. 11th-25th Oct. www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...
Spot on! See some Brighton "Status Urban Vanity" motors in my current exhibition 😀
No problem, Finn. Will you be at the Post launch with Simon & Nina on Wednesday evening next week?
NO AMPS, NO DRUMS!
Finn, you're very welcome to the Private View of my photo exhibition tomorrow evening 6-8pm at the diminutive, but excellent Mid-Street Gallery in Kemptown:
www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...
Some selfish git SUV ("Status Urban Vanity") motors from my photo exhibition about inequality on now.
Correct - it should definitely be a matter for the Israeli government - to answer for in the International Court of Justice.
Another promotional campaign with its fatuous three word meme.🤮
And another lie, the ICE agents are NOT Police.
Shut In Shut Out - exhibition of some of my work on inequality coming up 11th-25th October at Mid Street Lab, Brighton. #inequality #shutinshutout #gates #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #newtopographics
www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...
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