Paul Chambers
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Time, memory, loss and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among them becomes the determinant - Sally Mann. Analog fella doing his best in a digital world.
Bailiwick of Guernsey
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Commissioned by Matt Polli, MD of
@RandallsBrewery
last year.
Four amrotypes to adorn the walls of The Prince of Wales, allowing 1861 to caress and collide (in silver) with 2024.
Grateful thanks to Matt for being creative and brave enough to commission work out of the ordinary.
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I close 2021 by reposting the image that got the biggest reaction of all the frames I took this year when
@MarcDavenant
and I visited Richard Ratcliffe who was 20 days into his hunger strike.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Betrayed by
@BorisJohnson
and the British government…
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“People don’t fake depression…they fake being okay.”
- Robin Williams
Photograph: @ Nigel Parry
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How is it possible I’ve only just discovered
@JasonIsbell
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What a discovery it has been though!!! Wondrous storyteller and musician!
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“The time for promises is over"
-Richard Ratcliffe
Today Parliament will be debating the ongoing detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Please contact your MP and ask them to take part and put pressure on the government to settle the debt and
#FreeNazanin
…
@FreeNazanin
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Richard Ratcliffe
Day 20 yesterday of Richard hunger strike outside the Foreign Office.
Such a beautiful soul. His spirit still soaring but his body now weakening.
This is an intolerable situation for him to be in.
Please retweet if you can & help
#FreeNazanin
@FreeNazanin
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@IanBeesleyphoto
That’s hit me like a tonne of bricks Ian. My biological mum had me at 14 in 1970.
What a fuckin world.
Thank you for doing what you do and telling the stories of those you do. Of taking photographs that underscore the beauty and dignity of those who have been dehumanised.
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Self Portrait in Black and White
If you’re the praying kind, I could use one if you have time today
Thank you
#fujifilm
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
- Robert Frank
Very occasionally I feel I get close.
This was such a moment in Whitehall with Richard Radcliffe and
@MarcDavenant
in November 2021.
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Photograph with your heart first and your camera second.
Phil, who turned 69 a couple of weeks ago. He comes to Church with his two carers. His struggles are very real. He’s a beautiful human and yesterday I gave him a print of his portrait. He wouldn’t let go of my hand.
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A woman trapped in Iran after being convicted of new, trumped-up charges. A husband on hunger strike in despair. A child had yet another Christmas without her mother. And a government that won’t pay up to make it stop.
I have no good words…
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Stormfront
Was out and about with meetings for projects yesterday (always carry the xt-1 with 35mm) and I turned round to see this gift not far from the Lihou crossest
#fujifilm
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Today has been a bit overwhelming tbh.
My eyes have watered much & I have struggled to recognise myself in the words so generously offered.
Serendipitous that this appeared today in the
@GuernseyPress
after my heartfelt post today.
Kindness breaks me.
Thank you one and all x
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@TheWomanfredi
My pleasure! You can tell your wee man that
@eddieizzard
@solobasssteve
and I all paint our nails! x
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Losing my hair was devastating. Alopecia makes you feel broken and unfeminine; it chips away at your identity until you no longer see yourself…
(1/2)
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5am
Early morning stroll on the beach just before the sun kisses the world beautiful again. Tips hat towards the North to another who strolls
@IMcMillan
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"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."
I’ve lost count of how many times my mum announced she’d gone off pie.
Thank you for choosing me… x
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“Love is a verb, not a noun, it’s a doing word. There is a really important way that everything people do for political prisoners is so important for keeping going.”
- Richard Ratcliffe
Support political prisoners and their families.
Bring her home
@FreeNazanin
#FreeNazinin
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Keys of the Kingdom
Three years ago my life was unmanageable. I was a boneshaking wreck of a man. Today I turn 49. I dwell now in possibility a day at a time...
#fujifilm
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18 years ago this morning your perfect, tiny hand held onto my finger for the first time and everything changed forever...
Samuel Mark
You’ve made me and your mum so very proud son.
(Photo credit John de Garis)
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable
—Mary Oliver
6 years ago, after a couple of years being sober I started drinking again, secretly. My life once more had become unmanageable. The tsunami was building...
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"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."
- Gordon Parks
Whilst in the UK recently I came across this wonderful young photographer out with her teacher...
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‘My body is creaking’
- Richard Ratcliffe
Day 20 yesterday of Richard hunger strike outside the Foreign Office.
Such a beautiful soul.
This is an intolerable situation for him to be in.
Please repost if you can and help
#FreeNazanin
@freenazanin
#fujifilm
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'We live in hope.'
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard.
Christmas Eve… 2021
#FreeNazanin
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“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.”
- Ansel Adams
He wasn’t wrong
#fujifilm
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Flashback Friday from a refugee camp in Palestine.
A young boy trusts a stranger and rests his leg on my knee. A moment I’ve never forgotten.
Remembering them this morning. Still no liberation, freedom or peace for these children.
Dheisheh Refugee Camp, The West Bank.
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Dark were my dreams last night and just before the darkest hour I dreamed of this girl I met so fleetingly 20 years nearly to the day…
Possibly the most iconic picture I’ve taken.
#kodachrome
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An extraordinary moment in time.
One of the most moving of my 50 years on planet earth.
Guernsey Black Lives Matter, St. Peter Port, 20 June, 2020
#BlackLivesMattter
#GuernseyTogether
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Can’t shake this. Struggling to make sense of myself and what I do in the light of the stunning ethical demands this film graces. The responsibility we have who hold a camera and press the shutter. Not quite sure what comes next now.
With love and deepest thanks
@TishMurthafilm
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I was reflecting this afternoon and realised that during Lockdown my work was published for the first time.
Gently proud, especially the portrait of local treasure Molly Bihet; to photograph her as she is in her study at her father's old desk.
#fujifilm
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Shot in Ghana in 2001, a young girl pleads for me to buy as we come to a standstill on a busy roundabout in Tamale. I do and quickly take her picture.
I’ve never forgotten this moment. Her eyes will remain entrained on my heart.
If you look close you can see the truck I was in.
If you were to be remembered by one picture you have taken. Which image would it be & why? I will start with one of mine. This image took me around two rolls of trix to get right. I could see it, but I persevered to make it work. When I look at it, it sums up all my hard work.
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“I Imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Remembering the late, great James Baldwin, who would have been 100 today.
📷 Ulf Andersson
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'My happily ever after dream is to have a cup of tea on the sofa with Nazanin'
Yesterday Richard ended his hunger strike after 21 days. He has been protesting outside the Foreign Office, demanding the government does more to secure his wife's release from Iran…
@FreeNazanin
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I just found out that May 6 is World Wet Plate Day.
I have 2 minutes to post this in time.
World Wet Plate Day is an international event that pays tribute to the remarkable wet plate artists and their dedication to preserving this classic 19th-century photographic method.
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Not that I sell many, but none of my prints will ever be available as an
#NFT
I’ll stick with making a real print, myself, something tangible that you can have, hold, keep or gift.
Merry Christmas to the old school.
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It was the great Henri Cartier-Bresson who said that, “In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.”
Final portrait of 2023. The beguiling
@novelthesecond
- a sublime storyteller and thoughtful, beautiful human. An absolute delight to capture Jacquie in Silver.
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As Richard said to me outside the Foreign Embassy back in November:
‘We live in Hope.’
These are good people. They deserve better.
Thank you to all who have touched my heart with love and kindness this year…
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“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”
- Robert Frank
#fujifilm
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What was it Robert Frank said that the one thing a photograph must contain? The humanity of the moment.
That’s the brief I give myself today as I photograph Liberation Day here in Guernsey.
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The night has passed and the day lies before us...
Good morning Guernsey, wherever you are.
#fujifilm
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It's been over 2 weeks since Richard ended his hunger strike and I and
@MarcDavenant
visited him in Whitehall.
There is pressure from both Houses as well as the public to resolve this now. Yet the government continues to latibulate. It appears to be their favourite strategy.
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It was once said that a photograph should contain the humanity of the moment.
Danny
Well this fella has had a hell of a journey. From prison, park benches, dry houses and finally this week his own home…
#fujifilm
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#RIP
Chris Killip
A wonderful photographer, and beautiful human, remembered here fondly.
The big picture: Chris Killip captures the last days of shipbuilding
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“A photographer might forget his camera and live to tell the tale. But no photographer who survives has ever forgotten the lessons in this book. It is not just essential reading, it’s compulsory.”
- Daniel Meadows
Truth and I’ve only managed 25 pages!
@Bill_Shapiro
@UNofPhoto
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Maybe you’ve made something mediocre—there’s plenty of that in any artist’s cabinets—but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.
- Sally Mann
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Love in a Time of COVID-19
Learned late last night we had lost our first family member to this virus. You’ll forgive me if my photograph today is a little raw.
Lockdown, Day 15
Lent, Day 43
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For those we lost this year, thank you for the fragrance you left behind and for filling my soul with spirit and life.
See you on the other side. And the rest of us? Lets gather again in 2022 and kiss the world beautiful.
Salaam alaikum.
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"If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff."
- Jim Richardson
John
When people ask me what equipment I use, I tell them my eyes...
A nod to two greats,
@MarcDavenant
and
@dgleavephoto
@Copyright
Jackson Chambers Photography
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“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”
-
@RealIainSThomas
Evening strolling, evening feelings, evening light.
#fujifilm
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Experiments in Polaroid, part eight.
Picture Postcards from Bordeaux.
Sunrise.
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I do my very best to accept the things I cannot change and have courage to change the things I can and pray for the wisdom the know the damn difference.
I still fall short, so be be patient with me please. I’m doing the best I can.
#fujifilm
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Early stroll to sit and wait for another to stroll
No one seems to be strolling
Then too many stroll at once
I wait, and I wait, and I wait some more. Then the right person, walking alone, and in the right direction, at the right pace, as if by magic, appears...
Strolling
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I know it’s just a door, but it’s more than that to me.
It’s a lifeline. It helps me dwell in possibility: to experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
So it might be just a door to you but for me it’s much more, so please treat it with tenderness.
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‘It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world’
- Mary Oliver, Red Bird
#fujifilm
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It was C. S. Lewis who said
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
Last night the sun set on a few things, ghosts were laid to rest, & scaffolding came down. I’d been holding on to the pain of the past. I will write more when my heart is ready.
#fujifilm
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I am deeply honoured and humbled to be exhibiting in this sacred and special place.
My thanks to
@CSciama
and
@1Mariey
at
@MuseeGiverny
&
@ArtforGuernsey
for seeing enough in my work to curate a collection of ambrotype plates to hang with the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
#ZoomSurUneOeuvre
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Savez-vous ce qui rend cette photographie de Paul Chambers si particulière ? Sa technique du collodion humide qui est un procédé très ancien qui date... des impressionnistes !
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20 years ago today you squeezed my finger for the very first time and everything changed.
Samuel.
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My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.
Nan Goldin
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
Especially on Fathers Day when it could be the last together for quite some time.
#fujifilm
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"If you really have something to say, better to be behind the camera than in front of it."
- Vivian Maier
For too long I had this the wrong way round.
My tipping of the hat to one of the best to ever hold a camera.
#fujifilm
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Fiona Adams once told me that when a portrait evokes a feeling, then you’ve got something.
She said that technique isn’t really important. What she always aspired to, wanted, is a believable moment. I miss her…
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@JamesMelville
I’d completely understand if you do. I do though think you’re a voice of reason and salt and light in an often tasteless and dark world. I’ve very much been strengthened by your honest and compassionate soul here. Be kind to yourself my friend.
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Ellie
10 years ago today we lost much more than skin and bone; Ellie, you are the world as I best remember it.
Whilst in London Town recently I visited the place where Ellie was taken from us and tied a fragile sunflower to the railings on Abbey Street.
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For the last few summers now 3 areas of wild flowers have been planted by Fort Road.
Human opinion is again divided. Our bees and our pollination cycle though, just may have been thrilled by this project.
#fujifilm
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This is John.
It's an honour to call him my friend, to walk with him, to stand by his side in times of struggle.
I hope change comes to greet him, to allow that daily struggle to just be a little less difficult.
He's a good man. A beautiful human.
I love taking his picture.
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To quote the great Pete Postlethwaite, ‘Because over the last ten years, this bloody government has systematically destroyed an entire industry. OUR industry. And not just our industry - our communities, our homes, our lives’
Dark days in my hometown that shaped my politics.
Easington in 1984 by Keith Pattison. Josie Smith, a retired and disabled miner, is arrested outside his home and his distraught wife tries to stop the police taking him away.
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Yorkshire Day
I’ve lived here for 30 years. It’s most definitely home. I am though fiercely proud to be a Yorkshireman.
So, today I’ll celebrate by donning my flat cap, eating a Yorkshire pudding with gravy, then settling down to complain about the rising price of everything!
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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
- Eve Arnold
Edward
#fujifilm
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My pal Mel made me a pie for my birthday. Proper Pork Pie; made with belly, shoulder and bacon! Made the pastry and the jelly himself!!! What a beautiful final birthday treat. Thank you my friend!
#belonging
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I find that it’s one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Danny.
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I’m remembering this moment with Richard that I shared with @
@MarcDavenant
and
@MsSEHW
Thank you
@TulipSiddiq
My eyes are watering. This is a beautiful moment.
Salaam alaikum.
Nazanin is at the airport in Tehran and on her way home.
I came into politics to make a difference, and right now I’m feeling like I have.
More details to follow.
#FreeNazanin
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
- Andre Kertesz
What was it Capa said? “If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”
Local Icon John Brouard, yesterday at a packed late night shopping in Town.
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Paul is a highly skilled wet plate photographer - that's clear to see - but he has captured so much more than a face in these images. The strong, beautiful woman you see is someone I had forgotten existed.
Thank you, Paul.
-
@heymartineellis
#1851WetPlateCollodion
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Edward Steichen once said that a portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
He’s right, the camera has no opinion, no emotion, it just renders — and so the emotional components of a photograph live on each side of the camera.
My dearest of friends,
@MsTinaBury
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I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.
- Mary Ellen Mark
Ditto.
Rocky.
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Funny thing about getting older... Your eyesight starts to get weaker but your ability to see through people's bullshit gets better. Getting older is not for the immature.
⁃ Morgan Freeman
#fujifilm
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‘It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.’
- Sally Mann
Yesterday outside Downing Street.
#StandWithUkriane
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"I don’t want to play the colour game. I’m tired of ticking the boxes, because they only call you in Black History Month to show images of Black people, and I’m fed up of it.”
- Charlie Phillips
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Victorian Polaroids
I am pleased to announce that from today, August 1, Tintype & Ambrotype photographs - Victorian Polaroids - are available at Jackson Chambers Photography...
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And in an instant, in a heartbeat, Guernsey responds.
Public health, Government AND those of us who place our trust and livelihoods in the hands of scientists and politicians.
And our Town, turns into a ghost town as we stay home, wash hands, stay safe and wait on a miracle.
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“It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.”
— Sebastiao Salgado
I think that goes for newspaper sellers too. Especially old school folk like John who can still be seen carrying around a hundred weight…walking.
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cariad
This young woman is brave, strong, compassionate, intelligent; has a heart of gold and is all of the best kinds of crazy you could ever want. She just happens to be my daughter.
Today she turns 14. Couldn’t be more proud!
#fujifilm
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I'm depending on serendipity, praying that the angel of chance to visit and hope that something weighty, meaningful and different comes through the fog of the fix.
Beginning a new project with
#ArtforGuernsey
Image by my collodion brother
@dave_shrimpton
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RIP Marilyn Stafford.
As Grant (
@UNofPhoto
) beautifully frames it, ‘another great photographer has gone through the darkroom door’
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“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin
Vivid memories, dreams and hopes came to me during the night.
#fujifilm
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Five Fathers Day have passed now without you and there’s plenty I’d like to talk with you about Old Man.
It will all have to wait until the next life…
As Mitch Albom observes, “The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”
Miss you Dad, I’ll see you at the table. x
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I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
- Mary Ellen Mark
Mr David.
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Every now and then you meet someone and the connection is deep and effortless. That’s how it felt a week ago when, for the first time,
@MarcDavenant
and I met face to face.
In truth it seemed like we’d known each other for years...
Image
@Copyright
@MarcDavenant
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@nancyfordephoto
@IanBeesleyphoto
Likewise Nancy. I can’t unsee this, nor should I.
Absolutely convinced (as if I wasn’t already) of the story I need to tell with my cameras, here where I live.
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I return to when
@MarcDavenant
and I visited Richard who was on hunger strike outside the Foreign Office to shame to government into taking action to correct injustices after
@BorisJohnson
yesterday wouldn’t:
- confirm we can settle the IMS debt without asking the US…
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