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Here's what I would like.
All orgs that commission, distribute and award photos of children to have a child protection policy.
And for that policy to be applied irrespective of nationality of the child.
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This photo that won won Environmental Photographer of the Year 2021 raises so many questions.
1: Why is the child sleeping in the sun?
2: Why is the child sleeping in an abandoned house?
3: Is it because the child is Black that the judges don't ask these questions?
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So The British Journal of Photography sold out its twitter account with 250000 followers into a NFT marketing account called 'art3'.
They started a new account for photography. Which has 836 followers.
And in doing so destroyed their reputation and reach.
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They've stripped the image of the caption. Removing it's journalistic integrity and an insult to Inas.
'Inas Abu Maamar (36) cradles the body of her niece Saly (5) who was killed, along with her mother and sister, when an Israeli missile struck their home, in Khan Younis,Gaza.'
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On news of
@mikcritchlow
passing I want to share what to me is one of the greatest photographic portraits of all time.
'My Father on Redundancy Day' 1988'. Some context ...
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@bbclaurak
Not a Labour voter. Not a BBC basher. Former producer. This reporting is a disaster for the BBC. Credibility shattered. Totally unprofessional of Kuenssberg. I would have been devastated to make such a profound mistake. Troubling, to say the least.
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This isn't funny.
It's really sad. And I'm surprised that more people in the British photo community are not
1: Horrified by what is going on
2: Speaking up about the cluster fuck that is NFT's which apparently have hollowed out the BJP from the inside.
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An open letter to Olivia Arthur, President of Magnum Photos. Because survivors of child abuse and of predatory photogs deserve better.
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This is my view at breakfast.
Thank you world for this moment.
47 today. Feeling gratitude.
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Hey
@martinparrfdn
Would you agree that men disguising themselves to take secret pics of 'prostitutes' (Parr's words) because they have already refused to be photographed is a safety issue? That women's concerns for their own safety should be taken seriously?
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Imagine a photog asking a traumatised white European or American woman who was raped two months previously to pose in a dark room for a portrait with a net placed over their face.
No you can't.
The dehumanisation of Black African women is still celebrated in photojournalism.
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Racism is really baked into all of this.
It's going to take a lot of work and uncomfortable conversations to start to undo it.
As start I would like to see some basic child protections attached to all respectable photo competitions.
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This is an advert for CSA and a reminder that some photographers present a clear risk to children.
Journalism is not a defense for exploiting children.
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We wrapped him in cloth and buried him in the garden where he belongs.
Magnificent, handsome beast.
Will be missed.
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I'm not sure enough people quite get it.
@MagnumPhotos
have been outing children, some very young, as 'child prostitutes'.
They have been doing this for profit and under the cover of 'journalism'.
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The first statue to be erected in George Square, Glasgow, was in homage to General Sir John Moore. He is my ancestor. And yeah, you've probably already guessed where this quite personal story is going to go ...
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My youngest, Luka, turned 18 today.
As my last child enters adulthood, I suddenly realised exactly half my life I've been a Dad.
Quite a moment. ❤️❤️❤️
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On hearing Clive Myrie's touching tribute to his friend George Alagiah I am reminded of Raymond Carver's last poem: LATE FRAGMENT
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It's touching (and rare) that clients really appreciate the heart and sweat you put into their films. So getting an invite from The Queen to watch one of our films be played out at Buckingham palace is an exceptionally lovely and surprising moment. ❤️❤️❤️.
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Google image search
school boy v school girl
See the problem?
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Photographers don't be frightend to bite the hand that never feeds you.
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Please hit LIKE to join me in a standing ovation 👏👏👏 for
@JAMortram
for working his skinny ass off to create and sustain
#photoprintday
(or leave a comment).
Plus all who have assisted him and the photogs so generously offering prints. An inspiration in dark times.
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@bbclaurak
What underpins good journalism is scepticism. But here we have the senior political reporter for the BBC not just putting out lies (without remotely caring that they might just be that) but also creating a diversionary news story when we have kids sleeping on hospital floors.
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Sam (my first) came into this world 20 years ago today.
At school he was told he couldn't take triple science because he wasn't sharp enough. He told them to mind their own business.
Today he's studying medicine at York. ♥️♥️♥️
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'During her first term, she banned future oil and gas exploration, increased paid parental leave, raised the minimum wage, and increased benefits for the most deprived New Zealanders.'
Ardern New Zealand election landslide ❤
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Thread: 'Corpses are sealed off in homes'.
Interested in how racism might play a role in what images are filtered through the news?
If this was in Sierra Leone what photos do you think would be being shown with this headline?
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Went out to walk the dog this afternoon. Got halfway down the road before realising I'd actually forgot the dog.
Otherwise functioning perfectly normally.
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This is good. In just a couple of days
@Shutterstock
1: Immediately acknowledged an issue
2: Investigated and took action in relation to specific images
3: Agreed there is work to be done
4: Invited further conversation
@duckrabbitblog
(2/3) We are taking immediate steps by conducting an audit on similar images, and we acknowledge that there is more work to be done to ensure content of this nature does not appear on Shutterstock.
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My son turns 18 at midnight. He's going to a club. What he doesn't know is his Mum and I are going too. In disguise 😂😂
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This photo for sale on the Magnum archive is tagged 'rape'.
Magnum Photos is an agency that trades in male rape fantasies.
But refuses to publish their Code of Conduct.
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Sincerely. The most interesting, honest, engaged thinkers on photography, now and historically, are in their own way outsiders. Has to be that way because a paradigm shift is due and that will never come from within.
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'World' Press Photo's new Managing Director and Board.
Structural Racism. I keep telling you.
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When you know how Steve McCurry goes about constructing photos then this appears to be an image of a photographer abusing a child. Celebrated in plain sight.
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That is a problem.
Is this a 'documentary' photograph (as photog describes himself) or not?
If staged 'art' have you established consent before awarding and distributing the work?
Vulnerable child obviously can't consent.
What ethical framework did the photog operate in?
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I did the maths. Two week trek in Portugal. Flights, transport, accomodation, eating like prince, drinking like a fool, averaged out at £75 a day.
I even stayed in a windmill.
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How to get on in photography. Be wealthy. Buy exhibition space. Pay to produce a book. Add to your CV. Make like only talent got you there.
Photography as a racket. 👇👇👇
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.
@souvid
Can you explain why a person from a Mary Ellen Mark pic in 1978 ends up photoshopped into your news published picture here?
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How many parents do you know put their children to sleep in abandoned buildings in the sun?
Oh look another photo of a sleeping Black child by Antonio Aragón Renuncio.
This time on a desk.
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The BJP has had some wonderful, talented writers over the years who I greatly admire.
Raised questions about abuses in the industry. Been brave and innovative.
What they have become represents a real loss. An undermining of the ability for photoland to question itself.
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@OllyGrender
@errjustsaying
Thanks for sharing that. She has a lot of grace. It is a shame it is not shared by more people on here.
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Oh look ANOTHER 'award-winning' photo of a sleeping Black child by Antonio Aragón Renuncio.
Shortlisted for the 'German Peace Prize for photography'.
I'm no Sherlock but 🤔🤔🤔
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Imagine digging your dead child out of rubble and a photog comes along to take a pic so their agency can sell it as a $200 signed poster.
Syrians don't have to. Paging
@nowhitesaviors
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David Alan Harvey, Chris Steele Perkins, Antoine d’Agata, Martin Parr, Cristina de Middel, Stuart Franklin, Larry Towell, Paolo Pellegrin and Patrick Zachmann.
I believe I only scratched the surface.
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There are many more by the same photographer on his Instagram account.
Don't get me wrong sleeping kids can make for beautiful photos.
This is (imho) is troubling.
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At GCSE son number one told he wasn't good enough for triple science. He disagreed. Today he got his 4 A level results. Good enough to apply for med school (AAAB) Well done son. You did it your way. That more than anything made me proud.🙌🙌🙌
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Mik Critchlow is surely one of the greatest photographers the UK has produced. It says something about the arts world that he doesn't appear to ever have had a full London show?
Wake up. This is sensational work.
Some recent work from my continued documentation of life in a former coal mining community in Northumberland. A town where full-time employment has become an endangered species, alcohol & drugs have become a normal part of everyday life, a lost community. From 'Hirst' 2018.
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Why are the kids on the floor and not in the beds?
Who is supervising?
Was the photographer getting them to play sleeping lions or something?
There is a pattern.
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It was quite something for Peter and I to be introduced to the Queen as duckrabbit. All in all a lovely and completely unforgettable evening. Lots of very kind words about our work. Feeling humbled.
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Looking to be exploited? Or just loaded.
World Press Photo advertises a graduate level job that pays 2 Euros an hour. Full time. That's 350 euros a month, living in Amsterdam.
Are you a motivated university student or recent graduate, with an interest in journalism and visual storytelling? We are looking for an intern to join the Communications team in Amsterdam, for six months starting in July. Find out more and apply:
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This is my little man.
Two weeks ago he told me he was working on a new move.
Wow.
😍😍😍
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Ebola v coranavirus. How the image spreads.
@A_Jax
tweet is worth reflecting on.
1500+ Italians have died due to the Coronavirus and not one image of a dead person in the media. As my friend
@chiragwakaskar
points out they have been depicted as singing and strong. Can you imagine how many images of dead Africans there would be in the media if 1500 had died?
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You know a organisation has issues when they can't bring themselves to say 'black' and instead opt for 'people of colour'. No such problem on the Magnum archives where you can search according to the tag: Black African (Ethnicity)
Can’t breathe.
Magnum Photos stands in solidarity with all people of colour who continue to be subject to murder, racism, and structural violence around the world, and particularly right now in America.
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Reporter after reporter after reporter actually asking him to do interviews and use the pic whilst he's locked down and a live shooting is going on at his school. This is mind-blowing. Just some of them.
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Structural racism.
@MagnumPhotos
archive has a huge number of identifiable children forced into sexual abuse. Some with hands up trying to hide their identity. All in the developing world. No US. No UK pics.
In the Uk if you did this you would be arrested.
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This Black African woman was gang raped. She says 'I am trying to forget about it'
@msf
paid the photographer donor money to put a net on her face and shoot her.
We are told this is 'sensitive' and 'dignified'.
Photo can now be sold as stock.
#msfexploits
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Just going to share this incredible photo and important accompanying words.
It tells you a lot about what a great photog Tom was. And how he used photography as a force for good. RIP.
Children use empty ammo boxes to build barriers & imitate TV cameramen as they play war games during a break in the real life shelling of Sarajevo in 1992.The siege lasted from 5 April 1992 until 29 Feb 1996 & killed 11,541 civilians, 1,601 of those being children.©Tom Stoddart
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Those middle aged photogs teaching masters and expensive workshops. A fair few are doing it cause the work dried up. If it's dried up for them what do you think is on the other side of that expensive course?
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Draft done.
And this is what a five-minute duckrabbit film looks like.
I always send this snapshot to the client before we enter feedback. Just so they understand the complexity of the baby they might want to start slicing up.
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If the BJP has any integrity left at that point they would have done the maths for you.
And raised a massive red flag to the industry.
Instead they doubled down and attacked the critics.
What a shit show.
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@nmgarrard
@MarcusRashford
During my A levels I was homeless. Teachers like you Nicola, who showed they cared, saved my life. Sitting in bed with tears in my eyes. It just took me back and I wish I could thank them properly. But thank you.
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By the way. I did the maths. They launched a collection of 365 NFT's (all minted) last year. Massive marketing push. Each one included a print. Some fantastic photos/photogs.
At last count just 12% sold.
Likely an eyewatering loss on investment.
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'I bought with me a table and some fake food and I told people to dream about what food they would like to find on the table.'
Even by
@WorldPressPhoto
exploitative standards. Even with their lack of editorial integrity this is really something else.
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This priceless. You couldn't spoof it.
So dramatic! Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past.
#HurricaneFlorence
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I have an issue with the use of the word 'now'.
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Instead of encouraging photogs to go running head first into environment killing scams. To piss away the precious capital and artistic integrity they have. They should have been platforming photogs like
@MrJackLowe
to bring some much need perspective.
Too late.
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This is as outrageous as it is unsurprising.
And in another case of theft… photographer Andrea Sacchetti is showing work at the Milan Photo Festival that looks eerily similar to
@aidamuluneh
’s work! Inspiration is one thing but plagiarism is just unacceptable!
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First would you commit to not funding projects where Western photogs out extremely sick, vulnerable children who are HIV positive?
(work funded in 2017)
We are looking to support more reporting projects on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women & girls. We encourage proposals that tackle systemic issues of gender equality using data and investigative reporting. Learn more here:
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Unless we raise our voices
@WorldPressPhoto
@CanonUKandIE
@NatGeo
will continue to profit and promote racist images of child abuse. Rewarding photographers for having children strip for the camera. In this case an image that would be illegal if it was a UK child.
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I have some very grim news.
@bjp1854
Shareholders just got the email.
For the £1.8 million they put in, they are getting 50k back.
Representing a 92% loss.
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This is the favourite room in my house. Every year it gives me something new. But this year I feel especially blessed.
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Extraordinary that proven liar, cheat and danger to vulnerable women and children, Marco Gualazzini is a finalist for the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
@EugeneSmithFund
Paging Chair of judges
@marciaallert
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The pushback against women who want to practice photography without practicing macho culture seems as unnecessary as it is perplexing. Yes brilliant women have held their own in a male dominated world. But the point is they shouldn't have to. No?
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Pleased to have got this email from
@GettyImages
Fully identifiable images of children labelled 'prostitutes' should never be hosted or sold on the internet. The only place they belong is on law enforcement databases.
I hope they do ALL the work needed across the archive.
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It's my birthday today (usually keep quiet about that). But if you appreciate the struggle for a better photo industry we've been fighting for, you could do me a birthday kindness. Give a little to help the brilliant Polly's
@BlkWomenPhoto
continue to take off. Thankyou. X
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Outing a fully identifiable 3 year old child as a rape survivor is child abuse. In the UK it is a criminal offence.
Doing it for an award is beyond comprehension.
This is racist and immoral
@sipacontest
(White box added by me)
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This is about as disturbing, racist and abusive behaviour from a photog that I've ever seen. It breaks all accepted child protection protocols. In the UK would result in arrest and prosecution. And yet the photog is celebrated.
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In the meantime on the platform BJP is using to market and sell NFT's 'over 80 percent that were created ... were plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam'.
80% fraudulent/spam/fake works.
And this is where BJP wants you to spend your money.
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Getty Images is the Sackler of photoworld.
I'm dead serious.
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duckrabbit just turned ten. Hard to imagine it ever would in some of the dark days wondering WTF I was doing. We got here firstly thanks to
@Falpressed
and then
@splashlondon
whom ever since I met in a lift has been the kindest, most loyal friend and partner.
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If a child can't consent to sexual assault how can they consent to someone photographing it?
Answer: They can't.
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If you have a passion for photography and are feeling disillusioned by the sell out of orgs like BJP, Magnum and Lenculture to venture capitalists here's the antidote:
@AP__books
Trust me this is where the good shit is happening.
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Thread: This is one of the craziest things I've seen online. There is a shooting going on at Majory Stoneman Douglas High. Right now. One of the kids has tweeted this pic 'My school is being shot up and I'm locked inside. I'm fucking scared right now.' Now look what happens next.
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MSF has finally written to me about the patient exploitation scandal.
All it took was 60 days of relentless tweeting (appearing in millions of feeds). A series of articles in the Guardian and a letter signed by a large number of respected professionals.
+ Widespread horror.
This Black African woman was gang raped. She says 'I am trying to forget about it'
@msf
paid the photographer donor money to put a net on her face and shoot her.
We are told this is 'sensitive' and 'dignified'.
Photo can now be sold as stock.
#msfexploits
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I'll say it again. Rachel Seidu is the photographer you dream of taking your picture.
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Quite simply one of the greatest shots ever.
Mind blown.
A drone operator shot a short video in a Minneapolis bowling alley to rally support for the business. It was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media and won high praise from Hollywood directors.
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This is great. But I think the white dudes need it more.
@shotbyshaun
We're giving all Black photographers who are documenting the current protests FREE access to our new online course on
#PhotoEthics
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He made her day. ❤️. I'll take that over a blank faced, medium format, I am an artist portrait any day.
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My cat has spent the last 16 years standing at the top of the stairs smacking me through the bannisters as I come past.
He's got no smacks left in him.
A sadness has come over our house.
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I did.
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Look photographers. If someone is serious about searching out new work they don't ask you to pay them for the privilege of looking at your prints. They don't sit on the other side of the table from you. They open the door and start a conversation.
Source Future Issues Research Trip
@StillsEdinburgh
to find new work for publication. Sunday 30th September. Meeting photographers to discuss new projects and work in progress. Pre-submission DL 14th Sept. Free through out. Details
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If you thought the visual industry had made progress in the representation of Black people wait till you see what's going on in the NFT world.
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My youngest smashed his A Levels. I'm proud of him.
But more than that I grateful to the incredible KINDNESS and DEDICATION of his teachers.
They are the foundation on which the best of this country is built.
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