Valley of the Rocks

Chalk in an autumn storm #photography

Some photos from the London Group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, London including works by Hana Al Sayed, Aude Herail Jäger, Simon Head, Sandra Crisp and Lesley Bunch #art

Ingrid Bergman wakes up after her long dark night of the soul on Stromboli. White flecks sparkle in the volcanic desert beneath her, as if the stars she gazed at the night before had descended to earth. She faces the morning sun with both awe and fear; it re-energises her, but also overwhelms her.

The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory. This is Pure Cope Exhibit A Join.greenparty.org.uk

🎬 AWB Film Festival 2025 Exposing human rights violations, environmental issues, and movements for social change via powerful visual storytelling. 🎥 310 submissions from 64 countries! 🎞️ Over 15 films will be screened, with additional screenings and online events taking place throughout 2026.

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #COP30 delegations except Brazil, report says - One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Get to know your mutuals! List ten random things you like: Gin & Tonic Rereading a great book right after finishing it Cats - all of them PJ Harvey Being without my phone Sushi Going to exhibitions Having a good laugh with a friend Gardening Being in front of the sea

Cop30 live: ‘literally insane’ that we are letting global heating happen, says Al Gore

A photo from my recent video which has just received an honorary award and official selection at the Activists Without Borders #film festival. If you are a low-budget filmmaker working independently on social + environmental issues, I would recommend you support this festival and submit your work.

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FRAGMENTS VOL.2 A series of 'visual notes' chance observations collected fragments... Images gathered from Cornwall to the Orkney Islands. Available to pre-order from @anotherplacepress.bsky.social for just £19 here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...

Pleased to be a part of the @headonphoto.bsky.social which launches tomorrow in Sydney, in an exhibition at Bondi Pavilion Gallery. #photography

Shell is watching this destruction while celebrating RECORD NEW OIL PRODUCTION in Brazil! 🤯 Does that seem right to you?

Discover the world through the lenses of Takashi Arai, Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht and Laetitia Vançon – finalists of this year’s Prix Pictet award, each offering a distinct interpretation of the theme Storm. 1854.photo/47NVygW

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

Another recent photo from Disrupted Landscapes #photography

“A lot of the apples were chosen because they’ve got funny names such as the Bloody Butcher or the Duck’s Bill,” says Gallaccio. “We have one apple that ‘bleeds’ red juice. They all have stories behind them ... The Flower of Kent is the apple that fell from a tree and landed on Isaac Newton’s head.”

World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling… WBN United Artists invite you to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026 - Early submissions very welcome. Find out more about WBN and download the full brief: shorturl.at/Ti5lt

Yesterday I finished Course of the Heart, an astonishing book by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social and had incredible dreams all night. #books

5 days to discover who will take home a share of the $80,000 prize pool across the Head On Photo Awards 2025? Find out on November 7th at the Festival Launch - there’ll be a bar, food and music Tickets via events.humanitix.com/head-on-phot... Image credit: Antonio Denti, 2024 Exposure Award winner

Recent work from Disrupted Landscapes #photography

My friend, Annalisa, has just published a #book - The Story of a Moonfish, a beautifully written story of companionship, discovery of the sea + pollution of their habitat. The illustrations are from her artist’s book with etchings + calligraphy that is in the V&A and Museum of the Book in The Hague.

It wasn’t enough to bulldoze the White House, now they’re selling out two of our largest national wildlife refuges to private interests in a move that threatens treasured biodiversity hotspots and imperiled wildlife habitat in Alaska’s Arctic and Izembek National Wildlife Refuges. dfnd.us/474Eram

Trying to make gallery visits more regular this autumn. Today I was in East London to see Frank Watson’s photography exhibition at Grey Gallery and the three-person show at Approach Gallery. Photos: Frank Watson, Rachel Whiteread and Heidi Bucher. #art

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country. Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

The Last Sacrifice review – how a gruesome rural murder embedded folk-horror in the British psyche

Deadline 2 November - this 6 month’s residency in Greenwich Park looks like a great opportunity for a socially-engaged artist.

A few photos from Joy Gregory’s major exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. I really liked the videos, which I was less familiar with - especially The Fairest and Gomera, but so much to see and appreciate. #art

Recent work from Disrupted Landscapes - chalk and its shadow. The white south coast landscape facing out towards Europe has long fed a nationalist agenda, the chalk cliffs ‘mythologised as symbols of whiteness in an idealised Albion’ (Jane Madsen, for Chalk, 2024). #photography

“I never crossed a border—only watched the land shift like a tired animal, folding / itself around my feet until I belonged to a country I didn’t name.” Read a new poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes:

The Tony Blair Institute is heavily backed by Larry Ellison & was “involved in plans to create a new ‘Trump Riviera.’” That vision “envisages creating a ‘blockchain registry for land’ to underpin the construction of up to 8 ‘AI-powered, smart planned cities on the inner side of the Gaza Ring.“ …1/

Recent photography graduates--Foam Talent 2026 open call is now open. It's a career-changing opportunity for winners, and they've eliminated the age requirement, so those "emerging" at any age can apply! www.foam.org/talent/foam-...

It's my first time joining a political party, but the failure of Labour to be an actual Labour party and Your Party's disappointing launch makes it easy to join the @greenparty.org.uk Happy to be supporting an active, ethical, and progressive party who have brought some hope back into #politics.

Eleven members of a Palestinian family were killed by Israeli forces on Friday, described as the deadliest single violation of the fragile ceasefire since it took effect eight days ago.

The final paragraph is remarkable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A bit of good news this week for my short, experimental video, Becoming an Island #film

In parts of Norfolk, councils now warn residents that emergency services may no longer reach them. Climate change isn’t coming – it’s already here. Owen Sennitt reports

So beautiful youtu.be/KmSoyoJRzWw?...

A short visit to the Kent coast yesterday #photography

'The party that arose from protest has formed, in terms of our rights to free expression and democratic challenge, the most illiberal government the UK has suffered since the second word war. This Labour government would have banned the labour movement.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With less than a month to go, the excitement for the Head On Photo Festival Launch is growing. Join photographers, artists and art lovers at Bondi Pavilion to celebrate the start of the Festival. Tickets selling fast, secure yours now: events.humanitix.com/head-on-phot... Image: Head On Foundation

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway! Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome. #envhum #envhist

MOTION PICTURE by Donna Enticknap @auuop.bsky.social New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/29/m...

Coastal landscape #photography

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

New intervention at the Estorick Collection - always loved these pairings #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This weekend is BOP – Books on Photography – the annual photobook festival by Martin Parr Foundation held in Bristol, 11-12 October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events etc. Free entry. bopbristol.org/bookfair/