Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham [email protected] to reinstate it. logo @mariannedissard.com

Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham [email protected] to reinstate it. pix Sofia Wilkinson-Steel

Save 'Art, War, Terror', MA Art & Politics core module, at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Save Higher Education. Logo by @mariannedissard.com

One of the modules I was most looking forward to next term has been axed. We're fighting back. Save the module, save our MA. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @simon-griffiths.bsky.social Visual by Sofia Wilkinson-Steel, MA Art & Politics

Starving for "fearless independent journalism" on arts 'n' politics? Check out what this collective of ex- @theguardian.com /Observer journalists are cooking up at @thenerve.news : www.thenerve.news/about-us

'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer

It's #BandcampFriday once again! The perfect time to spend a couple of quid on our weird music. lunatraktors.bandcamp.com

Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...

I'm going back to school! Starting next month at Goldsmiths in London, Master degree in Art & Politics over two years. Fun heady times ahead... What spoil! What luxury! Excited. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-art-po...

Celebrating the release of 'I Do Know Some Things', much-anticipated new book by titan of American poetry, Tucsonan @richard-siken.bsky.social (& remembering our lil' 2014 collab': my music, his magic= youtu.be/3xZALSxaLVM?... ). Order Richard's masterpiece www.coppercanyonpress.org uk.bookshop.org

Back in them salad days... Music video 'The One and Only' from my album 'L'abandon'. A song about Tucson featuring Ed Keeylocko's Cowtown Keeylocko, Day of the Dead Procession, train tracks across Southern Arizona... Album here: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... youtu.be/jbHcICO-1o0?...

Next week the UK government is moving to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 5 things that could put you at risk of a terrorism charge ⬇️ 🧵

#glasgow, don't sleep on this fantastic rare #livemusic show! This Monday at Stereo. Minneapolis-born Istanbul-based hip-hop artist with eight critically-acclaimed albums, community leader, outspoken social justice messager #BrotherAli www.stereocafebar.com/events/2025-... @thelistuk.bsky.social

Selfie (2021) from 'On a Good Day You Can See France' documentary series made between Oct. 2020-May 2021, aka 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled'. Available in two sizes FujiFlex limited-edition C-type prints. #Ramsgate harbour, looking back to Jacob's Ladder. #photography #documentaryphotography

Back in them salad days... My third Tucson studio album 'The Cat. Not Me', composed by Sergio Mendoza (Calexico), featuring Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson). Joe Mabbott mixed in Minneapolis. UK maestro John Dent mastered mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca... #musicsky

Back in them salad days... 1989 Managua, Nicaragua. Shot on slide film. I traveled from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Sandinista revolution in the capital city to the border with Honduras and a small village twinned with Tucson, Arizona. #photography #nicaragua #documentaryphotography

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul Amtrak trains. Photobook/exhibition in-progress but *very* limited-edition postcards already available to buy mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul trains on 4-month Amtrak journey. Work-in-progress but very limited-edition postcards are avail. (link in bio). Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

Back in them salad days... My first #Tucson album, produced & composed by Joey Burns #calexico featuring John Convertino, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson), Sammy Decoster. French desert Americana? Buy signed CD or cassette: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/lentre... #musicsky

Recent #photography series Knightsbridge, London (2022-2023) #monochrom Leica w/ 50mm lens. Series used as background projection material for my touring stage production 'Souvenir of England' + 2023 public street installation Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Photobook next www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNg...

2023 covers album Rappel*le mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/rappel... Phil Ochs Janis Ian Steely Dan Ritchie Valens Bobbie Gentry Townes Van Zandt War Adriano Celentano Carly Simon Recorded in Tucson/UK w/ Terry Edwards @naimamor.bsky.social @raphaelmann.bsky.social Matt Mitchell #musicsky #music

Back in them salad days... For my 2015 Best Of CD compilation album 'Cibola Gold', I asked Garry Winogrand's heirs if they'd let me use a favorite 1964 photograph Winogrand made at White Sands, New Mexico. Here are three mockups I designed. Final pick is the two children playing in dune #photography

Back in them salad days... My second studio album, L'abandon (2010), recorded in my then-hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I wrote lyrics, Christian Ravaglioli music, BK-One co-produced. W/ Thøger Lund (Giant Sand) Luke Doucet Arthur Vint mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... #musicsky #desertnoir

`SOS Country’ 2025 documentary photography series. American landscapes from long-haul Amtrak trains. Limited-edition preview postcards for sale now: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer #amtrak #chicago #leicamonochrom

Deep-cut 2022 track recorded w/ Andy Alston (Del Amitri) the year I moved to Glasgow. soundcloud.com/andy-alston/... "The auld alliance between France & Scotland rarely sounded so achingly addictive"(G.Paterson). Portrait of Andy by me at James Kirk's wedding. #delamitri #glasgow #music #photography

Back in them salad days... My 2019 memoir 'Not Me'. Improbably funny, brutally honest. "Keen observations, wit, and pathos", says Mitch Cullin (A Slight Trick of the Mind + Tideland) BUY HERE : www.mariannedissard.com/books/memoir... #memoir #booksky #writerscommunity #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth

Just out! Podcast interview by Neil Saint (2RRR Sydney, AU) about my stage production 'Souvenir of England' and its soundtrack album w/ @raphaelmann.bsky.social Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/FrenchSpurs1... Inspired by Joanna Hogg's 2019 'The Souvenir, Pt.1', w/ #photography of Knightsbridge by me.

‘Doris’ Ramsgate, England 2021. Named for her uncanny resemblance to Boris. Street series ‘On a Good Day You Can See France’ : touring exhibition, site-specific installation, photobook, limited-edition C-type prints w/ part funding from Creative Scotland #streetphotography #photography #ramsgate

Back in them salad days… Drunken Bees, 1994 #GiantSand documentary directed by yours truly. Featuring Howe Gelb, soon-to-become #Calexico Joey Burns & John Convertino, Victoria Williams, Rainer... #Tucson #blueskymusic #americana #desertrock time capsule! mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/drunke...

‘Annabelle, Ramsgate 2021’. Street series ‘On a Good Day You Can See France’ made between 10.2020 and 4.2021 in Ramsgate England: touring exhibition, site-specific installation, photobook, limited-edition C-type prints w/ part funding by Creative Scotland #streetphotography #photography #ramsgate

#paisley #palestine #map #tenementals #glasgowlive #glasgowmusic

Video I made with/for Sergio Mendoza y Orkesta Mendoza back in them salad days Tucson Arizona 2011 or about #musicsky #tucson #mambo #arizona #sergiomendoza

`SOS Country’ new 2025 documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. Limited-edition postcards for sale (links in bio). #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer

Made some postcards for latest series ‘SOS Country’! Set of 6 high-quality 390gsm A6 cards. My Kickstarter angels are receiving them first this week, then I’ll put the few left for sale. #photography #amtrak #femalephotographer #documentaryphotography #americanlandscape

Postcards ‘rewards’ from my US Amtrak documentary series ‘SOS Country’ are here! Mailing them to the 110 people who backed my Kickstarter (on and off that platform, in cash or kind, including @creativescots.bsky.social) last fall! Ps: you can still pledge: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

SOS Country (2025). New documentary photo series and non-fiction book are in progress. Four months of solo Amtrak travels during the interregnum winter between two American regimes. Stay tuned… Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social Forward Funds and a hundred angels from a dozen countries.

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Beautiful film by long-time pal Beatrix Wood @trixpixmedia.bsky.social on the incredible Scottish artist Tim Stead. Watch for free link below. Sculptor, furniture maker, visionary. #scottishartist. Have a look, @neilscott.substack.com @womenslibrary.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social

5 years ago, I covered this 1969 Phil Ochs song about the sinking of the US Navy Scorpio submarine, recognising in the response of the Trump administration’s to the pandemic a similarly tragic mishandling of ressources and priorities MarianneDissard.bandcamp.com and www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3h...

SOS Country: Interregnum America by train (2025). New documentary photo series and non-fiction book are in progress. Four months of solo Amtrak travels. Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social Forward Funds and about a hundred angels from a dozen countries.

Wee book of street portraits of Glasgow buskers I made last summer. Find a copy in Glasgow Center at the following bookshops: Street Level; Ripe (opening soon on Osborne); Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Or get in touch direct.

Fund #amtrak the same way highways and airlines are funded. Permanently and fully. Never mind the musk.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

Storm, Alpine TX 2024. SOS Country series (2025) by Marianne Dissard. America by train in the interregnum. Stay tuned… as I edit this winter’s 13 weeks of shooting + last spring’s 4 weeks

Great poetry from Tucson

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Screening tgis weekend in #glasgow @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social incredibly powerful documentary on Jan6 MAGA extremists by NYC pals Rachel + Michael Premo www.theguardian.com/film/article...