Yet another ‘wrapped’ nobody asked for. Bye 2025 open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

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Still not started your Christmas shopping? A professional pet pawtrait could make the perfect present

A Presidency That Isn’t a Throne www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

Love this latest piece by Jennifer Hattam on Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces' by @jenhattam.bsky.social www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

FIFA is a joke - At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, FIFA threatened yellow cards for players wearing the “OneLove” armband in support of LGBTQ+ rights, now Egypt and Iran are scheduled to participate in a ‘Pride Match’ at the next World Cup 😂 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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An interesting piece about the current nuances, and unknown future of Syria’s leadership by @ruthmichaelson.com observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Reuters Syria coverage has been incredibly in depth and insightful since the fall of Assad. This latest story is fascinating. Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia - www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Fully behind this - definitely a good thing to not always have the brain occupied and distracted. The brain needs some time and space to think and calm, from boredom. youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8?...

My latest photo filled substack article about how the summer of 2015 led us to today open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

The Island That Keeps the Earth’s Secrets www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Memory, photography, and loss. open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

My latest musings, and latest Substack post. Happy birthday photography open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Recent work from Turkey’s Aegean wine route, published today in the NYT 🍾🍷 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/t...

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Always a good listen, but especially this episode about the far right rally in London over the weekend. Elon Musk’s appalling call for violence, and the lack of response by the British gov & left to tackle rising far right wing sentiment doesn’t really bode well podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The 12 year old boy who photographed the Vietnam War youtu.be/eglvKJymfEc?...

Art class From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Given her latest speech about robots - seems like the best day to share this youtu.be/PmuR2XFxkdU?...

Yet another country steps backwards on gay rights in Africa www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

Behind the scenes of an assignment - from researching a topic, to pitching, and hopefully publication. In my latest Substack post, I answer some of the how-to questions, I often get asked by earlier career photographers bradleysecker.substack.com/p/nuts-and-b...

Well, I'll keep on the booze and fags then, at least they're enjoyable, not like these horrendous heatwaves www.wired.com/story/your-b...

"'Being short is a curse': the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened" by ‪Ruth Michaelson and @bradleysecker.bsky.social. [4/5]

Beautiful long form photojournalism by Alessio Mamo ‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Exploring a possible positive use to A.I. generated imagery. My latest Substack post open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

Belatedly sharing the lovely spread my leg lengthening photos got in last week’s Guardian Saturday Magazine, alongside a sensitive and insightful feature by @ruthmichaelson.com - available to read online now

I've been lowkey obsessed since @bradleysecker.bsky.social told me that (mostly) men were voluntarily having their legs sawn in half at Turkish clinics with names like (no joke) "Wanna Be Taller" and then stretched a mm at a time. Great (if gross) to see his photos here w/ @ruthmichaelson.com story.

FMA condemns the killing last night of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military and stands in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, at least 178 of whom have been killed by Israel since the conflict began. Journalists are #NotATarget.

Interesting article about the correlation between higher temperatures and higher crime rates / worse mood. As a fan of all the other seasons instead of high summer, here's to autumn ASAP! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Job opportunity - The Observer is looking for a picture editor (photo editor) at the Culture desk - observer.co.uk/about-us/car...

Isn't it ironic - my latest Substack musings on enjoyable juxtaposition and irony/satire in photojournalism and beyond open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...

Four dead in Turkey wildfires as blazes continue across Greece www.thetimes.com/article/aa43...

25 years since Big Brother first hit British screens! I was hooked on that first series, and the most wonderful thing was seeing Brian Dowling, an openly gay man, very camp, selected by the British public, to win the show. He will forever have a special place in my life www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well if you want to feel like an old bastard, @bsky.app Bluesky now lets you 😂 - apparently I passed in fractions of a second. The days of getting ID-ed are long gone

"In mid-2024, a study of 2,500 workers found that 77 percent reported decreased productivity and even higher workloads when using AI. Just under 40 percent of workers reported increased workloads caused explicitly by AI's sloppy mistakes."

Latest substack post - considering how we will archive and store our photography, and online lives, in a digital age. bradleysecker.substack.com/p/data-diarr...

More unimaginable scenes from Syria, as hundreds of Druze crossed from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights border into Syria, and vice versa, to visit family they've been separated for decades www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here 🔗 www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

A lovely short doc, that I recommend listening to with headphones, so you can really feel those glacial sounds youtu.be/1AewKFS8uXg?...