We’re down to the last few signed copies of Rich Gilligan’s brilliant new photobook, The First Draft (Driftwood Editions, 2025) Pick up a copy here: www.photobookjunkies.com/product/rich... Worldwide shipping 🌎

Steven Siegel. New York. 1980s. “At its best, New York street photography is an odd mélange of the familiar and the bizarre, of sunshine and shadow, of the prosaic and the painterly and is a particularly rich source of social commentary.”

The curious case of Japan’s photo pioneer who buried his legacy: 🎥 youtu.be/0NVYfTYxiMo?...

Self portraits are hard when ill - from my ME/CFS photo project glass.photo/andrewgiffor... ALT: Colour photo of white adult 40-something male sitting alone on easy chair in a cluttered home, with palid skin, nose strip, unwell eyes, vacant stare. #DocumentaryPhotography #pwME #MECFS #LongCovid

A few cyanotype prints from my Jackdaw series. 💙 The text is explained in the ALT.

Beautiful 🖤

Hit the ALT for words.

Thanks to everyone who came. I’m heading back to Dublin soon but there seems to be sufficient interest (there were five apologies) to keep going next summer when I’ll hopefully in the area again. #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

Street Poet: The Emotional Depth Of Sabine Weiss. 🎥 youtu.be/hdC3-yCS37c?...

The Outsiders exhibition has now been installed at The Courtyard in Hereford, it’s essentially the same version that was displayed inside the Houses of Parliament, plus the case display and the art video. It’s a great venue and well worth a visit.

I really like this image by photographer Robert Darch from his Durlescomb series. www.robertdarch.com

In the Valleys

Ukraine, still fighting on. Maxim Dondyuk's photography is phenomenal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8b... #Photography

unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/09/03/p... your weekend listening sorted...

#Justice4ME 🙌 has just passed halfway point on stretch target 🎉 ✅ 200 pledges, sadly most donations from people with least to spare 🙏 😢 ❌ 200 pledges from 400,000 UK #pwME = 0.05% 🤔🫤 💡Any ideas for greater reach? More Allies, Friends, Charities 🤷‍♂️? Can anyone share wider amongst own Local groups?

I'd love some suggestions for #photographers to follow on here... mostly interested in #documentary and socially engaged work but love a great #portrait or bit of #streetphotography too. #documentaryphotography #photographersofbluesky #starterpack

For Lives We Cannot Live I created 3 types of #collage - portraits hidden by rooms people live in, portraits hidden by photos before they were ill & portraits hidden by people's responses to #mecfs. So many meaningful lives have been disrupted. #invisibleillness #millionsmissing #pwme

The photo is of Charlie and is one of the first photos I took for the Outsiders project

Totally stuck - from my ME/CFS photo project glass.photo/andrewgiffor... ALT: colour photo of a beautiful black and silver butterfly, trapped inside a class paperweight, on a drab blue background #MECFS #pwME #LongCovid #Photography

Had a txt from a contributor asking how I dealt with seeing so much suffer & it's true that sometimes I was v shaken - drove off with camerbag in the gutter once - but mainly I was angry. What other disease affects 400,000 but is virtually invisible? #pwme #mecfs #millionsmissing #invisibleillness

Ancient Light by Melanie King is a series of analogue photographs taken in dark-sky areas, capturing light that's travelled millions of years before reaching the photosensitive film. Full interview & details of her zine personalwork.online #blackandwhitephoto #photography #zine #alternativephoto

Seeking a Project Manager for the PRIME project: "Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Ryan Thomas is an early career #photojournalist with a strong intererst in #protestphotography. We sat down with him and chatted about his work in the USA, France and the UK, and his #selfpublished #photobook. Read the full article on the website www.personalwork.online

Really enjoyed interviewing inimitable portrait photographer Harry Borden for Personal Work Journal. It was a v frank and v funny chat, he shared his passion projects, state of the industry insights and some gossip! Full interview - www.personalwork.online #photography #celebrityphotographer

From LIVES WE CANNOT LIVE showing at Oxo Tower Gallery from, 24/9/25 I asked people to respond to their photographs with written thoughts. This is from Ash, photographed in his childhood bedroom. #PwME #MECFS #invisibleillness #documentaryphotography #photography #millionsmissing #photocollage

People without #MECFS have been asking why this project is called Lives We Cannot Live. #PwME Showing at Oxo Tower Gallery London from 24/9/25 More info mailchi.mp/16f8611232cc... #socialdocumentary #documentaryphotography #invisibleillness

From ME Research UK @meresearchuk.bsky.social : ME Research UK-funded researcher Dr Jarred Younger has recorded a 15 minute explanation of deCodeME's recently published pre-print results. This covers background, method, results, and importance - tinyurl.com/5n6buzpj #MECFS #decodeME

LIVES WE CANNOT LIVE: Oxo Tower Gallery, 24-28th Sept. Everyone I photographed talked about the devastating impact that #MECFS has on their lives. I've been trying to show what they lost. #millionsmissing #documentaryphotography #PwME

It takes nearly 6 months to arrange a shoot with Shreya. She was ill, I was ill, then I was ill again. Shreya meets me at the door in a wheel chair, tells me that today is bad, we’ll have to be quick. After the shoot I send her some prints & she writes me a short note. #mecfs #invisibleillness

From Lives We Cannot Live - Oxo Tower Gallery from 24th Sept. Some people were so ill I could only take a few frames before it became too much for them & I had to leave. #SevereME is devastating. #LivesWeCannotLive #documentaryphotography #pwme #mecfs #fujigfx

For 3 years, I’ve been documenting the hidden stories of #PwME these images were from the very start of the project #documentaryphotography #widelux #ilfordhp5 #blackandwhite

Lives We Cannot Live: "This room is my prison. M.E is like living with an abusive partner, you never know when you’ll be punished and their controlling rules change day by day." Susie, Lincolnshire. #pwme #MECFS #DocumentaryPhotography #VisualStorytelling #LongTermProject #SocialDocumentary

Summaries of presentations made at the recent Patient-Led Research Collaboration (PLRC) @patientled.bsky.social conference solvecfs.org/plrf-event-h... Prepared by Solve ME/CFS Initiative @solveme.bsky.social #LongCovid #MEcfs

After 3 years photographing 50 people with #MECFS, I’ve learnt more than in the 40+ years since my own diagnosis. #LivesWeCannotLive #PwME

Lives We Cannot Live is a 3-year project photographing people with #MECFS an incurable & debilitating illness. #LivesWeCannotLive #PwME #millionsmissing Info on exhibition and book tinyurl.com/58khuv8z

🔥 Extremely emotional & powerful “must-read” about FII / Fabricated or Induced Illness. @swastrosarah.bsky.social interview brought tears to my eyes. #ME patient FII policies need totally re-writing urgently ⬅️ www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar... Archived: archive.is/2025.08.09-2... #pwME #pwLC #FII

By taking his #streetphotography inside Paul Harrison creates striking relationships between art & the real world. Full interview personalwork.online #nationalgallery #personalwork #IndiePhotoMag #photography

#SevereME is devastating & even 40+ years after my own (mild) diagnosis I can only guess at the pain & suffering. Hilary, Cereth & Craig let me take photographs, thank you. #mecfs #SevereMEDay #severemeday2025 #LivesUnlived Info on exhibition and book tinyurl.com/58khuv8z

I know, most articles use this type of unrepresentative stock photos and only CFS in the title. I guess we have to pick our battles wisely. Especially if we are pwME. @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social has been taking really great photos of people with ME in the UK.

As a passion project I run personalwork.online - sharing the #personalprojects of photographers. This week's interview is Ayesha Jones featuring Backbone her project on #scoliosis #documentaryphotography

what Gav said..

Lovely!

Our response to the DHSC’s ME/CFS Delivery Plan - a plan without money, mandates or deadlines is not a plan - it is a wish‑list [email protected] @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social ow.ly/1anc50WwzAM #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #VerySevereME #pwME #pwLC #ChronicIllnessUK #DisabilityAdvocacy

Government plan to train doctors on ME/CFS “does not go far enough,” campaigners say. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Today’s #ThereForME blog is our last update before a short pause (we’ll be back in September 😎). We unpack the Delivery Plan, the media coverage and why it matters. Link in next post 👇

TONIGHT! 7PM (doors 6.30pm)

#MECFS is a health scandal. #millionsmissing from work, education & society but no agreement on how many are affected. Ignored by healthcare, excluded from research, invisible in data. This isn’t just neglect. It’s erasure. Info on exhibition and book tinyurl.com/58khuv8z #documentaryphotography

I’ve not posted here for a while now. I’ve not felt good this summer, and I still don’t. Opportunities for self-portraits or meaningful photos have been mostly absent. Although I did took this one earlier, and wrote some words. #MECFS #pwME #Photography #SelfDocumentary #Enduring

Assistant Professor Rob Wüst, who is currently working on an ME Research UK-funded project, has taken part in a video in which he answers questions from 'patients' (in Dutch with English captions). Read more: bit.ly/46pW9p0 Watch the video: bit.ly/41a1xsC #MEcfs #CFS #PwME