Anders Petersen. Café Lehmitz. Hamburg. 1967-70. In Petersen’s grainy black-and-white images, a touching yet unsparing portrait of a bygone cosmos unfolds. He photographed the people in the red-light district not as a voyeur, but as one of them.

Nelli Palomäki. Finland. “Speed of Dark refers to this sudden wave of darkness that engulfs us both physically and emotionally. It’s as if the darkness has its own momentum. I find it comforting.”

Ralston Crawford. Emile Barnes’s Louisiana Joymakers, 1950. Tuxedo Brass Band, New Orleans, 1959. Dancer and Meyer Kennedy at the Caravan Club, New Orleans, 1953. Women in Sunday School Parade, New Orleans, 1958.

Arthur Rothstein. Farmer and sons in dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. 1936. William Gropper. Migration. 1932.

The greatest film ever. cinephiliabeyond.org/dont-look-now/

An old self portrait.

In the spring of 1972, John Myers, then in his late twenties, started taking portraits of his neighbors in and around the town of Stourbridge, in England’s West Midlands.

Robin de Puy's distinctive take on the American photographic road trip. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rob...

We have travelled throughout Italy many times, and visiting Florence was a trip we had looked forward to for a long time. In the end it was deeply disappointing. Overcrowded, filthy streets, rude, indifferent people, and homelessness on a scale I had not experienced before in a major city.

Paul Trevor. Market Day, covering the 70s, 80s and 90s captures the lively, chaotic energy of London’s Sunday markets, showcasing a contrast between vibrant market activity and the rundown, pre-gentrification East End.

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a FInnish photographer who has lived and worked in Britain since the 1960s. Her work in the Byker district of Newcastle between 1969 1978 is a seminal body of work that I come back to often. I spent some time there in the 80s.

And have we done with War at last? Robert Graves. Image: Ernest Brooks.

"They're like children in a way, meeting things he's created that I'd never seen before.” apple.news/AdrMdU48ESwe...

“I’ve wondered: is this how the first gods were invented?” she says. “Incredible people who we didn’t want to lose, so we attributed the sky to them.” apple.news/AE_HFh03mSEO...

Cartoon by Felipe Galindo.

Nicholas Nixon. People. Photographing with an 8×10-inch view camera, the artist engaged strangers to create humanist portraits in the shared public spaces of parks, beaches and front porches.

Horace Pippin. Inspirational. www.dailyartmagazine.com/horace-pippin/

Life’s a beach.

Elliott Erwitt. New Orleans, 1947. Venice, 1949. The old man and the dog, Neuilly 1952. Newcastle, 1969.

RIP Lee Tamahori. “His legacy endures with his whānau, his mokopuna, every filmmaker he inspired, every boundary he broke and every story he told with his genius eye and honest heart. A charismatic leader and fierce creative spirit, Lee championed Māori talent both on and off screen.”

Happy birthday Kazuo Ishiguro. Illustration by Andrea Ventura.

Anna Ancher. A Vaccination. 1899.

Hurkle-Durkle.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. I love Emily Dickinson.

Although little of her work survives today, Augusta Savage, is one of the most influential sculptors, activists, and educators of the 20th century.

Someone had left flowers.

199 Whitby Abbey steps.

She had a sensual eye for beauty, but it is ugliness she finds all around her, and it scratches at her soul. She sees every blemish, every bad haircut and decaying face. She sees the monkey’s little hand touching its “mother” in a gut-wrenching detail of twisted love. apple.news/AW17tDSu-Rly...

Any fans of the 1979 adapted film, The Warriors?

Betty Press. A wonderful Southern storyteller. Mississippi: The Place I live.

Ben Shahn. Liberation. 1945.

Every summer for more than 40 years, Shelby Lee Adams travelled to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to take photos of the people there, all of whom get to see and approve the publication of their portraits.

Hellen van Meene. Netherlands. Portraits.

Ben Jennings.

RIP Tchéky Karyo. apple.news/A_GR88YOORaa...

I’ve just had a lovely, funny and eclectic evening catching up with a film student of mine from 8 years ago, taking in film, literature, and life in general. He has transitioned into a beautiful young woman, who lit up the room and moved me to tears. Life is so wonderful when you embrace it.

Raphael Soyer. Seamstress. 1956-60.

Soon.

Paul Strand. The White Fence. Port Kent, New York. 1917.

Laing has such a gift for capturing these kinds of shimmering details that at times it is hard not to feel – like Nicholas, newly arrived in “a world so saturated with decoration”. Love her work. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

The wonderful Jane Goodall.

Photographer Tim Hetherington was born in Birkenhead. His first job was that of a trainee at The Big Issue, in London. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... I taught the documentary Which Way is the Front Line from Here? In class. Heartbreaking. www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...

Doris Ulmann. Born in New York City, she became interested in photography when training to become a teacher in New York City, while Lewis Hine was an instructor there. Her photographs of people in Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina between 1927 and 1934 are her best-known works.

It’s all happening outside.

Leaf on concrete pictures.

Like a bird.

Don McCullin. Still life and landscapes.

“Hard truths, when spoken out loud, become springboards to freedom.” apple.news/ArRAMmuadQOm...

Harold Feinstein. 1940s -1950s. “The camera gives us permission to look. Children don't need this. They just look. When I was young I wanted to bring a chair onto the street and just sit and look. Then I discovered the camera.”

Clarence H. White. 1871-1925. Although White had become a socialist early in his career, he did not consider the camera a tool for social change but regarded the medium as a means of expressing beauty.