We are the Trees, Our dark and leafy glade Bands the earth with softer mysteries. Beneath us changed and tamed the seasons run: In burning zones, we build against the sun Long centuries of shade. Song of the Trees. Mary Colborne-Veel. 1861 – 1923.

Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop. Swellegant.

His new painting The Hoi Polloi is a baroque portrait of someone of indeterminate gender with a blue face, huge ruby lips, and a fantastically creamy, riverine flow of orange curly locks. apple.news/ARHrxtfnrSMO...

Jane B. by Agnès V. Agnès Varda. 1987.

‘From Window’. Masahisa Fukase. Fukase photographed his wife Yoko heading off to work every morning from his fourth-floor window using a telephoto lens. He was determined to create a formal record of his wife while they remained married.

Dora Maar. Was Dora Maar’s brilliant career cut short by the typical conflicts facing professional women in the 1930s, and even today? Or was she a victim of Picasso’s psychological abuse, which chipped away at her original confidence?

Les Krims. American. “Sparking a strong emotion in myself is one indicator a picture works. If I don’t get a kick out of an image I’ll never use it. Perhaps others can see and understand this quality but find it deplorable?”

“If a film, of no matter what type, is to be worth while, it must be entirely dominated by the will of one man and one man only—the director.” François Truffaut, 1954? Andrew Sarris, 1964? No: Iris Barry, 1924. A crucial influence in the history of cinema. www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

Klavdij Sluban. French/Slovenian. Since 1995, Sluban has been photographing teenagers in jails. In each prison he organizes workshops with the young offenders to share his passion.

Sarah Kempa.

Ithell Colquhoun. Self-Portrait. C. 1929. An important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... @hollanddaaze.bsky.social @bertrom.bsky.social @sardonicus.eu @robklippel.bsky.social @george-1788pow.bsky.social @maraa1981.bsky.social

A critique of power. substack.com/@jonathancoo...

Here was her particular sense of humor and her winsome and forgiving appreciation of the emotional pratfalls people make in an effort to get what they need in order to connect, to love. lithub.com/understandin...

Total Fat 0g 0%. Can’t be all that bad then. Can it?

Amaryllis belladonna.

Johan Van der Keuken. Selling Lilies-of-the-Valley. Paris 1958. Intriguing. ‘Both, by the look of them, have histories, secrets and aspirations still to be met. Either could, without too much difficulty, be imagined in the movies of the period, as participants in some desperate and fatal romance.’

Peter Keetman. Germany. Highboard. 1957. Keetman was determined to invest his pictures with the kind of poetic and personal elements which were excluded in the normal range of documentary picture-making.

Emmet Gowin. Child holding a teacher's arm, Memorial Guidance Clinic, Richmond, Virginia. Circa 1964.

Telling the stories of their lives, bearing witness to crucial times, and reflecting on what they did and saw, they offer not a backward look but a present-tense reincarnation, a rebirth of a renaissance. apple.news/AO1kefmIvTci9c…

Joseph-Philippe Bevillard. Irish Travellers. ‘Travellers have been the main subjects in my project for the past ten years. My relationships with them have become very close. At first, I have to earn their trust and respect them. I gave them photos in exchange for their time.’

‘The culture tends to fetishise the product. But I'm just trying to twist the perspective. The relationship is the most important thing, because out of that everything comes. I learned this with Derek.’ apple.news/AtN-SIUAwRtq...

Sune Jonsson observed and captured 1960s rural Sweden at a time when industrialisation dawned. Jonsson's rural images encapsulate the spirit of a dying age where people lived and worked off the land, engaging in traditional farming methods and old-fashioned pursuits.

If anyone has ambitions to become a street photographer look no further than Shirley Baker. The words ‘street’ and ‘photographer’ do not do justice to her magnificent, poetic work. shirleybakerphotography.com/the-street-pho…

Faithless - Sweep (Live At Alexandra Palace 2005). And you can turn this up.. 2.40 is a blast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZsR...

The valorization of Kirk by his far-right defenders is an insult to millions of the most marginalized Americans who lived every day in the crosshairs of his rhetoric. apple.news/ALOd5TUoKS_i...

Tomasz Tomaszewski. Poland. “Photography is a great tool to get to know the world and the best way to discover who I am.”

Burt Glinn. Street scene the morning after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Washington. 1968.

Adam Fuss. Untitled, from the series Pinhole Photographs. 1985.

Hansom Cab in Trafalgar Square. W J Warren. C 1898.

Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men were both hugely popular in my film study classes over the years. filmquarterly.org/2007/06/01/p...

An interesting article and worth reading. 90% of what I come across online about photography is arrant nonsense posted for clicks. How to create a meaningful body of work and get that published/exhibited is nowhere to be found in the posts from so called experts with loud voices and little knowledge

Shi Liang. After. 2006.

“There is something very reminiscent to me of the ninth century about contemporary life. At one point I describe the process of social media as if some medieval horde had run onto the wrong stage.” apple.news/AKQ3mJD5JSGu...

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

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Jacob Aue Sobol. Danish. “When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.”

Ada Lovelace. Margaret Sarah Carpenter. 1836. “I conclude she is bent on displaying the whole expanse of my capacious jaw bone, upon which, I think the word Mathematics should be written.”

Alexey Titarenko. City of Shadows. St. Petersburg. “I saw people on the verge of insanity: men and women with eyes full of sorrow and desperation, in search of some food which could prolong their lives and the lives of their families. They looked like shadows, undernourished and worn out.”

Vanessa Winship. She dances on Jackson. The title lends itself to the author; to dance is to poetically manoeuvre yourself through life and embrace the verve. The mild-mannered lyricism of this work is evident as is Winship’s intention to dance to her own tune.

Colin Jones was once described as ‘The George Orwell of British Photography. He began his career as a dancer with The Royal Ballet, before buying his first camera in Japan whilst running an errand for Margot Fonteyn and then never looked back.

This report also looks at the creative and professional positives of motherhood, and puts forward a series of recommendations for industry change that would lead to the enrichment of our cultural landscape and fairer working environments. 4/4

If we could learn to look instead of gawking we’d see the horror in the heart of farce. If only we could act instead of talking we wouldn't always end up on our arse. Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

In 2025, shame has all but evaporated. Reform UK can propose deporting 600,000 people – including women and children – to war zones, and no one blinks. Radio callers openly state they would watch children drown on our shores without remorse, and they are broadcast live. apple.news/AF1FqAOnZRL2...

David Lammy, said he felt the hand of history on his shoulders. That is not altogether unsurprising, since no European state has played a longer or more controversial role in handling the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. apple.news/AW5mnOFNIRji...

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning. 22.9.25.

Toby Binder. “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast. Capturing the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland. 2006.

Demagogue. A hole.