‘Prince Street Girls’ as Susan Meiselas called a group of girls in her New York neighborhood after the street they lived on. She regularly encountered the girls, many of whom were related, as they roamed through the neighborhood. Over time, mutual curiosity turned into friendship.

Martin Rowson/The Guardian. Donald Trump and the American bond market (12 April 2025).

'She is the wanderer, bum, émigré, refugee, deportee, rambler, strolling player. Sometimes she would like to be a settler, but curiosity, grief, and disaffection forbid it? Deborah Levy. Swallowing Geography.

“Also London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets.” Virginia Woolf. Diary, 31 May 1928.

“A good many of the ordinary ways of living go when people begin to live up in the air.” Maeve Brennan captures the loss of traditional, grounded life when urban change, like elevated trains or modern living, disconnects people from the familiar rhythms of the street.

I stepped out of the car and knew immediately that things weren’t quite right.

Gwen John. Chloë Boughton-Leigh. 1904-8.

I am an empty house without you I am a grasping, empty body without you I cover myself in wrinkles without you, and if you come too late they will have buried me in the ground: Alone, ugly, and pale without you. Agnès Varda, Cléo From 5 to 7.

Marianne Breslauer. She attended photography classes between 1927 and 1929, and joined the avant-garde group of Berlin including artists, such as Paul Citroen and Umbo, whose portraits she made. She went on long wandering walks during which she photographed people, things and street scenes.

'She is the wanderer, bum, émigré, refugee, deportee, rambler, strolling player. Sometimes she would like to be a settler, but curiosity, grief, and disaffection forbid it.’ Deborah Levy, Swallowing Geography.

The Renovation by Kenan Orhan is on my list. apple.news/Aw1WWN-80S_O...

Yolanda López. ‘Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe.’ From the Guadalupe Triptych. 1978.

Margarete (Grete) Marks. The Dance. C 1920 - 1925.

I know the feeling.

It was. Happy Christmas from Glen Baxter and me.

Bluesky has gone extremely quiet. I think it may be time to rethink.

It’s Christmas. Remembering John Coates. www.independent.co.uk/news/obituar...

Charlotte Salomon. Life? Or Theatre? 1941-3. Painted in the period of her exile in Vichy France from 1941 to 1943, before she was taken to Auschwitz and murdered at the age of 26. www.theguardian.com/film/2022/no...

Suzanne Valadon. La Chambre bleue. 1923.

Photos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72 Narrative is such an important aspect of street photography, and Nick Hedges is, in this respect, a master storyteller. You can read so much into his images. His work for the housing charity Shelter ..

As a photographer and a teacher with a less than salubrious start in life, I have alway been passionate about photography that focused upon communities like my own. Nick Hedges photographed Bradford in 1969–70, documenting the housing crisis that I grew up in and never forgot.

A view from the garden. A year ago today.

August Friedrich Schenck. Anguish. ca. 1878.

BOTD. Yousuf Karsh. He seems to ‘draw out’ some magical element in all of his sitters. They never just ‘sat ’ for him, but actively engaged in a dialogue that evidences some sense of being that is unique and timeless. Paul Robeson. Martha Graham. Robert Oppenheimer. Ingrid Bergman.

My tribute to William Eggleston at the garden centre today.

Ollie Tikare. Lagos. “My aim was to offer a modern, empathetic, and celebratory portrait of life in Lagos – one that challenges prevailing stereotypes around masculinity, safety, and modernity while highlighting the resilience, creativity, and diversity of Lagosians.”

The ever so brilliant Chris Riddell.

Theirs is an us-against-the-world story that inevitable bends toward tragedy, but the film is a reminder that love perseveres through dark times, as does the art that spins out of it. apple.news/AlOZDmSmyRO2...

RIP Chris Rea. youtu.be/Jckb3dnS5fw

Solo effort.

Anglican Cathedral 1980s.

Formation.

Just had a Lee Friedlander moment outside Tesco.

Nikolai Astrup. Spring Night and Sallow. 1917.

It’s a sign.

Thoroughly recommended. I think…

🎗️🎗️🎗️ Pan Am Flight 103.

Winter solstice. The shortest day and longest night in the northern hemisphere.

Infectious enthusiasm. observer.co.uk/culture/on-m...

Books for Christmas.

Cristina García Rodero. Spain. Her work is often an inquiry into the traditions and rites that have survived for centuries, as well as the new beliefs and manifestations that result from economic and political changes, current needs, and social conflicts.

I always like to give books for gifts at Christmas.

Alain Le Garsmeur. Eel Pie Dining. 1972.

Tony Bock worked for the East London Advertiser. East Enders of the nineteen seventies.

No I’m alright…

Lost property.

Solitude.

Yes the neighbours are at it again… 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

George Shaw. Scenes from The Passion: Christmas Eve. 1998.