Whether it’s in Handsworth, Hartlepool or Hull, working-class communities across Britain face multiple challenges. It makes no sense to describe one segment of that broad demographic as “left behind” & another as the root cause of those problems. My column. hyphenonline.com/2025/10/29/m...

God, I'm so fed up. So, so fed up.

Always think it's important to point out that our healthcare isn't free, it's free at the point of use - we all pay for it through a variety of taxes. A lot of people don't realise this and it helps counter the (US, usually) narrative of 'who'll pay for it?!''. We all will, we all do.

The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project. #Photography www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

I seem to have lost (among so much else) the desire or ability to write things down in any meaningful way. So here's a poem from the archive (2023). #Poem #Poetry

Asked Alexa if it would stop raining 😐

I seem to have lost (among so much else) the desire or ability to write things down in any meaningful way. So here's a poem from the archive (2023). #Poem #Poetry

FYI details of a massive data breach are now public (though it happened in April). It includes 2 billion email addresses and passwords, so you might want to check haveibeenpwned.com to see if you're in the leak, plus you can check on your password too. Full info: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Synth...

This looks great. Abandoned structure fans, take a look 👇

For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses

Shinkichi Takahashi (tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)

It's outrageous that homelessness is even a thing, let alone that there are so many homeless people in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Worse still is that the number of people who are homeless is considerably more than official government figures say. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My name is Liam, I'm 26 years old, from California, and I've been taking photos for over 6 years. Here's my photography:

I can't post it but The Man's best mate sent me a photo of him at a match to see if I could remove some guy behind them who had his tongue out. So I replaced every other person in the crowd with his face instead and every time I see it in the chat it cracks me up.

So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!

Will try not to be too annoying with this but repetition is the thing that gets your work out there, so just to WANG ON AGAIN, my Changing Landscapes zines are for sale via my website for £10 including postage (UK only). #ThePhotoHour #zine #Photography www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

What fresh hell is this.

Will try not to be too annoying with this but repetition is the thing that gets your work out there, so just to WANG ON AGAIN, my Changing Landscapes zines are for sale via my website for £10 including postage (UK only). #ThePhotoHour #zine #Photography www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

Nice news (for once) 'Barn owl numbers 'booming' thanks to volunteers' bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxwke7wr7o

Authors, did you know you can ask your publisher if they have any spare books (not just yours) and if so to donate them to your local library (or reading room etc)? Did this a year or so ago when a community library was short on local history books and they sent a box full, so it's worth trying.

Steady now 😐

Stills from past filming expeditions to the Western Front of the Great War. Now a quiet place for reflection. #remembrance

One of my supervisors recommended this book and it looks great. My research will cover deindustrialisation and ruination. Can't wait to get stuck into it. #geography #history

Purple.

Think I've decided that the catharsis of writing about being chronically ill will outweigh my obsessive desire for privacy 😑

I'd argue they are. Only we have different ideas of what 'life-changing' means in this context.

Some recent photos. 📷 1. Nuremberg.

Gone but not forgotten... 'Once described as the beating heart of Teesside' - Cold Steel #Redcar #Teesside

Roy's Motel & Cafe Amboy, California The desert holds the sun like a final breath. Light spills across the gravel, soft as memory. Evening arrives without a sound, offering serenity. Let the colors settle inside you, then rest. #photograph #Amboy #California #Route66

If you're still on Twitter/X, come on man. Gtfo it. You're just validating government/significant account decisions to stay there.

The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project. #Photography www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.” Greatshowdowns.com Dedicated to rainy days. #Greatshowdowns

SANDWICH GUY NOT GUILTY LET'S GOOOOOOO

My zines have arrived 😀 they'll be back on sale tomorrow at some point priced £10 inc postage (UK only I'm afraid). Will update you when they're live.

On a train in the UK for the first time in yonks. Would do this more often if it wasn't so bloody expensive and unreliable 🙃

One year since I left Twitter. No regrets.

In trying to thin down my slightly chaotic work space, I have rediscovered 4 (I think) A3 Forton prints. I was selling them for £30 before. If I sourced some poster tubes and work out posting is there any interest, or should I keep them for our next pop up shop. #ThePhotoHour #Photography

It's only Wednesday but it's already been a busy week and feels like it should be Friday! Got a full day tomorrow (big cohort induction) so hoping it doesn't kill me 🤞 Here are four images from Glen Etive from December 2023 when it was weather that feels similar to now. #Photography #ThePhotoHour

In trying to thin down my slightly chaotic work space, I have rediscovered 4 (I think) A3 Forton prints. I was selling them for £30 before. If I sourced some poster tubes and work out posting is there any interest, or should I keep them for our next pop up shop. #ThePhotoHour #Photography

It's only Wednesday but it's already been a busy week and feels like it should be Friday! Got a full day tomorrow (big cohort induction) so hoping it doesn't kill me 🤞 Here are four images from Glen Etive from December 2023 when it was weather that feels similar to now. #Photography #ThePhotoHour

Not saying you should all aspire to be on @grantswinbournephotography.com's podcast 👀 but after my episode aired I immediately got booked for a talk, so... you know 😅 he's clearly where it's at.

Hammam was an emergency room nurse before the genocide, now he's desperately trying to get a tent for his family for the winter. Please help if you can: gofund.me/3cb8c285

Not saying you should all aspire to be on @grantswinbournephotography.com's podcast 👀 but after my episode aired I immediately got booked for a talk, so... you know 😅 he's clearly where it's at.

Delighted Mamdani won. Good to wake up to some nice news for once. Gives us all a bit of hope.

It's very forty of me but I don't think my knees can take all this city driving I have to do now 😂

My Changing Landscapes zines (second print run) should be with me this week, so here's a nice early autumn ruin to celebrate. #ThePhotoHour #NorthPennines #Landscape

Thanks I hate it.

This is outrageous. They should be free, but at the very least they should be more affordable like the flu vaccine. £95 quid. I mean, that's just nuts.

Isle of May lighthouse. #art #scotland

Outstanding.