The old Tyne & Wear metros are being withdrawn from service later this month, replaced by a fleet of new trains, whose windows face inwards. Unreliable, dirty, overheated and overworked, it’s time for them to go. Even so, I’ll miss the view from their windows. #📸 #photography

And as my nana used to say: “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.”

New blog. Steaming. #📸 #photography simonlowephoto.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/s...

Lily Allen - West End Girl Newcastle City Hall. Brilliant performance/presentation of her album. Having read a couple of less than flattering reviews of previous dates on the tour, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I loved this. Whether it’ll work in a cattle shed arena - I’m not so sure.

New blog. Next metro: 8 mins. simonlowephoto.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/n... #📸 #photography

This article by Rebecca Solnit is well worth gettng off the hamster wheel for 10 minutes. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘After the rain’ Brunswick Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne. January, 2026. #📸 #photography

This is Four Lane Ends. View from the Metro. December, 2025. #📸 #photography

When the bus is running late, take photos. My most recent blog. #📸 #photography simonlowephoto.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...

Dirty window. Jesmond Metro Station, Newcastle upon Tyne. September, 2025. #📸 #photography

UPDATE: Exhibition extended until 13th September! Get yourselves along. 📸🖼️⚓️🖼️📸

Quick wander around North Shields this morning. Called in to the Old Low Light to Pete Robinson’s exhibition Harvest From The Deep documenting the fishing community. Also includes some Nick Hedges’ photos on loan from Side Gallery. Last day Saturday. Well worth a look. #📸 #photography

Rails & sleepers. Monkseaton Metro Station, Whitley Bay. August, 2025. #📸 #photography

Because the creative economy, stupid. Fair play to them. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Looking through a self-published photo-book. Photos excellent, design great, but captions filled with typos. 🤦🏻 You may think the photos are the main thing, maybe words aren’t your thing, but the ones you use are just as important. Please get someone to proofread your copy before going to print.

Make it, face it, hem it, stitch it. Tailors, Hoi An, Vietnam. July, 2025. #📸 #photography

Mopeds in the market. Hoi An, Vietnam. July, 2025. #📸 #photography

Current reading. A thin-skinned narcissist, surrounded by flatterers; a cabal of power-hungry oligarchs, impeachments, threats to the constitution and interminable war. Same sh!t, different century. 😕 📚

‘The system cannot find the path specified.’ Eldon Square Shopping Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne. June, 2025.

“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” Blackett Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. May, 2025. #📸 #photography

New zine ‘Carnival’ by @checkmybadself.bsky.social documenting Notting Hill Carnival over the last few years. Great photos, highly recommended. 📚📸📚 #📸 #photography #photozines

Big thanks to @mredthompson.bsky.social for including ‘Round Here’ in his photo zine round up. Ed’s ‘how to’ series on self-publishing was a huge help while putting it together. I still have a handful left, so if you’d like one, get in touch. youtu.be/iAOFyrM_YeM?... #📸 #photography #zine

Persephone. April, 2025. #📸 #photography

Can’t get there from here… Whitley Bay, April, 2025. #📸 #photography

Fuji-san. From Lake Ashi, Hakone, Kanagawa. April, 2019. #📸 #photography #🇯🇵

I kinda thought Bleeding Edge would be all we got, so this is a nice surprise. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

TONIGHT WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING A CLOWN-DISCO.

Toon, toon… Newcastle United’s Carabao Cup Trophy Parade. Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. March, 2025. #📸 #photography

Hessle Road, Hull, 1980, by Homer Sykes. Gillian Carrington is seven months pregnant with Sonya, holding two-year-old Scott’s hand. (From Homer's book Colour Works: The 1980s and 90s).

Local heroes. Newcastle United Carabao Cup Trophy Parade. Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. March, 2025. #📸 #photography

Richard Sharum’s best shot. (And the best advice at the end of the article too.) #📸 #photography www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Saddened to hear of the passing of the great Paul Mcdonough. His book Headed West is a firm favourite 🩶

Sunday morning. Tyne & Wear Metro, March, 2025. #📸 #photography

Steam, Grainger Street. Newcastle upon Tyne. March, 2025. #📸 #photography

From a more peaceful time. Before the ru**ians invaded again - day 1118 At home From ‘Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’ #ukraine

Byker Viaduct | Leaving Northumberland Park. Couple of Hipstamatics from the commute. March, 2025. #📸 #photography

Mik Critchlow’s photos documenting the mining communities of South Northumberland are a wonderful record of a lost industry and its people. That his work will now be on permanent display at Woodhorn Museum in Ashington from May is great news. Go see it! #photography www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday | acer cuttings | dead basil Tales From The Brown Bin. March, 2025. #📸 #photography

Happy World Book Day! I have a few copies of my zine ‘Round Here’ left for sale. A collection of photos made while wandering around my home town of Whitley Bay. £10 inc. p&p (UK only) www.paypal.me/simonlowephoto The Bound indie bookshop in the Bay have stock too. #WorldBookDay #📸 📚📸📚

As it's World Book Day, why not take a look at our little photobook press and the books & zines we release... anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com

Happy World Book Day! 📚✨ Why not celebrate by taking a little look around our online bookstore and maybe treating yourself to some photographic inspiration! Go here: www.photobookjunkies.com/products

'Valley and River, Northumberland.' Wonderful to see an exhibition of Edward Burra's work is coming to Tate Britain this summer - one of most distinctive British artists of the 20thC and unbelievably the first major retrospective of his work in forty years. This is from 1972.

Via B. Colleoni. Cittá Alta, Bergamo. 🇮🇹 February, 2025 #📸 #photography

On the metro. The old trains may be dirty, and unreliable, but at least you can take photos out the windows without becoming a contortionist. For that reason alone, once they’re all finally phased out, I’ll miss them. (More explanation in the alt-text.) February, 2025. #📸 #photography

Ragnar Axelsson’s best photo. 🇮🇸 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #📸 #photography

The Red Skirt. Shibuya, Tokyo. April, 2019. #📸 #photography

Silver Birches, in late autumn a few miles from my home.

Popped along to Newcastle City Library earlier to see the #gallery365 exhibition. An eclectic and inspiring collection of photos by v talented folk. If you’re in town, it’s well worth having a look. Congratulations to all the contributors! @gallery365.bsky.social #📸 #photography

If you’re in Newcastle next month, pop in to the City Library to see this. #📸 #photography