Richard Baker
@bakerpictures.bsky.social
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Photography projects from south London
https://www.bakerpictures.com/about
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Almost at the end of the stamping and signing of many archive C-type prints which Iâll eventually sell. A lifetime of kicking around airfields and street corners but this is the 130 edit Plane Pictures project (1997-2002) about the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothersâ first-ever powered flight.
over 1 year ago
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This gallery of dystopian Landskaps distantly acknowledges my Netherlandish Baker family roots on Foulness Island, the Bakkers. I also used to live in modern day Flanders which later influenced an affinity for the Dutch masters and bad Flemish TV
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about 6 hours ago
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Recent cityscapes from our local south London park which sometimes are used out there to illustrate home ownership, energy - and the wider economy.
about 7 hours ago
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A not-so Cool Britannia
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richardbakersphotos on Instagram: "London heatwave 1-9, 26th May. The spring heatwave has once again broken records for the hottest May since records began with a sweâŚ"
London heatwave 1-9, 26th May. The spring heatwave has once again broken records for the hottest May since records began with a sweltering 35° at Heathrow airport and Kew Gardens.
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3 days ago
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Iâve been on the streets of Chelsea where the flower festival is in full swing, the pavements blocked by flower followers who seem to photograph every petal outside local businesses. As my daughter rightly says, theyâre ânaffâ but I like to watch the peripheries where obsessive behaviour shows.
9 days ago
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Pelicans and Crown Jewels, St Jamesâs Park, London, 13th May.
16 days ago
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Reflecting on my most and least favourite moments during a week in the Derbyshire Dales National Park Park and they might be these
#Derbyshire
22 days ago
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Thanks, âHave I Got News For Youâ for displaying my recent picture just now from the Archbishopâs enthronement in Canterbury - although, because I was leaping from my seat, I didnt catch their caption.
about 2 months ago
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Spring tulips, south London. The shed however leans more and more every year.
about 2 months ago
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A terrfic end to this edition of Front Row with fellow-space geek
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
in conversation about literature and music in orbit with Helen Sharman and
#NASA
veteran astronaut, Cady Coleman
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Hoping we also hear words and sounds on
#Artemis
this week.
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Front Row - Lesley Manville, and Art in Space - BBC Sounds
Lesley Manville, and Art in Space
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tbhw
about 2 months ago
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A-listers and ayatollahs, London 28th March.
2 months ago
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Archbishop Sarah Mullally: The Best 30
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Archbishop Sarah Mullally: Best 30 - Images | Richard Baker Photography
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2 months ago
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When the printer says, âno I wonât print your pathetic colour redâ and its nozzles agree, thereâs only one thing to do and thatâs run away from the problem and head out to the nearest hill for a gale forced coffee đ¨âď¸
3 months ago
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Tinnitus, yes. Red Arrows, tick. RAF career? Erm - no.
3 months ago
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Verstappen, London 11th March.
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3 months ago
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Randomly found a usage of mine in the mags rack at Victoria - a howling New Zealand Sheepdog in the current dogs issue of National Geographic via âIn Picturesâ / Getty images All good retailers etc.
3 months ago
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More rain in London, this afternoon.
3 months ago
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USS Harry Truman, Persian Gulf, 2000. The US Navy allowed me to photograph an aircraft carrier for 3 days but after 24hrs we were flown off so although Iâd already shot enough for two issues of the commissioning magazine, it didnât feel Iâd justified the months of negotiation to get me on-board.
3 months ago
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It'll be ten years since the community occupation of Herne Hill's Carnegie Library, a local story which became an international newspiece - and which I photographed throughout (see picture below of mine in the Observer last year). The issues of closing the libraries seemingly as relevant today.
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3 months ago
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'Minneapolis', the video
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#Minneapolis
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdpwA4Iw
4 months ago
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reposted by
Richard Baker
Des
4 months ago
Some outstanding images in this Guardian article
www.theguardian.com/sport/galler...
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London, 19th January.
4 months ago
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My favourite ten pictures of 2025. A few are just one-offs and sometimes from a sequence of many and others are the result of much work. In any case, theyâre in places I know well but as Saul Leiter said: âMysterious things happen in familiar placesâ.
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5 months ago
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Jim Waterson
11 months ago
Iâm hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Donât care if youâve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates.
www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
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Well I didnât see that coming this afternoon: a listen to medieval Christmas carols on Radio 3.
5 months ago
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@nynzi.bsky.social
Not able to log-in to
@longwaverer.bsky.social
feels like Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar, helplessly peering through the timeslip bookcase where
#TheArchers
buddies are causing mayhem in the real world. Rest assured I'm listening/reading to you all, so no naughty business.
6 months ago
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Damilola Taylor: The fight to protect young lives
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And the full-frame image from his memorial on the Peckham Estate
#DamilolaTaylor
6 months ago
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reposted by
Richard Baker
Edward Thompson
6 months ago
In 2019 I posted a letter of thanks and a print to my old photography tutor Paul Lowe. He's been gone a year now.
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Trying to reconcile how a âcargo planeâ could possibly fly 8hrs to Hawaii with anything other than âtens of thousands of litres of fuelâ (BBC News headline)
#Aviation
#AvGeek
#Louisville
#UPS
7 months ago
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SUV and Fiat 500, Notting Hill, 2018 - which can be licensed through me đ
@nickharkaway.com
@jonburkeuk.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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More than 400 âhorselessâ veteran cars left Hyde Park and drove through south London en-route to Brighton, including the 1904 Stanley Stream driven by ex-RAF fighter pilot and Wing Commander, Andy Green who also happens to still hold the world land speed record, which broke down and was retired.
7 months ago
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We won't ever see AMW in a line-up like this again. Queen's death, 2022.
7 months ago
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Portrait of a gallery cat with golden eyes, St Jamesâs, 22nd September.
8 months ago
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I walked and photographed on the beach experimental pedestrianised Oxford Street this afternoon - then came across a surprise, a familiar picture I made in 1990.
8 months ago
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Anyone else still get that tingly feeling when a new camera body is on its way? Much like when it was one more sleep until we could go to the toy shop and buy my Action Man.
8 months ago
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Trump march, 17th September
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8 months ago
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Windsor cut-outs, 15th September.
9 months ago
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With an approaching storm darkening distant skies, a dog walker poses a group of different breeds to stay still for a photo in Ruskin Park, a public green space in south London, 11th September.
9 months ago
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reposted by
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Jeremy Nicholl Photography
9 months ago
Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Chris Steele-Perkins. One of the greats. An inspiration as a photographer & a genuinely nice guy. RIP Chris.
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Had to read on to find out what on earth this is about - but wish I hadnât.
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9 months ago
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Potent Volcano coffee, vintage books and comfy sofas in Herne Hill's crowdfunded Carnegie Cafe Hub, an enterprise by local residents and a well-known south London cafe entrepreneur, 'Sweet Carolina' - plus the support of Lambeth.
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9 months ago
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"The Paul Lowe Challenge brings together journalism, education and sport to transform grief into meaningful action." Please consider supporting a fund in memory of photographer and educator Paul Lowe. I've chosen to back the intrepid @jshphotog on his run quest:
www.justgiving.com/page/paul-lo...
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The Paul Lowe Challenge - Edinburgh 13km
Help Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert raise money to support The VII Foundation
https://www.justgiving.com/page/paul-lowe-challenge-edinburgh#supportersList
9 months ago
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Richard Baker on Instagram: "West End billboards etc. 21st August."
1 likes, 0 comments - richardbakersphotos on August 21, 2025: "West End billboards etc. 21st August.".
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9 months ago
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The everyday project that changed my formative photography, a documentary about motherhood and childhood - of a newborn daughter who soon turns 30
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9 months ago
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If ever there was something to tempt me to Tik Tok, thisâd be it.
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10 months ago
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The t-shirt of this elderly lady arrested yesterday reads âA womanâs place is in the resistanceâ and I imagine her and other women there as Greenham peace camp veterans, well used to being harassed and dragged away by Thatcherâs security forces. Four decades on, protesting for same principles.
10 months ago
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Hypnotic views from a Wiltshire field where the spring wheat harvest is underway. A live stream from a combine for today's BBC 'Farmwatch', a series of agri-stories from around the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
#Farmwatch
#Farming
#Harvest
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BBC Farmwatch: A day in the life of England's farming community
As the harvest comes in, BBC Farmwatch takes you behind the farm gates to meet the people who shape the countryside and feed the nation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2q7wyrnk5t#player
10 months ago
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Leadenhall Market, 6th August. Pull up to get the .. point đ
10 months ago
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Lugged pounds of eaters to the local community fridge this morning - then returned our snooker table garden
#apples
10 months ago
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I was waiting until January for the paperback - but then I walked into Rye Books to merely say hello and there was the hard version at eye level. Reader, I have the weakest of wills when it comes to beautiful
#books
10 months ago
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Do listen to Observer Arts critic Laura Cummings whose bite-size episodes 'Speed of Light' is about early photographers and their influential work that's passed on much of our everyday visual culture. Some unknowns like Alphonse Bertillon, inventor of the police mugshot
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming, 5. Nadar - The Psychological Side of Photography
Nadar, the photographer adept at capturing his subjects' inner worlds in the 19th century.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gd7z
10 months ago
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