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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Stunning picture of Autumn in the Italian Alps. The Alps have been major players in the movement and culture of Europeans since the Ice Age. Source: Matt Rive

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Loch Voil

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Frida Kahlo born 6th July 1907: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Steve, the first photo from the Outsiders project. He had just told me he became homeless after his son died. Soon afterwards he was also dead having become ill while sleeping rough. They all have a story, the problem is that nobody is listening. #Photography

Monochrome portrait of a man with a beard and a poignant expression

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Terrorists apparently

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Nature's artwork Colors, textures, reflections... in harmony.

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Diana Matisz @dianamatisz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

White "Look, hasn’t my body already felt like the body of a flower?" #photography #fleur #black-and-white #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘I Did Not Tell Death Where I Lived’.

I Did Not Tell Death Where I Lived

I did not tell Death where I lived –
But he has found me all the same.
I hear his knock upon my door
And the calling of my name.

My Snapchat settings kept him out.
On Instagram I blocked him.
Facebook friend requests were spurned –
Yet still he keeps on knocking.

A court injunction freshly filed,
But still I sit in fear.
Oh, my mistake. It is not Death –
I think my pizza’s here.

Brian Bilston

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Without bees, not only would our plates be significantly emptier – the diversity and nutritional value of our food would also be severely limited. Many foods that we enjoy daily, such as berries, nuts, or coffee, are directly dependent on pollination by bees.

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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Fertile solitude - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford XP2 400 - DD-X #believeinfilm #filmphotography

A set of three black and white half frame photographs of a solitary landscape allowing for a sense of inner peace and heightened observation

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A boy clutches a toy in the ruins of his parents’ house, London in 1945 by Toni Frissell. In any war it is always the children who suffer most.

A boy sits in the ruins of a house clutching a stuffed toy, his expression a mixture of shock and defiance

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Philomena, Irish Traveller girl, Limerick, photo by American photographer Rebecca Moseman, part of a series 2017-23.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Nearly four years since Outsiders was on the front cover of The Big Issue. Loise, pictured here, spent four years street homeless in London with a baby. She had no access to support due to the hostile environment. Imagine for a moment what you would do as a woman alone in London with your baby as

Front cover of The Big Issue with a photo of a mother holding her baby

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Cole's Corner, painting by Sheffield artist Bill Kirby (1934-2019).

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

All lobbying correspondence, emails, texts etc and transcripts of conversations should have to be posted on a publicly accessible website promptly along with the replies. Nothing should be redacted and no lobbying should happen in secret. Democracy dies in darkness.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If the emails of every billionaire were published I imagine most of them would have to go into hiding and hundreds of politicians all over the world would end up resigning or in prison.

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#workinprogress oil on Fabriano. Working with a palette that I wouldn’t normally use. #seascape

Stormy seascape in reds, oranges, raw umber and indigo. Suggestion of land and rocks on the left side of the foreground, with waves smashing against them. A vibrant orange sky reflected off the water, and white foam and spindrift lighting up the darkness.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Happy days on The Verb!

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Miners' Strike (Yorkshire), 1985, painting by Georg Eisler, 1928-1998 (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I wait outside the closed shop and listen to the hum of the parcel machine. The shopkeeper arrives and tells me it’s Friday. I carry the papers in. The shopkeeper’s colleague arrives singing ‘It’s Friday!’ The Woman From The Care Home says ‘Friday at last! But I’m working tomorrow!’

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled" -Mark Twain

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ingleborough, Yorkshire, painting by Sue Scott.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I spent hours yesterday at the tent encampment behind the Adelphi in London and as a result have sent this open letter with a plea for a meaningful intervention to Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman

A plea for a meaningful intervention - Adelphi tent encampment London
Dear Paula, Bob and Matthew
I wanted to thank you again for facilitating the display of my Outsiders exhibition on homelessness inside Parliament last year. The
touring exhibition has now had over 120,000 visitors and continues to tour. Matthew I really valued our conversation about
homelessness in the exhibition space - it was clear to me then that you really understood the issues and were determined to do
something meaningful to address the problems.
Dear Adam and Sadia
You don't know me, but I am a documentary photographer who works with marginalised communities and uses photography to highlight
social inequality. You can see something about the Outsiders project on homelessness and substandard housing here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnOdqk4req0o
Dear All
Five of the participants in Outsiders have now died while experiencing homelessness. Since I stopped the photography in 2022 the
situation has become exponentially worse both in London and in the other cities which I covered during the project.
One of the most noticeable changes has been the development of tent encampments and I am writing to all of you about the
encampment which is currently behind the Adelphi in London. I believe plans are being drawn up to get an injunction to clear the
encampment without any meaningrut Intervention to address the problems laced by the community there.
It seems to me that it is an extraordinary situation that in the wealthiest borough, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, these
people are struggling to survive against all the odds and not receiving the support needed to transition them out of homelessness and
help them become productive members of society. As a society we are defined by how we treat the poor. Regardless of the legal
position I believe that we all have a moral and ethical responsibility towards those who have fallen through the gaps and ended up
experiencing homelessness.
The people in this encampment are vulnerable and marginalised. The women have all been sexually assaulted or subjected to violence
while sleeping rough in London. They rely on the men in the encampment for their safety and if the camp is simply cleared, they will end
up back on the street with no safety net, likely being subjected to ongoing sexual abuse and exploitation.
People in the camp have both mental and physical health needs which need to be addressed. One has diabetes, has open sores on his
legs and is likely to suffer amputations, blindness and possibly death via diabetic coma unless this is addressed. There are mental
nean ana suostance abuse chauenges as wel. However overa nis is a close knit communit wrich nas become ponded togeter ov
the power of a shared experience. Disbanding the camp with no plans for transitioning the occupants into a stable home would be cruel
and irresponsible.
The people in the camp also rely on their dogs to provide emotional support. One of the worst things about sleeping rough is being
ignored and treated like something less than human. Having something to love and which will love you back unconditionally can be the
difference between life and death for someone in their situation. All of them have been told they will have to give up their dogs to get
support. I believe that to be an inhumane and unreasonable position to take.
There is a desperate need for a multidisciplinary intervention with this camp. If you bulldoze it you will break the bonds within the
community ana simply move the problem somewnere else. It isn t a solution to what nas become a nuge problem tor society and is a
test for your humanity as the people with the power to change things.
Collectively you control billions in spending, control the public policy on homelessness and housing and do have the power to intervene
and ensure a positive outcome for the people in this camp. I have attached some portraits taken yesterday and would urge you to look at
them and consider how you would feel if they were members of your family who had fallen on hard times. I know that with a sweep of a
pen you can simply have them moved on but would ask you to consider whether there is a different approach and who gains from simply
sweeone unese oroolems under ine caroet.
Experience has taught me to have very low expectations when it comes to asking for support like this in a society which knows the price
or everything ana the value or little, but i belleve that you are all good people who came Into public service with the best of Intentions
and hope you can find it in your hearts to help.
Thank you all for reading this and I hope something can be done.
Best
Marc Davenant

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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 18/11/2025

I used to make cyanotypes myself (back before bread took over my life). Someday I will again.

a cyanotype print of a barefoot, dark-haired woman in a white, flowing dress, twirling against a white-painted brick wall, with a shaft of sunlight coming in from the lower right.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Mrs D Cheatle of 16 Athol Road, Sheffield, operates a Capstan lathe at a munitions factory, 1942 (Imperial War Museum).

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Photography and Art Gallery @u42.co · 03/09/2025

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I am not always a fan of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe's portraits. His landscapes though are a different matter and I'm happy to post this again. He captures the often smokey and murky Whitby perfectly. This dates to around 1890 and I would think it is probably around November.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Shire Horse Sale, Denby Dale, west Yorkshire, 1989, photo by Don McPhee.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

If you are in Norfolk and want to see the Outsiders exhibition it opens next in Cromer on 29 August at the Artspace on the Prom.

Poster with the following text
OUTSiDERS
Journeys through homelessness by Marc Davenant
"As unflinching and brutal as McCullin, yet equally tender. I hope
others feel the latent and righteous anger I do"
Cromer
ARTSPACE
north norfolk
29 August to 14 September 2025
Cromer Artspace on the Prom
West Promenade
Cromer NR27 9FA
https://cromer-artspace.uk
ARTS COUNCIL
ENGLAND

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NDR @nicoladavisonreed.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Leave The Weeping To The Trees

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NDR @nicoladavisonreed.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Mother Nature always heals .TenderLands.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

One of my favourite of the images of Sheffield created in the early 20th century by prolific artist Walter Hayward Young (1868-1920) for postcard manufacturer Raphael Tuck. He often signed his work by the pseudonym Jotter. The accompanying text on the reverse reads "Many

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Illustration: Ben Jennings.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Amnesty strongly condemns Israel’s targeted killing of journalists Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammed al-Khalidi, Mohammed Noufal and Mohammed Qreiqeh by Israeli forces, on a tent used by media near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on Sunday.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Living in Liverpool in the 1830-40s, Henrietta was witness to the vast social schisms between rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, immigrant and non-immigrant. Her diary only tantalisingly, and somewhat inadvertently, reveals her thoughts and feelings. www.livpost.co.uk/i-spend-too-...

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‘I spend too much time on trifles’: a glimpse of Victorian Liverpool through the diary of a ‘serious’ woman

An era of sailing ships, grief and self denial

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Alice Clark, a doctor and volunteer for the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a sign opposing the genocide in Gaza and the proscription of Palestine Action. It is strange with how little note a country may drift into authoritarianism.

A person with their eyes closed waits to be arrested

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