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Fiona Konca

@fiona-konca.bsky.social
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Community Photographer & Creative Artist, currently exploring Celtic & Roman history & art. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. My website: FionaKonca.wordpress.com

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My kaleidoscopic ode to Britain’s scaffolders; created from photos taken inside Manchester’s Printworks during redevelopment in January 2023.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever taken, but it was something I needed to do. Goodbye old friend. . . . . . #demolition #graffiti #industrialarchitecture #industrialheritage #Twyfords
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Church Lawton double exposures. I dragged my dodgy leg out for a wander around my favourite place this afternoon. It was painful but not agony, and far outweighed by the sheer joy of reconnecting with nature after a month of staring at four walls.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Whole Shebang . . fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/o... . . . . . #Newmusic #Independentartist #MusicPromotion #MusicVideo #CreativeProduction #musicvideography #Stoke-on-Trent #TheDandelionCurse #videography
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Out of My Mind (I Failed)
My video for The Dandelion Curse’s stunningly beautiful ‘Out of My Mind (I Failed)’. It was love – and inspiration – at first listen when Carl Locker sent me the song, asking if I’d con…
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A snippet of my video for The Dandelion Curse’s stunningly beautiful ‘Out of My Mind (I Failed)’ - the full version of which is available on their Facebook page. . . . . . #Newmusic #Independentartist #MusicPromotion #MusicVideo #CreativeProduction
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you J F Burgess for the very kind invitation! My camera and I would be delighted to attend. (Hopefully I will have slept by then) Ticket link on Jon’s Facebook page.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Portrait shoot with Andy Gower - a year ago today, at Six Towns Viewing Point. Photos 6, 7 and 10 went on to be used in my designs for his album cover, EP and album launch gig poster. . . I’m still pinching myself. . . . . . #AndyGower #Portraitphotography #Albumcover #Gigposter #Stoke-on-Trent
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My brilliant nephew’s brilliant band. Check em out. linktr.ee/cadeband?utm...
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For once in my life, I was actually there 😂 (at Wythenshawe Park) (Also for once in my life, I was too busy dancing to take any photos) Thank you #TheProdigy for the best gig of my life 🐜 🖤 Gig 🎥 & 📷: Alex Konca
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Us: “I can’t be arsed getting to the front” Also us: . . #TheProdigy #WythenshawePark
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wythenshawe Park yesterday for #TheProdigy
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today marks the anniversary of the last day (in 1978) that a Potteries bottle oven was kindled and fired for the last time. At the height of the pottery industry, approximately 2,000 of these iconic structures dominated the city’s skyline. Now, only 47 remain. #bottleovens #bottlekilns #bottlekiln
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The entire landscape was illuminated and transformed by these unique pyrotechnics of labour atoning for its grime, and dull, weird sounds, as of the breathings and sighings of gigantic nocturnal creatures, filled the enchanted air” - Arnold Bennett, ‘Anna of the Five Towns’ #PotteriesBottleOvenDay
🎨 & 📷: me (one of my paintings, overlaid with one of my photographs)
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The film is over a decade old, but even more relevant now. Also worth watching is his series ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ - “an emotional history of the modern world” - available on iPlayer.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“So much of the news this year has been hopeless, depressing, and above all - confusing; to which the only response is “oh dear”.” In ‘Oh Dearism II’, Adam Curtis suggests that this defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. youtu.be/gKHye_wlpOs?...
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Oh Dearism II by Adam Curtis (2014)
YouTube video by Chris Nix
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember this, as you wade through all the fearmongering crap in your newsfeeds.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Drop me a message if you’d like to make a purchase. I don’t have an online shop yet but may open one if I get enough interest. Prints are £10 individually (max A3 size), or if you buy a set of four I’ll throw in one of them for free :-) . . . . . #abstractart #printsforsale #wallart #wallartforsale
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two sets of prints winging their way to my lovely friends Vix and Carl. Thank you so much for your support! These are ‘eNiGaMi’ and ‘Dead Tree & Telegraph Pole’ More available on the GALLERY and VIRTUALITY pages of my website @ FionaKonca.wordpress.com (link in bio)
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
These are absolutely wonderful - especially the ones along the canal and of the bottle kilns. Photos taken during the construction of the D-Road in Stoke-on-Trent from 1975 to 1979, by the fella I met on the train (see previous post). flic.kr/s/aHsmLaRSLn
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Stoke D Road - Queensway
Scanned from 35 mm negatives taken 1975 to 1979 (kevinterry56@gmail.com)
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also on the train home, I received an email confirming a job offer; working from home - writing reports - on a part-time and flexible basis! I’ve accepted, of course. I should go away more often!
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Had a lovely chat with a couple on the train home. Turns out the fella - now a street photographer - was a QS with Tarmac in the 70s and worked on the construction of the D-Road!
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
24 wonderful hours of non-stop conversation and laughter with me ol’ school muckers darn sarf (much of which was spent setting up this photo). Thank you so much Caroline, Hazel and Kate - I bloody love ya xx
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also in today’s news: a drone guided entirely by AI has killed three Ukrainian civilians. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites
London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go, you go…)” - E. E. Cummings
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When DJ Sidwayne (Wayne Smith) asked the people of Stoke-on-Trent to “fill the street” yesterday, as he took to the decks outside The Unicorn Inn in honour of his son Nathan (who tragically passed away earlier this month), the response was phenomenal, and the afternoon unforgettable.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Things got much worse when people started holding tiny little clip-on microphones instead of clipping them on. youtu.be/IjMwyHGwQGk?...
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YouTubers, stop holding your lav mic!
YouTube video by Heartflash Productions
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
But CCTV and facial recognition technology are ok. . . . . . #streetphotography #streetphotographyuk #ukstreetphotography
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why go to Niagara Falls when it can come to you? All you need is a torrential downpour, and for your gutters to be completely fucked.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is why I never feel lonely when I am alone, which is most of the time. Nature is my constant and wonderful companion. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A moment that changed me: my husband died – and birds began behaving strangely towards me
I was living on my own for the first time in 35 years, walking every day. Nature reminded me how much there still is to be found in emptiness
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I will - at Wayne’s (DJ ‘Sidwayne’) request - be filming video footage of the occasion. Music videography aside, this is uncharted and exciting territory for me, as well as being an absolute privilege. #FilltheStreet #djset #livedjset #livevinyldjset #vinyldjset #Stoke-on-Trent
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grooves, booze and (probably) mooves on a Saturday afternoon? In one of the best pubs in Stoke, and finished in time to catch the 103 back home? I don’t need to be asked twice. I didn’t know Nathan Smith (DJ Sidwayne’s son), but I feel as though I will, after this. Event link in comments.
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I can relate. . . . “Basil and his pint of Guinness, Rhossili Bay" by ©Sarah Evans
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nothing captures rainwater quite like the leaves of alchemilla mollis (‘Lady’s Mantle’) and it’s so lovely to see all things winged benefiting from these tiny natural reservoirs after the prolonged dry weather. 📷: me #alchemillamollis #cottagegarden #ladysmantle #wildgardening #wildlifegardening
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Smut, the coolest as fuck and most beautiful & badass cat that ever lived, was the love of my life. I lost her in 2021, and still talk to her (and feel her judging me) every single day. . . www.instagram.com/p/DcJAPphjA6... . . #NationalBlackCatAppreciationDay #NationalBlackCatAppreciationDay2026
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For me, one of the most empowering songs of all time - from my favourite album of all time. I’m listening to it a lot atm. youtu.be/5WIpUu5iIIs?... @nin.com
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Nine inch nails - Just Like You Imagined Rehersal
YouTube video by mijal.alethia
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Michelle Dockery is an incredible actor. How is it possible that Estella (This Town) and Kate Woodcroft (Anatomy of a Scandal) were played by the same person?
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Looking for wall art that’s different, interesting and affordable? Need a gift idea for that special someone? Then you may have come to the right place. fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/l... #wallart #giftideas #artwork #prints #abstractart
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Looking for wall art that’s different, interesting and affordable?
Need a gift idea for that special someone? Then you may have come to the right place. Below is a selection of my artwork; each image a set of four (but available individually) and created from my p…
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
T’other week, I became unemployed. Last week, I got drunk with my daughter and spent £208 on a pair of (polarised) Ray-Bans from a scouser named Johnny Goggles. What did I do next? www.instagram.com/p/DcBvSH4Meq...
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just one of the benefits of letting nature take over in your outdoor space if, like me, you’re lucky enough to have one. #butterflies #butterfly #butterflyconservation #SmallBlue #SmallBluebutterfly #Stoke-on-Trent
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just spotted this fella in my garden - a ‘Small Blue’, I believe. According to butterfly-conservation.org, “The butterfly tends to live in small colonies and is declining in most areas. Found throughout Britain and Ireland but rare and localised.”
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“For Dali … the butterfly was the perfect example of a natural agent of transformation” At a time of uncertainty - for us all, and for me personally - I’m reminded of the transformation that can result from having to adapt to change: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fvi... #butterflies #growth
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oliver Reed and depravity, in 4K? Count me in. #TheDevils #OliverReed #KenRussell
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All of my dreams came true. youtu.be/9wt6pPQXGeU?... How about it, #TheProdigy? Manchester? @nin.com #Mashup #Mashups #NIN #NineInchNails
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Nine Inch Nails x The Prodigy - Firefu*kers Inc. (Dreams of Collapse Mashup)
YouTube video by Dreams Of Collapse
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Only 30 minutes’ walk from my home of 20 years, I had no idea that Newchapel Observatory even existed - until this week… fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/n... #Astronomy #Community #Communityphotography #Naturalscience #Naturalsciences #Observatory #STEM #StokeonTrent
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Newchapel: The Final Frontier
Only 30 minutes’ walk from my home of 20 years, I had no idea that Newchapel Observatory even existed – until this week. Below is the link to an ATV television news broadcast from 1967, in wh…
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Read how the UK’s AI data centre surge is threatening our water security: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/files/not_a_... We can live without AI. We cannot live without water. Sign and share the petition: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/our-work/big... #Datacentres #Drought #UKdatacentres
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Stop Dirty Data Centres
The unchecked expansion of AI data centres in the UK is jeopardising climate goals, threatening water security, and contradicting local community needs. Add your voice to the petition now to put a sto...
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AI data centres, which use drinking water for their cooling systems, can now opt into the UK’s Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) scheme, which - ironically - also applies to reservoirs. www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026... #Datacenters #Drought #Hosepipeban #Watershortage
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UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster
Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jakob, managing Kidsgrove Oatcakes - November 2023. One of my favourite oatcake-related moments; captured during my participation in the #TishMurtha inspired social documentary project ‘Documenting Your Community’. #Communityphotography #Oatcakes #Socialdocumentaryphotography #Stoke-on-Trent
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ll be going along with my camera this Sunday, and sharing their progress - stay tuned! Or even better, come along too!
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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
How wonderful. Before today, I didn’t even know it existed! ‘Friends of Newchapel Observatory’ are a Community Interest Company working to restore the observatory and natural sciences centre. www.facebook.com/share/183Mvw... #Astronomy #Kidsgrove #Planetarium #Stoke-on-Trent
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