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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Another diffusion experiment, going from a very constrained setup at which the model cannot get to build any recognisable shape (a tree here), to the point when the object is fully formed, although without detail yet. 1/2

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Experiments in diffusion AI: in this series I’m forcing/hacking a small locally-run diffusion model to produce abstract, averaged and rough images for a minimalist prompt, int his case “river”.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Four arrested on “suspicion of malicious communication”. Meaning of course that the government thinks for you and you have to obey or be arrested. Such is the state of things in this country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit

Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/07/2025

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

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Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access

Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Here we go. This was of course the aim all along, to stop people from saying anything against the genocide and Apartheid happening in Gaza. Disgraceful. I will never again give my vote to Labour. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Interesting retrospective exhibition of Edward Burra in Tate Britain. His landscapes have an other-worldly aspect that makes me want to be walking on that land. #art

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit!

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students of the uni of Westminster MA in photography and emerging media. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit! At Ambika P3, in their Marylebone building just opposite Baker Street tube station.

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Lucy Soutter @lucysoutter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Drop by Ambika P3 Marylebone Rd to see fresh work by the Westminster MAs in Expanded Photography, and Art & Emerging Technologies 11-7 thru Tues 2 July

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Lucy Soutter @lucysoutter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Join us for the PV of 'Test Site', a show by graduates of the University of Westminster MA Expanded Photography and MA Art & Emerging Technologies 26 June, 18:30-20:30, Ambika P3 Gallery Show continues 27 June – 1 July, 11:00-19:00    Free booking for PV: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-expande...

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is past Orwellian, we are living in a police state that arrests anyone who gives any indication of wanting to protest government actions. This is what face detection is for. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Police arrested autistic activist in supported housing as part of Quaker raid operation

Exclusive: Joe Booth, 23, says he has PTSD after arrest in which seven officers entered his flat when he was in bed

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Ed Adkin’s exhibition at the Tate Britain in London is one of the best I’ve seen in some time. The problem with it is that there are so many ideas and emotions contained there, that you need to visit it a few times.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you are into photography art and looking for something to read, David Bate’s Photography won’t disappoint ! This is in Tate Modern’s shop but it is online too.

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Cat Eccles MP @cateccles.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My article in @artsprofessional.co.uk following the launch of the Framing the Future report this week. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A few moments from the last week on the Northern coast of Galicia, Spain.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Stop the gravy train! Labour is taking rail franchises in the UK into public hands - but the trains themselves are still privately owned. Train-owning firms took £3.6 billion dividends in the last decade. Take 1-min to tell the govt to stop the gravy train: weownit.org.uk/act-now/grea...

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Demand the government reinstate Great British Railway’s public interest duty - respond to the consultation | We Own It

The government's plans to scrap our rail's duty to be accessible and environmentally responsible must be stopped.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

More images taken last weekend for the series on parks on London suburbs. This one is in Bethnal Green, so arguably not quite the suburbs. Same Welta 6x6 camera and still looking for those atemporal images portraying, hopefully, the sense of spaces away from the capitalist race-to-nowhere outside.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The Photographers Gallery, London: new work of Cristina de Middel follows on her previous work, but it also feels fresh. It documenta the Mexican communities alongside the US border. It manages to avoid falling into the known stories around it, while still touching on those stories of emigration.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I’m in the Photographers Gallery, London, mainly to see Peter Mitchell’s exhibition. I love it. I specially for the little stories he tells in the wall cards accompanying each picture. But then, I went to the shop to buy the catalog and … it doesn’t include those captions !!!??? Why!?

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“Objects do not go into their concepts without leaving a remainder behind” - Adorno quoted by Jane Bennet in Vibrant Matter. This was the starting point for a series of images, and thinking, and writing, still in its early stages. An example bellow.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’ve just bought a copy. In Spain we (still) have many successful cooperatives, especially in agriculture. These ways of organising work would solve so many current problems!

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’m going to repost this one in case it helps anyone new to BlueSky. It is biased towards photography orgs, criticism and authors, but it includes accounts dealing with other forms of visual arts too.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I capture in these images not what I see but what I don’t: the closed spaces of others, light emanating from lives I am not part of, but I wish I could peek at for a moment. Instead, I take a picture discretely and move on. The imagined world on the other side of the window accompanies me, briefly

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Lucy Soutter @lucysoutter.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As well as being free to read or download from the Routledge website, The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies is also available to download free on Kindle. If you check out this anthology of essays about contemporary photography around the world, please leave a review!

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Amazon.co.uk : routledge companion to global photographies

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Lucy Soutter @lucysoutter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Phhotoworks seed grants deadline 27 March. £500 for UK based photographers to advance their work directly or indirectly photoworks.org.uk/whats-on/pho...

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Photoworks X MPB R&D Seed Grants - Photoworks

To celebrate 30 years of Photoworks, we are partnering with MPB to launch R&D Seed Grants supporting artists to make work.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A very good question and an important one. Waste of money according to whom and by what metrics. I don’t have access to the article, but I’m going to bet that this is purely based in avg salary vs cost of courses. That is not all there is to it.

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m making a series about the small parks in the suburbs of London. Places that are often rundown like their grey concrete surroundings. I like London suburbs, the ones where gentrification hasn’t reached and life is not an Instagram scene after another.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Photographer Anne Rearick visited small, rural villages in the Basque Country for 34 years. Her new book, “Gure Bazterrak,” is a quietly stunning ode to country life, where nothing and everything happens. It’s just gorgeous. Available from @deadbeat-club.bsky.social

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you are a visual artist or thinker and new to BlueSky, this starter pack might be of help: bsky.app/start/did:pl...

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This pile of dead seaweed on a beach in Spain reminded me of the ink blotches that are used in psychology to uncover unconscious feelings. So let’s play that game: This reads to me like an animal shape of some sort. After a few seconds I see a seal diving, or better still, a siren. Yes. Or hydra?

Pile of seaweed lying on the sand in a beach with a shape that although quite undefined, can remind a bird’s tail, fish, or some other animal form

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m experimenting to make digital images look less digital. In this case, I took the photographs through a partially greased (with petroleum jelly) piece of glass

Blurry winter scene of a woodland in the fog

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AJ Perez @galocho.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Cotswolds, where I live. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty…. There are two big problems with that label: the “Natural”, because there is none of it here; and the “Beauty”, because why is the environment measured by aesthetic values?

A 4x4 car parked on a pavement on a rural street besides a stone wall and a large hedgerow perfectly cut in a geometrical shape

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