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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is exactly how I feel when documenting homelessness and poverty. If the pictures don’t make you upset or outraged then there’s little point in creating them. The emotional reaction is the whole point of it.

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Early stroll. Leaves waiting to fall, to briefly fly. My shoes are private transport. A trail of abandoned crisps. The horse gazes at Vic’s garage. The sky fills the space allotted to it.

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“I want my picture to hurt you.” Now 90, renowned Vietnam War photographer Don McCullin shares why he wants to create photos to lose sleep over – and why he hates his most famous photograph | Digital Camera World

“I always print my pictures dark,” he said. “I want my picture to hurt you. I don’t want you having any free rides. I’m there to upset you, and I’m there to make you feel uncomfortable... Otherwise, there’s no point in me going there in the first place.” www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...

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Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lived experience touches us in so many different ways. And I think that's the point, when it's lived, it never really goes away.

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Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair…” Alan Seeger #Poetry

Poem which reads:
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
BY ALAN SEEGER
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear ...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

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Me kneeling at the feet of my fabulous Verb guests Helen Mort, David Morley, Jason Allen-Paisant, Owen Sheers and my brilliant producer Faith Lawrence!

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Early stroll. The ruminating sky. A man in a doorway waves a cigarette in greeting. A mysterious rumbling that seems to come from the depths of a field. The faded yellow of the old grit bin. A child’s shoe outside the dark chapel.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/09/2026

Brand new essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books: L.E. Daniels gives an insightful editor's perspective on the impact gen AI is having on writers and their craft. ruadanbooks.com/an-editor-on...

A skeleton with a hammer aimed at its temple. Pic of Lauren Elise Daniels in glasses and with a pink cap, smiling. Title: An Editor on Generative AI - Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The photobook market is in decline” As the photobook market changes, Colin Wilkinson considers what the future holds for publishers and photographers alike… amateurphotographer.com/latest/opini...

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The photobook market is in decline. What's the problem, and can it be fixed?

Founder of Open Eye Gallery and Bluecoat Press, Colin Wilkinson, discusses the current state of publishing and the future of photobooks

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If you’re feeling shamed by your ignorance of who Henry Symeonis was and what he had done, rest assured that the men running the University of Oxford in 1827 had no more idea than you did. Worse: it soon transpired that no one had known for literally centuries."

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Oxford’s five hundred year grudge

Also: this is not a wombat.

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Richard de Briançon @ricyclist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very interesting. I think Steidl used to have Karl Lagerfeld as a patron, so after he died maybe it was less easy.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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The photobook market is in decline. What's the problem, and can it be fixed?

Founder of Open Eye Gallery and Bluecoat Press, Colin Wilkinson, discusses the current state of publishing and the future of photobooks

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yet, despite all of the [waveth handes 360 degrees], still so much beautye yn the worlde. So much art made by so manye, as strategyes for survival, consolacioun, courage, joy. And you, out ther, makinge somethinge beautiful. You are the best.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Although that doesn't stop the bills coming in. Speaking of which I'm sending you all a bill, with a lovely toucan at the end of it. Have fun. xx More bills with birds at the other side of them here: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h...

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St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📚 Upcoming Museum Talks this autumn From witchcraft and mermaids to Roman Britain and modern art, discover something new with our upcoming talks at St Albans Museum + Gallery and Verulamium Museum. 🎟️ £10 per talk. Book 4 in-person talks & get your 5th free: f.mtr.cool/5r1b80vfps

St Albans Museums Museum Talks programme for October to December, listing upcoming talks at St Albans Museum + Gallery and Verulamium Museum.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me and Andrew playing table tennis with my new book!

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For anyone who is interested in a more in depth understanding of our work on various projects and exhibitions, including 50 Years On, Pilgrimage, Outsiders Revisited and Across the Divide you can subscribe to my newsletter at the bottom of the page here. marcdavenant.com

andrew eccles @tokyosushi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Really important work. The impact is laid out in reams of reports and piles of statistics and so a visual account of what that all means is long overdue. Fingers crossed the funders see it this way too.

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Starting on the Arts Council bid today for our 50 Years On project looking at the impact of five decades of neoliberalism on six towns in Britain.

The words 50 Years On in fluorescent pink over a background of rotten wood

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Starting on the Arts Council bid today for our 50 Years On project looking at the impact of five decades of neoliberalism on six towns in Britain.

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The pusillanimous knaves moost eager to calle academia a "sinkinge shippe" are usuallye those who have alreadye sailed arounde the worlde yn it. Those moost readye to calle the ivorye tower "broken" have growne jaded sittinge at its heighte. Meanwhile, everybodye else ys actuallye doinge the worke.

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All three of our zines are now available as a set marcdavenant.com/product/set-...

Three of Davenant’s high quality zines are now available as a set.

Set of three zines

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Early stroll. The crunch of my apple is the stroll’s starting pistol. A lit upstairs window floats. I walk through a low web. That place where shadows of shadows gather. The chip shop is still for sale, empty.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First cup of tea: Come over here Elixir Of youth. Tell me Your uncomplicated Truth.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Popped into the brilliant @thebookvault.bsky.social to pick up this book about the future of reading. I’ll read it in the future. Well, this weekend. Support your local independent bookshop!

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Old caravan in front of waste ground, with the derelict ice factory in the distance from our 50 Years On project.

Black and white photo with an old caravan to the right and a derelict factory in the distance

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The Nighthawks zine is now available in our shop with previously unpublished photos from my Nighthawks series. It’s a short print run this time so probably best not to wait if you want one. marcdavenant.com/product/nigh...

Nighthawks zine – Davenant

Nighthawks is a zine which brings together a series of mostly unpublished monochrome street photographs taken by Davenant at night. The images are often ambiguous and are a deliberate departure fro…

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 23/09/2026

Old caravan in front of waste ground, with the derelict ice factory in the distance from our 50 Years On project.

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Want to give a big hug to everyone else out there who’s looking at the world right now and not liking what they see. Understanding we’re not all in the same boat but that we are in the same storm is the key. Empathy, although out of fashion right now, is crucial. We’re different. But the same. ❤️🙏🏻🤘

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Workers Gallery @workersgallery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Get yourself up the Workers! Saturdays 10am-5pm www.workersgallery.co.uk Manifest - #artist winners of our last open. Remembering #DuncanEdwards - Munich Air Disaster graphic novel in progress by Gayle Rogers Wales art showcase with @louisecollisart.bsky.social & @masterwoodchip.bsky.social

Landscape painting in golden colours in an impressionist style. Framed in heavy pale grey frame.

Round wooden sculpture on post on block plinth in bare and blackened wood.

Poster for remembering Duncan Edwards art exhibition in reds and white with two images of young person holding ball under their arm.

Poster for manifest art exhibition with three images of the artists' work.

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