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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 23/09/2026

Back in 'em salad days... #robertkramer #tucson #lowrider #documentaryfilm www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxey...

Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 20/09/2026

Oh dear. Year 2 at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Word from my convenor, the remarkable Dr. Bernadette Buckley. Gonna be chaotic. Strikes, programme cuts... Welcome to UK Higher Education 2026.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 27/08/2026

Hi, London and near folks! I'm showing some prints from my SOS Country series at our MA group show on 4 Sept along with my cohort. 22 Iliffe Yard SE173QA. Come say hey from 6pm! Flyer by Sofia Wilkinson-Steel.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 06/08/2026

New photo zine is off to the printer! Love those ExWhyZed guys, so helpful to have a real printer-person on the line. exwhyzed.com 'Lights Out Knightsbridge' #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom #photozine

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/08/2026

Is summer over? Yes, summer is over. 🤦‍♀️

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 14/07/2026

More experimentation w/ #photobook formats: next #photozine from 2022-2023 b/w Knightsbridge series originally intended as projected background visuals to my stage show 'Souvenir of England' (very loosely inspired by #JoannaHogg #TheSouvenir). #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 01/07/2026

New wee #photozine Dear Green. £5.00 only. DM or Street Level shop. Experimenting w/ folding formats. Surrealistic romp thru #Glasgow looking for #Buckfast & the skies down from which they crashed. Signed/numbered ed. of 100. Folded: 14x14cm to 56x42cm. #streetphotography #streetphotographyglasgow

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 12/06/2026

William Coupon (1953-2026). Farewell, pal. You were the kindest of giants. Thanks for these Manhattan sidewalk snaps, I later used in the sleeve artwork of my 2010 album 'L'abandon'. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 07/06/2026

In solidarity with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social striking staff. Introducing Goldsmiths' riches-to-rags (senior management) team. Our executive board has entered into a suicide pact with the institution, a doom loop of cuts and redundancies. @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/06/2026

First batch of 'SOS Country' prints in the post this week to my #kickstarter supporters! #soscountry #amtrakphotography #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/06/2026

Yep, me reading Orwell's 1940 review of 'Mein Kampf' at @yellowbookbar.bsky.social @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social (great fest on margins of @brightonfringe.bsky.social). My show 'A Kirk in Them Pants' demolishes Stephen Miller and his excruciating Kirk eulogy speech. Pix: Elz. Thks: my Goldsmiths class

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 30/05/2026

Today in Brighton #sweetfest #brightonfringe @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social Orwellian stab at pale monster-in-chief Stephen Miller, architect of Trump's cruelest immigration policies. A 'comedy' on the language of authoritarianism and what we leave behind when we leave home & country–and what we can't.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/05/2026

Coming out from under rock to address salient topic of creeping HE financialisation. I'll share ongoing inquiry/interventions into Goldsmiths' partnership w/ US edtech RisePoint. Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social library 11:30am #freegoldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 27/04/2026

Term paper done! Private-equity takeover of UK HE: Inquiry & Interventions into the Partnership between @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and RisePoint. Reach out if you want to learn more + join our working group! Thanks to my cohort + Bernadette Buckley for their support! @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 16/02/2026

My handy work at Goldsmiths... Aka 'I might be a student but I'm still that bee'.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 24/11/2025

Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham a.dinham@gold.ac.uk to reinstate it. logo @mariannedissard.com

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 08/09/2025

'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 26/08/2025

Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 14/06/2025

Selfie (2021) from 'On a Good Day You Can See France' documentary series made between Oct. 2020-May 2021, aka 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled'. Available in two sizes FujiFlex limited-edition C-type prints. #Ramsgate harbour, looking back to Jacob's Ladder. #photography #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 12/06/2025

Back in them salad days... My third Tucson studio album 'The Cat. Not Me', composed by Sergio Mendoza (Calexico), featuring Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson). Joe Mabbott mixed in Minneapolis. UK maestro John Dent mastered mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca... #musicsky

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 10/06/2025

Back in them salad days... 1989 Managua, Nicaragua. Shot on slide film. I traveled from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Sandinista revolution in the capital city to the border with Honduras and a small village twinned with Tucson, Arizona. #photography #nicaragua #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 06/06/2025

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul Amtrak trains. Photobook/exhibition in-progress but *very* limited-edition postcards already available to buy mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 03/06/2025

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul trains on 4-month Amtrak journey. Work-in-progress but very limited-edition postcards are avail. (link in bio). Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/06/2025

Back in them salad days... My first #Tucson album, produced & composed by Joey Burns #calexico featuring John Convertino, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson), Sammy Decoster. French desert Americana? Buy signed CD or cassette: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/lentre... #musicsky

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 21/05/2025

Recent #photography series Knightsbridge, London (2022-2023) #monochrom Leica w/ 50mm lens. Series used as background projection material for my touring stage production 'Souvenir of England' + 2023 public street installation Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Photobook next www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNg...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 17/05/2025

2023 covers album Rappel*le mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/rappel... Phil Ochs Janis Ian Steely Dan Ritchie Valens Bobbie Gentry Townes Van Zandt War Adriano Celentano Carly Simon Recorded in Tucson/UK w/ Terry Edwards @naimamor.bsky.social @raphaelmann.bsky.social Matt Mitchell #musicsky #music

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 15/05/2025

Back in them salad days... For my 2015 Best Of CD compilation album 'Cibola Gold', I asked Garry Winogrand's heirs if they'd let me use a favorite 1964 photograph Winogrand made at White Sands, New Mexico. Here are three mockups I designed. Final pick is the two children playing in dune #photography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 13/05/2025

Back in them salad days... My second studio album, L'abandon (2010), recorded in my then-hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I wrote lyrics, Christian Ravaglioli music, BK-One co-produced. W/ Thøger Lund (Giant Sand) Luke Doucet Arthur Vint mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... #musicsky #desertnoir

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 09/05/2025

`SOS Country’ 2025 documentary photography series. American landscapes from long-haul Amtrak trains. Limited-edition preview postcards for sale now: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer #amtrak #chicago #leicamonochrom

Chicago skyscraper from Union Station through construction site fence

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 07/05/2025

While I'm shuffling the cards of my 'Glasgow musical legends' deck, I give you James Kirk (ex-Orange Juice) on a summer day. Pix by me. #glasgowmusic #orangejuiceband #scottishband #music #scottishmusic #photography #musicphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 07/05/2025

Deep-cut 2022 track recorded w/ Andy Alston (Del Amitri) the year I moved to Glasgow. soundcloud.com/andy-alston/... "The auld alliance between France & Scotland rarely sounded so achingly addictive"(G.Paterson). Portrait of Andy by me at James Kirk's wedding. #delamitri #glasgow #music #photography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/05/2025

Back in them salad days... My 2019 memoir 'Not Me'. Improbably funny, brutally honest. "Keen observations, wit, and pathos", says Mitch Cullin (A Slight Trick of the Mind + Tideland) BUY HERE : www.mariannedissard.com/books/memoir... #memoir #booksky #writerscommunity #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 01/05/2025

‘Doris’ Ramsgate, England 2021. Named for her uncanny resemblance to Boris. Street series ‘On a Good Day You Can See France’ : touring exhibition, site-specific installation, photobook, limited-edition C-type prints w/ part funding from Creative Scotland #streetphotography #photography #ramsgate

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 29/04/2025

Back in them salad days… Drunken Bees, 1994 #GiantSand documentary directed by yours truly. Featuring Howe Gelb, soon-to-become #Calexico Joey Burns & John Convertino, Victoria Williams, Rainer... #Tucson #blueskymusic #americana #desertrock time capsule! mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/drunke...

DVD documentary Giant Sand Tucson Americana indie band circa 1994 pre-Calexico. Directed by Marianne Dissard.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 27/04/2025

‘Annabelle, Ramsgate 2021’. Street series ‘On a Good Day You Can See France’ made between 10.2020 and 4.2021 in Ramsgate England: touring exhibition, site-specific installation, photobook, limited-edition C-type prints w/ part funding by Creative Scotland #streetphotography #photography #ramsgate

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 20/04/2025

Video I made with/for Sergio Mendoza y Orkesta Mendoza back in them salad days Tucson Arizona 2011 or about #musicsky #tucson #mambo #arizona #sergiomendoza

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 19/04/2025

`SOS Country’ new 2025 documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. Limited-edition postcards for sale (links in bio). #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 09/04/2025

Made some postcards for latest series ‘SOS Country’! Set of 6 high-quality 390gsm A6 cards. My Kickstarter angels are receiving them first this week, then I’ll put the few left for sale. #photography #amtrak #femalephotographer #documentaryphotography #americanlandscape

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 28/03/2025

SOS Country (2025). New documentary photo series and non-fiction book are in progress. Four months of solo Amtrak travels during the interregnum winter between two American regimes. Stay tuned… Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social Forward Funds and a hundred angels from a dozen countries.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 15/03/2025

SOS Country: Interregnum America by train (2025). New documentary photo series and non-fiction book are in progress. Four months of solo Amtrak travels. Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social Forward Funds and about a hundred angels from a dozen countries.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 12/03/2025

Wee book of street portraits of Glasgow buskers I made last summer. Find a copy in Glasgow Center at the following bookshops: Street Level; Ripe (opening soon on Osborne); Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Or get in touch direct.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 08/03/2025

Storm, Alpine TX 2024. SOS Country series (2025) by Marianne Dissard. America by train in the interregnum. Stay tuned… as I edit this winter’s 13 weeks of shooting + last spring’s 4 weeks

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/03/2025

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/03/2025

Back home. Editing photos for the next few weeks. ‘SOS Country: America from Amtrak’

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 26/02/2025

Done! 4 months on #amtrak to photograph the country from my seat. Today was my last train. Off home to Scotland to edit the thousands of photos and finish writing the book of my journey to the dark heart of interregnum America. Thanks to all who supported this trip incl. @creativescots.bsky.social

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