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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 2h

Alfie Caine. Autumn Afternoon, 2022.

Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 7h

Elvis Costello’s honest playlist. The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix, which came out in 1967 when I was 12. Hendrix was known for outgoing music, but I was a romantic soul, so the emotional side of his music led to that strain in my own writing. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 18h

Danielle Darrieux in Madame de... (1953)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 18h

Simon Hill. A neon artwork installed on a wall of a connecting walkway at Park Hill flats in Sheffield. It references graffiti written by a local resident, Jason Lowe, to his then-girlfriend, Clare Middleton (The Sunday Times Magazine)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 19h

David Lynch. The director’s surrealist films helped to define Los Angeles. Now the city is celebrating his other passion: photography. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 19h

Chris Killip: North is a striking interpretation of Killip’s work in the Northeast of England and Ireland between 1975 and 1986, featuring many previously unpublished photographs. Published 6 October 2026, edited by Mark Holborn. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chri...

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Anderson Jr., Jeremy Bulloch, Billy Fury, Keith Hamshere, Anna Palk, and Felicity Young in Play It Cool (1962)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 21h

David Lynch. The director’s surrealist films helped to define Los Angeles. Now the city is celebrating his other passion: photography. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 23h

Duane Michals. Empty New York, c. 1964, vintage gelatin silver print.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

George Formby, autograph hunters at the Press Ball at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, October 1956 (TSPL)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stephanie Cole, Graham Crowden, in BBC’s retirement home sitcom Waiting For God (1994) (Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you are anywhere near Hull, I have a photography exhibition on at HOi, Princes Avenue this month. These photos are previously unseen for 40 plus years and were taken close by, mainly on Newland Avenue. Thank you for looking if you get chance to pop along. HOi shorturl.at/7EC0i

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander in Wings of Desire (1987)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Alan Bates and Julie Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dasha Tenditna. Not Alone, 2026.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unknown. A female dancer or acrobat, with a male drummer, India, c.1882.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Enrica Bonaccorti and Ermelinda De Felice in Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rejoice! David Sylvian. The freshly minted label Nanoq is proud to announce a new album by David Sylvian. Titled ‘The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing’ it is the first album Sylvian has released in 15 years. www.instagram.com/p/Dd6n5jzqiSI/

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jonas Wood. Blackwelder Speaker Still Life, 2018.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973) (Warner Bros.)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

J.M.W. Turner. Rome, from Mount Aventine (1836)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tatum O'Neal and Kenneth Hughes in Paper Moon (1973)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Essy Persson in Mission Stardust (1967)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

John Le Mesurier and Kate Williams in What's Up Nurse! (1977)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kelli K Radwanski. The Boy and the Pig: A Portrait Made Across 600 Miles, 2022, shot on iPhone 13.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don't Look Now (1973) Italian film poster.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Susana Canales in Black Sky (1951)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JD ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Agaracha; Suku Sinero/Kiko; Abebe; Udorji; Star Koroba; Beri Beri; Onile Gogoro; Brush/Kiko; Modern Suku, from the series Hairstyles, 1970–1979.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rod Shone. Liverpool poets Brian Patten, Roger McGough and Adrian Henri (Mary Evans Picture Library)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rejoice! Something new from Hamish Hawk - Intriguer/Tenderness. youtu.be/xfT2TwtZuIA (To support the release of Intriguer/Tenderness, we’ll be embarking on an in-store/outstore tour of the UK, so please, if you would, pop on down and cheer us on)

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Hamish Hawk - Intriguer/Tenderness (Official Video)

Taken from the forthcoming album Intriguer/Tenderness, out 2nd April 2027 on So Recordings. Pre order here: Stream here: https://ffm.bio/hamishhawk Album supported by full band instore/ outstore…

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yusef Komunyakaa. Night of the Armadillo (The Paris Review, no. 200, Spring 2012)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Al Clayton. Kris Kristofferson c. 1970.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Bulldog Breed (1960) Danish film poster.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Charlton Heston and Felix Silla in Planet of the Apes (1968)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Carl Moos (1878-1959). Tarasp. 1928.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unknown artist, Domakinia i Maika magazine, Bulgaria, 1938.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From noon today. Yes! Art 2026 takes over Big Penny Social this Sunday, 27 September, from 12–6pm. 'Meet diverse East London artists, explore hundreds of original artworks, see demonstrations and live making.' Walthamstow, London. www.yes-art.london/book

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nico in The High Solitudes / Les hautes solitudes (1974)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

David Bowie in Into the Night (1985) (Universal Pictures)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Carola de día, Carola de noche (1969, Jaime de Armiñán)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Adam Ritchie. Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga dance to The Velvet Underground, N.Y.C., 1966.

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, and Sidney James in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie: Using intimate footage mainly shot by Salman Rushdie’s wife, the writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documentarian Alex Gibney follows his recovery from a 2022 attack, in which he was stabbed 15 times in New York. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. In Lieu of Keen Virtue (2017)

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Nick Spence @nickfromupnorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ming Smith. Mother and Child Deciding, Pittsburgh, 1991, from the series August Moon for August Wilson.

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