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Paul Chambers

@paulwchambers1970.bsky.social
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Time, memory, loss and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among them becomes the determinant - Sally Mann. Wetplate analog fella doing his best in a digital world. www.paulwchambers.com

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 11h
A glimpse into the making of 'A Portrait of Greenbelt'... 📷 by the wonderful Mark Kensett and with the beautiful Flamy Grant at this years festival. @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A very special moment that's been a few years in the making. Deepest thanks to all at @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social , Beam Publishers and my dear friend Pádraig for weaving a divine magical and sacredly human words within and around the imagery. If you can help...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Early stroll. The moon, outshining the stars. A tree’s shadow on the cemetery fence. Two orange balls on a lawn. A cyclist almost rides into me, shouts ‘Sorry pal!’ A sign says THIS ROAD WILL BE CLOSED; it doesn’t say when.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. - Galadriel’s Opening Monologue: The Lord of the Rings. This is how it feels sometimes (to me anyway) as the seasons change…
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Early stroll. The evolving moon. ROAD CLOSED sign as metal metaphor. A jacket hung on a fence. A man stands beside a white van, arms folded. That cat, splashed by streetlight.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'I compare my echoes with other people's happiness...' to begin again with Pádraig and @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social ...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Early stroll. Those grey bins might have been brown bins when they were younger. A single drop of water falls on to my head. Puddles as popup art. A TV as big as an arthouse cinema’s third screen. The moon wears a loose cloud-blouse.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Goodnight @bsky.app 🦋, wherever you are...
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Annnnnd there it is. Three old men in the pub shouting about The Sisters Of Mercy, existential struggle and the state of the world. We had a wonderful time, we hope you will too. Cheers @reversediorama.bsky.social, cheers @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social, cheers @briandavidstevens.bsky.social - CHEERS.
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No. 44b: David Keenan Part 2
Eternal return, boulder-shouldering and tough love in the pub.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Early stroll. The watchful moon. Leathery fallen leaves. I’m ten minutes late so the road is busier. Time never hesitates, but sometimes it seems to. A silent man silently walks a silent dog.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This from Jarman always stirs my heart...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This... '...deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.'
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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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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
National Portrait Gallery Announces “Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting” www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
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National Portrait Gallery Announces “Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting”
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'A fascinating reminder of what photography was like before everyone became a photographer…' - Peter Dench amateurphotographer.com/latest/take-...
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Take a look at these astonishing film photos from inside the lost world of European rave culture
Never Alone 1997–2004: Raving in Europe captures the fleeting world of European rave culture through intimate analogue photographs.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So here's what the full extension of the Vageeswari bellows was for... Well and truly into the third of the 'Four Seasons' here at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden working with The Botanical Trust of Guernsey. I'm not going to say what this is though...yet.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a thing of beauty...
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'In advance of the album, we get to hear the title track, a soft-rumbling churn that takes me right back to when I first encountered this band via late-night radio broadcast.' stereogum.com/2512392/morp...
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Morphine Announce Posthumous Album 'Cocoon': Hear Title Track
As the years pass, it gets harder and harder to believe that Mark Sandman was a real guy — that he made the music that he did, that he looked like that, that he was actually named Mark Sandman, and th...
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Vageeswari 10x12 bellows were fully extended today in the botanical Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden as we pressed on with capturing the four seasons in alchemy. For the record, the collodion gods were kind...
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...but most of all, endurance." Note to self... www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/j...
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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
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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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UnOfPhoto @unofphoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week's photography for the ears... unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/09/23/p...
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PODCAST: A Photographic Life, Episode 447: ‘The Proust Photo Quiz’ with Magnum Photographer Alex Majoli
In this week’s episode photographer, Alex Majoli takes on our ‘Proust Photo Quiz’… The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Pr…
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Early stroll. Trees: theme and variations. The ancient light of that star. A roadsign’s linear shadow. The leaning and waiting lad is waiting and leaning. This pavement isn’t just uneven, it’s unodd.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Collodion musings with dying sunflowers.
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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Portrait power: photojournalist Lorrie Graham’s five-decade career – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Portrait power: photojournalist Lorrie Graham’s five-decade career – in pictures
An exhibition drawn from more than 100,000 images and negatives created between 1975 and 2025 is on now at the State Library of NSW
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Early stroll. A rushing hedgehog. A huddle of plantpots by a front door. Someone stands in their garden staring at the sky. A pile of clear plastic forks. A woman stands under a streetlight to check her watch.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“When we were first doing the book, I didn’t think it would land so much on the grief element, but that is the truth of our lives. It’s what happened.” Susie Cave on finding her way out of darkness. observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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‘Grief has been the truth of our lives’: Susie Cave on fi...
The many worlds of Susie Cave – model, designer, wife, mother – are captured in a hauntingly poignant new book of photographs by her longtime friend and creative collaborator Dominique Issermann
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Early stroll. Stars dot the sky. Two traffic cones like Vladimir and Estragon. My nose-blowing startles a wandering cat. Skip as found art exhibition. That tree has come to the party as Autumn.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.” ~ Dune
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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Obituary: Ian Berry lfi-online.de/en/stories/o...
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LFI | Stories | Obituary: Ian Berry
The highly esteemed and influential British photographer passed away on September 13, 2026, at the age of 92. He was a member of Magnum Photos for more than six decades.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17/09/2026
Remembering Annie Dillard — some thoughts on writing, photography, and the total eclipse. Thanks for looking! www.flakphoto.news/p/rip-annie-...
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RIP Annie Dillard
On writing, photography, and the total eclipse
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A week ago we kissed the world beautiful again… Channel Islands Pride 2026 Kimberly
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Amateur Photographer will be running a piece on our exhibitions with some advice from me on how to get your work displayed (for what it’s worth). Probably next month if anyone is interested. We’ve now had over 155,000 visitors to our two exhibitions since October 2023.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anton Corbijn. He first started shooting music bands on his father’s camera at age 17. Peter Gabriel. PJ Harvey. Ian Curtis. The Slits.
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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🏭 ON NOW in Paisley: “Industrial Epic”. Photography and film from the AmberSide Collection trace the working landscapes of North East shipyards, factories, refineries and mines. 📍 Refractive at The Liberal Club 📅 Until 7 Nov 🎟️ Free 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Early stroll. A fence’s linear narrative. That parked red van, streetlit. I accidentally kick a pebble down the pavement. A geometry of stacked white window frames. In a bus shelter someone’s face, illuminated by a phone screen.
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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎬 Starting tomorrow and running all weekend: “Voices From Here” brings six decades of Amber Films to Durham Folk Festival. 📍 Redhills Durham Miners Hall 📅 18 to 20 Sept 🕐 1 to 4pm daily 🎟️ Free More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Early stroll. Rows of grey bins waiting to complete the next part of their cycle. A watering can on the back of a flatbed truck. I hear an owl by the bridle path. A passing car seems to kickstart time. A dropped pencil, scribbleless.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We live in a time now in which we don’t want to accept flaws. The journey of this generation is a journey towards certainty, and that to me is dangerous. We need to teach the beauty of uncertainty, the beauty of ambiguity, that you don’t have to be right to be good.” Rise In Power dear Bonnie
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Conductor: ready Members of the band: ready Now let’s play ‘Thursday’
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP to this wonder and this literary giant who was the youngest writer to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (in 1975 at the age of 30) for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She continues to be a personal inspiration to me. Sail softly amid the stars, Annie Dillard.✨
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The tree will die. Someday, the tree will die. For now, this axis — what we choose to compass by. - Hannah Fries www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/15/r...
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Roots and the Meaning of Life
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which t…
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Early stroll. Clouds like a patterned ceiling. A man greets me from a lit doorway. The cockerel’s limited expressive range. A dinosaur and a fire engine in a front yard. Have I seen three different cats or the same cat three times?
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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 16/09/2026
Lovely series of historic photos. #photography #historyofphotography www.kqed.org/arts/1399384...
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Ken Light’s Intimate Portrait of West Oakland in the 1970s | KQED
‘Soul City: Oakland U.S.A.’ captures the spirit of a neighborhood’s Black community in the Watergate era.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As always, beauty from @dianamatisz.bsky.social
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Early stroll. Security lights wrestle darkness to the ground. On the horizon, nothing is happening. The rune of a broken wooden spoon. The small horse gazes through the tall fence. Trees are renting their shadows.
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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...
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Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95
His moody portrait became the album cover for “Kind of Blue.” Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m so grateful to Beth Moon
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Morning all. Photograph by Ian Berry. Back to back houses built for colliery workers at a time when the mines were thriving and almost all the men in the village worked down the mines. Ashington, Northumberland, 1974.
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