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@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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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 1h
Early stroll. Fallen rain gleams on fallen leaves. A man’s face is illuminated by the big telly he’s watching. A hooded lad cycles by. A silent ambulance outside a bright house. A skeleton dinosaur by the dentist’s door.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Tintype of The Tiny Tea Tent. 'A Portrait of Greenbelt' @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“When I was shooting with collodion, I wasn't just snapping a picture. I was fashioning, with fetishistic ceremony, an object whose ragged black edges gave it the appearance of having been torn from time itself.” - Sally Mann 'A Portrait of Greenbelt' in the making. @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Early stroll. The unemotional stars. The bloke in the doorway flings his cig into the garden and goes inside. A metaphor-heavy wooden fork on the pavement. Puddle as leaf-collector. The temporary traffic lights hesitate, then let me pass.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A glimpse into the making of ‘A Portrait of Greenbelt’. @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social 📷 Mark Kensett
Documentary photography
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This thread👇🏼 A glimpse through an old brass lens of just some of the beautiful humans who are a place I’ve called Home for half my life… @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving…it remembers little things, long after we have forgotten everything.” - Aaron Siskind If you can help, please do, and help birth this book into being, so we can remember the little things... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-portrait...
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A Portrait of Greenbelt
Help us publish A Portrait of Greenbelt, with photos by Paul Chambers and reflections by Pádraig Ó Tuama, celebrating our Boughton years.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Early stroll. Two leaves race each other to the ground. The main road seems performatively busy. A parked excavator like a cubist dinosaur. A man on a bike waves to me. The first 218 is, unusually, empty.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wim Wenders appeared in my creative life as I began to express myself in photography, poetry, theatre and film. His form and expression blew me away. From Alice in the Cities to Wings of Desire he is the epitome of my spiritual journey. youtu.be/8jRHI5l41tY
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Early stroll. Maybe that streetlight wants to change places with that star. My shadow and me: nearly a song title. Hello, silent hill. The horse is not there: horse-lack. A cat leaps over a high wall, almost flying for a moment.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is an opportunity to hold deeply these important images and freeze them in time, and preserving our Greenbelt DNA, human emotion and memory. If you can help, please do, and help birth this book into being, so we can remember the little things, long after we have forgotten everything...🙏🏿
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I can't get shake that first sentence my friend.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Get your photography seen by the audience you deserve’. My interview with Amateur Photographer on how to get your photographs shown as an exhibition. amateurphotographer.com/latest/get-y...
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Get your photography seen by the audience you deserve! These secrets will help you secure an exhibition of your own | Amateur Photographer
Want to exhibit your photography? Marc Davenant explains how to find unexpected venues, build partnerships and make your exhibition impossible to ignore.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Early stroll. In my mind’s eye I see the Romans who walked round here. A passing plane’s distant spark. I sneeze; the cockerel replies. The hill dreams of being a mountain. That well-stocked library of fallen leaves.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The moment Adam appeared through the fog of the fix. "Nice..." Face Equality International and Exposure One Awards Still time to vote and help highlight the lived experiences of individuals with facial differences. exposureoneawards.com/people-vote-...
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you. Too kind as always. Means a lot.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Early stroll. A fallen leaf’s soft shadow. The moon is somewhere behind this drizzle. A PUBLIC FOOTPATH sign points to darkness. Green lights garland that old tree. A black cat in an upstairs window.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been shortlisted by the judges at ExposureOne Awards for Portrait of the Year for this tintype I made with Adam Pearson for a wider body of work raising awareness around facial difference with Face Equality International. There's a People's vote too! 🙏🏿 exposureoneawards.com/people-vote-...
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Early stroll. Stars tell their ancient stories. Shall I count all these fallen leaves? Maybe tomorrow. The waiting lad with the bag waits with his bag. Morning peeps through a broken bus shelter roof. The shining currency of streetlights.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is, as the wonderful @shaun.theblkgze.com says, is #photography
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Beautiful work sir.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just the smile I needed as the monsoon season hits us here in Guernsey...
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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stephen Shore on How to Sharpen Your Mind’s Eye The photographer considers Walker Evans’s search for truth beneath the surface of the mundane. aperture.org/editorial/st...
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Stephen Shore on How to Sharpen Your Mind’s Eye
In Aperture’s fall issue "Stop Time," the photographer considers Walker Evans’s search for truth beneath the surface of the mundane.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Early stroll. Drizzle drizzles drizzily. The confidence of a new wall. A leaf autumnfalls on my head. Three ladders on a truck’s back. A hi-vis man unloads bread from a van.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That P word was the one extra word I wished I’d typed John… Key…
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You arrive and set up in the dark. And then you wait for the window. Just a few moments where the light is golden (silver in my case) as it hits the rock. Light, always light. And preparation, preparation, preparation…
Wet plate photography
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh man. I had no idea. Sending love brother.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Matsura’s photographs, Harrington says, “we encounter his humanity, the humanity of others depicted who may not be ‘like’ us, and we also feel our own humanity rise in a kind of sympathetic vibration. That depth, that joy, that connection forms a bridge.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/01/p...
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The Japanese photographer who turned an empathetic eye on rural communities of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century
A new documentary about Frank Matsura captures the incredible journey of an immigrant photographer who created indelible images and served as a bridge across cultures
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Andrew Keedle @apkeedle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3min exposure with the wind blowing the trees. Bright late afternoon sun. A lot of contrast, but at least we got something. #photography
A monochrome, vintage-style photograph capturing a wide grassy field gently sloping upward toward a dense treeline. The foreground consists of textured, patchily lit grass stretching across the lower half of the frame. Beyond the lawn, a continuous row of lush, leafy deciduous trees spans horizontally across the background, creating a natural forest border. The sky above is bright, clear, and featureless, contrasting against the dark foliage. Framed with a thin, irregular black film border, the image has a rustic, nostalgic aesthetic with soft lighting and deep shadowed tones throughout the landscape.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beautiful. Love this Andrew!
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always brother! One day, I promise, we'll make it to your beautiful adopted country!
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One last set going back to where 'A Portrait of Greenbelt' began. Our 50th year: A Collodion Journey with Bashar Murad, Bruce Cockburn, & Harry Baker 📷 Ali J Photography & Mark Kensett If you can help...🙏🏿 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-portrait...
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Nancy said 🙏🏿
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Why do English people lack a culture of connection with their land? And how might we forge a new one?’ Nick Hayes on land rights and peaceful revolution. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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‘We have been dispossessed’: Nick Hayes on land rights and a peaceful revolution at the real Toad Hall | Books | The Guardian
The co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass discusses the Oxfordshire riverside community he calls home and how Hardwick Hall has been taken back by the people
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Early stroll. Fallen leaves as autumn’s calling cards. Sometimes time moves as quickly as that cat. Sometimes time moves as slowly as the moon. An owl’s psalm. A dropped doughnut outside the dentist’s.
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“A lot of work you say? Absolutely, this process isn’t for people who desire the comfort of a Herman Miller chair and Adobe Photoshop, the physical work is part of what makes it special.” Good to be reminded of dear Quinn's (Jacobson) words as I reflect on my practice. 📷 Mark Kensett
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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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
Thank you Marc, so very much. It's been a real labour of love for a few years now, for a while not sure how it might look, or if it would happen at all. I'm a bit lost for words, just holding my breath now that folk are kind and it comes to life to finally hold...
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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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