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Peter Cripps

@petercripps.photography
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Photographer - Writer - Software Engineer (Retired) “There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.” - Jeanloup Sieff petercripps.photography medium.com/@Pete_Cripps

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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 19/09/2026
“At its core, end times fascism is a crisis of rampant impunity born of concentrated power and wealth. Far too much money, information technology, and weaponry have been allowed to concentrate into the hands of the few…” @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/09/2026
Kew Gardens, 2026 #blackandwhitephotography #gardenphotography
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 13/09/2026
London, 2026 #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 25/08/2026
"No Entry", London, 2026 #blackandwhite #streetphotography in #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 23/08/2026
Personally I feel we have already allowed Zuck to mess with the future too much already and for him to take and twist Tim Berners-Lee's immortal words "this is for everyone" is just plain obscene. Why can't he just shut the Zuck up! about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
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The Future is for Everyone
A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 21/08/2026
"It's all good", London, 2026 #streetphotography in #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/08/2026
"Paradoxical Post Boxes", London, 2026 #streetphotography in #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/08/2026
We were warned! www.theguardian.com/news/2026/au... #computerhistory #ai #surveillancestate
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Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
The long read: Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in a utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 16/08/2026
"Touched", Lichfield, 2026 #streetphotography
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 10/08/2026
medium.com/full-frame/5... #52weekphotochallenge #photography
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52 Week Photography Project
July 2026
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 08/06/2026
My review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #artificialintelligence #bookreview #ethics #technology
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Is Superintelligent AI Going to Kill Us All?
A review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 22/05/2026
medium.com/full-frame/w... #streetphotography #philosophy #ageing #henricartier-bresson
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Why I Stopped Caring About Sharpness
On ageing, observation, and the beauty of imperfect photographs
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 21/05/2026
medium.com/full-frame/t... #lichfield #streetphotograpy #blackandwhitephotography
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The Market That Vanished: Lichfield’s Cattle Market in Photographs
Exploring how photography helps preserve the memory of a vanished part of urban life
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 20/05/2026
medium.com/full-frame/h... #photolondon #harrygruyaert #streetphotography
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Harry Gruyaert at Photo London, 2026
Lessons learned from a master of street photography
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/05/2026
"Furry Taxis", London, 2026 #streetphotography in #london with #fujifilm X-E5
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 16/05/2026
medium.com/full-frame/c... #photography #landscapephotography
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Converging Lines as a Compositional Tool
How to enhance depth and create perspective in your photographs
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 01/05/2026
medium.com/full-frame/o... #photography #portraitphotography
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On Photography and Style
Learning to see through others
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 23/04/2026
Received my copy of @marcdavenant.bsky.social ‘Rebellion’ zine, his “celebration of protest” and of peoples right to do so - no matter what their political beliefs. In this age of instant everything online it’s good people are still creating printed documents that make images a bit more permanent.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/04/2026
medium.com/full-frame/f... #photography #architecturalphotography #barbican #london
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Finding Beauty in Darkness
Let’s not kill the flame just yet
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 15/04/2026
London, March 2026 #streetphotography in #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 13/04/2026
Barbican, London, March 2026 #streetphotography #architecturalphotography #brutalistarchitecture #london
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 09/04/2026
medium.com/full-frame/o... #photography #creativity #quotations
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On the Importance of Quotations
How the words of others can help us make better photographs
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 05/04/2026
medium.com/full-frame/w... #photography #streetphotography #philosophy
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What 50 Years of Photography Has Taught Me About Seeing
Lessons about observation, ordinary moments, and the photographs we almost miss
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 13/03/2026
The tech bros aren't even hiding in plain site are they. They’re just out there saying this stuff (AI) is going to be very, very bad and you don't know whats about to hit you. Heck, this guy even wrote a book telling us what he’s gonna do! newrepublic.com/post/207693/... #ai #ethics #palantir
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 12/03/2026
medium.com/full-frame/t... #photography #streetphotography #zines
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The Zine as Antidote to the Algorithm
Or why printing your images matters more than ever
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 01/03/2026
petercripps.photography/2026/03/01/m... #bookreview #ai #artificialintelligence #ingmarstrumke #machinesthatthink
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Machines That Think by Inga Strümke
Machines That Think by Inga Strümke (c) Rheinwerk Publishing Inc. My first software engineering role, after graduating, was in 1979. I began working with a telecommunications company on stored prog…
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 27/02/2026
Just received copy of 'Small Town Inertia 2' by @smalltowninertia.bsky.social with a foreword by @paulmason.bsky.social poetry by @jamiethrasivoulou.bsky.social and back cover comment by @stephenfry.bsky.social Social documentary at its finest. #socialdocumentaryphotography #photography #photobooks
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 25/02/2026
medium.com/full-frame/t... #photography #philosophy #ai
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The Tools We Use
Musings on the camera as a creative tool
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 20/02/2026
medium.com/full-frame/s... #streetphotography #blackpool #photography
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Starting My Street Photography Journey
Tentative beginnings and thoughts on what could have been
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 08/02/2026
I know I posted this before but the video created to go along with this song makes it worth doing so again. I’m so glad protest songs like this are alive and well. We just need more of them. Thanks @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/st...
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Streets of Minneapolis (Lyric Video) | Bruce Springsteen
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voiceSinging through the bloody mistWe’ll take our stand for this landAnd the stranger in our midstHere in our home they killed and roamedIn the winter of ’26We’ll reme...
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 04/02/2026
Enjoying the Daily Grind, Lichfield, 2026 #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography with #fujifilm X-Pro3
Black and white street photograph of two women outside a coffee shop called 'Daily Grind'. Lichfield, 2026.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 30/01/2026
medium.com/full-frame/w... #photography #landscapephotography #anseladams
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What I Learnt from Ansel Adams
The grandmaster of landscape photography
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 22/01/2026
Trawling through my blog I found this post I thought I'd share. #devon #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography petercripps.photography/2020/02/03/d...
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Devon in Black and White
I’m lucky that I can spend part of my year in Devon. Here is a collection of favourite images made over the last couple of years, processed in black and white. Tree Overlooking River Dart Pon…
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 21/01/2026
Three Spires, Lichfield Cathedral, 2025 #photography #architecturephotography #lichfield with #fujifilm X-T4
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 10/01/2026
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... With thanks to @davidtoddmccarty.bsky.social and @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy #photography #creativity #writing #enshittification
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On Enshittification and Other Matters
A short essay on how I got lost but now know which way to go
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 06/01/2026
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #photography #streetphotography #portraitphotography
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Words and Pictures
Interpreting famous photographers words with some of my own images
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 31/12/2025
medium.com/full-frame/i... #photography #philosopy
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In Praise of Ordinary Photographs
On the importance of photographing the normal and the mundane
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 23/12/2025
medium.com/full-frame/w... #photography #portraitphotography #photoshop #composite #creativity
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What Level Are You At?
Assessing your photographic ‘maturity’
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 19/12/2025
medium.com/full-frame/w... #photography #waysofseeing #creativity
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What You See and What a Photographer Sees
Or why you should not always carry a camera with you
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 18/12/2025
medium.com/full-frame/o... #flaneur #photography #streetphotography
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On Being a Flâneur
How being an observant urban wanderer can help with your street photography
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 15/12/2025
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #photography #streetphotography #vemodalen
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On Overcoming Vemödalen
Or how not to worry that everything has been photographed before
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 12/12/2025
medium.com/@anicehassim... Imagine if this had been a real picture and there had been a freak gust of wind. #timemagazine #personoftheyear #ai
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TIME’s AI Architects forget humans
TIME Magazine’s AI cover reveals how power defines architecture today, elevating scale over stewardship and excluding humans
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 11/12/2025
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #davidbowie #creativity #music #steallikeanartist
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The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.
How might David Bowie have used AI to create his art?
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 10/12/2025
I love this. The book looks wonderful - I’m going to buy a copy for my wife for Christmas.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 08/12/2025
Sad to hear about the death of Martin Parr. He was a photographic one off producing quirky but socially important images. #martinparr #streetphotography #documentaryphotography www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘He made the mundane magnificent’: Martin Parr could make a chip shop as mighty as a cathedral
A brilliantly human photographer, he celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty in cheese sandwiches at a church fete or people queuing for ice cream at the beach – all while poking fun at Britishness
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 06/12/2025
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #technorealism #manifesto #technology #ai
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The Technorealist Manifesto
Ten principles for navigating our technological future
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 05/12/2025
I love this. What a great project.
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 03/12/2025
medium.com/@Pete_Cripps... #photography #streetphotography #creativity
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Intent vs. Accident: Designing for Serendipity
How to prepare for luck as a street photographer
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Peter Cripps @petercripps.photography · 29/11/2025
A really interesting and balanced essay on the ethics of #streetphotography. Anyone who has ever had any doubts about whether they should take a particular photograph or not should give it a read.
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