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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

London Road area, Brighton, 2026. When #hate is loud #love must be louder. #humanism #kindness #pride

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Selsey West Beach, Selsey, West Sussex, 2026. Symmetry (not). #photography #coastline #sussex #newtopographics

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All the tech corporates that I will have nothing to do with.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Buildings moved from locations when they have been under risk of demolition or delapidation. Like all museums, I find there is a sense of appropriation of culture, by wealthy collectors or donors, that should perhaps have been restored and protected in its original community.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Weald and Downland Living Museum, Singleton, West Sussex, 2026. Traditional English rural buildings. A very worthy and educational place, but rather unsettling. The beautiful bucolic fantasy of English rural life centuries ago, that I am uncomfortable with.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bracklesham, West Sussex, 2026. 1930's beach house - a fast disappearing cultural icon, being replace by overglazed status symbol modern monstrosities. #inequality #beachhouses #photography

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Brackelsham, West Sussex, 2026. Typical 1930's beach bungalow that are fast disappearing and being replaced with over-glazed modern monstrosities, by wealthy status seekers. #inequality

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bracklesham, West Sussex, 2026. Typical modern 2020's beach house, a fast growing style of new build on many of the previous 1930's bungalow sites all along the south coast. From my "South Coast Beach Houses" series.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bracklesham, West Sussex, 2026. Typical 2020's beach house, a fast growing style of new build on many of the previous 1930's bungalow sites all along the south coast. From my "South Coast Beach Houses" series.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Conway Street, Hove, East Sussex, 2026. From my continuing work on the unnoticed, but interesting secondary views of the built streets of our city.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Brighton, England, 2026. From my "Macho Motors" series, in my Inequality work-stream. Dangerous to kids and other humans. #inequality #SUV #carmageddon #brighton #meme #fordpickup #bling #machomotors

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Stelida, Naxos, Greece, 2026. From "shut in shut out" my series on the gates of expensive properties, a marker of #inequality #naxos

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nice, and the violinist (Saskia Heriz-Smith) and the woman to her left (Maggie) are friends of ours too.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a good attempt at highlighting the massive issues of wealth inequality and attitudes of entitlement by elites. Left out were important issues of the privatisation of public services and control by private equity, leading to a process of ever increasing profit and wealth for the elites.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

McFadden and ministers must stop making grossly wild statements about benefit claimants getting cheques, as if they don't have already to go through repetitive, stressful, demeaning, complex and unnecessary processes to get what they are legally entitled to for their day to day expenses through PIP.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Security gate, Stelida area, Chora, Naxos, Greece, 2026. From the series - "The Patina of Naxos", on my favourite Cyclades island, taken this year. (But also part of my #inequality project series, "shut in shut out").

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rotherhithe ferry pier & Canary Wharf, London, 2026. The Isle of Dogs, was a highly deprived area of Britain, now the Isle of Dosh, one of the most expensive places in the country. Cheap property areas are taken over by elites, who push out the local community. My long term project on #inequality

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Up Yours! Oh my dog, I hate this symbol of the City of London's morality that any way of making money must be good and right. Good and right for the elites, of course. #inequality #greed #mammon #shard #spike

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs from Rotherhithe at low tide, Docklands, London, 2026. London Docklands, 2026. From a new series on the docklands now.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Modern temples and treasuries to Mammon, London Docklands, 2026.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 2026. "This site is under reconstruction at the moment, please come back later". From my series, "The Athens Experience". See my portfolio on the Foto app:@robertashby.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Trumpster the Dumpster. We can’t do “Spitting Image” satire of Trump, he is both subject of the performance providing the crass maga behaviour and its satirical ridicule at the same time. Everything about Trump’s behaviour is already exaggerated beyond satire. He is his own parody.

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Brian Rose @brosenyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Photo by Doug Mills of The NY Times. Trump, a hulking figure in black, trudges alone across a tarmac. An imminent threat to the world.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Coombe Farm Housing Development, Saltdean, East Sussex, 2025. My project, "Some New Developments", on property development on the edge of the South Downs. I have photographed at this site for 2 years - houses are now finished, only a few occupied, so it’s like a ghost village right now.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Coombe Farm, Saltdean, East Sussex, 2025. My ongoing project, "Some New Developments", on property development on the edge of the South Downs in Sussex. I have photographed at this development for 2 years - houses are now finished, only a few occupied, so it’s like a ghost village right now.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Martin Parr - great photographer, social commentator and promoter of the photobook as a major format of artistic expression. We will miss his ironic wit and authority - but what a legacy of images that will endure.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I made a difficult decision in September to not go to a big meet-up of my American wife's family because 1) my comments in social media & my profile in the humanist movement, might mean not be let in 2) it would feel complicit with a regime like my parents spent WWII 5 years in London resisting.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

4...We must all support the BBC now, before the trumpers get their hands in it.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

3...This is about the continuing attacks on democracy and truth worldwide by the autocracies and their dogmas of unrestrained capitalism and power corrupting justice. They want to close down one of the few unbiased beacons of truth and decency in the world.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

2 ...that day in day out shows how corrupt, biased and venal most of the rest of the world’s media really are. THAT is what the populists are really trying to shut down. This isn’t just about a few errors of editing and judgement.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

1 The Big Beautiful Communicator - our worldwide unique and wonderful truth and arts broadcaster has made a mistake about what Trump said. But for the past 100 years it has demonstrated how to be a national treasury of honest journalism and high class entertainment,

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Whilst a lower pound is a negative virility symbol for politicians, as up to 75% of FTSE company profits are from overseas sales, that means the profit they report in pounds goes UP if the pound goes down!

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Applied Ignorance Actual Incompetence Amazing Ineptitude Automated Ingratiation Absent Intellect Abandoned Integrity

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This project looks very interesting, particularly the idea of looking at the statues and other monuments that surround and are the context for the central decision making location for a country, which will, inevitably have become out of date culturally over time, but will be resistant to change.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dairy, meat, chocolate, coffee. So the answer to beating inflation is clearly tea drinking vegetarianism, my diet anyway 😀👍

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"Status Urban Vanity", some prints in the exhibition of my work on inequality at Mid-Street Lab, Kemptown, Brighton. 11th-25th Oct. www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Spot on! See some Brighton "Status Urban Vanity" motors in my current exhibition 😀

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

No problem, Finn. Will you be at the Post launch with Simon & Nina on Wednesday evening next week?

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Finn, you're very welcome to the Private View of my photo exhibition tomorrow evening 6-8pm at the diminutive, but excellent Mid-Street Gallery in Kemptown: www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Some selfish git SUV ("Status Urban Vanity") motors from my photo exhibition about inequality on now.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Correct - it should definitely be a matter for the Israeli government - to answer for in the International Court of Justice.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Another promotional campaign with its fatuous three word meme.🤮

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

And another lie, the ICE agents are NOT Police.

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Robert Ashby @rastargrapher.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Shut In Shut Out - exhibition of some of my work on inequality coming up 11th-25th October at Mid Street Lab, Brighton. #inequality #shutinshutout #gates #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #newtopographics www.midstreetlab.com/whats-on/rob...

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