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Stephen Graham King🍉

@stephengrahamking.com
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Toronto based. Queer space opera writer, black and white street photographer, disabled cancer survivor. Aspiring mensch. Aro. He/They. Pew pew pew. I can words! Dum spero spiro (While I live, I hope) linktr.ee/stephengrahamking

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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 18h
Broadview Station, Toronto. September, 2026. I saw him there as I was waiting for the streetcar, framed by the light, the streetcar, the station. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Night, on the outdoor platform. There is a streetcar waiting at right. Centre and left, the structure of the station frames a lone TTC worker sweeping the platform. In the deep background, a car travels along Broadview, blurred by motion.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 01/10/2026
Teranga
The next time someone says thank you, instead of answering with you're welcome, what if you told the truth, as they do in Senegal, saying: It is shared, it is for both of us-the gift flowing back and forth in all directions to touch the lives of strangers who were never a part of the initial exchange, caressing their skin like steady rain in the middle of a drought, making them look up at the sky with unshielded eyes, seeing now: to give is also to receive.
-James Crews
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 01/10/2026
Outside Broadview Espresso, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky The quintessential sight outside cafés, bars, and restaurants: someone outside having a cig.
At left, leaning against a mailbox outside a café, a bearded man in a cap and shorts smokes a cigarette. Pedestrians walk along the street behind him, and a woman at right walks into the frame holding a takeout cup, back to the camera.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 30/09/2026
Spadina Station, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I love the moodiness of this shot, the way those lights on the walls illuminate the concourse.
The concourse over the tracks at Spadina Station, illuminated by roundels on the walls. A young woman is visible coming around the curve at right, at the end of the glass wall that looks down on the tracks.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 30/09/2026
"Mrs Peel. We're needed."
Diana Right and Patrick Macnee in The Avengers
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 29/09/2026
Broadview Station, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I love shooting at night. Everything just pops in the darkness. Ordinary, everyday things take on a whole different aspect.
Night. On the outdoor platform, a streetcar waits, at left. Just right of centre in the mid-ground, a young man and woman wait, him sitting on top of the concrete dividing wall. The lights on Broadview Avenue can be seen in the background
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 28/09/2026
Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky
Graffiti on a brick wall, with support girders in front of it, on the right. Pennants hang overhead. A parked moped sits at the left.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 28/09/2026
Poster for Mildred Pierce.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 28/09/2026
Poster for the movie Xanadu
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 27/09/2026
My favourite piece from the Richard Avedon exhibit this afternoon. Gloria Swanson, actress, New York, September 4, 1980
Gloria Swanson photographed by Richard Avedon
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 27/09/2026
Where I be this afternoon. Being a photogeek and visiting the work of a master.
Photo of The Image Centre, with a poster advertising a Richard Avedon exhibit
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 27/09/2026
"I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!" 😭
Poster for Ruthless People
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 26/09/2026
New specs!
Me with new glasees
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/09/2026
thatguywithabook

Call me a socialist but if your business model collapses the second you have to
pay people fairly, you don't have a business model, you have a labor camp.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/09/2026
Dupont Street, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I caught them there deep in conversation as I was scoping the subway entrances and surrounding area for good shots to take.
Against a painted mural of birds on the side of a building, two people sit in the lower right corner on a bench, having a conversation.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 24/09/2026
Book cover: The Little Death by Michael Nava
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 24/09/2026
My new daily affirmation.
A hot pink frame around a hand painted sign that reads "Be nicer to yourself, you dumb bitch"
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 24/09/2026
shortymcsnorty: 
Wilson Phillips did not prepare me for how many times I'd have to hold on for one more day

Cal calm: 
4 Non Blondes underestimated how many times I'd step outside, take a deep breath, and scream WHAT'S GOING ON
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 24/09/2026
Yonge and Dundas, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I saw her standing there, outside Shake Shack, and there was just something about her framed by the bright light inside.
Outside the doors of Shake Shack, a young woman stands in profile, just right of centre. She is looking intently off to the left of the frame. Her arms are folded and in her hand she carries her phone.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 23/09/2026
Dupont Station, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky Another shot of one of the amazing entrances at Dupont Station.
Through the curved, clear glass of the station entrance, we see two passengers getting on the escalator down to the platform.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 23/09/2026
Ed from Cowboy BeBop
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 22/09/2026
Dundas West Station, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I was just going to get a shot of the train coming in but at the last minute noticed the reflective surface of the poster frame.
A young woman leans against the wall waiting for the train that is just pulling in. She, the other riders walking along the platform, and the train itself are reflected in the reflective surface of a poster cover on the wall.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 21/09/2026
Yonge Street, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky Me and my food couriers. There’s definitely a series there. Maybe an exhibit someday.
 At the light, two food couriers on mopeds wait for the light to change, with pedestrians in the background.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 19/09/2026
Ok hear me out, a Lord of the Rings remake but with these two taking the one ring to Mordor.
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 19/09/2026
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 18/09/2026
RIP Gerrit Graham, seen here in Phantom of the Paradise.
Gerrit Graham in Phantom of the Paradise
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 18/09/2026
The Bloor Line, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I’m not sure why I love this shot so much. Maybe the light from the windows to the viaduct beyond. The arrangement of the lights and darks. But it’s one I’m very happy with.
On the Bloor subway, crossing the viaduct, a man sits with a takeout coffee, looking down at his phone.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 17/09/2026
Spadina and Dupont, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I saw these subway entrances in a YouTube video and had to go get some photos
On the corner is a domed glass entrance to the subway below. On the corner, pedestrians wait for the light to change.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 17/09/2026
RIP Peter Max. Back in the glory days of the Scholastic Book Club in my elementary school, I ordered a book of paper airplanes he designed. Had no idea who he was, but I loved the designs, and that love for his work has never faded.
Art by Peter MaxArt by Peter MaxArt by Peter MaxArt by Peter Max
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 16/09/2026
Me in the 80s. Actually me. Actually the 80s. No AI slop.
Photo of me from the 80s
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 16/09/2026
Spadina Station, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky
Looking across the tracks to the opposite platform of Spadina Station where two women sit waiting for the next train in conversation.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 15/09/2026
Sankofa Square, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky Another shot of food vendors at the Festival, taken with my new lens.
In the foreground, two women talk in a Thai food vendor booth, banners with pictures of the menu over their heads. At right, in the background, another woman does prep work
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 15/09/2026
A day and a half. It lasted a day and a half.
A chip in my newly painted nails
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 14/09/2026
Important question: black or tortoiseshell?
Me with black eyeglass frames Me with tortoiseshell frames
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 14/09/2026
Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky Another shot taken at the Farmers Market on my first trip there.
The outdoor eating area. At right, behind the tables is a towering, abandoned boiler or vat. People sit at the tables with their meals. Just right of centre, an older woman with a cane carrying a shopping bag walks toward left, her face turned from the camera
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 14/09/2026
Did my nails for the first time in about a year.
Sparkly silver polish on my nails
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 12/09/2026
Poster for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 12/09/2026
Joanna Lumley as Patsy Stone
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 12/09/2026
astral_ecliptic: 
If your vote can be bought for 5k then you a bitch

_the1978:
And if you offer 5k for a vote you a bitch

n8thagr8er: 
And if you believe you'll get 5k you a dumb bitch
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 11/09/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Pigs in Space from The Muppet Show
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 11/09/2026
Photo of Jessica Lange in American Horror Story. Caption reads "There's not going to be a $5,000 cheque you stupid slut."
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 11/09/2026
Jasmine Sanders @JasMoneyRecords

I'm tireda being the only 1 who cleans, pays all the bills, cooks every day and does dishes in this house. I am the backbone of this family.
I live alone, but still
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 11/09/2026
Sankofa Square, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky Another shot from that night I was out testing the new lens.
Night. A festival is going on at the Square. At right, leaning against a pillar, we see a security guard. Beyond him, in the background, a woman walks toward the camera. There are lit buildings and the entrance to the subway station behind them.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 10/09/2026
Dupont Station, Toronto. September, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I made a special trip to Dupont because there are some amazing street level entrances and I wanted to get shots of them. And I took photos along the way.
Looking down at track level from the upper concourse. On the opposite platform is a single person, framed by the pillars and structure of the station.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 09/09/2026
Someone mentioned this over on FB. If you haven't seen it, you must. One of my favourite queer movies of all time. A modern fairy tale for sure, but it will heal your soul.
Poster for Big Wden (2000)
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 09/09/2026
Broadview Station, Toronto. August, 2026. #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky For as much of a mess they are sometimes, I love the streetcars. I wish Toronto would allow them to reach their potential.
Two streetcars wait at Broadview Station. The one on the right is end on to the camera. The one on the left is angled in as if their noses are meeting.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 09/09/2026
Superman: Birthright by Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 09/09/2026
Tuvix. Whatever you think of her decision, the decision was Janeway's alone and despite two terrible options, she motherfucking made it.
Tuvix
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 09/09/2026
Deep Space Nine. Hands down. With Prodigy a close second.
Deep Space Nine  cast imagePromo image for Star Trek: Prodigy
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 08/09/2026
Spock wearing drag makeup. Caption reads "Set phasers to stunning
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