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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Really looking forward to this exhibition…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
In 1945, when a B-25 military plane crashed into the Empire State Building, The New York Times photographer Ernie Sisto rushed to the scene. Here’s how he captured the disaster. nyti.ms/3TiMqwt
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 25/09/2026
“This project has been an extraordinary therapy and education in embracing the queer community” — Tim Walker. www.ft.com/content/7f38...
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Tim Walker’s portraits of LGBTQ+ royalty – ‘the gays have killed me’
The photographer’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is the result of a very personal odyssey
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 20/09/2026
“I challenged myself to be a little more all over the place, let go a little bit, and let the voice be fractured and faulty and fun and wrong… That was scary, but it was very important to me to try” — Taryn Simon. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Taryn Simon on her most ambitious exhibition yet: ‘It’s built almost like a novel’
The multidisciplinary artist delves into pockets of history, including within her family, for the largest ever debut of new work staged at the Guggenheim
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 18/09/2026
“He was really seeing so much more deeply, seeing beyond what we were presenting and seeing into our deepest beings, not just in the present, but how we were connected to the past and the future in those moments and how we transcended time” — Rebecca Walker. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘He was making history, not copying it’: the greatest Gordon Parks photographs
As a new exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Gordon Parks Foundation, those who knew him discuss his most powerful images
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 18/09/2026
“I feel at home here in this chaos because the chaos suggests images to me” — Francis Bacon. www.ft.com/content/02d3...
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Francis Bacon’s beautiful detritus
A collection of photos, contact sheets and other remnants from the artist’s studio floor throws light on his creative process and private life
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Whenever I visit the National Portrait Gallery, I always have to spend a little time with this portrait of the poet and satirist Alexander Pope painted by Jonathan Richardson in 1737. The economy of mark making, and psychological intensity of the face make the portrait feel surprisingly modern.
Portrait painting of Alexander Pope in profile.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 17/09/2026
‘I am bringing art to the people where the people are… Now they don’t have to go to galleries and see paintings on a wall’ — Peter Max (1937–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...
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Peter Max, Trippy Artist of Counterculture Era and Beyond, Dies at 88 (Gift Article)
With work that breathed the spirit of the 1960s, he became fabulously wealthy from licensing his paintings and posters in all their euphoric Day-Glo glory.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 17/09/2026
‘This a moment when Gordon [Parks] would be front and center, trying to make people see the world differently.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/a...
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Gordon Parks as His Subjects Knew Him (Gift Article)
Isabella Rossellini, Lonnie Ali, Anderson Cooper and other relatives of those who figured in the celebrated photographer’s portraiture bolster a new exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Very sad news about the great Magnum photographer Ian Berry (1934–2026). He was always so generous with his time. When I asked him for a few words about his time collaborating with the Observer art director Romek Marber (1925–2020), a three-hour conversation offered a wonderful insight.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 14/09/2026
“I like to think of these files as having so many voices.. so many histories. And it’s all boxed up in these things! These things have so much in them, if you ever bother to look” — Taryn Simon. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/m...
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Taryn Simon’s Giant Exhibition at the Guggenheim Tells the Story of America (Gift Article)
Her new show at the Guggenheim Museum is an audacious attempt to document the story of modern America through the life of one F.B.I. agent.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 11/09/2026
‘If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone. When I see light that moves me, that I cannot explain, I won’t leave until I figure it out’ — Jay Maisel (1931–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...
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Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95 (Gift Article)
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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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 06/09/2026
“I’ve published a dozen [books]… I love the idea that they last forever. I have too many favourites, but I often find myself revisiting Ukrainian-American magazine editor Alexander Liberman’s work; he was American Vogue’s art director” — François Hallard. www.ft.com/content/e5ab...
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François Halard talks taste
The French photographer loves tantric art, ’90s garage and his Glengarry cashmere beanie
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 29/08/2026
“There’s a correct amount of ink where it just sings… If there’s not enough, it can look a little sharp, a little weak. If there’s too much, it’s a little bolder. If you get it just right, you get that perfect letter form — perfect letters, the way they were designed” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/a...
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A New Declaration of Independence for America’s 250th Birthday From Arion Press (Gift Article)
In the heart of tech-mad San Francisco, Arion Press makes some of the world’s most sought-after dead-tree artifacts, including a new riff on the Declaration of Independence.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 27/08/2026
“Jillian Edelstein’s work has a remarkable ability to move between intimate human encounters and wider social histories” — Tracy Marshall-Grant. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘I am so tired’: Jillian Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures
The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition – alongside intimate images of actors, artists and f...
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 27/08/2026
“Books are my medium… I’d rather be in books than on the wall. You can pick them up, put them in your pocket, take them where you want to go” — Lee Friedlander. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
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Lee Friedlander Is Funny. Seriously. (Gift Article)
In his new book of photography, “Life Still,” a veteran observer of urban America makes us look twice at an unsung side of his talent.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 07/08/2026
Loved this series and the accompanying book.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 15/07/2026
“In the 1970s, punk zines such as Sniffin’ Glue, Alternative Ulster and Ripped & Torn allowed fans to share news and enthusiasm quickly and cheaply. Half a century on, music fanzines are enjoying a resurgence as a form of resistance to algorithm fatigue”. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
Five decades since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm
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David Stewart @davidstewwwart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I would shoot mundane objects and add a bit of surreal oddness to them. It was a counteraction to the other still life around which used faded white to grey backgrounds. The work was slightly comedic, the subject was just plonked down and shot, no pampering. @wrenagency @wrenldn
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 29/06/2026
From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Plate 43 South Caradon Mine, Cornwall Hugging Caradon Hill, this mine was not fully exploited until the 1830s when it became extremely profitable. The Liskeard & Caradon Railway, which opened in 1844, was built to enable the copper and tin ore extracted here to be...
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colinstout.bsky.social @colinstout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
©️ It’s now less than three weeks to go until my retrospective show at The Beach Art Gallery in Teddington, London. #advertising #media #advertisingagencies #print #publishing #portraiture #portraitphotography #colourphotography #blackandwhitephotography #canon #campaignmagazine #haymarketmediagroup
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Deeply saddened to learn that David Plowden, one of American's finest photographers, has died. His photographed things that were fading away, from steam trans to rural ways of life, viewing the world with compassion, yet without sentimentality. A true gentle man. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/a...
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David Plowden, Who Photographed a Disappearing America, Dies at 93
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 11/06/2026
“When I write, it’s to talk about what you cannot see in the photograph… It’s to augment the photograph, to give voice to the silence of it” — Duane Michals (1932–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...
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Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 28/05/2026
‘I took the train to random stops. I got out in unfamiliar neighborhoods, spot someone to photograph, approach them, ask if I could take a photo’ — Janette Beckman. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures
Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at the Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) in Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 27/05/2026
“These diaries expand our understanding of his process, showing the practicalities of his often precarious, rootless existence, and the inner challenges he faced and overcame” — @richove.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/46ad...
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The diaries of Czech photographer Josef Koudelka — ‘home doesn’t exist’
A compelling insight into the mind and process of the man who documented the plight of people living on the edge of European society
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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today, with the fear of war and unchecked power in democratic institutions, the temptation to go numb is real — but numbness is surrender, which we cannot afford. Photographs cannot stop a war, but they can make it impossible to ignore what's happening. That is why we still show up — why we must.
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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Worth posting twice, just to say how quick and easy this was to use. Stop Palantir!
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 04/05/2026
“Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) was a rarity in what had historically been a male-dominated profession… What made her especially rare was her refusal to adhere to societal norms and expectations for women. She was brazenly feminist but, above all, brazenly herself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/a...
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Nicole Hollander, Acerbic Feminist Cartoonist, Dies at 86
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 28/04/2026
On press today at Park Communications with Marc Vallée, for the printing of the final volume of his 90s Archive. The book launches at The Photographers’ Gallery on 2 July, where Marc will be in conversation with art critic and author James Cahill. marcvallee.co.uk/Goodbye-to-t...
Marc Vallée reviewing the first printed sheets from the printing press.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 27/04/2026
“I was never just a photographer on assignment… I was sent to shoot specific stories, but I would document the entire journey” — Raghu Rai (1942–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/w...
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Raghu Rai, Photographer Who Captured Modern India, Dies at 83
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 11/04/2026
Plate 31 From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Hodge Close Quarry, Cumbria The Tilberthwaite Valley was a slate producing area from the 19th century until the 1960s. Now the disused, water-filled workings of this small valley are a haunt for divers & rock climbers. Records show that the quarry, which...
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 10/04/2026
Any recommendations for other documentary photographers I can follow here who are doing really good work?
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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers – in pictures
The images are famous, but the women who took them are often forgotten. An inspiring exhibition focuses on the pioneering ‘new vision’ of Marianne Brandt, Lucia Moholy and more
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 29/03/2026
“From that moment on, Vinoodh started walking around and shooting different angles, different positions and moments… It became the perfect balance; we each capture different emotions” — Inez van Lamsweerde. www.ft.com/content/7c50...
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Inez & Vinoodh: ‘Taking a photograph is an act of love’
An exclusive interview with the Dutch duo celebrating 40 years as a creative couple
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 21/03/2026
“I realised this was the technique the Pontiac artists had used. And Vargas, who did the wartime pin-ups, which were copied on bomber fuselage. So I started doing the same thing, to get the beautiful finish I had been seeking” — Philip Castle (1942–2026). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Philip Castle obituary
Airbrush artist who created iconic posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, as well as artwork for Pulp and the Rolling Stones
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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A poster is seen better through London Transport : 1937 commercial advertising press advert by Zeró - Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976) who undertook much work for LT at the time. #london #transport #graphicdesign flic.kr/p/2qEB5NJ
A Poster is seen better through London Transport : press advert : design by "Zéró" : 1937 : in : Gebrauchsgraphik März 1937 : Vol. 14, No. 3 : Frenzel & Engelbrecher "Gebrauchsgraphik Verlag : Berlin : Deutschland : 1937. This issue is devoted to advertising in London and so, unsurprisingly, London Transport gets a fair amount of coverage; there even an article by Frank Pick, the Deputy Chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and who is acknowledged as being a pivotal figure in British design in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. LT chose to take a full page advert in the magazine and this is it. Interestingly it is by "Zéró"; Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976) who was a Polish-German Jewish designer and artist who had been working in the UK since 1932 and who would become a naturalised British citizen in 1939. Schleger had worked in New York in the 1920's before joining the well known advertising agency Crawford's of London in their Berlin office in 1929. He did a lot of work for LT including designing the modern bus stop flag in 1936. 

This stylish design shows a roundel headed figure, consisting of crowds, selling the idea of LT and passengers as consumers and uses clever typography to complete the design.
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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
British photographer Mark Neville on documenting four years of war in Ukraine www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
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Perspective - British photographer Mark Neville on documenting four years of war in Ukraine
A British photographer who has spent the last four years living under near-daily attacks on Kyiv has told FRANCE 24 that his nervous system has adapted to the war in Ukraine. Mark Neville says he feel...
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 13/03/2026
“Most images that were done previously by visual anthropologists, they really distorted Africa. You often find that the photographer’s name is there but the person being photographed, their name is not there” — Zanele Muholi. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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South African photographer Zanele Muholi: ‘My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in’
The artist has spent three decades changing the face of African art, and has just won the prestigious Hasselblad award. But they say the win isn’t about them – it’s for under-represented people still ...
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Andrew Eberlin @eberlin.co.uk · 12/03/2026
I could stare at this for hours. 450 rolls of film made into a psychgeographical collage of Venice by Sohei Nishino: www.michaelhoppengallery.com/viewing-room...
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Sohei Nishino | Diorama Map Venice, 2026
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 12/03/2026
“Peter Hujar is much better known than I am, much. But I helped make that happen” — Stephen Koch. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...
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Stephen Koch, 84, Dies; Champion of a Belatedly Hailed Photographer
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 08/03/2026
It feels so strange seeing an orchid in flower in March, but here it is, a Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in Oxfordshire. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
A large purple flowered, large leaf orchid growing in grassland. A close-up photograph of an orchid flower.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 08/03/2026
‘I have always had a soft spot for “Kuno”. I spent time at its small hospital as a boy, getting patched up by the district’s longtime GP, Dr John Radunovich... Some say that once the pub burnt down, the town gave up’ — Brad Rimmer. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Brad Rimmer photographs the faded glory of Western Australia’s wheatbelt halls – in pictures
Photographer captures what remains of the town halls of the once-thriving agricultural region
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 08/03/2026
So many fascinating talks and presentations already this morning, in the Women of Photography 24-hour conference. #InternationalWomen’sDay womenofphoto.com
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Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 04/03/2026
“We are living at a time where there’s tremendous retreat from the civil rights era… this exhibit is both timely and urgent. Because it speaks to the way Gordon Parks confronted these very same circumstances” — Bryan Stevenson. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it
The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 04/03/2026
‘Designer David King achieved his ambition to create “a visual style for the left” in his work for the Anti-Nazi League’. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures
From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 02/03/2026
“While I came out of this family that didn’t want me to be an artist at all, especially my businessman father, I was surrounded by creativity.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘I’m dying for the day heterosexuals have to come out’: Catherine Opie and her astonishing shots of queer America
Famed for having a child’s drawing of a family carved into her back, the photographer has devoted her life to queer America, from endurance swimmers to drag artists to her son in a tutu. Now she’s fin...
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Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 01/03/2026
“What seems pertinent to me is to transmit information, to go to what is essential, to express it clearly, to render it intelligible and obvious for everybody who sees it.” Jean Widmer (1929–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...
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Jean Widmer, Designer of Celebrated French Graphics, Dies at 96
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Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
2 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours starting at midnight on Saturday in the UK, beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free. womenofphoto.com
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Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 16/02/2026
Really interesting, sharing my thoughts on the book production process with @gmotophotos.bsky.social, alongside Michelle Sank and Lottie Davies, commissioned by Peter Dench and Amateur Photography magazine.
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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The covers to Motif 2, Feb. 1959, from silkscreens designed by Robert Stewart showing the sun and moon. Motif, a journal of the visual arts, ran from 1958-67, issued by the influential Shenval Press under the complex personality of James Shand. #graphicdesign #art #sun #moon ↘️ flic.kr/p/2oUdoco
Motif - a journal of the visual arts : number 2 : Shenval Press : London : 1959 : front cover : designed by Robert Stewart. Motif magazine was published the by Shenval Press in 13 issues running from 1958 until 1967 and was editied by Ruari McLean. Shenval was run by James Shand (1905 - 1967), a complex figure, who ran the business whilst being happier amongst London's bohemian community - it allowed him to issue alongside Motif three other influential publications on design and typography; Typography (1936 - 39), Alphabet and Image (1946 - 48) and Image (1949 - 52). 

Issue 2 in February 1959 appeared with these bright and breezy silk screen bindings designed by Robert Stewart. This, the front cover, shows a crescent moon in connection with the sun on the back cover. The crescent moon, in very bold abstract form, has a blue face looking towards the sun (on the back cover) - spiky rays emanate from the leaft, back, side in shades of red, green and blue. The title appears bottom left.Motif - a journal of the visual arts : number 2 : Shenval Press : London : 1959 : back cover : designed by Robert Stewart. Motif magazine was published the by Shenval Press in 13 issues running from 1958 until 1967 and was editied by Ruari McLean. Shenval was run by James Shand (1905 - 1967), a complex figure, who ran the business whilst being happier amongst London's bohemian community - it allowed him to issue alongside Motif three other influential publications on design and typography; Typography (1936 - 39), Alphabet and Image (1946 - 48) and Image (1949 - 52). 

Issue 2 in February 1959 appeared with these bright and breezy silk screen binidngs designed by Robert Stewart. This, the back cover, is dominated by a bright red sun, with face, along with many varied rays emanating outwards.
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