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Alan Bulley

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Writer and photographer 🇨🇦🍁 MA Doc Photo 2025, University of South Wales Contributing writer for @photoeditorial.bsky.social IG @alanbulley http://bio.site/alanbulleyphoto

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · Feb 5

A quick intro to me: I am a former federal public servant now working on an MA in Doc Photo and very interested in the state of Canada's public institutions. Happy to connect with others looking at intersections of photography, writing, public policy, and institutions that support our societies!

A photograph of the West Block of Canada's Parliament Buildings in a snowstorm at night.

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 1d

I see a rake in my future...

#Aylmer #Gatineau #Quebec #fall #automne

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Have you relocated to Ayrshire or are you just on holiday?

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The backyard says fall has arrived in the Ottawa Valley.

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El Zein Khouri: “The problem is when people of any background are bringing their implicit biases and lack of knowledge and or understanding to the visual work they’re doing. That is how stereotypes, inaccuracies and damaging visual rhetoric are made and then globally circulated as fact...”

As World Press Photo turns 70, is it time for photojournalism to move forward from a history of harm?

The sought after award is celebrating its anniversary with an introspective exhibition—but questions remain about its value in today’s world

www.theartnewspaper.com

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4d

Why the Greenlandic artist thinks photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland artreview.com/inuuteq-stor...

Feature: Inuuteq Storch – The Celestial and the Profane | ArtReview

The Greenlandic artist explains why photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland, ahead of his exhibition on 9 October at MoMA PS1, New York

artreview.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Pod Save the UK @podsavetheuk.crooked.com · 9d

The new comedy destination is… Saudi Arabia?!

This week, Nish shares some Big Feelings about the Riyadh Comedy Festival - where the likes of Jack Whitehall, Omid Djalili and Jimmy Carr are performing.

Listen or watch now.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #News #Trending #NishKumar

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10d

Good column.

Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.

www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...

Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!

Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.

www.readtheline.ca

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

What do Trump and Hegseth’s inflammatory speeches to military generals signal? | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regime

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 11d

Glad to say that the article is better than the silly headline. Trump and Co. are preparing the U.S. for soldiers in the streets and martial law. Bye-bye mid-terms...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12d

Hey Canada, Trump brought up his whole “Canada should be the 51st State” again today, for the first time in a while, to a room full of all the top-ranked military leaders in the United States.

I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?

Photo of the U.S. military leaders listening to Trump in silence.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 16d

Exploring the past, present, and future of Canadian sovereignty in a changing world. Join us on October 28 at Rogers presents The Walrus Talks Sovereign Canada.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walru...

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 20d

#EpigraphyTuesday 🏺
First known mention of #Roman Londoners - Londiniensium - on late 2nd/early 3rd C AD Turkish marble tablet of Tiberinius Celeranius a trader from Beauvais.
From important Tabard Square site in #Southwark excavated by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
In new London Museum expected 2026

Turkish marble tablet with Latin text, translated as:
To the spirits of the Emperors and to the god Mars Camulus, Tiberinius Celeranius, Citizen of the Bellovaci, Mortix of the people of London, first...[set up this monument].
Mars was an important god of place in Rheims, near Beauvais (Bellovaci). A mortix was a position related to trading or shipping.

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Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to be showing a number of new framed prints at an art show this weekend, including this one titled “Homeward Dove”.
#artphotography #classicmono #bnw #montreal #leonardcohen

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 23d

"The historical archaism of British government is ingrained. [...] Debates are ill-attended and pointless. Select committees are lacking in authority. The House of Lords is virtually immune to reform."

Good to know that Canada is immune to all this. Right? Right?

Trump’s visit revealed a stark truth: Britain feels more than ever like a country stuck in the past | Simon Jenkins

The pageantry highlighted the fact that we have no vision for our future, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 24d

I'm still processing the last two weeks, which consisted of a bookmaking workshop in Cardiff, followed by my MA Doc Photo degree show in Bethnal Green, London.

I plan to rework my book ("The Ottawa Bubble," on the writing desk) as a print-on-demand item to help keep its costs... democratic.

A blurred figure of a man walks through my photographic installation at the Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green, London.

Photo credit: Ed Jones

Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 25d

It sounds like vapourware.

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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 28d

Senator Danièle Henkel: By finally opening the government procurement door for small businesses, we’re choosing a country that’s fairer, bolder and truer to its potential.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Government procurement should reflect Canada's real wealth: its SMEs

Behind every small business, are people who take risks, innovate and create jobs in our communities. By finally opening the government procurement door for them, we’re choosing a country that’s…

www.hilltimes.com

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28d

Somberness Sunlit
Emily Carr
1938-40

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 29d

Very proud to be showing work at the Four Corners Gallery in London, along with the other members of my MA in Doc Photo cohort.

I will follow up with some posts of my own work, a project on the state of Canada's House of Commons.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · Sep 7

“I like risk. I couldn’t take the same pictures over and over again. If it’s not challenging, it’s probably not good.”
- Sally Mann

To me she has no equal. Without doubt she continues to be the biggest influence on me and my work. No-one else has come close.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘I never hold back’: Sally Mann on her controversial family photos and becoming a writer

The celebrated US photographer was catapulted into America’s culture wars with her photobook Immediate Family. Now she’s written a book of ‘how not-to’ advice for artists

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · Sep 6

Deschênes is an incredible place, historically and naturally.

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you're planning to be in London from Sept 11-13, grab your robes and hat and come see my project, "The Ottawa Bubble."

I'll be showing the work as part of my U. of South Wales Doc Photo MA degree show with the other members of my cohort at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green, London.

A photograph looking into a cupboard containing a tri-cornered hat on a wooden table and formal black robes.

If you're planning to be in London from Sept 11-13, grab your robes and hat and come see my project, "The Ottawa Bubble."

I'll be showing the work as part of my @madocphotusw MA degree show with the other members of my cohort at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green, London @fourcornerse2.

I am preoccupied with the state of public institutions that we often take for granted: accessible healthcare systems, impartial courts, schools and universities that promote the potential of each student, markets that pursue honesty as well as profit, and governments that create conditions that promote human flourishing for all citizens.

"The Ottawa Bubble" is an inside look at Canada's House of Commons, the country's most visible public institution. We are at an inflexion point when such institutions are being called into question. How do we participate in large governance structures that must deal with the paradoxical challenges of governance and representation?

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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · Sep 5

‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means

Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist