Bradley Secker
@bradleysecker.bsky.social
Photojournalist & portrait photographer in Istanbul. Brit. Covering migration & LGBT rights, politics, culture, news & features. Nat Geo Explorer. Rep by Panos Pictures. bradleysecker.substack.com / bradleysecker.com
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Bradley Secker
@bradleysecker.bsky.social
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Clickety Click | Bradley Secker | Substack
Photojournalism chit-chat, & a critical look at the visual news industry by British photojournalist Bradley Secker. A meandering cocktail of thoughts, conversations, advice & tips, peeking behind the ...
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Interested in photojournalism and the visual news industry? You can follow my new Substack ‘Clickety Click’ for some conversation, ideas, experiences, and debate about the past, present and future. bradleysecker.substack.com
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
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November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Memory, photography, and loss. open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
Living with impending doom
Photos as records, memories, and how their value increases after a loss
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October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Memory, photography, and loss. open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
My latest musings, and latest Substack post. Happy birthday photography open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My latest musings, and latest Substack post. Happy birthday photography open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds
From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing
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October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Recent work from Turkey’s Aegean wine route, published today in the NYT 🍾🍷 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/t...
Napa on the Aegean: A Turkish Wine Region Re-emerges
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October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Recent work from Turkey’s Aegean wine route, published today in the NYT 🍾🍷 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/t...
Always a good listen, but especially this episode about the far right rally in London over the weekend. Elon Musk’s appalling call for violence, and the lack of response by the British gov & left to tackle rising far right wing sentiment doesn’t really bode well podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Elon Musk tells the UK to
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 15/09/2025 · 41m
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September 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Always a good listen, but especially this episode about the far right rally in London over the weekend. Elon Musk’s appalling call for violence, and the lack of response by the British gov & left to tackle rising far right wing sentiment doesn’t really bode well podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The 12 year old boy who photographed the Vietnam War youtu.be/eglvKJymfEc?...
The boy who shot the Vietnam War | BBC Global
YouTube video by BBC Global
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September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The 12 year old boy who photographed the Vietnam War youtu.be/eglvKJymfEc?...
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Art class
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Art class
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
Given her latest speech about robots - seems like the best day to share this youtu.be/PmuR2XFxkdU?...
The Russians need to reprogramme Melania Trump! - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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September 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Given her latest speech about robots - seems like the best day to share this youtu.be/PmuR2XFxkdU?...
Yet another country steps backwards on gay rights in Africa www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
Burkina Faso's junta passes law banning homosexuality
Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday unanimously passed a law banning homosexuality as part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation. The new law, which aligns with a broadening crackd...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Yet another country steps backwards on gay rights in Africa www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
Behind the scenes of an assignment - from researching a topic, to pitching, and hopefully publication. In my latest Substack post, I answer some of the how-to questions, I often get asked by earlier career photographers bradleysecker.substack.com/p/nuts-and-b...
Nuts and bolts
Taking you behind the scenes of a recent on-and-off project about leg lengthening in Istanbul, with actual nuts and bolts.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Behind the scenes of an assignment - from researching a topic, to pitching, and hopefully publication. In my latest Substack post, I answer some of the how-to questions, I often get asked by earlier career photographers bradleysecker.substack.com/p/nuts-and-b...
Well, I'll keep on the booze and fags then, at least they're enjoyable, not like these horrendous heatwaves www.wired.com/story/your-b...
Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat
A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking.
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August 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Well, I'll keep on the booze and fags then, at least they're enjoyable, not like these horrendous heatwaves www.wired.com/story/your-b...
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"'Being short is a curse': the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened" by Ruth Michaelson and @bradleysecker.bsky.social. [4/5]
‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened
It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth pa...
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August 31, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"'Being short is a curse': the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened" by Ruth Michaelson and @bradleysecker.bsky.social. [4/5]
Beautiful long form photojournalism by Alessio Mamo ‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany
Ten years after Angela Merkel declared ‘We can do this’ at the height of the 2015 migration into Europe, Syrian refugee Somar Kreker looks back at his 44-day odyssey
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Beautiful long form photojournalism by Alessio Mamo ‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Exploring a possible positive use to A.I. generated imagery. My latest Substack post open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
Beloved and bemoaned bots
A positive use for generative A.I. images
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August 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Exploring a possible positive use to A.I. generated imagery. My latest Substack post open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
Belatedly sharing the lovely spread my leg lengthening photos got in last week’s Guardian Saturday Magazine, alongside a sensitive and insightful feature by @ruthmichaelson.com - available to read online now
August 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Belatedly sharing the lovely spread my leg lengthening photos got in last week’s Guardian Saturday Magazine, alongside a sensitive and insightful feature by @ruthmichaelson.com - available to read online now
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I've been lowkey obsessed since @bradleysecker.bsky.social told me that (mostly) men were voluntarily having their legs sawn in half at Turkish clinics with names like (no joke) "Wanna Be Taller" and then stretched a mm at a time. Great (if gross) to see his photos here w/ @ruthmichaelson.com story.
‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened
‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened
It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth paying
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I've been lowkey obsessed since @bradleysecker.bsky.social told me that (mostly) men were voluntarily having their legs sawn in half at Turkish clinics with names like (no joke) "Wanna Be Taller" and then stretched a mm at a time. Great (if gross) to see his photos here w/ @ruthmichaelson.com story.
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FMA condemns the killing last night of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military and stands in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, at least 178 of whom have been killed by Israel since the conflict began. Journalists are #NotATarget.
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
FMA condemns the killing last night of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military and stands in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, at least 178 of whom have been killed by Israel since the conflict began. Journalists are #NotATarget.
Interesting article about the correlation between higher temperatures and higher crime rates / worse mood. As a fan of all the other seasons instead of high summer, here's to autumn ASAP! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The troubling ways a heatwave can warp your mind
A bit of sunshine can cause many of us to dream of ice cream, sunbathing and beaches, but warm weather can also make us violent, grumpy and depressed. Why?
www.bbc.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Interesting article about the correlation between higher temperatures and higher crime rates / worse mood. As a fan of all the other seasons instead of high summer, here's to autumn ASAP! www.bbc.com/future/artic...