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Brian Beker
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All photos shot by and ©Brian Beker unless repost or noted. Film in permanent collection MoMA/NY. Signal: Dispatch.02

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Self-portrait

#filmphotography #photography
A photograph of the back of a man’s head. Under very close cropped hair is a lengthy, jagged scar.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Portrait of a gentleman, Rajahstan, India

M6/50SM, Plus-X

#filmphotography #photography #portrait #India
A black and white close-up portrait of an Indian man wearing very old — antique, even — cloudy spectacles. He looks into the camera. His torn shirt is open and a cloth is wrapped on his head.
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Traditional Tharu grace and beauty.

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #Nepal
A black and white photograph taken out of a moving car. Most of the frame is filled with the foliage of the south Nepal Terai. On the left, a beautiful young woman in a flowing, flowered skirt, a traditional halter top buttoned to the neck, carries a large cloth bag on her head as she walks with magnificent posture. She is a Tharu, a Nepali tribe admired for centuries for their grace, beauty and style.
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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A couple of working girls on a foggy morning in Nepal.

M6/50M, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #nepal #elephants
A black and white photograph of two elephants carrying large loads of leaves and their phanits on a foggy morning in Nepal
February 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly respectfully walk behind a Leica IIIf with 50mm f/3.5 Elmar, oddly being carried in the collapsed condition, in the 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo.

#filmphotography
A screenshot from a movie in which the two female stars walk behind a man in the foreground who is Cara rifle and a Leica camera.
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Blonde in a bar, Low Light series, LA

M6/50SM, Tri-X (when Tri-X was still Tri-X)

#filmphotography #photography
A black and white photograph of a smiling woman with lustrous hair in a bar; behind her are three men conversing and laughing.
February 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Cute and curious Kathmandu kid.

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#filmphotography #streetphotography #Nepal #kids
A black and white photograph taken from the inside of a car into which a cute little Nepali girl in Kathmandu girl is looking in. One of her hands holds a plastic hair band and the other she holds against the window to block glare. She’s very cute and curious.
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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This might sound cray-cray, but might it not be good for Dem candidates to start declaring early/ Benefits would be competition to see who the fuck plans on bringing a real hammer down on the criminals, and the competition might focus the base.
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Dems need to learn to tie trump’s criminality to everything. “trump is a lifelong thief, fraudster, cheat, rapist and evidently child rapist. He's the most corrupt person in the history of the world, from the billions in bribes he takes to stealing the Resolute Desk. And he won't steal an election?"
February 3, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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This is big from ProPublica. They know damn well the risks they take but refuse to goose step to regime diktat like the Times, WaPo, CBS and the rest of the usual suspects, and take the clearly principled and ethical journalism decision. Deep appreciation for this level of integrity.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d
A note from our editors:
Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
February 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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trump is preparing to do to the West Wing what he did to the East Wing. The plans are nearly ready, and the tip-off is that they’re saying they’re just in the early planning stages. Same lies as with the East Wing before he bulldozed it.

Showing up to stop the bulldozers would be quite the protest.
January 31, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Out of the unwieldy kitchen sink darkroom tonight, this 11x14 print of a little Karen girl in Burma with her purchase of scallions and an orange.

#photography #filmphotography #darkroom
A photo of a black and white print of a little barefoot Karen girl in Burma in a rough burlap dress, carrying a sack of scallions in a bag with its straps over her head and an orange she’s eating in her hand.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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In the kitchen sink darkroom tonight here in freezing Vermont, an 11x14 print of the beautiful temple complex at Panauti, Nepal for a distant collector.

#filmphotography #darkroom #photography #eastcoastkin
In a tray of running water in a kitchen sink, a black and white photograph of a temple complex and pagodas.
January 20, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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If I was trump’s Kremlin handler — and God knows he has a pretty damn good one — I also would have said, “Lemonade, Donald, from the lemons of your shall we say indiscretions with Epstein. Simply say you’re going to invade Greenland. They will talk of nothing else and you will destroy NATO.
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Prints in selenium toner last night. The photo of the meditating pilgrim dried down a bit more than expected and needs redoing.

#filmphotography #photograpy #darkroom
Two photographs of photographs in a darkroom developing tray, one of some young Nepali girls in a crowd, the other of an elderly Tibetan man meditating
January 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Pokey Beker Jr., Jr. making a bombing run in the fresh snow here in Vermont.

Nikon F2, FP400 in Pyrocat-HD

#filmphotography #photography #dogs
A black and white photograph of a black and white dog running in the snow with a big grain on her face.
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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At the Golden Gopher in downtown L.A., 2006

Canon EOS-1

#photography #nightlife
A woman with long blonde hair in a red dress and high heels, and a garter belt tattoo on her right calf stands next to a jukebox in a bar holding a bottle of beer and giving the camera a not unfriendly look.
January 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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At a Halloween party in Hollywood, 2005

#photography #nightlife #Hollywood #portrait
A close-up color photograph of a beautiful woman in a Halloween costume that consists of extremely long eyelashes and a bushy black and green wig
January 8, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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The San Pedro River, dying now from excessive groundwater pumping for Fort Huachuca and alfalfa for export for the Saudi royal family’s horses, regulation-free Arizona is losing one of the most beautiful, rare and important natural resources on the planet.

#photography #landscape
A black and white photograph of the San Pedro River in south Arizona. This thin ribbon of water, fed by groundwater that is disappearing, is the reason why the area is one of the most crucial for bird migration. years of Republican decimation of regulation made it legal for anyone to pump all the groundwater they wanted, and now this place is dying.
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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The welcome cat at our rescue's vet’s office in L.A.

#cats #catsofbluesky
A very cute but extremely chubby cat sits on a bench in the waiting room of a vet’s office, looking at the camera with a look combining indifference and disdain.
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Gavin from Taiwan, one of the great foster #dogs I had in L.A. What a good boy he was.

#dogs #dogsofbluesky
A photograph of a sweet and soulful tan Labrador smiling at the camera
January 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Just spitballing here, Senator, but how about not voting for any budget that gives ICE a single dollar?
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jan 7
Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
maxnesterak.bsky.social max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · Jan 7
A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.
January 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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A gentleman either enjoys or is a victim of a close shave in Kathmandu.

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #believeinfilm #Nepal
A close-up black and white photograph of a man in a barber shop in Kathmandu getting a shave. The barber holds a razor in one hand while tightening the man’s skin with the other as the victim of this shave winces.
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Smoking Somalienne

Point-and-shoot, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #believeinfilm
A black and white photograph of a man and a woman seated and a bit out of focus in the background while her extended hand, holding a cigarette, is in the foreground, with smoke rising.
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Hollywood, 2005

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography
A black and white photograph of a blonde with curly hair sitting at a bar and smiling at the camera
January 7, 2026 at 3:57 AM