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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 20h

Yesterday would have been John Lennon's 85th birthday. Come have a read of the article myself and the LUXE Magazine Japan team made earlier this year. When we visited John and Yoko's favourite hotel in Karuizawa. On what turned out to be the snowiest day of the year in the town.

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Screenshot from the online version of LUXE Magazine Japan, showing the piano bar at The Mampei Hotel, Karuizawa, Nagano. Japan. John and Yoko's favourite hotel and this very piano was the one John used to play whenevef he visited.

We took the MINI John Cooper Works to The Mampei Hotel, to do our interview and shoot the article about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's visits. Very happy we did, as it turned out to be the snowiest day of the year and the car coped perfectly. Here we see the MINI outside the front entrance of the hotel, in the snow and looking great in its red and black colour scheme.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 19h

The Lee Miller show at Tate is so rammed it's hard to see. But as an alternative, a great exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery opens today on 100 years of photo booths.

Old photo booth photo of a Spanish man laughing

Old photo booth photo of a chic young French woman

Old photo booth photo of an American boy smoking

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 12h

And now that he hasn't been awarded the honour I can imagine his interest will now dwindle rapidly.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 14h

I've been mulling over this since it was posted and tried to reconcile my disagreement. Trump has had months to do this but he allowed the slaughter to continue. Being cynical he realised time was running out re NPP and suddenly acted tough.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 18h

Fab review in the @theguardian.com And photos of Maxine Peake in a wonderful interview earlier this week at the
#BFI where she effusively talked about I Swearnwith @kermodemovie.bsky.social

G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Last night's talk and book signing by 辻村深月, Tsujimura Mizuki. She has sold millions of books in Japan, which increasingly are becoming hugely popular in the west. Her persona is also a popular manga character.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 22h

Maxine Peake gave an interview about the film I Swear at the British Film Institute earlier this week.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 22h

Autumn in Paris. 2024.
#Glow #BlueSkyArtShow
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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 22h

A major exhibition of Cecil Beaton's oeuvre has opened at London's National Portrait Gallery. Ppl are hard to please. Someone on SM commented "They are coffee table book pictures and the difference between his stuff and serious photography (such as photojournalism or nature photography) is vast."😹😂🤣

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 22h

Teasel. Autumn 2025.
#Glow #BlueSkyArtShow #Dipsacus
@botanical.bsky.social
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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 22d

Chase Infiniti seen at the London Premiere of One Battle After Another on Tuesday 16 September 2025 at ODEON LUXE Leicester Square, London.

>> SWIPE >>

#ChaseInfiniti
#OneBattleAfterAnother
#LondonPremiere

Shot by Julie Edwards for @avalondotred on @fujifilm_uk #redcarpet

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 21d

Sabrina Dhowre seen at the London Premiere of One Battle After Another on Tuesday 16 September 2025 at ODEON LUXE Leicester Square, London.

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#SabrinaDhowre
#OneBattleAfterAnother
#LondonPremiere

Shot by Julie Edwards for @avalondotred on @fujifilm_uk #redcarpet

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 20d

Sean Penn seen at the London Premiere of One Battle After Another on Tuesday 16 September 2025 at ODEON LUXE Leicester Square, London.

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#SeanPenn
#OneBattleAfterAnother
#LondonPremiere

Shot by Julie Edwards for @avalondotred on @fujifilm_uk #redcarpet

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 20d

Leonardo DiCaprio seen at the London Premiere of One Battle After Another on Tuesday 16 September 2025 at ODEON LUXE Leicester Square, London.

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#LeonardoDiCaprio
#OneBattleAfterAnother
#LondonPremiere

Shot by Julie Edwards for @avalondotred on @fujifilm_uk #redcarpet

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 3d

October's #mk3d - The second guest on stage with Mark Kermode on Monday 6 October 2025 at BFI Southbank was Nathan Johnson. The conversation revolved around Nathan's composition of the score for the "Knives Out" films as well as his score for Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley"
@kermodedodge @bfi

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 1d

October's #mk3d - The 5th & final guest on stage with Mark Kermode on 6 October '25 at BFI Southbank was "friend of the show" Mark Jenkin . Rose of Nevada is Mark's latest film, where a mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing.

@kermodedodge @bfi @mark_jenkin

>>> SWIPE >>>

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 1d

The poster for #botd Tati's Mon Oncle was designed by the polymath Pierre Étaix. And what a magnificent poster too, along with several other versions.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Dog walkers on an autumn's night in London.
#urban #city #bskyartshow
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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Fortunately to reach the Southbank I always cross here…one of life's joys and one I will never tire of.

G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman...

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Taken from Charing Cross Bridge looking towards Waterloo Bridge, the Southbank on the right.

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

If you're thinking, 'I wouldn't mind going to the movies' then do choose One Battle After Another, the most wonderfully bonkers film I've seen in many a while. youtu.be/feOQFKv2Lw4?...

One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

My new history of portrait photography has been published covering the first 100 years - along with copious new evidence as well as images. Free download via Apple Books.
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‎A 100 Year History of Portrait Photography and the Provincial Photographic Studio

‎Arts & Entertainment · 2025

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 2d

My new history of portrait photography has been published covering the first 100 years - along with copious new evidence as well as images. Free download via Google Books. (And the front cover is in focus but this is Google attempting to be ironic.) play.google.com/store/books/...

A 100 Year History of Portrait Photography and the Provincial Photographic Studio by Graham Thomas - Books on Google Play

A 100 Year History of Portrait Photography and the Provincial Photographic Studio - Ebook written by Graham Thomas. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Downloa...

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G M Thomas FRSA @japanauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Late entry for #FlowersOnFriday .
#mygarden
#gardening
#photography
#bloomscrolling
#scape
#flowerscape
#eastcoastkin
#gardenshour
#photographersofbluesky
#flowersofbluesky
@bskyphotos.bsky.social
@botanical.bsky.social

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