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Photographer, writer, two time winner of the Portrait of Britain. My book ‘Outsiders’ documenting homelessness is available from Bluecoat Press. My website is https://marcdavenant.com

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Outsiders exhibition has now been installed at The Courtyard in Hereford, it’s essentially the same version that was displayed inside the Houses of Parliament, plus the case display and the art video. It’s a great venue and well worth a visit.

Photography exhibition with a case display at the front showing two vintage cameras and in the background a series of monochrome portraits

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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 12h

I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

actionnetwork.org

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17h

The reader, from my Nighthawks series.
#Streetphotography

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Glaze and Nightshade @theglazeproject.bsky.social · Nov 13

Some artists suggested that we pin a summary of Glaze, Nightshade & other projects here. Instead, I will point them to Melissa Heikkilä's article on our lab and projects. It is the definitive story of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1...

The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI

The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?

www.technologyreview.com

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · May 7

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

www.theguardian.com

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 18h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk · 18h

Recent wanderings in Soho & Chinatown.

Leica MP & Kodak Vision 250d home developed in Bellini C41.

#believeinfilm

Rows of red lanterns hang from buildings above a street in London's Chinatown. The Sun is caught peaking out from the left side building creating some lens flare. The sky is blue.

View up towards the Raymond Revue Bar signage in Soho London during the day. A pigeon flys across the frame.

An alleyway scene in London's Soho featuring a shop doorway with large image across the windows of two topless men cuddling in bed. In the middle of the alley a lime bike is fallen over blocking half the pavement and there are people standing around out doorways further down the street.

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St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 18h

☕ Swing by the Courtroom Café at St Albans Museum + Gallery this weekend for a cosy coffee break. Great coffee, friendly faces, and a perfect spot to unwind.

#StAlbans #StAlbansMuseums #Cafe #Coffee

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 4d

“I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden…was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so.”
- Chris Steele-Perkins

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Chris Steele-Perkins obituary

Magnum photographer whose most striking work captured the challenges of life in Britain’s inner cities in the 1970s

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 18h

Collodion sketches.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas A. Edison

1851 Wet Plate

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17h

The reader, from my Nighthawks series.
#Streetphotography

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Feb 20

The first photo from my Nighthawks series
#StreetPhotography

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23h

Weirde how we let a bunche of nerds monetize conversation

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 1d

Good morning. Rainy day here in Tokyo. Both sons are down the garage where the eldest works. Fiddling about with the Subaru. Great they both share the car bug. And enjoy spending time with each other.

Wandering down in a bit, to give them some refreshments.

Photo details in the ALT.

Luv&peace
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Roof of the entrance gate to Todoroki Shrine. Love the time of year when it's covered with fallen gingko leaves, like it is here. The end cap of the roof tiles has a sakura flower pattern on it. Gingko tree arches over in the right hand background.

Looking up in to the tree canopy at Akagi Forest Park in Gunma, Japan. Bright red momiji leaves make up the whole frame. The dark black of the trunks and branches behind add form and line to the composition.

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 1d

Morning all. I drew you a train for the weekend. Feel free to take it and go somewhere interesting. Toodle pip. Have a good one. xx

New poster of a Swiss train zooming into the foreground with some Swiss mountains and a bit of Swiss lake in the background. It says Lakes & Mountains on the Glacier Express. Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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Dean Street Express, from my Nighthawks series.
#Photography #Streetphotography

Black and white noir photo. A frosted glass window is illuminated from inside. Above are the words Dean Street Express and to the side a woman stands, lost in contemplation.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians must focus on what matters to people like tackling poverty 📢

Everyone deserves an affordable home, work that gives enough to get by on, and enough money to pay the bills

Politicians can make the right decisions today and build a better future

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PXwaluRFAPs

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

We now only have one single space remaining across our Ardnamurchan Creative Retreat dates available for the remainder of 2025 and the whole of 2026.

Join for autumn 2026 for an inspirational week photographing Scotlands remote peninsula of fire and ice.

www.rkphotographic.com/ardnamurchan...

Glenborradale ancient Caledonian rain forest, Ardnamurchan.

Autumn ferns and vibrant light, West Ardnamurchan.

Portuairk to the Small Isles, West Ardnamurchan.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

“I believe this power of seeing the world as fresh and strange lies hidden in every
human being…”
Bill Brandt

I believe this power of seeing the world as
fresh and strange lies hidden in every
human being. In most of us it is dormant.
Yet it is there, even if it is no more than a
vague desire, an unsatisfied appetite that
cannot discover its own nourishment....
Vicariously, through another person's eyes,
men and women can see the world anew.
It is shown to them as something
interesting and exciting. There is given to
them again a sense of wonder.
This should be the photographer's aim, for
this is the purpose that pictures fulfill in
the world as it is to-day. To meet a need
that people cannot or will not meet for
themselves. We are most of us too busy,
too worried, too intent on proving
ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas,
to stand and stare.
- Bill Brandt'

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 1d

A mellow, calm, quiet dusk for #Scape day.

If you still have all of Friday ahead of you, may it be a good one. If, like me, Friday - at least for work - is largely done, may the weekend bring you much joy and happiness.

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Sunset at the clam digging beach, next to the Japan Self Defence Force helicopter base in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan. The sun has disappeared and the last oranges of the day are about ti give way to the blues of dusk and darkness. Mount Fuji sits in the far distance, about 100kms away. A tanker is at anchor out in the bay. A few distant specks of light are visible on the opposite coastline, likely the industrial ports west of Yokohama. In the foreground is a rickety fence and some tall grass. A heron is sat on one of the fence posts, silhouetted against the last light of the day.

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