Marianne Dissard
@mariannedissard.com
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•photographer•author•chanteuse of desert noir art rock ditties•left her home in Tucson Arizona for a dreamboat in England•drifted to Leadhills Scotland•MA Art&Politics Goldsmiths '27 🎵 mariannedissard.bandcamp.com ✍️ mariannedissard.com/contact-newsletter
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`SOS Country’ new 2025 documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. Limited-edition postcards for sale (links in bio). #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer
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From "the team behind the 2018 Cambridge Analytica investigation that shifted the world’s understanding of Silicon Valley".
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Starving for "fearless independent journalism" on arts
'n' politics? Check out what this collective of ex- @theguardian.com /Observer journalists are cooking up at @thenerve.news : www.thenerve.news/about-us
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'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer
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It's #BandcampFriday once again! The perfect time to spend a couple of quid on our weird music.

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Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...
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I'm going back to school! Starting next month at Goldsmiths in London, Master degree in Art & Politics over two years. Fun heady times ahead... What spoil! What luxury! Excited. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-art-po...
MA Art & Politics
The MA Art & Politics degree at Goldsmiths, University of London explores connections between art and politics and art's potential in times of crisis.
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Celebrating the release of 'I Do Know Some Things', much-anticipated new book by titan of American poetry, Tucsonan
@richard-siken.bsky.social (& remembering our lil' 2014 collab': my music, his magic= youtu.be/3xZALSxaLVM?... ). Order Richard's masterpiece www.coppercanyonpress.org uk.bookshop.org
Richard Siken - The Way The Light Reflects (music Marianne Dissard)
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Back in them salad days... Music video 'The One and Only' from my album 'L'abandon'. A song about Tucson featuring Ed Keeylocko's Cowtown Keeylocko, Day of the Dead Procession, train tracks across Southern Arizona... Album here: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband...

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Official Music Video - 'The One And Only' - Marianne Dissard - Album "L'Abandon" (2011)
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Next week the UK government is moving to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws.

5 things that could put you at risk of a terrorism charge ⬇️ 🧵
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#glasgow, don't sleep on this fantastic rare #livemusic show! This Monday at Stereo. Minneapolis-born Istanbul-based hip-hop artist with eight critically-acclaimed albums, community leader, outspoken social justice messager #BrotherAli www.stereocafebar.com/events/2025-... @thelistuk.bsky.social
Brother Ali at Stereo, Glasgow on 23 Jun 2025
Brother Ali at Stereo, Glasgow
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Selfie (2021) from 'On a Good Day You Can See France' documentary series made between Oct. 2020-May 2021, aka 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled'. Available in two sizes FujiFlex limited-edition C-type prints. #Ramsgate harbour, looking back to Jacob's Ladder. #photography #documentaryphotography
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Back in them salad days... My third Tucson studio album 'The Cat. Not Me', composed by Sergio Mendoza (Calexico), featuring Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson). Joe Mabbott mixed in Minneapolis. UK maestro John Dent mastered mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca... #musicsky
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Back in them salad days... 1989 Managua, Nicaragua. Shot on slide film. I traveled from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Sandinista revolution in the capital city to the border with Honduras and a small village twinned with Tucson, Arizona. #photography #nicaragua #documentaryphotography
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`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul Amtrak trains. Photobook/exhibition in-progress but *very* limited-edition postcards already available to buy mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of...
#photography #documentaryphotography #leica
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`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul trains on 4-month Amtrak journey. Work-in-progress but very limited-edition postcards are avail. (link in bio). Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social #photography #documentaryphotography #leica
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Back in them salad days... My first #Tucson album, produced & composed by Joey Burns #calexico featuring John Convertino, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson), Sammy Decoster. French desert Americana? Buy signed CD or cassette: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/lentre... #musicsky
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Recent #photography series Knightsbridge, London (2022-2023) #monochrom Leica w/ 50mm lens. Series used as background projection material for my touring stage production 'Souvenir of England' + 2023 public street installation Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Photobook next www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNg...
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2023 covers album Rappel*le mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/rappel... Phil Ochs Janis Ian Steely Dan Ritchie Valens Bobbie Gentry Townes Van Zandt War Adriano Celentano Carly Simon Recorded in Tucson/UK w/ Terry Edwards @naimamor.bsky.social @raphaelmann.bsky.social Matt Mitchell #musicsky #music
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Back in them salad days... For my 2015 Best Of CD compilation album 'Cibola Gold', I asked Garry Winogrand's heirs if they'd let me use a favorite 1964 photograph Winogrand made at White Sands, New Mexico. Here are three mockups I designed. Final pick is the two children playing in dune #photography
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Back in them salad days... My second studio album, L'abandon (2010), recorded in my then-hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I wrote lyrics, Christian Ravaglioli music, BK-One co-produced. W/ Thøger Lund (Giant Sand) Luke Doucet Arthur Vint mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... #musicsky #desertnoir
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`SOS Country’ 2025 documentary photography series. American landscapes from long-haul Amtrak trains. Limited-edition preview postcards for sale now: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer #amtrak #chicago #leicamonochrom
Chicago skyscraper from Union Station through construction site fence
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While I'm shuffling the cards of my 'Glasgow musical legends' deck, I give you James Kirk (ex-Orange Juice) on a summer day. Pix by me. #glasgowmusic #orangejuiceband #scottishband #music #scottishmusic #photography #musicphotography
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Deep-cut 2022 track recorded w/ Andy Alston (Del Amitri) the year I moved to Glasgow. soundcloud.com/andy-alston/... "The auld alliance between France & Scotland rarely sounded so achingly addictive"(G.Paterson). Portrait of Andy by me at James Kirk's wedding.
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