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Patrick James Dilley
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‘I used to be someone,
now I’m someone else.’
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Used to be a photographer & writer, now full-time carer for my disabled mother. Quite fucking sweary.
London-Scottish. Drinks too much. Fights Blackshirts.
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#LOFC #WeAreThistle #FightFascism
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Patrick James Dilley @pjdlondonscot.bsky.social · Feb 11
Wrote and published my first article in five years. Medium reckons it’s a seven minute read, took me about two months to complete but, as my Uncle Harry used to say, ‘It’s a two minute walk if you run.’

For context, Marc’s book took him six years.

Thank you✌🏻

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Review — ‘A Wounded Landscape’ by Marc Wilson
Photographic documentary quite unlike anything I’ve seen before
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From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
Available to order from my website now.

Hooten Weals & The Henroost, Devon
In 1944, the US Army used this area for artillery practice in advance of the D-Day landings, destroying many edifices in the process. Tin extraction was the primary industry here, and..
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Good morning. Lovely sunny day here in Tokyo. Hit a project deadline yesterday so am trying to get myself out of the house this afternoon, for a walk and to take some photos. Probably just locally. Lots to see, even in the immediate 'hood.

Old pic, from 2013. Details in the ALT.
Luv&peace
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Japanese model, Miu, on the old port in Dubai. Shot as part of the big commission I did for Haneda Airport, to create content for the big screen in the new international terminal. For its inaugural opening in 2014. She's wearing locally inspired and sourced clothing and jewellery. Out of focus boats and the river in the background. Made with Nikon D800e and my trusty Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 Ai lens from 1979.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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From the archives
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State Capitol Building, Pierre, SD - July 1984

The South Dakota State Capitol Building. Can’t find a whole lot more to say, other than Pierre had the widest streets I’d ever seen in my life.
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#photography #filmphotography #archives #southdakota #pierre #StateCapitol
A colour photograph of a grand renaissance revival style Capitol building, constructed from mostly white stone blocks. There is a landscaped avenue leading up to the steps, where it meets four large columns at the entrance. The building is on three floors, although only two can be seen clearly in this image due to foliage. On top of the main entrance are several smaller columns, supporting a large, black-coloured dome.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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In 4 years I don’t believe I’ve actually ever driven this car at night, because I had no idea all this shit lit up. Blue lights in the armrests and everything.

#cars #NightDrive #NightTime #OohAhh #Illuminations
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I have been interviewed in the wonderful Tribune Magazine about my new photo book, "Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus".
Please click to read the interview here:
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Monuments to Provision
Rob Clayton’s latest book aims to capture the built environment of British post-war social democracy through optimistic blue skies and sunshine.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Exactly one year since I deleted my accounts over at the Neo-Nazi forum and joined Bluesky. That’s it, that’s the post.

#Bluesky #anniversary #DeleteX #GetOffX #ItsOwnedByANaziFFS
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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'Searching for the roots of a story'
May 14th, 2018. Romania

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Searching for the roots of a story
May 14th, 2018. Romania.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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From 'Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Arrived in the post a few weeks ago, but didn’t have much time to sit down with it until now. Another beautiful body of work from one of the UK’s finest documentary photographers. Wonderful production quality from Marc, as always.

#photography #photobook #MarcWilson #TheEdgeOfRuin #photoprints
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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If you have the kind strength to squeeze a tin can so hard that it bursts the top and ejects the fucking contents clear into the air, I’m guessing you don’t need the spinach ‘boost’.

#Popeye #Spinach #SailorMan #tincan #StrengthOfATerminator
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Thinking of Peter Hook’s anecdote, when he saw Best in Magaluf and went over to say hello,

‘He just fucking blanked me, the cunt. I knew it was a bad idea.’

#PeterHook #Hooky #joydivision #NewOrder
groomb.bsky.social Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d
Remembering footballer George Best, who died on this day 2005, aged 59. Here he is playing cricket with neighbours' kids while lodging on Aycliffe Avenue, Chorlton, Manchester, 1968. Photo Bill Cross.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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From the archives
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Devils Tower, WY - July 1984

Not a lot more to be said about this one.
You know where you’ve seen it.
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#photography #filmphotography #archives #Wyoming #DevilsTower #Landscape
A colour photograph of the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. In this close range shot, the monument fills almost the entire frame, and the vertical striation on the cooled volcanic rock can clearly be seen. The foot of the tower is surrounded by pine trees. A colour photograph of the tourist information board at he Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. The board is crafted from natural wood, with the text burned-in, and there is a small picture of the tower at the top left corner. The text reads: WYOMING DEVILS TOWER Devils Tower National Monument, established September 24,1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt, was the country's first national monument. One of the earliest landmarks in the region, it was called Mateo Tepee, meaning Grizzly Bear Lodge, by the Indians who had several legends about its origin. Colonel Richard I. Dodge, with a U.S. Geological Survey party in 1875, probably gave the Tower its present name. This extraordinary mass of volcanic rock rises some 1200 feet above the Belle Fourche River. It was formed more than 60 million years ago by upwelling lava when the Black Hills uplift occurred. The columns were formed during the lava’s rapid cooling. A colour photograph of the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. The feature can be seen in the far distance, right in the centre of the frame. In the foreground are heavily wooded rolling hills, whilst the mid ground is largely prairie.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Listening to my own 90s playlist this evening and it’s proper bangin’ if I do say so myself. I’m already back in my RS Turbo that wasn’t actually an RS Turbo.
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#playlist #NinetiesMusic #90s #DanceMusic #ClubTunes #TakeMeBackFFS
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Mass grave, Kazimierz Biskupi forest. Poland, 2018.
Several thousand Jews from Konin, Golina, Zagórowo, Kleczew and Skulsk were forced into two pre-dug pits filled with lime and murdered in autumn 1941.
From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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First time ever shaving with a cutthroat razor, and I managed to completely not die; not even a single cut. Another skill added to the list. Did take me about 30 mins though, to be fair.

#wetshaving #StraightRazor #CambridgeCutthroat #LifeOnTheEdge #StillAlive #LifeSkills
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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From the archives
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Jackson Blvd onto Route 44, SD - July 1984

Looking SW with the Black Hills in the background. Taken from the ‘Dinosaur Park’ hill, looking in the opposite direction from my previous post.
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#photography #filmphotography #archives #southdakota #RapidCity #Landscape
A colour photograph of an urban scene in Rapid City, South Dakota. It has been taken from a high viewpoint, looking down onto a large L-shaped office building in the foreground, the ‘Pennington County Housing & Redevelopment Commission’. To the right are more low, single-storey buildings and Route 44, which weaves up the frame and then off to the right background. Both sides of the road are surrounded by trees with green foliage, with more buildings seen in the distance. The Black Hills are far in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Not trying to brag or anything, but just about to have a Cup-A-Soup for lunch. Feeling blessed.

#lunch #CupASoup #SoupButInACup #ACupOfSoup #BraggingRights
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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From the archives
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Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, SD - July 1984

‘A hilltop park with kitschy cement dinosaurs.’
Looking NE with Rapid City in the background. I regret not emigrating to Rapid City.
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#photography #filmphotography #archives #SouthDakota #Dinosaurs #RapidCity #NotActualDinosaurs
A colour photograph of a pair of scale model dinosaurs on top of a hill overlooking Rapid City, SD. The models are green, and my shadow can be seen in the lower right corner of the image. Standard rookie error, but I was only 14 so cut me some slack - it was a fairly decent shot otherwise. What are you, perfect or something?
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Tell you what, be glad when Movember’s over. Usually keep a tidy house with my ‘tache, but I’m starting to turn into fucking Wyatt Earp here. May have to start putting some heat on those Clanton boys …

#Movember #moustache #WesternOutlaws #Lawmen #WyattEarp
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The dance ‘music’ on Radio Tay this evening is so shite even Shazam can’t recognise any of it. It’s like same music that was on Friday night, but speeded up. Utter mince.

#RadioTay #DanceMusic #ClubTunes #IsThisWhatPassesForMusicTheseDays
a man in a suit and tie is jumping in the air while two other men stand behind him .
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November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Current mood
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#mood #nowherefast #187PointTurn #ffs
a man is driving a small yellow vehicle that says south state on the side
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November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
Available to order from my website now.
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Coldberry Lead Mine, Durham
At 1.7m long, up to 50m wide and 30m deep, the Coldberry Gutter hush is one the largestin the North Pennines. Hushing is an ancient mining technique in which huge quantities of water was...
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Hebertshausen sub camp, Dachau, Germany, 2016.
From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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On the road.
From' Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM