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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 5m

Chilling.

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Afro Celt Sound System - Eireann (live at Nulle Part Ailleurs)

YouTube video by Pascal Burger

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Colin Jones was once described as ‘The George Orwell of British Photography.

He began his career as a dancer with The Royal Ballet, before buying his first camera in Japan whilst running an errand for Margot Fonteyn and then never looked back.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 10h

Susan Lipper’s photographic series Grapevine was shot over four years from 1988 to 1992.
The series takes its name from Grapevine Branch in West Virginia, a small community where Susan found herself for a while after graduating the Yale photography programme.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 10h

Nan Goldin.

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One of the most uncompromising photographers I know of.
I have admired her, her vision and passion for many years. When I introduced her to my photography students they were stunned and galvanised to say the least.

Nan Goldin — AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes

An icon of the 1980s, Nan Goldin revolutionised photography, transforming her life into art. For more than forty years, she photographed the private lives of her loved ones: fits of laughter, parties,...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11h

Afro Celt Sound System.

Saw them at Womad, and they still transport me to this day.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 12h

It is Steve …

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For his groundbreaking 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay, “Country Doctor” photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colo., chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by an indefatigable general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 13h

Chris Steele-Perkins.

“Study and theory is useful but you learn most by doing. Take photographs, lots of them, be depressed by them, take more, hone your skills and get out there in the world and interact.”

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 13h

Fred Stein.

Paris in the 1930s.

He was a pioneer of the small, hand-held camera, and with the Leica which he and his wife had purchased as a joint wedding present.

He saw hope and beauty where most people would only see despair.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 13h

Michael Peto.
Photographs from the 1950s and 60s documenting everyday life.

Playwright Brendan Behan and with his wife Beatrice, 1959.

Budgerigar breeder, Nottingham, circa 1965.

Samuel Beckett at home in his Paris apartment, 1961.

Actor Mary Ure with her daughter Elizabeth.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the same here Bevan, although it’s an ex human rights lawyer doing the targeting.

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Bevan @bevanowen.bsky.social · 1d

Warnings of 'Irreversible' Damage From Trump Order to Ravage Alaskan Wilderness for Corporate Profits www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a... Ok, let's make lots of money from the Alaskan wilderness.

Warnings of 'Irreversible' Damage From Trump Order to Ravage Alaskan Wilderness for Corporate Profits | Common Dreams

"This isn’t economic growth, it’s a giveaway that puts corporate profit ahead of Alaska’s communities and our environment."

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you Bevan. This is a wonderful compliment from you.
The Massacre at Quarantaine in Beirut, Lebanon image is an important image for me from way back.

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Christine Spengler.

She was born in 1945 in Alsace and spent more than 30 years working in war and conflict zones.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 18h

I did not dare to ask who had lived in the houses before 1948, who had planted the olive trees that grew by the roadside, who was being kept out by the guns and the barbed wire. I couldn’t – or maybe I refused to – imagine that the land beneath my feet was also Palestine.

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Opinion | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love — The Guardian

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

John Claridge.

'Francoise Gilot.

1964.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Arthur Rothstein.

Roulette Players, Las Vegas, Nevada.

1940.

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The Blenheim Orange apples have been picked, and are ready for becoming gifts.

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Ken Currie.

The Nationalist.

1993.

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And returned home with Covid....

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch, and Gwyneth Keyworth as Scout in Aaron Sorkin’s production at the Gielgud Theatre in 2022.
Brilliant and atmospheric.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Colin Gray.
The Parents’, begun in 1980, is a series of photographs about Colin’s relationship with his parents and theirs with each other. The images involve enactments of memory and fantasy woven around events from collective memories or based on absurd and wonderful fantasies.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure I will! ☺️

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James Ensor.

Masks Confronting Death.

1888.

He uses a skeleton or a death figure, placed in the midst of masked onlookers. They close in around the central figure, curious perhaps, or maybe irresistibly drawn to it in recognition of the ultimate destiny of all living things.

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