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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Jun 11

Miners at a TUC demonstration, Hyde Park London, 1974 by the late Nick Hedges

Men in flat caps holding a sign which says No Scabs Charter

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Jun 6

Let's knock Friday right out the park

Street scene.
3 kids show off their empty glass bottles.
'Cashing in the Empties', Glasgow, 1976.
Children in Arcadia Street, Calton, showing off the empty bottles they have collected. The 5p per bottle was a useful source of pocket money.
Photo Malcolm R Hill

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · May 23

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · May 23

Let's knock Friday right out the park

Kids of different ethnicities all huddled together looking at the camera.

Kids at Grove School, Handsworth, 1967.
Photo Eric Wadsworth

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Apr 26

Think it must be a perspective thing, the harbour cuts along to the left at the bottom of the recent image, probs 10ft to 15ft between where photos taken

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Apr 25

Let's knock Friday right out the park

Street scene.
4 kids on right of picture stand in a line, with a dog at the end, the dog has its front paws up on the last kids back.
A small girl swigs from a can of juice on the left of the picture.

Liverpool, 1975
Photo by Paul Trevor

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Apr 9

Time traveller
#StreetPhotography

A man in a hat and wearing a bow tie crosses the street

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Apr 9

Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Mar 22

The Outsiders touring exhibition will be shown next at Blackpool Central Library from 14 April to 25 May 2025. This will be the pin-up version of the exhibition, essentially the same display which was shown inside the Houses of Parliament in January last year.

A print of a photograph of a bearded man lying on the output tray of a large printer. The photo is of a man named Charlie who was experiencing homelessness when I spoke to him in 2016. The photo is from the Outsiders Project documenting homelessness and substandard housing across Britain.

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Apr 11

Let's knock Friday right out the park

Scene looking down a half-pipe ramp.
2 kids on BMX bikes making air.

Wild Bikes, Lower East Side, New York, 1986.
Photo by Sylvia Plachy

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · Apr 6

Shared for #SeventiesSunday

#Blackhill #Glasgow in 1976

Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

When kids ruled the street
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Blackhill housing scheme in Glasgow, 1976.
Glasgow Herald Archives

Street scene.
Rows of flats stand in the background, whilst kids in 1970s attire stand by what looks like a burning bed frame.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · Mar 21

#fallfriday
It's springtime but I still miss the streets at dawn
And in the morning walking your bridges home
As I sit and stare at all of England's souls
I tell you something
I wish I was in Edinburgh

youtu.be/AbMG1v7qDqs?...

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 21

Let's knock Friday right out the park

Street scene.
A young boy stands in the foreground with his face obscured by a bubble he's blowing with his bubble gum.

Maryhill, Glasgow late 1970s.
Photo Douglas Corrance

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 21

World Cup with backie-in keepers 😅

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Mar 20

According to Bridget Riley, Movement in Squares was the beginning of her exploration of geometric form and spatial dynamics.

Movement in Squares (1961)

Op art painting Movement in Squares, Synthetic emulsion on board

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

When kids ruled the street
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Blackhill housing scheme in Glasgow, 1976.
Glasgow Herald Archives

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

12th March 2017, I sabotaged the Resident Evil billboard at the Odeon in Dundee on the back of Trump's 'Muslim Ban'

Posters for 4 movies showing at the Odeon Cinema. Dirty Dancing, Sing, Valetines Day, and Resident Evil.
A capital P with an American flag has been stuck on to read President Evil, with Trumps face stuck onto Milla Jovovic's body, she's riding a motorcycle shooting behind her..

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · Mar 20

Lee Perry would have been 89 today. Sending birthday wishes to wherever in the universe the Black Ark has docked

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

I hope so

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

When kids ruled the streets
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Kids playing Kerby in Niddrie, Edinburgh, 1989.
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Via Craigmillar Gold YouTube channel

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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Mar 20

When kids ruled the streets
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Kids playing Kerby in Niddrie, Edinburgh, 1989.
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Via Craigmillar Gold YouTube channel

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Mar 17

Huge thank you to @crisis-uk.bsky.social for stepping in and handling the transportation of the Outsiders exhibition from venue to venue. It’s been a lifesaver as we only budgeted for three bookings but ended up with twelve. It’s a fabulous charity in every respect.

Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Mar 17

The Outsiders exhibition is now packed up and ready for storage until March next year when it goes to Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow. One thing I have learned about touring exhibitions is that you should design and pack them in such a way as to make the curator’s life as easy as possible.

A packing case containing cameras and books. Behind are framed photos waiting to be packed away

Four large cases and one large portfolio bag, lined up on a wooden gallery floor

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Mar 20

Printing the proofs for the Rebellion! exhibition today

A printer with a print lying on it. The print shows protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement

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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · Feb 26

📷 Chris killip

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