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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary

@jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social

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Documentary photographer & film maker at Magnetofilms.com, editor/writer at PersonalWork.online Currently working on projects about ME/CFS (I have lived experience), loneliness and men's mental health. https://linktr.ee/jeremyjeffs

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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · Jan 4

My first post here, so I thought I'd make it about 2 things that have shaped my life #MECFS & #photography. For the past 3 years I've been photographing other people who also have ME, & I was delighted when @wellcomecollection.bsky.social published a selection
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Living with ME

Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.

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Or almost anything on This Cultural Life ...!

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Speed of Light on BBC Sounds...
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BBC Sounds - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Speed of Light by Laura Cumming on BBC Sounds.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 6d

BBC Radio Suffolk segment (13 mins) on #MECFS - @tinarodwell1.bsky.social speaks about caring for her son Angus, the daily challenges of the illness, and @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social powerful exhibition Lives We Cannot Live which Angus took part in.

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BBC Radio Suffolk - Tina Rodwell

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 17d

Clip from ITV Border News (19 Sept) about the powerful upcoming exhibition Lives We Cannot Live by Jeremy Jeffs (@jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social), shining a light on life with #MECFS.

Highly recommended if you’re in London - Oxo Tower Gallery, 24–28 Sept

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 16d

BBC Radio Cumbria (8 mins): Fiona Sadler speaks with farmer Andrew Jackson and his wife about featuring in Lives We Cannot Live, a photo exhibition about #MECFS by Jeremy Jeffs (@jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social) - London Oxo Tower Gallery, 24–28 Sept

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BBC Radio Cumbria — ME/CFS Photo Exhibition

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Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk · 12d

Really beautiful, eye opening photography exhibition at the OXO Gallery, London this weekend. Bravo @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social really well done. Go visit if you can. 👏👏👏

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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 11d

As some may have seen, I've been out of things last couple of weeks with another (another, another, etc) virus, so missed the start of this.
Good luck and thanks to @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social
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#MEcfs
#LivesWeCannotLive

Lives We Cannot Live

This photographic project of people with ME aims to bring identity and visibility to the ME community.

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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 20d

We’re down to the last few signed copies of Rich Gilligan’s brilliant new photobook, The First Draft (Driftwood Editions, 2025)

Pick up a copy here: www.photobookjunkies.com/product/rich...

Worldwide shipping 🌎

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 20d

Steven Siegel.

New York.
1980s.

“At its best, New York street photography is an odd mélange of the familiar and the bizarre, of sunshine and shadow, of the prosaic and the painterly and is a particularly rich source of social commentary.”

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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 21d

The curious case of Japan’s photo pioneer who buried his legacy:

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The curious case of Japan's photo pioneer who buried his legacy | BBC Global

YouTube video by BBC Global

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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 21d

Self portraits are hard when ill - from my ME/CFS photo project

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ALT: Colour photo of white adult 40-something male sitting alone on easy chair in a cluttered home, with palid skin, nose strip, unwell eyes, vacant stare.

#DocumentaryPhotography #pwME #MECFS #LongCovid

Self portraits are hard when ill:

Andrew Gifford on Glass

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UnOfPhoto @unofphoto.bsky.social · 21d

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A Photographic Life, Episode 384: 'Special Episode, A Conversation with Photographer Jim Mortram'

YouTube video by UnofPhoto

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Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 21d

A few cyanotype prints from my Jackdaw series. 💙

The text is explained in the ALT.

A series of cyanotype prints with Jackdaws - the first and last image are text.

The Jackdaw series was made in response to my grief for the death of my alcoholic father. The first words printed above where said by him when I first asked him to stop drinking (he had just been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver) and the last words where his final words as he lay dying in hospital. This series is dedicated to him and others living or suffering addiction - there is beauty if you look out of the window - it is sometimes hard to find, but it is there.

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Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 22d

Beautiful 🖤

Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 22d

Dying Chrysanthemums in Silver, part 2

1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype

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Jim Mortram : SMALL TOWN INERTIA @smalltowninertia.bsky.social · 24d

Hit the ALT for words.

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Many thanks 🙏 to @unofphoto @photolifepod for the opportunity to speak, share but above all, I think, for the friendship, constant & unwavering.

There are so many people we meet on our journeys in life. Some can project sincerity, a rare few live it & have it.

Sincerely, Grant has had my back from the very first baby steps of my personal photographic journey. In many ways a kindred spirit. One with a knowledge of photography that I have always revered & respected.

A constant source of inspiration, an illuminating mentor & a rational, supportive, caring voice that has really helped me time & time again.

Grant gave me confidence when I had none. Helped me through the hardest of times. Gave me opportunities & gave me insights of his own life, sharing.

From being the first person to publish my work to this our latest conversation Grant has been here, for me.

Maybe, no, certainly more than anything else I respect my friend, whom consistently amplifies photography & photographers with a passion that possibly only the late, great Bill Jay had before but also in a way that only Grant can do & does & what an incredibly important archive of interviews he has single handedly built from nothing.

All for photography & photographers.

All out of love.

When something is made with love, it has the ability to withstand most anything.

Next time you make a picture or share someone else’s work or communicate about photography, do so with love as the instigator. ❤️✌️

Podcast out next week.

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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks Marc! Got your email too - thanks for getting back to me!

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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 24d

Extraordinary pictures, so clear and unsparing.

Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks Steve - I know it's an issue for many people - I prefer to use ME - but the press has its own ways....

I hope you can make it to the show but if not we're going to try and shoot a v simple walk around video. Plus I'll - eventually - put up a dedicated website... time and health permitting!

Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks Andy! I've just followed @carlyclarke.bsky.social and look forward to seeing her work!

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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks for your suggestion Steve, it is a bit frustrating when phrases like this are used even though the press release used more thoughtful terminology.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks to everyone who came. I’m heading back to Dublin soon but there seems to be sufficient interest (there were five apologies) to keep going next summer when I’ll hopefully in the area again.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

Irish ME/CFS Association @irishmecfsassoc.bsky.social · 28d

One attendee: "Was lovely meeting you & the others today & always good to talk to others who really understand ME&LC! Thanks for organising it!"

Alan (in photo with longer beard) has offered to be a local contact. Get in touch if you would like his details

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME @tomkindlon.bsky.social

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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 28d

Street Poet: The Emotional Depth Of Sabine Weiss.

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Street POET: The EMOTIONAL Depth of Sabine Weiss

YouTube video by JoelUlises

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 29d

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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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 29d

I really like this image by photographer Robert Darch from his Durlescomb series. www.robertdarch.com

Two figures standing in a reed field, their faces obscured by smoke.

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · Sep 6

In the Valleys

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