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Rupert Rivett

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📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸 🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍 #RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism| Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling 📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔 👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸 https://rupephoto.substack.com/

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · May 18

It's an art - I like to use fill in flash and a big camera when shooting street photography. I am (mostly) inconspicuous up until I take the shot. After a while you get used to seeing something happen before it happens, or you see something happen and go back and wait for it to happen again.

Bag caught in the sliding doors of a London Underground train.

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 8h

ME/CFS hits people in different ways, but it’s painfully real. I had it for 3 years back in the early 2000’s — my body completely broke down. An ‘expert’ doctor once suggested I “try some exercise”… when I could hardly sit upright in the chair before him.

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Jeremy Nicholl Photography @jeremynicholl.bsky.social · 2d

Deeply saddened to learn that Brian Harris, legendary photographer of The Times, The Independent & elsewhere, has passed away. My oldest friend from what we used to call Fleet St. Thank you for everything Brian. RIP

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andrewrmarshall.bsky.social @andrewrmarshall.bsky.social · 2d

Brian Harris took wonderful pictures for the Independent and others. I am sad to hear he is gone, and so happy I knew him and the other photographers of the Independent for a while. This is from Prague in 1989. I wasn’t there; Brian made me wish I had been and feel that maybe I was. lnkd.in/eqgeDpay

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paul-hill @paulhillphoto.bsky.social · 2d

Obituary: Brian Harris, 1952 – 2025 thebppa.com/obituary-bri...

Obituary: Brian Harris, 1952 – 2025 – The BPPA

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Noorderlicht @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social · 5d

🎬 In Digital Mirror’s mini-series Reflections, we ask artists about their work, story and motivation. In the fourth episode, we talk to Cristina de Middel, photographer and curator of the World Press Photo anniversary exhibition What Have We Done?

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Digital Mirror - Reflections: Cristina de Middel

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 6d

What about tax relief for couples that don’t have children. After all then not having kids means they have a lower environmental footprint on the planet which must be good

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 6d

Yes I think so and also gives a different feel to an image

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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.

This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 6d

It’s scary stuff

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People don’t know what street photography is these days

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 8d

This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

My piece for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.

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Labour Party conference: Will Palestinians get a mention in Starmer’s speech?

The legacy of Keir Starmer's government will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our times

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 11d

Never say never - 😜👇 rupertrivett.photoshelter.com/index/G0000T...

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 11d

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 11d

Nice photos - mine are maybe not so nice
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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · 14d

Why was Colonel Richard Kemp, a prominent British army officer of the War on Terror era recently in Gaza doing propaganda for Israel?

@declassifieduk.org and defence journalist, Joe Glenton investigate⬇️

Exposed: The British colonel doing Israel’s dirty work

Help Declassified expose the powerful by joining us: https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/We spoke to a former British soldier about why Colonel Richard Kemp,...

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 17d

What a load of nonsense

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 22d

The NUJ has expressed its grave concern and called for an independent investigation into the surveillance of journalists after MI5 admitted to illegally obtaining communications data from the mobile phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney.

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MI5 admits it ‘illegally’ obtained data from ex-BBC journalist

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Population Matters @popnmatters.bsky.social · 22d

As the global population grows, the pressure on ecosystems and natural resources intensifies. This reality is clear and measurable, yet many people still treat population as a taboo subject.

Voluntary, rights-based solutions empower people to decide freely if, when, and how many children to have.

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 22d

Never trust a politician who talks about growth. We’ve already outgrown the planet. A living environment depends not on endless expansion, but on our species learning to shrink — in numbers, consumption, and impact

Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

real belonging, and a genuine sense of purpose, the void will be filled elsewhere. And when it is, it will not care about decency, nuance, or good intentions.

What do you think?

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

Watching the crowd, listening to the chants, it became clear: decent people can, with the best of intentions, be swept along by forces they barely understand—and history, if nothing else, urges caution.

The lesson is simple, if uncomfortable: if we fail to offer ordinary people real pride, 👇

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

if it finds the wrong figurehead, can be disastrous.

I wasn’t there to join, to cheer, or to jeer. I was there to understand. And what I saw was a complicated mix of hope and danger, pride and naïveté, earnest longing and reckless energy. 👇👇

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

ultimately, suffering on a scale ordinary followers never intended to create. Polanyi, writing about the “double movement,” observed that when societies fail to protect the social and moral framework around markets and institutions, people push back. They seek dignity and identity. But that push,👇

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

and drunken bravado created a spectacle that was both surreal and quietly alarming.

History offers a clear warning: charismatic leaders exploit collective longing. They promise pride, belonging, and security—but the cost is often moral compromise, social fragmentation, and👇👇

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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 23d

Walking through the crowd, snapping photos, I saw the contradictions plainly. These were electricians, teachers, shopkeepers—people capable of decency, humour, and thought—singing the praises of a man who thrives on outrage. The mixture of earnestness, frustration, and 👇👇

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