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London’s street artist, Loretto is fast becoming the new Banksy with with captions and satirical images of public figures.
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Captured at the derelict Admiralty facility near to Arrochar, Scotland, in March 2020.
The scene here is part of the Loch Long Torpedo Range where weapons testing took place from 1912 to 1986. Activity peaked during World War II with some 12,000 torpedoes being fired down the loch.
The memory is from me, a young girl at middle school, aged around 10 or 11 years:
It was early morning, a busy family morning with a non-orderly queue for the only toilet. It was amidst that normal routine getting washed, dressed, breakfasted, when the 'attack' started. A distant wailing began.
The wailing spread. A cacophony surrounded us, a nightmare of noise that you could hear in every World War II movie or documentary. This, however, was the early Eighties and the air raid sirens were supposed to herald four minutes of last goodbyes, the piling up of mattresses in a hallway and preparing name tags for any 'dead' relatives. *(Protect and Survive)
I had seen the horrific BBC drama 'Threads' (*they showed it at SCHOOL) and caught glimpses of other apocalyptic movies on TV. There was playground chatter and I knew a fair bit of science at the time for my age (I loved reading encyclopaedia and science books). I knew the realities of what it meant. I understood the difference between instant vapourisation and long lingering painful death. I knew that Mutually Assured Destruction would signal the end of the world as we knew it. Barely a teenager and I knew but this was what it was like to grow up during some of the hottest years of the cold war.
Did I live in fear? Absolutely not. It was one of those things that only crossed your mind when you were reminded of it. When you were, it could chill to the bone. On that morning, with my mum in the kitchen, my father in the toilet and me on the stairs waiting for the toilet or breakfast, whichever came first, the sirens wailed.
I remember my knees buckling from underneath me. A deep inner sinking feeling to the pit of my stomach. Irrationally, though understandably, I started screaming at my parents that we had to get to the nearest city as there was a shelter there. Well I was certain there was, it was playground chatter stuff, and I knew we had just four minutes at most. Okay, the city was 7 miles away and my parents did not own a car and, even if we did, there was no knowledge of where the actual bunker might be or if we could get in. My mind was racing though. This was it. The end. Nothing but ashes would remain.
Thankfully my mother sensibly switched on the radio while the sirens were still wailing, one of which was opposite my school, and the local radio station was broadcasting a message 'not to worry' because some absolute idiot had pressed the wrong button during a local test and accidentally set off the sirens for the whole county. Oddly, I can barely remember the feeling of relief.
That gut wrenching and knee bending feeling remained with me for years whenever Cold War tensions rose but after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the U.S.S.R. those feelings disappeared. I thought we had entered a safer world. A more peaceful world.
Right now I have read on Associated Press that Russian troops are currently fighting over the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant (*which was another event from my childhood) and a Nuclear Waste Storage Facility has been hit already. What is this insanity?
Knowing how these events can escalate rapidly, that accidents can occur and that backing down becomes harder to do. The risk, however much we may not want to even think it, is there. Veiled threats have already been made and I can't see any rational, logical or humane thought processes coming from the Russian Leadership at this time.
I currently live too far away to HMNB Faslane (The UK Nuclear Stockpile) to be instantly vapourised if it were attacked. I also live too close to be safe from a horrific lingering exposure to massive amounts of radiation. Yeah, of course this is on my mind right now. Those feelings though, the knee-bending stomach-dropping feelings, they are nowhere to be seen right now. I guess two years of isolation from the pandemic have somewhat subdued my will to live, my ambition to grow and explore.
I just hope that my chance to do that will come.
I'll never forget the day that the sirens wailed. I cannot imagine how it feels to hear rockets, artillery, sirens and explosions on the doorstep though. I cannot being to imagine the fear that many Ukrainian people are facing today. My thoughts are with them.
Pray, wish, and/or hope for peace. X
I saw this sun descending behind the dark clouds over a month ago. That was almost the darkest day of our pandemic in the Bay Area. The scene seemingly resonated with the current affair.
Lens: Meyer Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8 II
Street art depicting the Statue of Liberty holding a gun in the air. Shoreditch, London, 2017.
Justin
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. A small street party had set up to celebrate change in Zimbabwe and they were chanting for Mugabe to go with jubilant voice and some accompanying drums. A small group but one that echoed massive celebratory demonstration in Zimbabwe following the recent military intervention in the country's leadership. Enjoy.
For ideas on the craigo shot, it’s more a side view as the new bridge has 8ft concrete blocks (preparation for electrification) I’ll try get down the next couple days, probably be Monday if the sun pops out. See how the shot fairs now. Dug through more ‘old photos’ and found this. Shall have a photo up in the next couple days of current affairs.
201’s dpu is a little bit of current affairs while a sentinel of the past on the Laggan Sub looks on.
Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks.
The borough covers 3.85 km2 and is predominantly commercial and industrial in nature, with a very small residential population. It had 212 residents in the year 2000, making it the Düsseldorf borough with the lowest population density.
The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Within the Hafen district is the Neuer Zollhof an ensemble of three warped-looking buildings by architect Frank Gehry and other postmodernist buildings. There are also many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district.
The western part of the area still has actively used docks for barges that transport materials on the Rhine. There are plans for further redevelopment with the construction of high end apartment buildings.
In 2003 the port company merged with the port of Neuss on the opposite bank of the Rhine to form Neuss-Düsseldorfer Häfen GmbH & Co. KG.
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Fujifilm X-S10
Fujinon XF23mm F2 R WR
in relation to the USA. Not my photo.
A screen capture from --{I forget}.
I’m reading a very good, very new, book about Volodymyr Zelensky, “The Showman”, written by Simon Shuster. 2024.
(Europe is 17 times larger than Ukraine. Europe and the US are about identical in size.)
Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks. The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Хафен (нем. Hafen, в дословном переводе — Порт, Гавань) — административный район города Дюссельдорф (Германия, федеральная земля Северный Рейн-Вестфалия). В 1982 году в гавани возводится телевизионная башня Rheinturm, несколько позже строятся здания «Западногерманского радио» и гавань получает название «Гавань средств массовой информации» (нем. Medienhafen. В 1990-х годах в гавани ведётся массовая застройка современными модернистскими зданиями. Особо выделяются здания «Новой таможни», построенные в 1996—1998 годах по проекту американского архитектора Фрэнка Гери.
Den Entwurf der Anlage entwickelten später im Büro Sop Architekten tätige Düsseldorfer Planer des in Frankfurt am Main firmierenden Architekturbüros JSK. Er ging aus einem Wettbewerb der Stadt Düsseldorf hervor, der um das Jahr 2000 zur fußläufigen Erschließung der Landzunge an der Hafenspitze Düsseldorf in Höhe des später erbauten Hotels Hyatt Regency Düsseldorf durchgeführt worden war. Die Brücke und das Restaurantgebäude wurden in den Jahren 2004 bis 2005 in städtischem Auftrag für 5,9 Millionen Euro realisiert. Das Bauwerk ist von „Living Bridges“ (bewohnten und gewerblich genutzten Brücken) wie der Rialtobrücke und dem Ponte Vecchio inspiriert, die im Jahr 2000 in einer Ausstellung von historischen Architekturmodellen im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf gezeigt worden waren.
Die Gesamtlänge der stählernen Balkenbrücke, die das Hafenbecken des Düsseldorfer Medienhafens zwischen den Straßen Am Handelshafen und Julo-Levin-Ufer überspannt, beträgt etwa 150 Meter, die Spannweite zwischen den zwei Stahlbetonbrückenpfeilern 60 Meter und die Spannweiten der Pfeiler zum Ufer hin je 42,9 Meter. Die Überbaukonstruktion der Brücke ist bis zu etwa 1,5 Meter hoch und verfügt über einen variablen, zur Mitte hin ansteigenden, 11,6 Meter breiten Querschnitt. An der Südwestflanke der Brücke liegt als ein „Brückenhaus“ das dreigeschossige Restaurant. Es hat die Gestalt eines würfelförmigen Kubus von 14 × 14 Meter Grundfläche, besteht aus Beton, Stahl und Glas und ruht auf Pfählen im Hafenbecken. Knapp über dem Wasserspiegel des Hafenbeckens verfügt das Restaurant über eine sich rechtwinklig zur Brücke erstreckende Außenterrasse, die ihrerseits über eine stählerne Außentreppe mit der Fußgängerbrücke verbunden ist.
Die Fußgängerbrücke, die auch für den Radverkehr geöffnet ist, ist hölzern beplankt, was die Anmutung eines Schiffsdecks erzeugt, und fällt zu den Flanken durch Stufen ab, wodurch sich Sitzgelegenheiten ergeben. Die Brückengeländer sind in Glas ausgeführt. Weiße Plexiglaskuben, die aus der Beplankung der Fußgängerbrücke aufragen, und Lichtbänder in den Stufen des Brückendecks dienen der nächtlichen Beleuchtung der Anlage.
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Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks.
The borough covers 3.85 km2 and is predominantly commercial and industrial in nature, with a very small residential population. It had 212 residents in the year 2000, making it the Düsseldorf borough with the lowest population density.
The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Within the Hafen district is the Neuer Zollhof an ensemble of three warped-looking buildings by architect Frank Gehry and other postmodernist buildings. There are also many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district.
The western part of the area still has actively used docks for barges that transport materials on the Rhine. There are plans for further redevelopment with the construction of high end apartment buildings.
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Fujifilm X-T2
Fujinon XF14mm F2.8 R
Messing about focus with my 18mm lens at an old wire factory in Derbyshire. There's not a huge amount left there but it was raining today and it has a roof.
The reason that all the Royal Family do an art history degree when they go to University, Buckingham Palace.
Islamic Museum of Australia, Thornbury, Victoria
"Waleed Aly (born 15 August 1978)[1] is an Australian writer, academic, lawyer, media presenter and musician. Aly is a co-host of Network Ten's news and current affairs television program The Project, he writes for Fairfax Media, and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University working in their Global Terrorism Research Centre.[2] In 2016, he won the Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waleed_Aly
It was late. Deep night. I was alone, silence filled the space and thoughts of current affairs left me freely. Calmness and confidence in the future, for there is faith in my heart. And no matter what happened, I knew I was on the right track. Someone was helping me. He was somewhere very far away and very close.
Yes, there is still a lot to decide, to keep looking, because no one said it would be easy. But even these disparate thoughts couldn't upset the inner balance that I had been going to for so long. I was looking for a new composition, as always. Losing a thread of time, I suddenly noticed that the dawn was coming. The soft sunlight began to penetrate through the windows. It made the sky light. But the room was still lit with a night lamp.
Stopped briefly at Alice Springs, did not take an image, photography not allowed showing the tragic circumstances of the town where the day before a current affairs program aired a controversial documentary. I would like to cut loose with the camera in this town, Headed west into the magnificent ranges of Central Australia
After the sadness of this town the heart of the country exploded with light, there is a bright tomorrow. This was taken from the roof of the 4WD where a platform installed on the roof rack, sometimes a bit of height makes a difference. This is a two landscape stitch
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So, possibly not the world's greatest photograph, but it's all I managed to grab on my iPhone whilst working at this event! You can see Professor Hawking on the left, and the presenter Sue Lawley on the right behind the lectern.
My department at the Beeb (Radio Current Affairs) is responsible for recording Radio 4's annual Reith Lecture series. The 2015 lecturer is Stephen Hawking, and finally tonight we recorded the programme, after postponing the original date last November due to Professor Hawking's ill health.
So me and my colleague were responsible for both the sound at the live event and also the multitrack recording which is mixed for the Radio 4 and World Service broadcast versions.
I took this little snap quite near the end, during the extensive Q&A session, in which I was holding the microphone and going round the room holding it up to the questioners as they read their questions.
It all seemed to go off very well, and the audience were in rapt attention throughout, which is always good.
I believe it goes out on the 26th Jan, and more details can be found here:
Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks. The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Хафен (нем. Hafen, в дословном переводе — Порт, Гавань) — административный район города Дюссельдорф (Германия, федеральная земля Северный Рейн-Вестфалия). В 1982 году в гавани возводится телевизионная башня Rheinturm, несколько позже строятся здания «Западногерманского радио» и гавань получает название «Гавань средств массовой информации» (нем. Medienhafen. В 1990-х годах в гавани ведётся массовая застройка современными модернистскими зданиями. Особо выделяются здания «Новой таможни», построенные в 1996—1998 годах по проекту американского архитектора Фрэнка Гери.
A couple of old photographers drinking coffee, complaining about current affairs, and having a few laughs.
The Almo Collegio Borromeo is a private university hall of residence (collegio) in Pavia, region of Lombardy, Italy. It is classified as a "highly qualified Cultural Institute" by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and is the oldest such institution remaining in operation in Italy. Together with Collegio Ghislieri – with which a sharp goliardic rivalry has developed during the centuries – it is one of two colleges in Pavia with historical heritage. The building that houses the college was designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi, and overlooks the Ticino, surrounded by landscaped gardens and the Borromeo Gardens. Vasari described it as a "palace of knowledge" ("palazzo per la Sapienza").
The college selects students of the University of Pavia through a rigorous public competition based on tests taken annually. The services offered by the college are not limited to food and housing, but rather are focused on providing training in parallel and integrated with the university: for example, CEGA (Center for General and Applied Ethics) is hosted by the college; along with conferences, presentations of books on current affairs, hosting the chair in theology, and offering countless moments of reflection, in addition to the ever-rich artistic and musical seasons in the life of the college. The college also offers various exchange programmes, with institutions such as Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
Collegio Borromeo was founded in 1561 by the estate of cardinal St. Charles Borromeo which aimed to create an institution to accommodate young promising students experiencing economic hardship. This is still the aim of the Fondazione Collegio Borromeo. On May 10, 2009, the Women's Section was opened in the presence of Minister Mariastella Gelmini and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi; it is intended to accommodate approximately fifty of the most deserving female students from the University of Pavia.
The student rooms are divided according to the sides of the building: "Piazza" ("Square") on the western side, facing Piazza Borromeo, "Giardino" ("Garden") on the south side, "Vicolo" ("Lane") on the north side, looking onto Via Cardinal Tosi. The east side is called "Richini", as it is situated on a seventeenth-century garden designed by Francesco Maria Richini, and houses two auditorium-style rooms ("White Room" and "Mural Room") with private upstairs rooms for guests. The rooms are also divided into several levels: "Mezzanino" (mezzanine), "Nobile" (piano nobile), "Paradiso" (second mezzanine) and "Iperuranio" (attic). Also on the south side are "Sangiovannino alto" and "basso" ("Upper" and "Lower"), saved from the Church of San Giovanni in Borgo before demolition in the nineteenth century.
College admission follows an open, meritocratic competition divided into a variety of assessments; only those who have obtained a minimum score of 80 in their graduation exam may apply for the admissions competition. This competition is now run in conjunction with the Scuola Superiore Studi Pavia IUSS, the School for Advanced Studies, of which the Almo Collegio Borromeo is a founding member and, indeed, the admission test is valid for access to IUSS courses to the extent of space reserved for the college. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the gaining a place at Borromeo does not automatically secure a place in IUSS: although it is not the norm, there are students of Borromeo who are not students of IUSS, as the rankings of the IUSS competition and the Borromeo competition are separate and follow different criteria (distinguishing different classes and thresholds).
The first part of the competition includes a written test administered by the IUSS, divided into the following disciplines: Italian, Latin, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry problems were recently introduced. One can choose the track and the exercises regardless of the degree course chosen and can obtain a maximum score of 20 points from this written test. Those obtaining a minimum score of 12 points in the written test are invited to two oral examinations. In these, candidates are tested on the content of their last three years of high school in two subjects of their choice, however relevant to their degree course. The test begins from a topic chosen by the student and listed in the schedule ("tesario"; containing the list of topics to prepare for each discipline). The oral exam can provide up to 60 points, 30 for each interview. Additionally, as part of these tests, the candidate is interviewed by the appropriate college Rector and, in order to gauge the strength of compatible cultural background, he or she has a test of general knowledge and an aptitude interview with a psychologist seeking to determine eligibility for collegiate life. The latter tests have no value for the IUSS competition but contribute 20 points overall towards Borromeo entry. To be eligible, a candidate must achieve the minimum score of 65 points.
To retain their place at the college, students are required to have a university average of at least 27/30, with no marks below 24, and to pass all required exams by the formal closing of the academic year. The ability to speak at least two foreign languages is required, demonstrated through specific, internationally recognized certificates. Students must also attend additional courses required by IUSS or, alternatively, take at least two internal courses per academic year.
It's amazing how many times over a heart can be broken. What's even more amazing is the heart's resilience. Shards of shards are brought back together again and again with the adhesive of time. I don't normally post or preach on current affairs, but what our friends in Paris faced last week left me stunned. In 2015, it is appalling that after our 200,000 year tenure on this rock and all the tragedies we've witnessed, we can still have such little love for one another. But now more than ever, I believe our expanding awareness has the potential to drown out such broken ideals. Think of it this way: when you harm another human being, you are essentially harming yourself living another life. This detestable self-hate needs to come to an end.
With all your strength, every chance you get, pour light into this world. This can only be done after you feed the flame within.
Be a beacon; an undeniable proof.
There is no us. There is no them. There's only we.
Went to visit Stan's Cafe's 'Of All The People In All The World' today which is located on the sixth floor of Two Snowhill. Using grains of rice 'Of All The People..." represents some of the worlds people, politics, history and current affairs during it's decade-long tour of the world. It's really interesting to see and puts things in to perspective.
I wanted to put a photo of the rice hills as my photo of the day but opted for the view from Two Snowhill as I've never really seen Birmingham from a view before as I'm usually on the floor looking up.
People living in a country in which they were not born:
The souk (market) in Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank. Up until recently, the souk was a vibrant, busy market. However the establishment of an extremist settlement within the ancient city protected by the IDF has put enormous pressure on the local Palestinian population and economy. Now the souk is virtually empty with many stores closed. Palestinians are barely visible and increasingly in the shadows.
This situation is not welcomed by all in Israel. From its beginnings it was recognised by many, including such influential figures as General Moshe Dayan, that acting as an occupying force would compel Israel to behave in oppressive ways that ultimately would undermine the very moral fabric of Israeli society.
As B'tselem argues - Israel’s regime of occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end the occupation, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
For updates on alternative views please see the human rights organisation B'Tselem that is based in Israel - www.btselem.org/topic/hebron
and also Breaking the Silence - www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies?as1=hebron&...
an organisation of former IDF soldiers who are speaking out about the reality of imposing the occupation, and what it does to the Palestinians and how it corrupts the soul of Israel.
My photographs are (C) Copyright Richard Friend and All Rights Reserved
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
If you are wondering about the meaning of the title Making Sure, the reason is simple.
This guy was at a protest staged in Bristol, against the Scottish Supreme Courts ruling that a woman is defined as a female at birth. As you can see from his placard, that he is a father of a transgender.
I spotted him with this placard, and moved around to get a better angle, started taking a few photos of him, while he was actually looking ahead, and listening to a speaker.
Then through the viewfinder, I noticed he turned his head round and looked at his placard, it was not exactly facing forwards, it was only a few degrees turned around, he looked like he was making sure that his placard should be facing directly forwards, and clearly readable from anyone in the front.
At this moment I took the photo, he twisted the placard slightly, to make sure it is exactly forwards facing.
The photo was converted into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, and then cropped in Adobe Photoshop.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
After the Scottish Supreme Courts ruled that sex is defined as biological sex at birth, many transgenders all around the United Kingdom staged a protest. I heard there was going to be one at Bristol, and decided to go there to do some photojournalism photography of the event.
From 10am onwards, they started arriving at College Green which is where the Bristol City Council buildings are, and they gathered until there were like hundreds of them. By about 11am, they started the march into city centre.
This is the front part, and very shortly after the photograph was taken, they started the march towards the city centre.
The building in the background is the Bristol City Council offices.
In Adobe Lightroom, I converted the colour photo into black and white, for a good old fashion newspaper like feel to the photo.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
After the Scottish Supreme Courts ruled that sex is defined as biological sex at birth, many transgenders all around the United Kingdom staged a protest.
I heard there was a protest planned at Bristol, and decided to go there to do some photojournalism photography of the event.
Starting from 10am onwards they started arriving at College Green, which is where the Bristol City Council buildings are, and they gathered until there were like hundreds of them. At 11am, they started the march into city centre.
This is part of the front of the march, here in the photo, they were bringing some loudspeakers, along with a portable generator manufactured by Kipor, I can’t be sure if it is petrol or diesel driven, on a trolley so they could keep playing music.
In Adobe Lightroom, I converted the colour photo into black and white, for a good old fashion newspaper like feel to the photo.
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Lower Castle Street, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About those photographs.
The 2022 Bristol Pride started at Castle Park, moved into Castle Street, and turned left into Lower Castle Street, heading north towards Penn Street. Those photographs were taken somewhere near the NCP Broadmead car park next to the Marriott hotel. It was approximately about 15 minutes after the start of the march.
I took up a position near the car park’s entrance. In the wide photo (0251), you’ll notice the KEEP CLEAR wording painted on the road, and the lowered kerb (in American-English: “crub”), that is where the entrance to the car park is.
This was where I spotted the guy with baseball cap, sunglasses, and a rainbow mask around his face, holding up a placard. I had noticed that thousands of people on the march had showed their faces, only a very rare number would choose to hide their faces.
In the second photo (0263), I zoomed to the 200mm length and took some shots of the guy. I have no idea who he is, when preparing the photos for uploading to Flickr, I simply called him “The Masked Man.”
It had occurred to me that I had taken zoomed in photos of him for uploading to Flickr or Instagram or whatever, to showcase my experience and skills, and considering that he wants his identify hidden, he may want his privacy.
So I went over to him, to ask him for his permissions. Here is where it gets interesting…
Bearing in mind that I am a deaf person with speech impaired, often mispronouncing my words, and that he is wearing a mask over his mouth, making lip-reading impossible for me.
So how do we communicate with each other? No problem! The simple fact is…
Days before coming down to Bristol to cover this event, I had prepared some kind of ID tag of my own, stating that I’m a photographer and that I’m deaf. On the other side was a simple typed text, that simply asked “May I have permissions to publish the photos online? I ask out of respect because you are clearly seen in the photographs.”
On this day, at that point, I went up to him, and I said to him “Excuse me, I’m deaf.” Then I held up the back of my ID tag, let him read the wording.
Even thought he’s wearing a mask around his mouth, so if he were to say something like “Sure, go ahead.” It would be impossible to know, but no problem there. As he knows I’m a deaf person, all he did was simply nod his head.
When I was in my last year at a deaf school, I told the hearing teacher that I wanted to get into college and study photography. I was told that I can’t become a photographer because I’m deaf and how am I supposed to communicate. Even my mother agrees with the teacher and wasn’t supportive of my aims.
It’s not like I wanted to become a wedding photographer, which would need a lot of communications between the photographer and the wedding party.
My mother, her friends, the teachers, and most other people, were all wrong. Even thought it is difficult for me as a photographer to do this kind of photography, it should be seen as a challenge to overcome, not a barrier.
So, I got his permissions to publish the photos, and there it is.
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Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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Schifflersgrund Border Museum in the municipality of Asbach-Sickenberg (Thuringia). The museum is located on the former border strip of what used to be the inner-German border between Hesse and Thuringia and is a memorial to the division of Germany.
Visiting this museum was really a moving experience. Citizens have secured parts of the border fortifications, including an observation tower and the longest original section of the former inner-German border fence, preserved in their original condition.
This museum is much less touristy and much more 'authentic' (absolutely 'no-frills' and certainly rather humble in terms of the facilities and exhibits used) than what you can visit in Berlin.
I have lived in Germany for six years now and I often forget that this country was once divided, but at the time I followed the fall of the Berlin Wall with much trepidation on television and in the newspapers (I was a child, but very interested in current affairs and my father had been to both Berlin and Moscow in the 1980s for university research and had told me a lot about these places).
Last month I rather randomly ended up spending a few days in this former border region and took the time to get to know some of the stories of the people and the villages that were separated by an insurmountable border for forty years - right in the middle of Europe.
Not only are the traces of history well preserved in many places in this region, often thanks to the efforts of citizens who do not want the events of the past to be forgotten, but my impression is that traces of the past are also very visible in the architectural style and the state of preservation of villages that are less than five kilometres away from each other and that the inner German border used to separate.
Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund, Asbach-Sickenberg, Werratal, Thüringen, August 2022.
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Townend's family library, which was started 400 years ago, is made up of around 1,500 books which cover many diverse topics; from novels and poetry to farming, religion, law, medicine and current affairs. The books were apparently well loved and used by the family, (and in many cases their neighbours too) based on the physical evidence they contain, such as greasy finger marks and corners turned over.
The library contains 45 entirely unique books – ones that have not survived anywhere else in the world. Some of these are delightful slightly bawdy storybooks – called chapbooks.
These were designed for the slightly lower echelons of society, and as such, would have been viewed as being beneath national institutions such as the British Library.
An example of one of the chapbooks is ‘The Crafty Chambermaid’s Garland’ from 1770. It tells the tale of a rich merchant who falls in love with his mother’s maid.
He tries to seduce her, but she knows he isn’t interested in marriage so she decides to play a trick on him. She invites him to her bedchamber – only she gets a toothless old hag to get into the bed and pretend to be her.
Needless to say the amorous merchant gets quite a shock, and runs screaming down the stairs! The plucky young maid’s efforts pay off though – the merchant’s family are so amused by the story that they decide to let him marry her, in spite of her lowly background. [National Trust Townend Website]
Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks.
The borough covers 3.85 km2 and is predominantly commercial and industrial in nature, with a very small residential population. It had 212 residents in the year 2000, making it the Düsseldorf borough with the lowest population density.
The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Within the Hafen district is the Neuer Zollhof an ensemble of three warped-looking buildings by architect Frank Gehry and other postmodernist buildings. There are also many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district.
The western part of the area still has actively used docks for barges that transport materials on the Rhine. There are plans for further redevelopment with the construction of high end apartment buildings.
In 2003 the port company merged with the port of Neuss on the opposite bank of the Rhine to form Neuss-Düsseldorfer Häfen GmbH & Co. KG.
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The Almo Collegio Borromeo is a private university hall of residence (collegio) in Pavia, region of Lombardy, Italy. It is classified as a "highly qualified Cultural Institute" by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and is the oldest such institution remaining in operation in Italy. Together with Collegio Ghislieri – with which a sharp goliardic rivalry has developed during the centuries – it is one of two colleges in Pavia with historical heritage. The building that houses the college was designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi, and overlooks the Ticino, surrounded by landscaped gardens and the Borromeo Gardens. Vasari described it as a "palace of knowledge" ("palazzo per la Sapienza").
The college selects students of the University of Pavia through a rigorous public competition based on tests taken annually. The services offered by the college are not limited to food and housing, but rather are focused on providing training in parallel and integrated with the university: for example, CEGA (Center for General and Applied Ethics) is hosted by the college; along with conferences, presentations of books on current affairs, hosting the chair in theology, and offering countless moments of reflection, in addition to the ever-rich artistic and musical seasons in the life of the college. The college also offers various exchange programmes, with institutions such as Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
Collegio Borromeo was founded in 1561 by the estate of cardinal St. Charles Borromeo which aimed to create an institution to accommodate young promising students experiencing economic hardship. This is still the aim of the Fondazione Collegio Borromeo. On May 10, 2009, the Women's Section was opened in the presence of Minister Mariastella Gelmini and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi; it is intended to accommodate approximately fifty of the most deserving female students from the University of Pavia.
The student rooms are divided according to the sides of the building: "Piazza" ("Square") on the western side, facing Piazza Borromeo, "Giardino" ("Garden") on the south side, "Vicolo" ("Lane") on the north side, looking onto Via Cardinal Tosi. The east side is called "Richini", as it is situated on a seventeenth-century garden designed by Francesco Maria Richini, and houses two auditorium-style rooms ("White Room" and "Mural Room") with private upstairs rooms for guests. The rooms are also divided into several levels: "Mezzanino" (mezzanine), "Nobile" (piano nobile), "Paradiso" (second mezzanine) and "Iperuranio" (attic). Also on the south side are "Sangiovannino alto" and "basso" ("Upper" and "Lower"), saved from the Church of San Giovanni in Borgo before demolition in the nineteenth century.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
The Scottish Supreme Courts ruled that a “woman” is defined as female born at birth, then transgenders all over the United Kingdom decided to carry out a protest.
One of the many protests was staged at Bristol, and I went there to do some photojournalism photography.
At that time I took the above photo, the crowd had grown larger, and in about ten minutes or so, they would be getting ready to start the march.
I was looking around for interesting shots, I spotted this man sitting there. He had nothing to do with the protest, he was simply on his way somewhere else, and stopped for a short rest and check his phone.
He just happens to be a bystander, and casually looked at the crowd of people. In the background (at the top of the photo) is the Bristol City Council buildings.
The photo was converted into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, to give it a good old fashion newspaper black and white feel.
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Düsseldorf-Hafen means the harbour of Düsseldorf. More than that, Hafen is the name of the Düsseldorf district in which the habour is located.
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being. As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
Mainly third sector businesses were attracted to move to the Hafen: media companies, but also fashion and design offices. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. There is also Düsseldorf's local radio station, Antenne Düsseldorf, in the harbour. CNN used to have an office there. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
The Hafen district itself contains some spectacular post-modern architecture, most famously three twisted constructions by Frank Gehry. Other than that there are many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district. But one of its main attractions, the beach bar "Monkey's Island", had to close for the sake of one further newly planned upscale hotel.
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The Hayes, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This shot was taken just near the Vans shop, and the Gaucho restaurant (you can see the name in the background on the left side of the photo), on The Hayes in city centre.
Those guys are with the St John Ambulance, and are taking part in the Pride parade through the city centre.
At that point of time, it was more or less approximately the halfway of the one mile parade, and while it would normally take everyone an hour to walk from the start to finish, it would take me about two hours to finally take photos of the back end of the parade, bearing in mind, I sometimes went back and forth along the parade. This was approximately the halfway of my two hours photography task.
The photos were shot in colour, I used Adobe Lightroom to convert them into black and white, for dramatic and old fashion newspaper feel to it.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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St Mary Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken somewhere outside of The Alchemist, and Flight Club bars. The Greggs bakery would be on the left side of the photo, the logo is noticeable visible.
I was looking around for some shot, and noticed her with the whistle in her mouth, and carrying this placard, so I decided to try some shots.
I converted the colour photo into black and white via Adobe Lightroom, to try to give it a photojournalism feel, but I’m not so sure about the B&W tones, I think it needed more contrast.
The Pride parade was about one mile in length, and for those who were taking part, it would take them about an hour from the starting point to the finishing point. But as I keep going back and forth along the parade looking for any interesting shots, it took me like about a couple of hours, and I ended up with sunburn.
It was my second time doing a Pride parade photojournalism, as I had done the Bristol Pride in the year before that, which was also a very hot sunny day too.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
A transgender rights organisation arranged for a protest to take place in Bristol on that day. While the crowd was gathering at College Green before they were due to start the march into city centre, there were speakers taking turns to speak out their options.
What you see is some of the people sitting down at the front, and listening, while the rest of them at the back were standing up.
Notice the masked person with sunglasses on the head, is using a mobile phone to do the filming of the speakers giving speech. I believe this one is one of the organisers.
The photo was converted into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, to give it a good old fashion newspaper black and white feel.
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