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'These images tell a broader story of how Black Americans used photography to document their lives, define their public image, and preserve their histories across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.' Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography. petapixel.com/2026/07/31/t...

Historic Portraits Celebrate the Earliest African American PhotographersThese daguerrotypes were taken by the earliest African American photographers.petapixel.com

“These are going to live on as very important documents and also very wonderful photographs.” timesofsandiego.com/arts/2026/07...

'Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Braithwaite Story' shines light on photographer who documented Black expressionThe documentary, screening at MOPA, part of the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, explores Kwame Braithwaite's long life and career.timesofsandiego.com

Happy Yorkshire Day! May your puddings be plentiful and rise in county glory!

Collodion memories with Fire Scans taken from four 8x10 ambrotypes

This... @drcamillewaring.bsky.social @chiragwakaskar.bsky.social @shaun.theblkgze.com @theblkgze.com @olu-gh.bsky.social

Camera Obscura This custom-made camera obscura at The Photographers Gallery pays tribute to an optical phenomenon that led to the invention of the camera. A must if you're in London Town

"You must have a silver penny to get into Fairyland. But silver pennies are hard to find." - Patti Smith www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/05/p...

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an ArtistEvery visionary, every person of greatness and originality, is a resounding yes to life — to the truth of their own experience, to the demanding restlessness of the creative spirit, to the be…www.themarginalian.org

Goodnight @bsky.app 🦋, wherever you are…

Glad to say I grabbed one with both hands... If you haven't yet. Do the right thing!

“Lee Miller was a complex figure, at once courageous and conflicted, plainspoken in her words yet with a flair for mystery in her art...She excelled at collaboration but also forged paths entirely on her own." www.artic.edu/press/press-...

Lee Miller: Fearless | The Art Institute of Chicagowww.artic.edu

Low tide on a moody evening stroll 5 minutes from home...

This... From the wonderfully talented @dianamatisz.bsky.social 🖤

I woke up this morning to discover a tiny birch tree rising amidst my city quasi-garden, having overcome unthinkable odds to...begin a life in a meager oasis of soil. What magic. What a reminder that life does not await permission to be lived. www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/21/h...

Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About Being Human“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.”www.themarginalian.org

I was saddened to hear of Edward's passing this morning. I was lucky enough to work alongside him and his dear friend Sarah Montague just a couple of months ago at this years @guernseylitfest.bsky.social. A dear and generous man he was to me.

Most photographs are not very good. Not yours. Not mine. The difference is not that successful photographers avoid failure. It is that they accept it, learn from it, and build their photographic practice around it.' - Benedict Brain www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...

The dirty secret about great photography… most of it is rubbish!Ansel Adams only expected to take 12 good photos a year, and you should be happy with that toowww.digitalcameraworld.com

A pinhole goodnight BlueSky 🦋, wherever you are…