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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 7h

Me too Mhairi.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 8h

That is very thoughtful and comforting.
Thank you so.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 8h

You are right. We think and therefore feel too much.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 8h

Ian Berry.
The English.

County Durham, 1974.
Whitby, 1974.
Liverpool, 1981.
Salisbury, 2017.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 9h

It isn’t thinking about ‘the struggle’, it is sometimes being overwhelmed by the emotions created by past traumas that have the potential to derail my ability to deal with the present shit show that is geopolitics.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know what's coming next. It's so often a lonely journey trying to understand this world and all its contradictions, and to wonder if there is any truth, or any light I can aim for, that will give me comfort.

It’s that time again.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 9h

Do not expect the violent dehumanisation and dystopian military technologies perfected in Gaza to remain there. Our dark history tells us otherwise. What a pity we did not heed its lessons.

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Opinion | Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home — The Guardian

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11h

Larry Racioppo.

Saxophone Player and Young Girl, 11th Street, Brooklyn.

1977.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 13h

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a fascist, you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a loyal citizen who stands up for Americanism.”

Sound familiar?

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The 1935 novel that predicted the rise of Donald Trump

Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here features an antihero who whips up support among angry voters on the back of firebrand rhetoric, fearmongering populism and anti-Mexican sentiment. Sound familiar?

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 14h

Dora Maar.

29 rue d’Astorg.

circa 1936.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 15h

The ‘father of instantaneous photography’.

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Candid New York: George Bradford Brainerd’s pioneering early work – in pictures — The Guardian

The work of photography innovator George Bradford Brainerd has been compiled into the book Candid New York by Erik Hesselberg

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J Chen / Photography @jchenphoto.bsky.social · 18h

Last weekend Arthur screened his documentary along with a pop up exhibition at CPA down in Carmel.

Pop-up Exhibition and Film Screening Arthur Tress, Selections — Center for Photographic Art

The Center for Photographic Art and the Monterey History and Art Association are excited to announce a weekend of collaborative events with photographer Arthur Tress in October! The MHAA will be ...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 17h

Erwin Olaf.

Rain, The Ice Cream Parlour.

2004.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 18h

 ‘I have been revisiting the memories and remembering a time that’s often forgotten. I hope people come to my exhibition, see people they recognise, and learn about the history of my community in Bradford’.

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‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures — The Guardian

Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Yves Montand on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1960

"With his special kind of romanticism, his nonchalance and his intensity, he created his own persona and a brand of eroticism that have resisted changing fashions."
- Moira Hodgson

Two women on the street do a double-take when they walk past Montand, who's standing & reading a newspaper.

"Hey, that guy looks like Yves Montand."

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

I do.
I sat in my garden and glanced up, and these was the image waiting for me.
The wings and the quotation came later.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Marketa Luskacova.

To Remember — London Street Musicians 1975–1990.

Marketa captured her images in East and West London from the street markets around Brick Lane or Portobello Rd.
You can tell that she had an amazing gift for empathy.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

It was only after editing did I realise the hollyhock looks like angel wings….

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell".

Carl Jung.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Arthur Tress.

Boy in burnt out furniture Store, New Jersey.

1969.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

John Vachon.

Farm Girl, Seward County, Nebraska.
1938.

The Lost Look.

Brian Wallis notes, this photo “encapsulates like a novel all the wanderlust and dreams and damaged innocence of an isolated rural schoolgirl.”

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Michelangelo Antonioni.

L’Eclisse.

1962.

‘An empty lot.
She walks away.'

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Jarmusch and Eszter Balint on the set of Stranger Than Paradise.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Very rare indeed.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

Me too!

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