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Andrew Gifford
@andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social
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Hello, welcome :)

This Invisible Illness: my first long form documentary photography project, about ME/CFS a complex & challenging health condition - like Long Covid.

https://linktr.ee/andrewgifford.photography

Bristol, UK. 335.42 ppm. He/him/oi.
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · Nov 1
Autonomic face plant - from my ME/CFS photo project

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ALT: colour photo of adult white male with bloodied face and drained expression, from fainting a moment ago

#Photography #MECFS #LongCovid #SelfPortrait
Autonomic face plant:
Andrew Gifford on Glass
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Sadly, ME and Long Covid have taken another bright light.

Megan was creative, spunky, intelligent, kind, and beautiful. In the end, she was barely able to exist because of severe ME and Long Covid.

Please don’t let anyone convince you that viruses are harmless

#RIPMegan🕊️
Two women by Megan Pendleton Orange cat, w a wreath of flowers beautiful furry cat by megan pendleton frontier older man by megan Pendleton
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“A year’s worth of readings from our air quality sensors showed that PM2.5 pollution… was 91% higher during the winter months compared with the summer. This directly coincides with when we know many people use open fires and wood-burning stoves.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2569255...
Senior councillor defends campaign to stop people using log burners in Brighton
From running adult social care, to fixing potholes and repairing roads, authorities like Brighton and Hove City Council are responsible for a lot of…
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December 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Me: What’s the left knob in the tub for?
Her: That’s hot
Me: If you like that, I have other questions about plumbing
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Sharon has a website on Squarespace. No task has taken us less than 20-30 minutes, sometimes hours. How this product is so widely used is beyond me. It's a sprawlng mess.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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15 years ago yesterday I'd hiked the 30 mile horseshoe route to up Pen y Fan in Wales. I really really really miss being active.
Colour photo of white 30-odd male looking out into the distance like a budget catalogue model up a hill. We're under a blue winter sky, with vapour trails and a light peppering of cloud. Behind him the route up the hill is shrouded in fog. He's wearing a light blue waterproof jacket, grey hiking trousers and an expression that says 'this feels good' as, on this occassion, 'mild' ME/CFS hasn't stopped him pushing through the grog and doing the things he loves.
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Photo from a while ago: western China

A town quite high up and cold. It'll shock you to hear I can't recall the name.

#Photography
Colour photo of a wide long and straight tarmac street. It's lined with buildings under a cloudy winter sky where a shard of hazy sunlight is almost breaking through in the distance. To our left, in the foreground, is a threey storey grey brick residency and beside this a smaller store building with drab yellow wals which have numbers graffitti'd on and metal roll shutters, currentlly closed. To the right is another grey brick building, of store fronts and a supermarket, which has a blue bicycle parked out front. There are two residential floors above this. Red lanterns are strung along the overhang. In the middle distance a white saloon car is parked facing a similar navy one. Shops and other amenity buildings line the street into the distance. The town feels almost deserted, there's just a few people going about their errands bringing some life to the otherwise cold and quiet scene.
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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NEW unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/12/12/a...
A Little Help From Your Photo Friends
Over the past forty years I have spoken to many photographers. I’ve given them work, advice, support, instruction and hopefully some inspiration and direction. I’ve been paid to do all …
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December 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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NEW unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/12/10/s...
Staying True to a Central ‘Truth’ in Photography
The recent death of Martin Parr (above right) made me think about his work more than I probably have before. Whilst others were arguing about his relevance, approach and colour photographs I starte…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Photo from a while ago: western China

A dry early winter's day.

#Photography
Colour photo made amongst the back streets of a residential area of small city. Colourful washing is strung from a line that's tied between the metal bars that cover a downstairs window and a concrete lamp/power post. It's a cold winter's day with bright hazy light. The homes are two storeys high and red brick. Each has a grille of rusting metal bars for safety and security. The street is well kept, swept free of litter. The washing is mainly bedding - fuschia pink sheets with a frilly edge and one blanket with a giraffe/animal print - offering a flavour the person's home and tastes.
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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This is the first time someone has featured my work and interviewed me! I share my experience living with severe ME while documenting this current life.

PCAC (Patient Caregiver Artist Coalition) does a great job with their features! So I’m honoured to be included.

#MECFS #pwME #Photography
Niko Suvisto on photography as survival through ME/CFS
Niko Suvisto on photography as survival through ME/CFS
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December 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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It is widely known that the particulate pollution (smoke) produced by using solid fuel is a massive source of urban #airpollution in the wintertime. Irrespective of what fuel you use..... some ARE better than others BUT still hundreds of times more pollution that gas
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Finally, despite what some people think "burning stuff" is NOT the cheapest way to heat your home. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wood burners more costly for heating than gas boilers, study finds
Charity says research dispels myth that wood burning, which has health risks, is a cheaper energy option
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Candles.

The gift of carcinogens, for you and your loved ones.
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Photo from a while ago: south west China

Somewhere nestled amongst the karst hills of Guilin.

#Photography
Colour photo of a run down street on the edge of a small town. Single storey white-washed stone workers residencies with dark grey roof tiles line a buff/grey hard park street. The whole scene feels a little abandoned, but is still home to those are working the land and light industry. The Guilin karst hills tower in the background, they're just about visible in the greys and greens through the misty wintery murk. A lone older adult male Chinese citizen is walking away from us, soon to disappear from view. He's wearing work wear, a navy cap and trousers. His purple jacket contrasts the timber-framed windows and doors of the residencies, which are painted either a rich brown or rich green. In the background a small industrial building has most of its windows smashed, exposing metal bars behind. From its roof and guttering grow lots of young green plants, self seeded from the fertile lands around.
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Just had to pay £90 import tax on c.£230 (with discount) order of Oxaloacetate.

This pushes it into unaffordability. Yet it really does make a worthwhile difference for me. I hate how expensive ME/CFS vs the pittance of welfare from DWP vs total lack of NHS clinical support.

Cruel Britannia.
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Bumble bees on our winter honeysuckle and vibernum shrubs.

Glad to offer something to eat the whole year round, climate change sees them out of their burrows more often in winter and they spend energy trying to find food.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Photo from a while ago: south west China

Farmed duck meat, air-drying for preservation.

#Photography
Colour photo of whole ducks - farmed, killed and plucked - hanging in bunches on wire that is attached to a bamboo pole. This is just under the eaves of someone's rural/farming home, in weak mid morning winter light. Their flesh and beaks are a mix of yellow, beiges, fleshy pinks. Their skin is rich with yellowy fat. There's some clutter in the background, mostly hidden in shadow.
December 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Burning wood damages our #Climate.

👍 Planting a new tree is great but...
👎 ...it takes decades of growth before that new tree is mature enough to absorb the carbon emitted from the one burnt last night.
#WoodBurning #AirPollution
Wood Is Not a Carbon-Neutral Energy Source
Treating it as such – and supporting it with subsidies, as the UK and many other EU member states do – is a flawed path to climate action.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Edward Colston at M Shed in Bristol
// shot from above - no longer on a pedestal.
Close up of the upper half of a statue of a man, with red graffiti
October 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Awake since 4:20 AM. My 'fault'.

I crossed an invisible red line.

With silicon ear plugs I can hear my body waking up. I barely consciously observe my blood pressure slowly beginning to rise and circulate around my body.
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Tiny vices archive.

An unending feed of images, contributed by photographers for people to, well, look at I suppose;

www.tinyvicesarchive.com

Thanks @timbarberphoto.bsky.social !

#Photography #TinyVicesArchive
tinyvices archive
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December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Photo from a while ago: south west China

A more rural, edge of the city locale. Steeped in cultural history. Worse for my lack of note-taking.

#Photography
Colour photo made looking down a wide open hard-pack street, lined each side by 200+ year old brick and timber farm/rural housing, the colour pallette is drab whites, greys and browns. Each is still home to multi-generational families. It's winter, a near-white sky hangs frigid over the pitched roofs, tiled with slate-grey ceramic tiles and with firewalls to contain disaster. Crumbling white-grey plaster reveals dark grey brick. Atop the firewalls is a traditional ornate feature made of tiles, like a dragon or beast's head. Outside most of the homes is a neatly upended wooden long-armed barrow, wheels removed likely to protect them from the rains. Some colourful washing hangs on bamboo rails and bunting is strung along both sides of the street, most of its flags long since blown away. Two stray dogs saunter and sniff around, they're a hardy thick-fir buff-coloured breed. Two red paper lanterns hang from an entranceway that is also painted deep red. There's some burgandy street lamps and long stretched of telephone/power cables. At the far end of the street two adult female Chinese citizens are coming into view. One is pushing a toddler in a stroller, the other is carrying bags. Perhaps it's mum and grandmother home from shopping or taking his siblings to school.
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM