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Deborah Parkin
@deborahparkin.bsky.social
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Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking

Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
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A tea toned Cyanotype of a curlew.
Printed on a fine Japanese paper 🤎
A tea toned Cyanotype of a curlew - the print of the curlew is dark brown & it is overplayed into a fine, cream coloured paper. A close of up a curlew - the print is a tea toned Cyanotype and the curlew is a light brown and cream colour and the background is a dark brown.
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Part 20 of Spiorad Àird nam Murchan | Elemental V: Spirit, will now arrive Sunday 30 Nov.

A week’s pause to honour its weight: after a storm of work and a long away day to South Wales (football), I need time to let this piece breathe.

Spirit deserves stillness before the spark.

Apols for pause.
Lochan na Crannaig, West Ardnamurchan.
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Poltimore
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Black and white photo of an avenue of tall trees
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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I like to make mini prints of my work - here are a few samples of cyanotypes & some silver gelatin prints. I then make small photo albums or box them. I love small prints 💙🖤
A photograph of a selection of small photographs. There is a small book with two photographs in it & above that are several small photographs - all about the size of a passport photo. At the top of the picture a small cyanotype prints. A photograph of a girl - the photo is laying in the palm of a hand. A small photograph album held open. Inside are two passport size photos of a girl. A mini cyanotype print of two jackdaws on a hawthorn tree.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Brilliant news!!
marcwilson.co.uk Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 5d
Lovely to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the The Royal Photographic Society alongside some great names in the industry, including Ragnar Axelsson , Amak Mahmoodian , Richard Billingham and Janine Wiedel.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Here we go again ❄️❄️
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I used to make cyanotypes myself (back before bread took over my life). Someday I will again.
a cyanotype print of a barefoot, dark-haired woman in a white, flowing dress, twirling against a white-painted brick wall, with a shaft of sunlight coming in from the lower right.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A few cyanotype prints 💙
A photo of several small cyanotype prints of jackdaws - the prints are laying on a green Matt with two pencils laying in the left hand side.
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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FRAGMENTS VOL.2

A series of 'visual notes'
chance observations
collected fragments...

Images gathered from Cornwall to the Orkney Islands.

Available to pre-order from @anotherplacepress.bsky.social for just £19 here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Trotternish...
Two black & white photographs: Left - rock with foam on a dark sand beach, with a small island in the background. Right - derelict concrete building with graffiti.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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From my Horse series 🖤
A black and white photograph of a black horse laying in a field on a foggy morning - he is surrounded by sheep.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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And here's a helpful reading list to help you plan ahead.

publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/f...
Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5, 2024
Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 – December…
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5.

A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.

Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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It's tonight ...

Can't make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording.
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Still time register for our next online collections and archives talk ...

'The Roaming Studio: The Itinerant Photographer in Berwick-upon-Tweed' on Tuesday 11th November 2025 (1900 GMT) with Cameron Robertson.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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JUST PUBLISHED! In our latest article we examine the 17th century craze for writing and reading letters, and how this became a major feature in Dutch art, featuring in masterful paintings by artists such as Gabriel Metsu and Jan Vermeer www.artinsociety.com/gabriel-mets...
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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My latest post on Substack

jashleynixon.substack.com/p/photograph...
Photographing Place
Writing about Images
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November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Some work from my Memory series 🖤
A black and white photograph of a girl playing hopscotch. The picture is square & the image is filled with the hopscotch and the girls is in the distance- you can see her from her shoulders down. A black and white photograph of a girl looking out of a large window- the child has her back to the viewer. A black and white photograph of a girl standing at an arch window of a cathedral- light is falling upon her and the ground. A black and white photograph of two children wearing masks from Alice in Wonderland- the girl stands by a wall & the boy sits in a tyre.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Beautiful work 🖤
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Honour me by joining my Patreon community. Your support helps me sustain my practice in a region where opportunities for disabled artists are limited, and where resources for traditional photographic methods are increasingly hard to find.

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Jo Howell | Patreon
creating Phographic art
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November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Toby!
From my Horse series 🖤
A grey horse standing against a darkened sky. The picture is taken from the ground looking up. The horse is eating with his head to the ground & merges into the right hand corner of the image. A black and white photograph of a grey horse standing against a darkened sky. The horse is cropped & just shows his head and neck- the light hits the top of he neck & highlights some of the mane that sticks up. His ears are slightly back. A black and white photograph of a grey horse - the horse is centered and looking directly into the camera. A black and white photograph of a grey horse moving away from the camera- the photo is taken from the ground looking up & captured a bit of the horse’s neck (mane) and ear and eye.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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St Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall. Taken with my Polaroid Flip & colour i-type film.

#polaroid #instantfilm #cornwall #photographer
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Myself and andrew caught up with Lorraine Healy last night to talk about various things
#pinhole #lomo #lomophotography
#filmphotography
warboyssnapper.bsky.social Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 21d
Show 14 is out - we chat about the use of colour in photography, some Lomo camera offerings, Poetry and photography, and much more - with @johnfar.com and guest Lorraine Healey

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Show 14 - Mostly Luck with Lorraine Healey
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“There are places where silence is not absence but presence.”

After an inspiring week leading our Ardnamurchan Creative Retreat, I’m pausing to share highlights so far from ‘Spiorad Àird nam Murchan—a journey through words and light’

New writing resumes this Sunday at 8pm. 🌿🌊🌋🧊
The Sound of Mull and MacLeans Nose / Ben Hiant, West Ardnamurchan.
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A few more tea toned Cyanotypes that I made a while back - the beginnings of a new project that was put on hold but I’m hoping to start again soon.
A selection of tea toned Cyanotype prints. The prints a different shapes and sizes and the images are if jackdaws, crows, starlings and landscapes. A selection of tea toned Cyanotype prints. The prints a different shapes and sizes and the images are if jackdaws, crows, starlings and landscapes. A selection of tea toned Cyanotype prints. The prints a different shapes and sizes and the images are if jackdaws, crows, starlings and landscapes. A selection of tea toned Cyanotype prints. The prints a different shapes and sizes and the images are if jackdaws, crows, starlings and landscapes.
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM