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Greg Locke
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Photographer, journalist, media producer based in Newfoundland, Canada. www.greglocke.com Available for assignments. DMs open. Available on Signal and WhatsApp. Contributor to Reuters, Globe and Mail and The Gammy Bird.
ARCHIVE SCAN. Poet and writer Maja Bannerman at my house during Sound Symposium in 1992. That year we turned my entire old four story Victorian house in downtown St John's in to a photo / video studio and performance space for shooting portraits and doing interviews.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Scanning some old Tri-X from prairie adventures in the early 1990. Nikon F3p with 20mm f2.8 lens. Tri-X hand processed in HC110 in a hotel bathroom. ...that old borrowed Ford was wild. #photography
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The latest installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park by Roger Bill in The Gammy Bird. thegammybird.ca/2025/11/07/t...
The Red-Haired Skeet With The Purple Lakers Hat
The Red-Haired Skeet With The Purple Lakers Hat. The latest installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park by Roger Bill
thegammybird.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My photo from the courtroom last week raised some questions about media photographers having access to courtrooms. The Newfoundland and Labrador courts are unique in Canada allowing this. Find out how and why this came about on the my photo blog.
Cameras in the courts in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador courts are the only place in Canada where media/press cameras are permitted in the courtroom during a trial. Find out how and why
greglocke.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Gammy Bird! The murder of Seamus Secord by Robert Belbin marks a new normal for drugs, guns and violence in crime in St John's, Newfoundland. A place where murders used to be years apart. Story by Roger Bill. Photos by Greg Locke #crime #newfoundland #news #journalism #photojournalism
The Murder of Seamus Secord. Drugs, Guns and a New Normal
The murder of Seamus Secord by Robert Belbin is the new normal of drugs, guns extreme violence in crime in St John's, Newfoundland where once murder was...
thegammybird.ca
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reposted by Greg Locke
Immigrants work in Newfoundland and Labrador to make better lives for themselves and provide for families back home. Contributing to NL economy in the process. #newfoundland #labour #workers #immigration
“I have people depending on me.” Immigrants work to provide for families.
Immigrants work in Newfoundland and Labrador to make better lives for themselves and provide for families back home. Contributing to NL economy in the process.
thegammybird.ca
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you into photography and reality....here is a geeky article for you. FYI: Other camera makers have been working with the major news agencies like Reuters, AFP, AP for years on photo authentication technology. #photography #journalism
Is that photo real or fake? Digital ‘birth certificates’ are a new way to get answers
Sony technology, tested by The Globe over months, seeks to create a virtual paper trail that AI-generated imagery can never match
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Gammy is squawking about the Newfoundland election....
#newfoundland

thegammybird.ca/2025/10/13/g...
Gammy's election hot take
The Gammy Bird has some thoughts on the 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador election, the issues and the value of opinions of old politicians and bureaucrats.
thegammybird.ca
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Starting to file away this years work and with it being such a crazy news year I'd forgotten I actually shot some decent portraits. Jerry Earle, President of NAPE. Conception Bay, Newfoundland. Canada.
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Why is this man smiling? First Polling is out for period leading up to Oct 14 NL election. #journalism #newfoundland #election #polling
First polling for NL provincial election - The Gammy Bird
The first polling information for the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election has surfaced. It give first snapshot of parties leading up to Oct election
thegammybird.ca
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Greg Locke
September 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Celebrating the Equinox with more autumn light at the performance of Echo Village IV at MUN Botanical Gardens in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada with Michelle Lecour and her accordion at Oxen Pond. #canada #equinox #newfoundland
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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New episode of Futures Possible is up and you can find it wherever you listen yo your podcasts. It features @pmlydon.com , an artist and ecological urbanist living in Korea: bojanfurstphotography.com/futures-poss...
Futures Possible | Episode 3 - Patrick Lydon's future — Bojan Fürst
Conversation with artist and ecological urbanist Patrick Lydon.
bojanfurstphotography.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Welcome the Autumnal Equinox. Summer have left us here in the north. Dancer Missy Morris at the Botanical Gardens in St John’s, Newfoundland during a performance of Echo Village, Still Waters. Presented by Sound Arts Initiative. Photo by Greg Locke © 2025.
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New from the Gammy Bird.
Newfoundland Election: October 14 as election day. Failing provincial ferry's should be an election issue but the Quebec / Newfoundland hydro agreement is cued up to be the ballot box question. The ferry Grace Sparks on drydock in St John's #canada #newfoundland #news #journalism
2025 NL Election set of October 14
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan waits it down to the wire to call a provincial election on the mandatory day of October 14 with a 28 day campaign.
thegammybird.ca
September 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A must read. In depth report on PFAS contaminated water. In today's online edition of the Globe and Mail and Saturday's paper with my photos from Torbay, Newfoundland. #journalism #photojournalism #investigativejournalism #news #canada #newfoundland #ontario

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Futures Possible, the podcast I just launched, is now available on Amazon Music as well: music.amazon.ca/podcasts/eca...

You can also hear the first episode here: music.amazon.ca/podcasts/eca...

#future #podcast
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Reposted by Greg Locke
Reposted by Greg Locke
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney in St John's, Newfoundland with MP Joanne Thompson and NL Premier John Hogan. #newfoundland #canada #politics #journalism #news thegammybird.ca/2025/09/09/c...
Carney visits NL first time since election
Canadian PM Mark Carney visited Newfoundland for the first time since the election to make an $80 million funding announcement to counter trade tariffs.
thegammybird.ca
September 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by Greg Locke
INNU NATION launches campaign in support of Memorial University's draft Indigenous Verification Policy.

"Indigenous spaces for Indigenous peoples." "Les espaces autochtones pour les peuples autochtones."

take-action.innu.ca

#firstnation #canada #indigenous #innunation
@aptnnews.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Front from the Globe and Mail's major feature story last week on a national plan and provincial cooperation to prepare for wildfires across Canada.
#photojournalism #wildfires #news #canadanews #canada #newfoundland #wildfires #journalism
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Archive photo to mark Labour Day. Striker getting arrested on the picket line of a bitter 1986 labour dispute between the government of Newfoundland and its unionized employees, NAPE, in St John's, Newfoundland. This guy epitomizes "never give up" :^) #labourday #canada #news #photojournalism
August 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Happy Labour Day. In 1986 there was a bitter strike in Newfoundland between the government workers union, NAPE, and conservative government. The guy getting tossed in the back of a cop car was one of hundreds charged and arrested on the picket line. ...never give up :^) #labourday #photojournalism
Happy Labour Day from 1986 NAPE strike flashback
In 1986 the Brian Peckford Progressive Conservative government took just 19 minutes to pass Bill 59 that kicked off the 1986 NAPE government workers strike.
thegammybird.ca
August 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM