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Harry Smart
@munross.bsky.social
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Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
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looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
a panoramic icolour photo, looking out over rooftops towards the Sea of Marmara, from Istanbul. The upper half of the image is sky, pale blue, with pinker tones towards the horizon and over to the right, where the sun is setting. The sea itself is a narrow strip sandwidched between the city and the sky. The rooftops are mostly pink-tiled. The pale stone of a mosque on the left of the image is a warm yellow colour as it catches the late light.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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In the Rubens House, #Antwerp #Rubenshuis #streetphotography
a darkened room in the Rubens House in Antwerp; paintings cover the walls, some picked out by their own small lights; on the far side of the room a high window lets in a little bluish light; visitors sit on benches in the centre of the room, one, wearing a bright red jacket, is picked out by the lighting.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
a colour photograph, walking along a busy street in Istanbul in the late evening. The sunset has coloured the clouds pink and peach against a sky that still shows a trace of blue. The street is mostly in silhouette, on the righ there is a mosque, to the left mostly shops. You can just make out the people in the street, and the pavement has a dull shine reflecting sunset colours.
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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late sun on Istiklal Caddesi, #Istanbul
#streetphotography
black and white photo of a busy shopping street, mostly in shadow, except for where the low sun strikes a short stretch of the street. At ground level the buildings have been converted to modern shops, but the upper floors retain their earlier style, old European, with ornate balconies and windows.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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side street off #Istiklal, #Istanbul
#streetphotography #panorama
a panoramic colour photo looking along a narrow side street towards a main street. The sun doesn't reach down into the side street thanks to the tall buildings, but in the distance the main street can just be seen and it's sunlit. Along both sides of the side street are cafes and restaurants with customers sitting outside and with fluorescent signage. The signs shine brightly out from the darkened buildings.
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I love how he's built a special window seat with a vent so he can blow smoke up his own backside. But please, for the love of all that's decent, can we have that glass frosted.
The White House Lincoln Bathroom (Batroom?) remodelled hideously in white marble. There is a window with what looks like a vented window seat; it gives a view over a section of the White House roof. The lavatory is positioned so that someone could sit in the window seat with their feet in the lavatory. Which is a look, I guess.
November 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Redevelopment in Satır Sokak ('Cleaver Street') in #Istanbul.
#streetphotography
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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going to start posting shots from the documentary #photoraphy series I'm working on, about the #medrese in #Istanbul, the nargile cafe there.
black and white photo of a section of wall, on the right there is a doorway into a darkened room. On the wall there is a piece of calligraphy, embellished with gold, in a gilt frame. The whole composition is an arrangement of rectangles.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The UK govt is approving arms export licences in the knowledge that those arms will be used in genocide. In this case in #Sudan.

from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
paragraphs of text from an article in the Guardian newspaper; the key paragraph is: "Months after the UN security council first received material alleging that the UAE may have supplied British-made items to the RSF, new data indicates that the British government went on to approve further exports to the Gulf state for military equipment of the same type."
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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FWIW, this is exactly how the Westminster government and the British military treated what is now the Republic of Ireland in the early 1900s and into the fight for independence.
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Carpet. Leg of sculpture tripod. Light from stained glass.
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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with Scarlot Rose last year
#fineartnude #nude #portrait
September 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Cat, a few years ago.
Black and white photo of the back of a woman. She is naked, the right side of her body is striped by diagonal lines of light passing through Venetian blinds. A black and white nude photo of a woman at a plain wall, seen from a low angle as she leans forward from shadow into slatted light.
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower with Erwin Blumenfeld in May 1939. The reckless joy and the huge skirt billowing in the sunlight. Life and optimism and knowing what was about to break across Europe in a few months.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.
A black and white photograph, sepia tinted, of model Lisa Fonssagrives. She is on the Eiffel Tower, out on the framework of the tower, balancing on the edge of a drop several hundred feet to the city which is visible below her and stretching to the skyline. She has on a dress with a wide skirt and she is holding the hem of the skirt above her head, her arm outstretched so that a great expanse of fabric billows out over the city. It is a bright sunny day and she seems full of joy and courage.
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Melissa #nude #fineartnude
August 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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one last one for tonight from the 2018 shoot with Ariel
August 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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another from that 2018 shoot with @arielanderssen.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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looking through old cards .. 2018 with @arielanderssen.bsky.social
a woman, naked, sitting with knees drawn up towards her chin, hands clasped at her feet. a black and white image
August 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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half of these are barely on anyone's radar in the US and Europe.

disclaimer: figures via ChatGPT, all unavoidably imprecise. Most casualties of war literally don't count.
A list of ongoing major conflicts with estimates of casualties. Sudan, 150,000+, Yemen, 150,000+ and hundreds of thousands more indirect (famine and disease), UKraine, 1 million+, Tigray 62,000 perhaps up to 380,000, Mexican Drug War 350,000+, Gaza 90,000+, Myanmar Civil War 50,000+, Rohingya conflict in Myanmar 24,000, Democratic Republic of the Congo 30,000 deaths & 7 million displaced.
August 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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questions being asked about Everton's new boot sponsor
#LUFC
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Going a bit Rembrandt with Valentina #portrait
August 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Valentina #fineartnude
one proceeds very slowly through the editing process. one wishes one could go quicker.
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Valentina again #fineartnude #portrait
puts me in mind of a brief exchange a couple of weeks ago with @mariesgallery.bsky.social about smiling / laughing photos and why we sometimes instinctively pass them over when picking what to edit as 'art'.
August 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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another of Valentina last year
August 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM