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Simon Grigg
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Wanderer, scribe, street photog & music obsessive. Photos: http://opdiner.com Founder: http://audioculture.co.nz Me: http://simongrigg.info
Dokter Lampu, Denpasar, June 2025.

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November 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Screenprinting the revolution, Bangkok protests, 2020.

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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Happy in Denpasar, July 2025

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November 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I wrote a (long) Substack/Opdiner thing last week. Loads of music I like at the moment from all over the place, from Mingus to Cale to Misty to Tom Skinner but also a couple of books.

Anyway: opdiner.substack.com/p/it-mustve-...
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A far too long blog post about music, books, photography, Mingus, Misty in Roots and more open.substack.com/pub/opdiner/...
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The entrance to The Tokyo Museum of Photography in Aug 2023.

A lucky shot of a somewhat ironic juxtaposition.

But it also brought to mind this great post by Chris Bourke in 2008, interviewing John G Morris who placed the Capa shot in Life.

chrisbourke.blogspot.com/2008/03/magn...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What a sad but engrossing book, essentially how the CIA and the US gifted the planet the meth scourge via their bumbling war on drugs and the tragedy of the Wa state victims caught up in it all.

History repeats.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Grandma chasing a grandson around and around me with a raygun in Changsha, Hunan, May 2024.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I'm not sure if this is actually a good photo, but I quite liked the tumult and noise of it. And it was noisy.

Milano, April.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Barber in Phu Quoc, November 2024

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November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Watery conversation in Tokyo, 2023.

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November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
You have one job to do…

Thai lounge at BKK.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The right hat. Milano Saloné, April 2025

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November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Google AI again. It's literally called
Live at the Counter Eurovision 79 because it was recorded in Brussels on March 31 and April 1, 1979

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November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Dennis Morris at the MEP, April, Paris

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November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Cité des sciences et de l'Industrie, April 2025

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November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
La Caféothèque de Paris, 4ème in spring, April 2025.

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November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Your name's not down, you're not coming in.

Milan, April
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November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Shinjuku, early 2025

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October 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This was a chance capture on the Seine in April. I assumed the couple at the bottom were part of a photoshoot, but there were no photographers. And the girl knitting seemed unaware or disinterested.

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October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM