Richard Bram
@photobram.bsky.social
Photographer. That is quite enough.
Solstice dawn, Limehouse Reach this morning, 21 December 2025.
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Solstice dawn, Limehouse Reach this morning, 21 December 2025.
Solstice Dawn, Limehouse Reach, 21 December 2025
Beauty is still there to be seen.
Beauty is still there to be seen.
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Solstice Dawn, Limehouse Reach, 21 December 2025
Beauty is still there to be seen.
Beauty is still there to be seen.
Good-bye, Martin Parr. Last May we were waiting, and waiting, for supper and had a laugh or two, which was typical for him. One of the lights of photography has gone out. it was probably a flashgun.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Good-bye, Martin Parr. Last May we were waiting, and waiting, for supper and had a laugh or two, which was typical for him. One of the lights of photography has gone out. it was probably a flashgun.
Spectators, Lower Broadway, New York 2015
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Spectators, Lower Broadway, New York 2015
San Francisco, 2016.
I came across this photo today while looking for something else. I still like it.
I came across this photo today while looking for something else. I still like it.
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
San Francisco, 2016.
I came across this photo today while looking for something else. I still like it.
I came across this photo today while looking for something else. I still like it.
To my amazement, last October I saw this amazing 66-year-old beast, perhaps the ultimate example of magnificent excess, driving ahead of me on the A13 in East London.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
To my amazement, last October I saw this amazing 66-year-old beast, perhaps the ultimate example of magnificent excess, driving ahead of me on the A13 in East London.
I'm proud to be with these fine photographers in this great photo exhibition in the magnificent St. Anne's Limehouse. It opened last weekend and runs until January! Come on down and see the prints. The photographs are marvelous and the setting in one of Hawksmoor's finest churches can't be beat.
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm proud to be with these fine photographers in this great photo exhibition in the magnificent St. Anne's Limehouse. It opened last weekend and runs until January! Come on down and see the prints. The photographs are marvelous and the setting in one of Hawksmoor's finest churches can't be beat.
"Oaxacan Sketchbooks" is on the walls and ready for today's opening at Galerie Hertz! Reception at 1:00, 1253 South Preston St, Louisville, KY. If you're near, come on down! (The show runs through mid-October if you can't make it today.)
September 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Oaxacan Sketchbooks" is on the walls and ready for today's opening at Galerie Hertz! Reception at 1:00, 1253 South Preston St, Louisville, KY. If you're near, come on down! (The show runs through mid-October if you can't make it today.)
2 still lives, Angkor Village Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 2000.
I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives
I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives
August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
2 still lives, Angkor Village Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 2000.
I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives
I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives
Dead TV, Rotherhithe, London 2000.
I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.
I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.
August 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Dead TV, Rotherhithe, London 2000.
I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.
I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.
Today's the Dominican Day Parade in New York! I'm not there but I've been. The first photo from 2005 has been published in "Bystanders: A History of Street Photography" by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck but the second, from 2014, has never been seen before.
August 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today's the Dominican Day Parade in New York! I'm not there but I've been. The first photo from 2005 has been published in "Bystanders: A History of Street Photography" by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck but the second, from 2014, has never been seen before.
Flaco Jiménez, King of Tejano music, has passed on aged 86. I was lucky to photograph him and his band for the Lonesome Pine Specials in the summer of 1989. His last words were “Ya estoy cansado.” Adios, Flaco, y gracias para la musica.
August 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Flaco Jiménez, King of Tejano music, has passed on aged 86. I was lucky to photograph him and his band for the Lonesome Pine Specials in the summer of 1989. His last words were “Ya estoy cansado.” Adios, Flaco, y gracias para la musica.
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.
Exhibition in 6 weeks! "Oaxacan Sketchbooks" at Galerie Hertz, 1239 South Preston St, Louisville, KY - opening 6 September, 1:00 p.m. I'll be there and will briefly hold forth around 2:00.
(Exhibition 6 September through 25 October)
(Exhibition 6 September through 25 October)
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Exhibition in 6 weeks! "Oaxacan Sketchbooks" at Galerie Hertz, 1239 South Preston St, Louisville, KY - opening 6 September, 1:00 p.m. I'll be there and will briefly hold forth around 2:00.
(Exhibition 6 September through 25 October)
(Exhibition 6 September through 25 October)
The State of the Nation, 4 July 2025.
July 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The State of the Nation, 4 July 2025.
🧵1/3 The question of color vs. black & white: A few days ago, Alba Santiago Gonzáles (@butxy_ on Instagram) was kind enough to send this lovely photo of me that she made on the street in Dublin last month...
June 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🧵1/3 The question of color vs. black & white: A few days ago, Alba Santiago Gonzáles (@butxy_ on Instagram) was kind enough to send this lovely photo of me that she made on the street in Dublin last month...
It's quiet here at 5:00 a.m. It's necessary to treasure such moments in these times.
Limehouse Reach and the City of London, 14 June 2025.
Limehouse Reach and the City of London, 14 June 2025.
June 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's quiet here at 5:00 a.m. It's necessary to treasure such moments in these times.
Limehouse Reach and the City of London, 14 June 2025.
Limehouse Reach and the City of London, 14 June 2025.
Full moon rising over Limehouse Reach, 10:11 p.m., 10 June 2025. I don't do anything particularly special other than glance outside, go "Wow!" and grab the tripod.
June 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Full moon rising over Limehouse Reach, 10:11 p.m., 10 June 2025. I don't do anything particularly special other than glance outside, go "Wow!" and grab the tripod.
I worked all sorts of street fests on Louisville's Main Street even before I moved into the loft there in 1991. These were made with a Yashicamat TLR.
1) Louisville American Musicfest 1989
2) Pretzel vendor, Straßenfest 1990
#FromtheArchives #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky
1) Louisville American Musicfest 1989
2) Pretzel vendor, Straßenfest 1990
#FromtheArchives #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky
June 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I worked all sorts of street fests on Louisville's Main Street even before I moved into the loft there in 1991. These were made with a Yashicamat TLR.
1) Louisville American Musicfest 1989
2) Pretzel vendor, Straßenfest 1990
#FromtheArchives #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky
1) Louisville American Musicfest 1989
2) Pretzel vendor, Straßenfest 1990
#FromtheArchives #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky
"Fans Find Fun in Fashion Faux-pas" Memorial Day weekend, 1988, HardScuffle Steeplechase near Louisville. 10 different women showed up in the same dress. They had separately gone to the Fashion Shop for lawn party frocks. They gave in to the fun of it & let me make the photograph.
#FromTheArchives
#FromTheArchives
June 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Fans Find Fun in Fashion Faux-pas" Memorial Day weekend, 1988, HardScuffle Steeplechase near Louisville. 10 different women showed up in the same dress. They had separately gone to the Fashion Shop for lawn party frocks. They gave in to the fun of it & let me make the photograph.
#FromTheArchives
#FromTheArchives
I've always been fond of this quiet picture.
Yellow Coat, Little Red Square, New York 2013
#FromTheArchives
Yellow Coat, Little Red Square, New York 2013
#FromTheArchives
June 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I've always been fond of this quiet picture.
Yellow Coat, Little Red Square, New York 2013
#FromTheArchives
Yellow Coat, Little Red Square, New York 2013
#FromTheArchives
A quiet photograph for a quiet day.
Cowcross Street, London 2014.
Cowcross Street, London 2014.
May 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A quiet photograph for a quiet day.
Cowcross Street, London 2014.
Cowcross Street, London 2014.
As is often said of history, photographs don't repeat themselves but they do rhyme. In Livorno, Italy, two weeks ago I made this of a guy checking his makeup before joining in a Medieval festival. It reminded me of another photo I'd made in Oaxaca, México, twenty years earlier in 2005.
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
As is often said of history, photographs don't repeat themselves but they do rhyme. In Livorno, Italy, two weeks ago I made this of a guy checking his makeup before joining in a Medieval festival. It reminded me of another photo I'd made in Oaxaca, México, twenty years earlier in 2005.
Lo and behold, in August 1989 I was photographing the Lonesome Pine Specials music series in Louisville. A Rounder Records' Artists show was featured and in through the audience came the same boy - bigger, stronger, and still blowing like Armstrong.
May 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Lo and behold, in August 1989 I was photographing the Lonesome Pine Specials music series in Louisville. A Rounder Records' Artists show was featured and in through the audience came the same boy - bigger, stronger, and still blowing like Armstrong.
Rebirth is an amazing band. I have an odd little history with them: In 1987 I was in New Orleans and heard someone playing a trumpet like Armstrong, but in short phrases. I followed my ears and came upon this little kid blowing in the street:
May 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Rebirth is an amazing band. I have an odd little history with them: In 1987 I was in New Orleans and heard someone playing a trumpet like Armstrong, but in short phrases. I followed my ears and came upon this little kid blowing in the street: