Bertrom.

The Castlemilk lads. The first image of three young boys was taken by Oscar Marzaroli in 1963 and was used by Scottish band Deacon Blue as a cover for Chocolate Girl.  In 2012, 49 years later, the same image was captured of the boys by photographer Robert Perry.

A slow singer, but loading each phrase With history's overtones, love, joy And grief learned by his dark tribe In other orchards and passed on Instinctively as they are now, But fresh always with new tears. R.S. Thomas. A Blackbird Singing.

Friends Of Derek (FOD) Unseen Photographs of Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage.

David Lynch. The Factory Photographs. These black-and-white photographs exude Lynch‘s fascination with factories, his obsession with smokestacks, chimneys, machinery, darkness and mystery. Derelict monuments of industrialisation.

Leon Levinstein. Such graphic virtuosity and candid unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighbourhoods. 1960s-70s.

Walter Benjamin. ‘Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.’ He was at the heart of my dissertation and much of my approach to literature, photography and philosophy. A terrible loss at such a horrendous point in history.

Victor Hugo wrote poetry, novels, and drama, but he also made some four thousand drawings over the course of his life. Some of his work has a look of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.

My son and his partner had a wonderful day. A remarkable concept. www.migrateful.org

Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban’s post-apocalyptic novel. A masterpiece. An adaptation premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 1986, directed by Braham Murray. One of the most remarkable theatrical experiences I have ever had.

Randall Enos.

The Macabre Convergence of FW Murnau's Art and Life - Little White Lies. apple.news/AedcdABDhRuS...

Yael Martínez. Self-portrait with my daughter and the presence of a hanging man. Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. 2013.

Eve Arnold. One of four girls who share a flat in Knightsbridge. 1961

Have I menTIONed that I was prime MINister, once? That it was the bank of England and other MaRXIsts who undDERMined my economic plan of recovery. Well, let me tell U I was once PRIMe minister. Yes. Of course you were ? apple.news/AxYeCzxGHTUe...

‘Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. ‘I don't know' the father replied. ‘What are we Papa?' ‘I don't know. We must wait and see'. Russell Hoban. The Mouse and His Child. Goodnight.

Margaret Olley. Interior with Green Fireplace. Circa 1972.

Alice Bailly. Self Portrait. 1917. Fauve and Futurist influences.

Margaret Bourke-White.

RIP Walter Koenig. The final frontier.

Robin Weaver studied photography at Newport College of Art in the 1970s. Aside from his day job covering hard news and local events, for The South Wales Argus his main interest was documenting the everyday lives of the people in and around the valleys of South Wales.

Original source material.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Simone Weil.

In an essay in 1984 at the dawn of the personal computer era, the novelist Thomas Pynchon wondered if it was “O.K. to be a Luddite?” A reminder that it’s possible to live well with technology but only if we continually question the ways it shapes our lives.

There was a time my bit of ground Made freeman of the slave, The ass no pounder'd dare to pound When I his supper gave. The gipsy's camp was not afraid, I made his dwelling free, Till vile enclosure came, and made A parish slave of me. The Lament of Swordy Well. John Clare.

Sally Mann. Mann frames the image with the washed-out sky, a signifier not of absence but indeed of too much presence, of an image-world so replete with light and darkness that it cannot be captured all at once.

City of God. 2002. Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. A well loved film in a ‘Power, Poverty and Conflict’ module I taught alongside La Haine and Tsotsi. An explosive combination! youtu.be/RfnGQetbX-U

Swimmer is a short film by Lynne Ramsay, created as part of the cultural program for the 2012 London Olympic Games. I screened this often in my short filmmaking module in college. youtu.be/NF0H-Lfpa9s?...

Anna Dorothea Therbusch. Self-portrait. c. 1776-7. She frequently included a monocle in her later self-portraits as her eyesight began to fail.

Marion Wagschal. Song for a Dead Coyote. 2015.

Bonnie and Clyde. 1967. THE classic film of the New Hollywood era. David Newman and Robert Benton, François Truffaut and Arthur Penn brought us an enduring work of art. To say I loved teaching a film that stunned me in my youth is an understatement!

“It’s very strange that on the very streets where the police beat us, on the streets where we retreated countless times in the face of the gendarmerie, we are now standing here as the victors,” says Sara. apple.news/Al2TURs3RS96...

“And there’s gold everywhere. What’s up with the gold? Everything, more gold. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” Barack Obama.

It’s a start. theconversation.com/lula-wins-a-...

Tom Gauld. Good morning 😊

The woods nearby. Goodnight.

Birkenhead cafe. Tea for two.

Ming Smith. “You don’t make art for money, especially as a Black artist. You do it because there is that need to create — and that has helped me to survive” Smith favours photographing with a slow shutter speed. She plays with light and movement to emulate the life running through her subjects.

The last of the crop. It was a great year.

Dublin.

Another explosive gem in my classroom. La Haine. I cannot believe it was made in 1995, it is still so prescient. I often look back at the range of films I taught; narrative, aesthetics, the social, emotional and political contexts, and recall the best years of my life. youtu.be/FKwcXt3JIaU?...

Pawel Pawlikowski. Fatherland. Pawlikowski’s film offers a fictionalised take on a momentous journey: Nobel Prize-winning author, humanist and anti-Nazi campaigner Thomas Mann’s return from exile to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. youtu.be/-I2-X9v-ogs

Jesse Marlow discovered wounded people who go unnoticed among the sea of commuters in his native Australia. The result, a series called Wounded. His photographs show citizens enduring the daily struggles of coping to live normal lives amid broken bones and nursing other wounds.

21st-century TV sex culture. If you have noticed a lot more sex on television you are not imagining it, or a prude – it is happening, and while at times it is brilliant and valid, at other times, it is boring, unnecessary. And this was four years ago. www.reddit.com/r/television...

Storm Boelo. West Kirby.

Joan Eardley. Two Children. 1963.

RIP Brian Robinson. As an archivist, queer historian, collector, and a curator in the truest sense, devoting his life to connecting people and deepening his own and others’ knowledge and appreciation of cinema history and queer culture. www.bfi.org.uk/features/bri...

Doğum günün kutlu olsun Elif Shafak.

Federico García Lorca. I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I am still alive, that I have a golden manger inside my lips, that I am the little friend of the west wind, that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears.