Small Town Inertia : Photography starter pack
With a focus on photojournalism, journalism & documentary these are people you should follow for their intent is righteous, hard working & they share vital stories & news. Making, inspiring, talking or sharing photography. This list will be ongoing ✌️
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@smalltowninertia.bsky.social
@artursikora.bsky.social
Architectural photographer, once an architect, mid-XX century modernist architecture admirer, recently more often escaping to nature, espresso addict (Ireland) www.artursikora.com /Portfolio www.darkroomservice.ie /BW processing + scanning
@terakopian.bsky.social
Photojournalist, corporate, PR & commercial photographer. World Press Photo award & British Press Awards Photographer of the Year. https://terakopian.smugmug.com/ https://www.instagram.com/terakopian/ https://www.instagram.com/fountainpenscribbles/
@andyaitchison.bsky.social
Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more.
@stellazine.bsky.social
HarmRedux/Proheaux organizer: National Survivors Union. frm board member: Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition. riot grrrl collection: UGA Hargrett Library. Photos in various publications. Feminist DJ. Singer/guitarist: Pagan Holiday
@yasumura.bsky.social
High amateur photographer (JPN). My works are all rights reserved. Any use of my works for training purposes in AI image generation without permission is strictly prohibited. Art is long, life is short. ⚠️Attentions⚠️Copy, DMs❌ Sub @yasumura2nd.bsky.social
@thebppa.bsky.social
Promoting and inspiring the highest ethical, technical and creative standards within British photojournalism.
@travishuggett.bsky.social
I take photographs professionally and write about photographs unprofessionally. LES⚡️NYC https://substack.com/@travishuggett www.travishuggett.com
@jostreen.bsky.social
Manchester based photographer - wandering around with a camera when I can.
@stuartfreedman.bsky.social
Photographer | Writer | Academic | Mentor | London | New Delhi | Everywhere between | Member of Panos Pictures | PhD (History) | Own views | www.stuartfreedman.com. Vogliamo Tutto.
@patrickjoust.bsky.social
Noetic romantic photographer and librarian. Baltimore and beyond. patrickjoust.com
@eddywhite.bsky.social
An old walker with a camera living in Canada I post only my own camera photos. I don't do Ai or drawings. https://www.flickr.com/photos/195908838@N03/albums
@ryanmichalesko.bsky.social
📍madison, wisconsin, usa 🌍conservation comms @savingcranes.bsky.social 📷photojournalist 🐦birder 📰 formerly @dallasnews.com @stltoday.com 🏳️🌈protect trans people
@photobookjunkies.bsky.social
Bookstore specialising in photography & art books. Follow us for some daily doses of inspiration & featured books from our online store - worldwide shipping! 🌍📚 www.photobookjunkies.com
@mattmaber.com
🔴📷🎞 Leica M6/Leica M11 ✨ 📍 Fareham/Portsmouth/Southsea, UK 🌐 http://mattmaber.com/ 🔗 http://links.mattmaber.com/
@instography.bsky.social
Layabout and bus passenger. Maker of stuff - mostly wood with occasional welding. Gardener, casual (electric) bicyclist, daily photographs at Blipfoto. Former brewer (Brew Shed Beers - you've never heard of it) and even formerer MORI social researcher.
@greghauenstein.com
Freelance photojournalist and founder of Midwest Visual Press Agency. I'm also a 9-5 web developer, a guitar player, and a long-suffering Pittsburgh Pirates fan. https://greghauenstein.com https://midwestvisualpress.com
@trend2signif.bsky.social
I’m interested in Photography. I shoot both Film and Digital. Happy to engage/be engaged with. Any photo I post is open for constructive critique. Melbourne, Australia
@lillyschwartz.bsky.social
Photographer, artist and musician (Polarcoaster) who makes videos about all that stuff too. Mostly analog. https://www.youtube.com/@LillySchwartz https://polarcoaster.bandcamp.com
@idiot.dog
Motorcycle obsessed photographer. I shoot with a Canon R8 primarily, but I also like to dabble in film. Maintaining a collection of three generations of Canon glass for some reason. IG: dogscantplayguitar
@mikecullen.bsky.social
Photographic Artist | Cat Guy | Zen Buddhism | Lib | Brooklynite
@unofphoto.bsky.social
Photographic conversation and debate curated by Dr Grant Scott Subject Coordinator Photography UG and PG at Oxford Brookes University. The weekly A Photographic Life podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts... www.unitednationsofphotography.com
@circa35mm.bsky.social
An amateur artist with a focus on capturing the landscape we live in as stand-alone images, bodies of work, and creating narratives as artists' books. I also run Biblioscapes if you like photobooks.
@nancyforde.bsky.social
(she/her) Writer/Documentary Photographer | all opinions here are my own | Settler in Kjipuktuk 🇨🇦📷 🇮🇪mamaí 🌈I dig with my pen/lens. MA Doc Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | MFA Creative Nonfiction (Class of 2026) b. 322ppm. linktr.ee/nancyforde
@marcwilson.co.uk
Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue Remnants A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust Travelogue 1 The Last Stand www.marcwilson.co.uk
@mwriston.bsky.social
Social landscape and street portrait photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Writer of photographic essays. https://michaelwriston.substack.com Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. www.michaelwriston.com
@djcleland.bsky.social
Documentary Photography. Northern Ireland. #fujifilm #X100VI www.flixelpix.net
@mikecurry.bsky.social
Abstract/Commercial Photography. Fellow of the BIPP - Author of 2016 book Fleeting Reflections and 2023 book Fleeting Reflections II https://linktr.ee/mikecurryphotography
@workersgallery.bsky.social
Small but fierce artist-led studio, #gallery & workshop in the S #Wales valleys. Est 2014. Resident artists Chris Williams & Gayle Rogers. #Art & Sport, Graphic Novels & Comics, Photography & Sculpture. Cargo e-bike tours & delivery
@marrash.com
Photographer, Educator, Content Creator. Host of Large Format Friday on YouTube & Co-Host of the Film Photography Podcast. He/Him
@rupertrivett.bsky.social
📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸 🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍 #StreetPhotography #Photojournalism| Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling 📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔 👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸 https://rupephoto.substack.com/
@sourcephoto.bsky.social
A quarterly magazine 'thinking through photography' https://linktr.ee/sourcephotographicreview www.source.ie
@harmanphoto.co.uk
Home of HARMAN Phoenix 200 The worlds newest colour film. For shares please use #phoenixfilm #harmanphoto #harmanphoenix
@rkphotographic.bsky.social
Pro photographer, workshops & 1to1, curator, #Connected, Adobe Education Trainer, Microsoft Cert Educator, Speaker, Mentor Learning@rkphotographic.com www.rkphotographic.com Spiorad àird nam Murchan
@henniphoto.bsky.social
Lynn & Paul Henni. Mainly black & white photography of Scotland. We work with local independent shops to sell prints, etchings & cards. Our website has photo galleries & location maps to browse - www.henni.photo MD ANT(s) 🎖 #MDANT
@zdroberts.bsky.social
writer/photojournalist/loves movies Member: NPPA, NWU and NPC Writing: VisuNews.substack.com Portfolio: ZDRoberts.com Movie Talk: ECVPodcast.com Signal: @ZDRoberts.81
@robarmstrong.bsky.social
US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.
@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
@samlearner.bsky.social
graphics/data journalist on the @financialtimes.com visual storytelling team work: https://www.ft.com/sam-learner projects: https://samlearner.com/ signal: samlearner.79
@sandibachom.bsky.social
Independent Press Video Journalist 🎥 Getty Images contributor True Believers J6 Doc 🎞️ TOP 500 BLUESKY ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW! https://vqv.app/ Chronicler 📹 To Support My Work: venmo.com/u/sandi-bachom paypal.me/sandibacho
@maxseddon.bsky.social
moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
@niemanlab.org
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news. 🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
@mattdpearce.com
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct) https://mattdpearce.substack.com
@jeremyscahill.com
Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
@t0nyyates.bsky.social
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC.
@markyarm.bsky.social
Exec editor, features & special projects, PCMag 🐙 adjunct, Columbia Journalism 🐙 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. 🐙 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN 🐙 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 🐙 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@drewharwell.com
Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories Signal: drewharwell.01
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@palafo.bsky.social
“If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” — Billy Bragg. Stuff: http://Palafo.org. Threads: https://www.threads.net/@palafo Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@palafo he/him #zen Ex-NYT. Signal: Palafo.38
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@financialtimes.com
The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis. https://www.ft.com The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@monroegallery.bsky.social
Monroe Gallery of Photography specializes in 20th- and 21st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery in a shared medium that is a singular intersectionality of art and journalism. lnk.bio/MonroeGallery
@wayneford.co.uk
Creative Direction and Design / Creative Strategy / Design Management / Visual Consultancy. wayneford.co.uk
@petecarr.net
Photographer working in the arts and culture sector of the Liverpool City Region. Portfolio : https://petecarr.net Writer covering LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodivergent life and photography - https://pete.news They/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖
@simoncrofts.bsky.social
Photographer & filmmaker living in Edinburgh with long term special interest (and friends & family) in Ukraine. www.simoncroftsphoto.com www.croandkow.com
@greenarkpress.bsky.social
european, (ghost)writer, photographer, publisher, amazon traveler, dancin' fool https://banzeiro.substack.com/
@pjournalismnews.bsky.social
Real #Photojournalism Works from the World + #PhotojournalismChat Exclusive Interviews with Distinguished #Photojournalists / #JournalismisNotaCrime https://photojournalismnews.medium.com/
@bertrom.bsky.social
In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.
@tug.ook.org
@tug on the bird site Neurodiverse and then some Sceptic, Geek, Photographer, Printer Apprentice Brummie
@patrickwitty.bsky.social
Photographer, editor, and writer. Former picture editor at The New York Times, international picture editor of TIME, Director of Photography at WIRED, and Deputy Director of Photography at National Geographic. https://patrickwitty.substack.com/
@bryanformhals.com
Working at a Marketing Agency and living in Downtown Minneapolis // Photography projects focusing on transit networks, public spaces and urban nature @streets.mn Board Member photography.bryanformhals.com
@andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social
Hello, welcome :) This Invisible Illness: my first long form photography project, about ME/CFS a complex & challenging health condition - like Long Covid. https://linktr.ee/andrewgifford.photography Bristol, UK. 335.42 ppm. He/him/oi.
@briandavidstevens.bsky.social
Photographer. “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a content provider" Work in National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Galleries, Martin Parr Foundation https://www.briandavidstevens.com
@deborahparkin.bsky.social
Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
@iainsarjeant.bsky.social
Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands iainsarjeant.com Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
@flakphoto.news
Hi! I’m Andy, a curator + writer in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I study images and ideas, and in my spare time, I publish FlakPhoto Digest, a newsletter for photography people. 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news/about 📸 https://www.instagram.com/flakphoto
@johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa, UVA. Usually found in Virginia, longing for Cape Town.
@smalltowninertia.bsky.social
With my community I help make long form photography stories that broadcast the realities of being marginalised & the brutality of successive political policies. Creator of smalltowninertia.co.uk Blurb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mortram ✌️