💥Rotographs (2025) - these were created at a couple of the fireworks nights in London at the end of last year using the motion-control technique I was messing around with earlier in the year. A bit of BTS at the end…
Many thanks to @batterseaparklondon , @blackheathfireworksfestival and @hit_themotherlode for access and coordination, @dantobinsmith for the camera loan and @ayumikiller for the BTS shots and waiting like a trooper for hours in the cold 🖤.
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#broadmag #makemeseemag #trendland #odtakeovers #photographize
🇺🇸⚜️ The Racist Highway - so called because of the intensely unjust backstory to the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans. Literally by design, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 generated plans to disrupt thriving Black neighbourhoods by destroying them with enormous road systems, often seen as a direct response to the growing civil rights movement.
This particular project brutally smashed through the black cultural center of the city - the flourishing Tremé neighbourhood, without warning to the residents and with heartbreaking consequences that are no less raw today.
It’s a place close to my heart as we’ve been there so often now, but Tremé is such a beautiful neighbourhood full of culture and life, and this gargantuan concrete thing is just present and dominant in all areas. A lot of this culture has little choice but to engage with the highway - mostly as way to protest and try to reclaim the literal void underneath. For example on Mardi Gras day the Black Masking Indians (a subculture we’ve been following as part of @ftwrproject ) meet and do their climactic battles there.
Seen here is a vacant lot from of the 120 or so businesses that was destroyed as part of the project and never recovered, and slides 2 & 3 show some BTS of filming - mardi gras day and a second line.
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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#documentarystreetphotography #racisthighways #xpro
🇨🇳 Bikes of Dongguan (2025) - these scooter bikes are the main method of transport in the huge industrial complex of Dongguan… including for families. Hardly any wear helmets, and I was trying to explain this via Google translate to my driver when one kid got dragged under a lorry which drove over his head right in front of us.
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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🇬🇪 The Palace of Rituals / Car Wash and Computer Diagnosis Center, Tbilisi Georgia (2025).
The palace was originally built as a wedding venue, but also Margaret Thatcher was treated to a traditional Georgian dance when she popped by in 1987.
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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Tskaltubo is an abandoned brutalist Soviet spa town in the west of Georgia 🇬🇪 with a fascinating history. These days it’s sort of a dark tourism/urb-ex type thing which aren’t the sort of photographs I normally want to take, but it was incredible to see in real life… a bit about the story:
Soviet citizens and soldiers would be prescribed mandatory rest and treatments using the hot spring water at one of the many sanatoriums, including relaxing procedures such as ‘spinal horizontal extension in mineral water’, ‘sharko shower’ or a touch of ‘colonic electro-hydrotherapy’ if the mood so took you. Stalin also had a private room there.
When the Soviet Union fell it was just completely abandoned as there was no other community or residences left. Like a lot of Georgia it’s not regulated or contained, so it’s just open to walk around at your own risk.
These days it’s mixture of locals, refugees and the odd photographer from London.
1. A Belarusian man in his 80s has been inhabiting and working on one of the military hospital spa buildings since coming to Georgia after the refugee crisis in 2021. He’s built a homemade ramp out the window and is slowly disposing of all the decomposing interiors. He doesn’t speak Georgian apparently and asks everyone he meets if they can speak his language and hear his story.
2-4. In one of the larger sanatoriums there’s a community of internally displaced refugees following the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkha conflict. The government housed them in Tskaltubo as a temporary measure and many of them have stayed on in limbo, creating homemade irrigation and waste disposal.
5. Detail from a theater in Legends Resort.
6-9. Various military hospital details, including a treatment room.
10. A bit of context from the phone - apparently I didn’t take any exteriors at all 🙄
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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🇬🇪 The Saint Nino Monument and Former Archaeology Museum are just some of the soviet era brutalist buildings that overlook Tbilisi…
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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#outofservicemag #bibinmagazine #broadmag #brutalistarchitecture #fujifilm
🏝️Turbo Island in Bristol, UK is a fascinating spot of independence and protest. Since WWII artists and advertisers have been fighting it out, burning furniture, holding impromptu raves and generally sticking a middle finger up at the gentrification happening all around it. Depending on who you ask it’s either a conservation area, a drinking spot for the homeless, a flag of independence or prime advertising real-estate.
Slide 2 for a bit of context.
📸 Fuji X-Pro3
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🎉 Happy New Year Commuters, Tbilisi 🇬🇪
📸 Fuji X-Pro 3
It’s been an amazing first year of owning a camera - there’s so much to learn and refine… after years of working on motion it’s a humbling experience but it’s been by far the best part of 2025.
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#fujifilm_xseries #streetphotography_georgia #streetphotography #bnw_demand #tbilisi🇬🇪
