Photographer. Writer. Founder of @theblkgaze. Because photography cannot understand itself without Black photographers.
United Kingdom
Joined January 2011
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Sunday Service at Notting Hill Carnival.
Jβouvert is for the committed.
When most people are still asleep, the streets come alive with paint, powder, music + masquerade.
The early start. The raw energy. The people who know that Carnival starts here.
#NottingHillCarnival #NHC #NHC2026 #Jouvert #CarnivalCulture
βAt war with the obviousβ: the everyday genius of William Eggleston. theguardian.com/artanddesignβ¦
I'm sat on a bench, window blowing in my face with tears in my eyes as I reflect this.
I'm now officially angry. Not towards the drive but to the woeful way in which a multinational organisation has reduced my loved experience to process, procedures + canned responses.
20+ years as an @AmazonUK customer. A delivery driver called me a βc**tβ, accused me of racism + threatened to take back my delivery.
I have video evidence. Amazon promised two callbacks. Neither happened.
Β£50 offered. I refused. I want answers + accountability.
"A photograph can put a label on you, or it can take every label away."
youtube.com/watch?v=NaaUVMJRβ¦
A Volkswagen Beetle will never be a Porsche 911. A photographer will never become Gordon Parks simply by picking up a camera. And a Fujifilm will never be a Leica simply because both make photographs.
Engineering is not heritage. Possession is not mastery. Imitation is not identity.
Know what you are. Know what you are not. And make peace with the difference.
Who would have thought? @chiragwakaskar
Getty Images to File for Bankruptcy, Go Private In Restructuring Deal hollywoodreporter.com/busineβ¦
20+ years as an @AmazonUK customer. A delivery driver called me a βc**tβ, accused me of racism + threatened to take back my delivery.
I have video evidence. Amazon promised two callbacks. Neither happened.
Β£50 offered. I refused. I want answers + accountability.
An @AmazonUK delivery driver called me a βsilly c**tβ and told me to βfuck offβ. I have the video evidence. Watch it for yourself.
After 20+ years as an Amazon customer, I expected better. Instead, two promised callbacks never happened, and the response was a Β£50 offer that falls woefully short of addressing the seriousness of this incident.
Let me be clear: this is not about Β£50. It is about accountability. I doubt there is a single person at Amazon who would consider this an acceptable response if they were on the receiving end of this abuse.
Amazon has had multiple opportunities to put this right + has failed repeatedly. I will not click another link, repeat my complaint to another team or start this process all over again. Amazon knows what happened. It has had every opportunity to address it.
I'm sure Amazon would agree that this is more than a Β£50 mistake. The real cost is the loss of a customer of more than 20 years and the damage done when a company fails to stand behind its own customer service standards.
The footage speaks for itself. Now it's time for @AmazonHelp to answer for it.
How can Amazon defend taking over 72 hours to begin to investigate an incident like this?
How can they expect me to tell + relive the experience after being told that no formal apology or compensation is offered in instances like this?
@artdeco_fan @ElizabethArgyll @chiragwakaskar
Blatantly caught an @Uber driver talking on his phone while driving me to my destination.
I challenged him about it there + then. His excuse? He was listening to a voice message from his mum.
Sorry, but how is that acceptable? Youβre driving a passenger. Leave the phone alone + concentrate on the road.
Meta. Meta. Meta. What's the matter with you? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxvβ¦
The foot soldiers have been called into service by the leaders + opinion-formers who have spent years cultivating this hostility.
This will not end well. When the message is reduced to βif you look foreign, you donβt belongβ, the broadest brush becomes the only one they need.
Credit: BBC News
This is how political rhetoric becomes something more dangerous. First, people are reduced to categories. Then those categories become threats. Then someone gives ordinary people permission to act on the fear that has been cultivated for them.
The people holding the microphone rarely have to throw the first stone.
And that is the sleight of hand. The leaders + opinion-formers say they are only talking about policy, borders + numbers. But when they repeatedly frame migration as a threat, that message is absorbed + acted upon.
First, people are reduced to a category. Then the category becomes a threat. Then the threat becomes a justification for confrontation. Eventually, ordinary people begin to believe they have the right to decide who belongs + who should be removed.
The people at the top may call it rhetoric. On the street, it becomes permission.
