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Look back in Hunger
The need to write is probably much the same as the craving for opium: however much you get you always want more. It’s the same with photography. However many snaps I take I hunger for more. My lens...
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Missive from Andalusia I
Sunken Boat. Photo: Bryan Hemming The news came via Latvia of all places. I can’t say it wasn’t expected. Not by that time. Well, the fact it came from Latvia wasn’t expected. My mobile rang. A...
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Missive from Andalusia II
River Salado, Conil de la Frontera. Photo: Bryan Hemming You wake up in the middle of a nightmare only to realise you’re living in one. Suddenly, you’re part of the crisis that’s been playing out on TV...
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Missive from Andalusia III
Flamenco dancers at the feria in El Colorado, June 2019. Photo: Bryan Hemming Growing up in England during the 1950s and 60s just about everywhere was closed on Sundays. The only places that were open...
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Missive from Andalusia IV
Photo of Conil countryside in sumer by Bryan Hemming By the evening of the fourteenth day of home confinement I became mindful of an unfamiliar feeling of peace. It was strange. Heightened by a renewed...
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Missive from Andalusia V
Friday Market, Conil. Photo by Bryan Hemming Angelica and I seem locked in a never-ending cycle of Tuesdays. Now, I’m not one of those people that have a strong dislike of Tuesdays, even though it is...
View ArticleThe Day the Circus Came to Syston
No matter how I try, I can’t forget the day the circus came to our little town in Leicestershire. That day now belongs to a faraway, mystical era unencumbered by grown-up concerns. My two sisters were...
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One Year in and No Questions Asked. The Pandemic
May 25, 2021. Just over a year of lockdown had passed. I was watching TV news. A gaggle of journalists had gathered outside a student residential building. They were interrogating a girl student...
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We know who you are
They know who they are. We know who they are. They’re the government agencies, the social media giants, the pharmaceutical behemoth and the Bill Gates mob. They’re the self-appointed, so-called ‘fact’...
View ArticleArtins – they’re coming to get us!
The idea that a highly advanced extraterrestrial life form, posessing the intelligence and technical abilty to travel to and from distant galaxies, billions of light years away, would set about...
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“Never Again…”
St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry following the blitz of November 1940 Bryan Hemming “Never again!” is the promise we know we’ll never keep, the morning after a heavy night’s drinking. Or the...
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