marcdavenant.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, two time winner of the Portrait of Britain. My book ‘Outsiders’ documenting homelessness is available from Bluecoat Press. My website is https://marcdavenant.com
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They have an unswerving conviction that they are right but some of them come across as quite ordinary when you talk to them. It can be really unsettling.
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Thank you
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I’ll be covering conspiracy theories in my Rebellion! book and exhibition. Some that I’ve photographed and interviewed are jaw dropping.
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Very well written obituary, Nick’s Shelter photos were a big influence on my Outsiders series on homelessness, which I did in partnership with Shelter.
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If the Labour Party exists for anything it is to empower ordinary people; extending them the rights which were frustrated or removed in a pre-democratic world dominated by the powerful.
That is precisely what the Dartmoor case exemplifies.
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The problem is that without it huge numbers of people are going to continue with a prolonged, often agonising, death with no quality of life. Or will have to choose to die early, while they still have capacity, and miss years of possible life.
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I can appreciate that and I’m sure a lot of people share your concerns
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Very true, and we also have to look at what the Standard produces from the perspective of who the owner is and whose interests he is really representing. Damaging social cohesion in western democracies is a key aim of the Russian government.
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As a country we are out of step with the rest of the world. No perfect system can ever be devised but the status quo is not an option, where people are allowed to suffer in a way that would be illegal if they were animals.
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I have an impression that a lot of media people have been waiting for overt racism to become socially acceptable again, and here we are.
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The exhibition currently has bookings in the North East, North West, Staffordshire and South Wales. Just like Outsiders there’s no interest in London or the South.
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It certainly seems that way