HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Just slipping in under the wire there lol

Hope your year has this sort of vibe!

A quick stroll - if 3 hours is quick - through London's no longer smokey streets... for the full series check my IG @herefortheshot

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#streetshooting #blackandwhite #bnwshots #london #westend #blackandwhitephotography

Well, well, well America, you voted Zohran Mamdani in! Perhaps all is not lost...

A few London street shots in celebration, from this weeks travels.
#zohranmamdani #bnwshots #streetshots #streetportraits #blackandwhite #blackandwhite_photos #streetwalker #bnwphotography #neverneverstreets #london

Man in halloween makeup

Man in halloween makeup

Woman in halloween makeup on a train

All Hallows' Eve. "I aint afraid o no ghost!"
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#blackandwhite #bnwshots #blackandwhitephotos #streetshots #streetphotography #halloween #ghost #masks #costumes

man on a bus looking up

sad woman on a train

Peace means prizes. No prizes, no peace.

I'm using photography like sugar...

#Trump #politics #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetshots #streetphotography

He can't count that high I'm afraid. 😉

Occasionally some street shots look as if they were crafted. imagine the number of tiny coincidences that lead to this chance meeting, passing this shop window at this very moment. Not stopping, not even really looking at the person, and yet this... #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

Never a truer word spoken.

One day, international journalists will get their chance to wash the blood from their hands.

Yay, no Peace Prize for #Trump! I think Norway had a message for him in their first line "...keeps the flame of democracy burning, amidst a growing darkness." As far as democracy goes nothing as dark as the orange one right now. 800% Tariff on Norway on its way then. #nobelpeaceprize #democracy

If you listen close Norway had a message for Trump in their first line "...keeps the flame of democracy burning, amidst a growing darkness." As far as democracy goes nothing as dark as the orange one right now. 800% Tariff on Norway on it’s way then.

"Peace in the middle east" just in time for the Nobel Peace Prize perhaps... Start a fire, put it out, pause for applause. What are the chances that #Israel and #Trump keep their word? Who decides Hamas has disarmed, who the hell trusts Tony Blair as colonial Governor! I fear the pain continues...

Incredible shot!

Strolling through #London Streets to take my mind off the carnage #Trump is wreaking on democracy, and the inability of 50% of the American people to smell smoke at a bonfire. Sadly, the madness is contagious, all racists and baby fascists are emboldened worldwide.. #streetphotography #blackandwhite

It's that last shot feeling. Like I could have just stood here for 3 hours and got this one shot and called it a win lol

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#street #streetlife #streetphotography #streetstyle #bnwphotography #bnwphoto #bnwmood #streetlights #hijab

As socially awkward as I find shooting on the London Underground, it does pay me back for my trouble quite often.

Working on a photo book "A Street Shooters Carnival" 200 page digital 300 page physical. Taken from 3 years of London's Notting Hill Carnival - 2023 -2025. Got up to 200 pages yesterday!
#street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #portraiture #carnival #streetshots

When those in power can't win, they bend the facts. Just as some #media become accomplices by their #silence, a corrupt justice system suppresses #truth by distorting facts and destroying records. We must #speakup against this #tyranny. Join our fight for justice: www.change.org/RyumaSakamoto

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Carnival is joy and chaos side by side. London humour in its bluntest form: NO TOILETS.

#Carnival2025 #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #LondonStreets #MajekMoments #CarnivalPortraits #NottingHillCarnival #EverydayUK #StreetIsArt

Carnival in London is loud, very loud, 1M+ loud!! The portraits are quiet though. The younger generation looking straight into a future we’re still stumbling to imagine. #london #carnival #blackandwhite #portrait #streetshots #streetphotography

In celebration of Trump's stellar performance on Friday showing Putin who was boss! Here are a few shiny objects from my London Streets to take your mind off it.

#StreetPhotography #streetstories #streetportraits #bnwstreet #bnwstreetphotography #blackandwhitephotography#street #streetshooting

America is building concentration camps; Israel is shooting starving people in theirs. And in the good old UK protesting is being made criminal!! What a wonderful World.

#palestine #protest #trump #photography #starmer #blackandwhite #bnwshots #streetphotography

Underground trains aka the Tube. Candid and candidly.

#bnw #blackandwhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #street #streetshots #bnwstreet #streetstories #bnwshots #underground #trains #underground

Had to write a little poetry for a photo competition, here is my fave, haven't done this for while!
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#poetry #photo #bnwshoot #streetphotography #streetshots #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #ebony #melanin #eyes

‪Strange old day today. Meet a few of my friends before they go in the oven...
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#street #streetlife #streetphotography #streetstyle #bnwphotography #bnwphoto #bnwmood #rain #rainclouds #showers #umbrellas

Just a little reminder that the sun does not always shine in London lol [for context the last week or so has been hot!]
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#street #streetlife #streetphotography #streetstyle #bnwphotography #bnwphoto #bnwmood #rain #rainclouds #showers #umbrellas

Popular TV character in the UK giving out clothes to eager young people from an ice-cream van! You couldn't make it up!

#street #streetphotography #streetlife #streetstory #lens #sunlightlondon #blackandwhite_photos #blacknwhitestreets

Saw this guy up and down the place on a shoot day, he was always talking, sometimes arguing, with someone on the phone. Always. For hours!!!

#bnw #blackandwhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #street #streetshots #bnwstreet #streetstories #bnwshots

Turns out I bought a broken lens, jammed wide open in this wonderful London sunlight - no really!! So I thought, aw f*** it, let's get some shots...

#street #streetphotography #streetlife #streetstory #lens #sunlightlondon #blackandwhite_photos #blacknwhitestreets

Out in these London streets and on the Underground taking pictures. Takes my mind off the fact that 1000 Iranian lives are barely mentioned in the mainstream media's summation of Trump's 12 Day War.