Fran Monks
Photographer, environmentalist, creator of , wild swimmer
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Old Abram Brown at a distance
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Fran Monks Social Distancing is a huge challenge to all world-class opera singers like with theatres everywhere closed. This is Dan in his home office via where he's channeling his creativity to bring opera to a digital audience, like this: 7d
The flooding in Fishlake – a photo essay
the Guardian 143d 1 tweets
Flood photographer Gideon Mendel visited the South Yorkshire village
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Fran Monks The brown water obscures everything beneath. #climateemergency #flooding The flooding in Fishlake – a photo essay 143d
Blog
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Fran Monks My #TheHug project is gaining momentum. I hope you enjoy reading my November update #photography 144d
At 88, Agnes Denes Finally Gets the Retrospective She Deserves
Nytimes.com 151d 2 tweets
She set out to change humanity. Now a superbly installed survey at the Shed charts this visionary artist’s 50-year journey.
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Fran Monks This looks fantastic. Retrospective celebrates 50 year career of visionary artist Agnes Denes. Anyone in #NYC? Wish I was. #exhibition #AgnesDenes 147d
'We had the same brain' – how Pennie Smith turned the Clash into icons
the Guardian 148d 4 tweets
She photographed the biggest stars. But it was the Clash she clicked with. Pennie Smith relives their first explosive US tour – and reveals how she took ‘rock’s greatest photo’
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Fran Monks Achingly cool photographs of #TheClash from #PennySmith. Unmissable exhibition The Clash: London Calling from 15 November. 148d
Don't Touch My Hair
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'Groundbreaking' Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 IRISH BOOK AWARDS In this powerful book about why black hair matters, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair...
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Fran Monks I made this portrait of fabulous broadcaster and academic Emma Dabiri for when I visited her in her East London home in June. She published #donttouchmyhairbook earlier this year. #EmmaDabiri #fineartphotography #portraitphotography 158d
The Story Behind the Accidental Photo of a Spy
Time 168d 1 tweets
David Burnett didn't intend to photograph Valerie Plame in October 2003
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Fran Monks Sometimes everything is not quite as it seems..... 168d
Shot In Soho
The Photographers' Gallery 169d 1 tweets
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Fran Monks Soho 'a complex place of unorthodoxy, diversity, tolerance and defiance' is a favourite haunt for photographers - always so much to look at #soho #fineartphotography #exhibition #afterwork 169d
Why we're rethinking the images we use for our climate journalism
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Guardian picture editor Fiona Shields explains why we are going to be using fewer polar bears and more people to illustrate our coverage of the climate emergency
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Fran Monks These are really helpful insights from and about depicting #climatechange. One day I hope to fulfil my dream of combining my two passions - #environment and #photography #climatephotography #climateemergency #wildswimming 170d
Kenyan model inspires others
Interburns 172d 1 tweets
A burn can change a persons life.
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Fran Monks Claudia Wanjiru suffered terrible burns as a child but now sits confidently for the camera promoting . My portrait of aims to capture her strength as well as her beauty. #instaportraits #portraitoftheday #disruptyourfeed 172d
The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet: Michael Joseph's best photograph
the Guardian 173d 1 tweets
‘When I told the caretaker of the house the Stones were a bit wild, he asked if there would be any naked ladies – because they charged £10 extra for that’
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Fran Monks This wonderful photograph by Michael Joseph of the Rolling Stones has the quality of an 'old master' #rollingstones #michaeljoseph #photooftheday #fineartphotography 173d
The time is now for #TheHug Project
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Hugs. I’ve been thinking about them a lot over the last week. The kernel of an idea about a hug photography project has been running around in my head for some time, but without a commissioner, or a client, sometimes the kick into action needs to...
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Fran Monks I'll be writing a blog as #TheHug Project progresses. You can read the first part here: including the awkward story of how I got this image of Adonis and Farage #photooftheday #portraiture #JustAHug #portraitoftheday #portraiture #BrexitArt #moreincommon 181d
Portrait Installation in Hall Launched
Keble College 198d 2 tweets
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Fran Monks It was such an joy to make portraits for this exhibition celebrating the extraordinary diversity of community, marking 40 years of co-education and 150th anniversary of the college. #Keble #diversity #portraiture #Oxford #KebleAlumni 182d
Senator Tammy Duckworth on the Attack that Took Her Legs—and Having a Baby at 50
Vogue Magazine - Vogue 573d 6 tweets
Tammy Duckworth has become a heroine to working parents. But heroics from the Illinois senator are nothing new.
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Fran Monks One of my photographic heroes, turned 70 this week. Annie has created many iconic portraits. This collaboration with shows how honest portraits can create powerful role models #portraiture #TheHug #AnnieLiebovitz 183d
Revisionist History Season 3 Episode 6
Revisionist History 656d 3 tweets
Listen to “The Hug Heard Round the World” Season 3 Episode 6 of The Revisionist History Podcast with Malcolm Gladwell.
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Fran Monks The importance of a public hug between Sammy Davis Jnr and President Nixon. Is it ever #JustAHug ? . Follow my current portrait project #TheHug as it develops this month #portraiture #art #fineartphotography #revisionisthistory 183d
Carrie Gracie
HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 205d 2 tweets
Campaign for Equal Pay Carrie Gracie I have noticed that individuals who make a difference, often don’t set out with that intention. Usually, an event in peoples’ lives makes them feel so passionat…
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Fran Monks It's 2019 and women are still being paid less than men for doing the same job. Thank goodness for people like #equalpay campaigner I recently talked to her about how to make a difference. Check out her new book #genderpaygap 205d
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Fran Monks It's 2019 and women are still being paid less than men for the same job. Thank goodness for #equalpay campaigner I recently talked to her about how to make a difference. Check out her new book "Equal" 204d
Duke of Cambridge at Core Arts Hackney
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It’s not every day that you get asked to photograph a future king, while he checks out the work of one of the country’s most inspiring mental health arts charities. I had that opportuni…
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Fran Monks It's not every day that you get asked to photograph a future king while he checks out the work of one of the UK's most inspiring Mental Health Arts Charities. But today was such a day. 698d
Diversifying Portraiture at Oxford, Equality and Diversity
Admin.ox.ac.uk 866d 2 tweets
Diversifying Portraiture at Oxford, Equality and Diversity
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Fran Monks Feeling very honoured to see my portraits of and finally hung in #westonlibrary this morning, as part of the #fullpicture exhibition, alongside many other inspiring #Oxonians. 866d
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Fran Monks Feeling very honoured to see my portraits of and finally hung in #westonlibrary this morning, as part of the #fullpicture exhibition, alongside many other inspiring #Oxonians. 866d
The Gratitude Project
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Terms such as “immigrants” or “refugees” push us into thinking of people from outside the UK as an undifferentiated mass. I wanted to consider them as individuals, each with relationships with peop…
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Fran Monks To Margaret from Canada "Thank you for all the laughs we have had" #gratitudeproject cc 1021d
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Fran Monks To Elsa from Portugal "Thank you for being so brilliantly organised" #gratitudeproject cc 1020d
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Fran Monks To Ian from the US and France "Thank you for making a life here with me" #gratitudeproject cc 1026d
Oxford University puts up more portraits of women
BBC News 1104d 1 tweets
The identities of 20 new "diverse" portraits, rather than "dead white men", are revealed by Oxford University.
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Fran Monks Thrilled to have been asked to make two of these portraits for and 1104d