Alex Boyd

Winter on the Pennine Moor. A selection of Polaroids.

Winter on the Pennine Moor.
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Orange Goblin must be furious about Trump.

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Thanks Marc - much appreciated!

It's a nice blend of all three - a touch of the totalitarian from Orwell, the debilitating soma of tech from Huxley, the nightmare of losing ourselves in said tech from Philip K. Dick. I'd do something about it obviously but I'm too busy checking my phone for updates on all the horror.

I'm honestly terrible at social media. The self-promotion thing seems like an absolute grind these days. Instead I've been writing and spending time with the kid, slowly working on photography projects. The usual. Disgustingly wholesome stuff. You?

I'd love to know @nivenj1.bsky.social take on this.

Do you know what the first largest one was? I recently saw the exhibition on Hohne (Bergen Belsen) at the Wiener Library and wanted to learn more about the DP camps following that.

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From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.

My Drystone Work Featured in The Smithsonian Magazine I am beyond pleased to share that I am featured in the latest issue of world renowned publication, The Smithsonian Magazine (July/August 2025).

A childhood dream come true! My drystone worked featured in the July/August issue of world-renowned Smithsonian Magazine.

I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.

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I did - I haven't read it yet, but it arrived a few days ago!

Solidarity ✊

Oh, I listened to it a while ago - and you are right - this is 100% my thing. I spent yesterday working through my Dad's images from NI.

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G. K. Chesterton

New work: A picture of my friend and fellow photographer Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social taken in London May 2025

“The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “

Ride for Glen Rosa Help Alex Boyd raise money to support National Trust for Scotland

Hello all! Myself and two friends are cycling 250 miles along the Caledonian Way this Saturday. We are hoping to fund efforts to replace some of the 15,000 trees lost after a devastating wildfire on Arran in April. If you are able to donate or to share this post it would be hugely appreciated ❤️

Today at 1pm @alexanderboyd.bsky.social ✨

It suits the mood! (oh and I'm all for lightweight cameras on hill excursions) 😆

Haha, any time. Now, have you considered a post-doc yet?

I remember this had an incredible soundtrack. I went back and listened: time has not been kind.

Drone shot of the affects of bomb practice at Cape Wrath in the North West of Scotland, photograph by Alex Boyd

I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.

Reading this in Australia. It isn't rocket science: we need total fire bans.

A polaroid of a small child playing in a woodland while light streams through smoke from a burning fire.

I'm currently working through 20 years of photographic work, scanning images that feel like they are from several lifetimes ago. From Scottish mountain tops to burning forests in Australia, I'll slowly start sharing this archive over the coming year. Oh and some new work!

Today is another reminder of why Universities just aren't suited for people with ADHD. The unrelenting bureaucracy is absolutely crippling when you just want to put pen to paper. It would also help if online forms weren't designed by the most misanthropic members of society.

Academics take note.

Ah FANTASTIC! I'm over here and have been looking to get a copy ❤️

@mikewozniak.bsky.social hello Mike - are you still planning to release a recording of Zusa?

Today someone was telling me about the domestic squalor Maggie Smith lived in, all smashed windows and broken doors, and wondering how his various wives put with it, and only afterwards did I realise they had been talking about Mark E Smith.

I often ironically think of this Wilde quote which possibly anticipates the genre of Nature writing, and the somewhat endless quotations some authors are prone to using:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

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