Damon Charles

@damonmakespictures.bsky.social

Designer, artist and photographer, not necessarily in that order. Design : damoncharles.com Photography : damoncharlesphoto.framer.website

If you have to take out £50k in plan 5 student loans to go to University, and on finishing your degree are unable to make any repayments in the first 5 years, your debt is then £61k. How can I support my eldest in wanting to go, in that situation? Just the *interest alone* is over £2k per year.

I managed to catch 'Afterlife', an exhibition by Katie Paterson whilst it was on in Edinburgh - it's a collection of 200-ish small amulets, created with materials from endangered landscapes and fragile ecosystems and formed into cultural/spiritual iconography. Sharing a few powerful pieces below. 🧵

The edge of one of the curved wooden tables from the Katie Paterson ‘Afterlife’ exhibit, displaying various small objects in little dips in the tabletop.

I grew up visiting Norwich castle - I can't wait to go and see what they've done. (Of course, as a kid I always made a beeline for the taxidermy, painted dioramas, mummified cat, and most of all the half-unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummified woman, who still had hair and teeth.)

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Lovely video about the restoration of Norwich castle where they dared to bring back rooms to what they really looked like during the middle ages: painted, colourful, glorious! This is how it should be done. youtu.be/q3kGKM3YQbg?...

Growing up the 80's, my perception was that if there was a country whose leaders wanted absolutely nothing to do with the far right, it was Germany. The Nazi years still in living memory, groups in that direction got stepped on, hard, by the government. But it's 2026, and here we are.

Started pairing up some "non-Museum" photo work from the last couple of years to explore ideas. The death of both my parents this year looms large over "Museum", so I'm trying to start making something that's not specifically about that. Not sure if I'll succeed - it still dominates my thoughts.

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