Marianne Dissard
@mariannedissard
Desert noir chanteuse left her home in Tucson Arizona for a sailboat in Ramsgate ~ drifted to Scotland w/ detour by Goldsmiths, London for MA Art & Politics. 🎵 mariannedissard.bandcamp.com 📍 mariannedissard.com 🍿 youtube.com/mariannedissard
New photo zine is off to the printer! Love those ExWhyZed guys, so helpful to have a real printer-person on the line. exwhyzed.com 'Lights Out Knightsbridge' #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom #photozine
More experimentation w/ #photobook formats: next #photozine from 2022-2023 b/w Knightsbridge series originally intended as projected background visuals to my stage show 'Souvenir of England' (very loosely inspired by #JoannaHogg #TheSouvenir). #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom
New wee #photozine Dear Green. £5.00 only. DM or Street Level shop. Experimenting w/ folding formats. Surrealistic romp thru #Glasgow looking for #Buckfast & the skies down from which they crashed. Signed/numbered ed. of 100. Folded: 14x14cm to 56x42cm. #streetphotography #streetphotographyglasgow
William Coupon (1953-2026). Farewell, pal. You were the kindest of giants. Thanks for these Manhattan sidewalk snaps, I later used in the sleeve artwork of my 2010 album 'L'abandon'. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...
In solidarity with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social striking staff. Introducing Goldsmiths' riches-to-rags (senior management) team. Our executive board has entered into a suicide pact with the institution, a doom loop of cuts and redundancies. @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
First batch of 'SOS Country' prints in the post this week to my #kickstarter supporters! #soscountry #amtrakphotography #documentaryphotography
Yep, me reading Orwell's 1940 review of 'Mein Kampf' at @yellowbookbar.bsky.social @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social (great fest on margins of @brightonfringe.bsky.social). My show 'A Kirk in Them Pants' demolishes Stephen Miller and his excruciating Kirk eulogy speech. Pix: Elz. Thks: my Goldsmiths class
Today in Brighton #sweetfest #brightonfringe @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social Orwellian stab at pale monster-in-chief Stephen Miller, architect of Trump's cruelest immigration policies. A 'comedy' on the language of authoritarianism and what we leave behind when we leave home & country–and what we can't.
Coming out from under rock to address salient topic of creeping HE financialisation. I'll share ongoing inquiry/interventions into Goldsmiths' partnership w/ US edtech RisePoint. Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social library 11:30am #freegoldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
Term paper done! Private-equity takeover of UK HE: Inquiry & Interventions into the Partnership between @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and RisePoint. Reach out if you want to learn more + join our working group! Thanks to my cohort + Bernadette Buckley for their support! @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
My handy work at Goldsmiths... Aka 'I might be a student but I'm still that bee'.
Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham a.dinham@gold.ac.uk to reinstate it. logo @mariannedissard.com
'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer
Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...
Selfie (2021) from 'On a Good Day You Can See France' documentary series made between Oct. 2020-May 2021, aka 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled'. Available in two sizes FujiFlex limited-edition C-type prints. #Ramsgate harbour, looking back to Jacob's Ladder. #photography #documentaryphotography
Back in them salad days... My third Tucson studio album 'The Cat. Not Me', composed by Sergio Mendoza (Calexico), featuring Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson). Joe Mabbott mixed in Minneapolis. UK maestro John Dent mastered mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca... #musicsky
Back in them salad days... 1989 Managua, Nicaragua. Shot on slide film. I traveled from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Sandinista revolution in the capital city to the border with Honduras and a small village twinned with Tucson, Arizona. #photography #nicaragua #documentaryphotography
`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul Amtrak trains. Photobook/exhibition in-progress but *very* limited-edition postcards already available to buy mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica
`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul trains on 4-month Amtrak journey. Work-in-progress but very limited-edition postcards are avail. (link in bio). Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social #photography #documentaryphotography #leica
Recent #photography series Knightsbridge, London (2022-2023) #monochrom Leica w/ 50mm lens. Series used as background projection material for my touring stage production 'Souvenir of England' + 2023 public street installation Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Photobook next www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNg...
2023 covers album Rappel*le mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/rappel... Phil Ochs Janis Ian Steely Dan Ritchie Valens Bobbie Gentry Townes Van Zandt War Adriano Celentano Carly Simon Recorded in Tucson/UK w/ Terry Edwards @naimamor.bsky.social @raphaelmann.bsky.social Matt Mitchell #musicsky #music
Back in them salad days... For my 2015 Best Of CD compilation album 'Cibola Gold', I asked Garry Winogrand's heirs if they'd let me use a favorite 1964 photograph Winogrand made at White Sands, New Mexico. Here are three mockups I designed. Final pick is the two children playing in dune #photography
Back in them salad days... My second studio album, L'abandon (2010), recorded in my then-hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I wrote lyrics, Christian Ravaglioli music, BK-One co-produced. W/ Thøger Lund (Giant Sand) Luke Doucet Arthur Vint mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... #musicsky #desertnoir
`SOS Country’ 2025 documentary photography series. American landscapes from long-haul Amtrak trains. Limited-edition preview postcards for sale now: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer #amtrak #chicago #leicamonochrom
While I'm shuffling the cards of my 'Glasgow musical legends' deck, I give you James Kirk (ex-Orange Juice) on a summer day. Pix by me. #glasgowmusic #orangejuiceband #scottishband #music #scottishmusic #photography #musicphotography
Deep-cut 2022 track recorded w/ Andy Alston (Del Amitri) the year I moved to Glasgow. soundcloud.com/andy-alston/... "The auld alliance between France & Scotland rarely sounded so achingly addictive"(G.Paterson). Portrait of Andy by me at James Kirk's wedding. #delamitri #glasgow #music #photography
Back in them salad days... My 2019 memoir 'Not Me'. Improbably funny, brutally honest. "Keen observations, wit, and pathos", says Mitch Cullin (A Slight Trick of the Mind + Tideland) BUY HERE : www.mariannedissard.com/books/memoir... #memoir #booksky #writerscommunity #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth