Donna Ferguson

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Donna Ferguson

A 16-year-old boy has died and a 17-year-old boy has been arrested after an incident on a Scottish beach in Irvine. Kayden Moy, 16, from East Kilbride, was found seriously injured at 6.45pm on Saturday. He was taken to University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock, where he died in the early hours of Sunday. Kayden’s father, Paul, wrote on Facebook: “My firstborn son, my big boy, my best friend, my main man, my everything.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Donna Ferguson

Steve Kell, 59, countryside ranger, Warwickshire Country ParksI always loved being in nature. But I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was 18, so I got a job at a high-street bank. My grandfather was made up – he was convinced I was going to be the governor of the Bank of England. But over the years I became disenchanted. Then, in my early 30s, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had to take months off work. I couldn’t help thinking about how finite life is.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Donna Ferguson

In the 1960s, Stephen Shames befriended and photographed activists and revolutionaries, including Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers. More than 50 years on, he hopes that an exhibition of unseen work will galvanise a new generation discouraged by the rise of the right It has been exactly 58 years since the photographer Stephen Shames met Martin Luther King Jr, but he remembers the encounter as if it were yesterday. “I was just lucky,” he says. “I was in Sproul Hall, in the men’s room.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Donna Ferguson

There was an incident seven years ago that changed my life. I saw an adult grey seal with a plastic pink flying ring toy so deeply embedded in her neck that she was practically dead. It was stopping her from feeding because it was digging into her and she couldn’t extend her neck – the wounds were horrific. It broke my heart. From that moment on, I became obsessed with seals and protecting them from the dangers of plastic flying rings.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Donna Ferguson

In the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased by Morris in a shirt and tie, her eyes wide, her lipstick dark, the angle of the shot emphasising her perfect, parted, panting mouth.