Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸

Photographer/feeder of multiple cats.

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

TILDA! Wunderbar!
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MAN TO MAN
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Royal Court Theatre, London
Saturday 24th October, 2026
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📸: @RaphPH

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

@Ryan_Kitching25 I stay in hotels precisely so I do not have to do the dishes and make the beds!

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

I have never stayed in an AIRBNB and never will- Because of late-stage-capitalism psychosis. Hotels are great.

[Matt Williams @Technovangelist]

its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?

[Michael Balazo @mbalazo]

SACHA BARON COHEN: My satire exposes hate and bigotry in society.
BORAT: (molesting donkey) I like very much eating from toilet!!!

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

@DaisyVicEdwards As long as it works! Or it ends up a double-failure!

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@Ryan_Kitching25 @hasitleaked 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@roryjadoherty @LFFstubs

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

I don’t even want to go to my friends’ weddings for free!?!?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

This website lets you attend the wedding of complete strangers

Couples list their weddings and users can buy a ticket to attend

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

This is the shift:

we used to talk about art as the end destination / the mountain peak; now we increasingly talk through art, about ourselves

That is the inversion of cultural value.
Not the death of culture, but the rise of performance culture over artistic culture.

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

THE INVERSION OF CULTURAL VALUE

From art culture to performance culture.

This diagram helps explain why some films now break through and others flop. We used to treat culture as the destination. Increasingly, we treat it as material for identity, performance and discourse.

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

This explain the contrast between Digger and You Can See Everything (YCSE)

Digger arrived in the old mode: big star, big director, serious film, go see it.

YCSE is built for the new mode: a film people can debate, meme, interpret and use as part of their own online identity.

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

Saw six films at BFI LFF this year and enjoyed them all

Wild Horse Nine
Fjord
Ken Russell’s The Devils
Fatherland
Misty Green
Bunker

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

I’m at theatre and in seat J10 and a boomer emphatically tells me I’m in their seat. Five minutes after they find their glasses - we establish their seat is J61.

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

A month or so ago I witnessed an enraged passenger phone the police because a “yoof” was vaping. I couldn’t hear the police on the phone but I could clearly tell the police operator ask the woman “well, what do you want me to do?”

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government will announce £100 fines for those who vape on public transport next week

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@typofoto Chinatown
Under The Sand
Swept Away (1974)

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Renate Reinsve trying to subtly enter the Club Kid Gala without being seen and then being spotted instantly

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I don’t pay attention to reviews, but the Guardian review of Fjord seems to spectacularly miss the point on every level; also feels like they watched a different movie https://t.co/bMFm2uy7li

[Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 @RaphPH]

@lttleversailIes completely agree! but I had to leave 10 mins before the end to shoot the next premiere 😭