Thread by @ruxxnaqvi

1/10 I'm not the type of person to pour my heart out on social media but I'm about to today.
I've battled anxiety in my life but because of some wonderful people around me in real life I've always managed to handle it well. Then lockdown happened last year and I started to find..

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myself falling back into a little depression. I distracted myself with Twitter, it was just browsing at first and then came across the photography community here. The first photographer I followed was @MarcDavenant, I ended up messaging him. I told him how I didn't feel..

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confident about showing my photography on here. He messaged back very quickly with such encouragement and positive words and told me to tag him every time that I upload something. So I picked up my camera again last May and started walking around Bradford taking photos...

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Marc promoted them every time. Every single one of you who are following me today, all the people I have connected with since then, you guys would not have come across me had it not been for Marc. After that I had full support of @YourWullie too, and SO many others...

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I have made some amazing friends on here, people like @appertunity & @ShakAndSonsEsq, these two have been like brothers, always looking out for me. I've met with some wonderful photographers, and made many other great online friends, there are so many of you...

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I want to name but I'm sure you know who you are. I really want to thank you all for helping me stay out of depression and anxiety.
Since this March I've been featured by the BBC, BuzzFeed, featured in the local paper twice, and done a radio interview. There are things..

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happening in the future for me too.
I've done photography for a short film, I've been asked to be the photographer for @bradford2025
I just found out I got featured in a magazine based in Ilkley (Beyond Magazine), and thinking about all the positives that have happened for..

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me over the past year it got quite overwhelming for me, I had a little cry before I started this tweet. I can't believe I'm actually confessing my emotions on here, how am I going to face you all again! Jason,
Shak you guys better not say anything to me about this when...

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we meet again, I'm already too embarrassed. 😳😋

I'm going to stop talking about myself now. Below I'll leave links to some of the articles I've been featured in, I hope you all take the time out to read.

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Links to the articles -

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19216741.…

buzzfeednews.com/article/piapet…

If you managed to get to the end without getting bored let me know. 😂🥰
I feel a little silly about all the above but I'm about to press on the 'Tweet All' button now...😌

The photos in the first tweet were taken last Sunday in Sheffield, after I met up with the lovely @HiraethR ❤
@SheffCouncil @VisitSheffield
@sheffcitycentre @SheffieldCityUK @SheffieldConnec @sheffielduni @shftelegraph @SheffCityHall @IndependentShef

Oh and one more.
Thanks to @OliConstable from the @BBCLookNorth

@RowanN_TandA from @Bradford_TandA

@pia_peterson from @BuzzFeedPhoto

@bcbradio

Sarah - @puthatpendown from Beyond Magazine.

For finding me and my work interesting enough to talk & write about.

Thank you all so much for all the love.
If you have been following me for a while and I haven't followed back, tell me here and I'll follow back. ❤