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Telephone Lines

51 images Created 7 Apr 2017

As a component of larger Street Photography work, the use of (smart)phones in the wider world proves a love of constant, portable contact with our personal and professional networks - symbolising our hunger of the always, the everywhere and the immediate.

Eating into every moment of our conscience hours, the telephone, as seen on the street, is an extension of our limb and brain.

These pictures (from 1994 to present) record a generation whose minds are wholly synchronised with the signal from a transmitting mast, while on the go.

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  • Young women use their smartphones beneath a poster girl for Burberry sunglasses they call Eyewear, in a sunlit London street. Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories.
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  • Six office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank. They rush to work while one figure stands and talks into his mobile phone, at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
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  • A symmetrical gentleman wearing a pinstripe suit talks on his phone, reflected in plate glass in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
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  • During a phone speed-dating night in a City of London wine bar, a group of young girls enjoy white wine, their girlfriends' company but also, the possibility of finding a male mate. With the boys an other tables whose numbers are swapped around they may find the love of their lives although the whole evening is a giggle for these pretty lady office workers in the capital's oldest quarter and heart of its financial district.
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  • City people check for messages and use social media in the street, sitting in autumn sunshine, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy sunshine near the pillars of Royal Exchange during an unusual autumn heatwave on 13th September 2016, in the City of London, England.
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  • A muscular young man checks messages below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • On a busy Friday night in the Accident and Emergency section of the royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, East London, a city businessman, still in his pin-stripe suit, with his mobile phone and wearing slippers, sits rigid, grimacing in pain on with severe back pain a trolley (gurney) while two medical staff using a clipboard assess his treatment. The Royal London is one of London's oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away.
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  • A delegate sends a text message from a mobile phone in a mock-up airliner cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • A young man cradles his beloved smartphone after drinking a Starbucks coffee in central London.
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  • A young woman walks over London's Millennium Bridge while using her smartphone.
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  • A lone man makes a smartphone call beneath a supermarket shelter with its long shadows across three parking bays.
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  • A woman texts a friend in front of a red phone kiosk advertising Natwest's online banking for students.
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  • A tourist photographs Tower Bridge near the image of a Beefeater on a railing in front of the Tower of London, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_tourists-06-13-09-2017.jpg
  • In front of a fire station, visitors use smartphones to record the new One World Trade Center opposite the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • A businessman gets upright again while checking messages by an urban garden of bushes and shrubs.
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  • While holding a conversation on his smartphone, a stooping gent struggles to slide a free copy of the Evening Standard newspaper into his briefcase, beneath the high walls of the Bank of England in the City of London.
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  • A city worker crouches on the pavement and opens his attache briefcase to check details written inside during his phone call conversation.  He is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and makes his call using a 90s mobile (cell) phone in afternoon sunlight near a menswear shop on a street corner.
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  • Fans use smartphones to photograph the makeshift shrine, where Londoners commemorate Apple's creator Steve Jobs the morning after hearing of his death overnight from pancreatic cancer  at the age of 56 on the 6th Oct 2011. This Apple Store in the capital's Regent's Street was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Jobs who started the company as a student in 1977.
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  • Young girl watches young smoker at a south London bus stop.
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  • Phone user walks past Samsung shop window ad for new S6 model.
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  • A young man listens to his phone in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • A young woman holds a conversation on her phone while standing in the foyer of The Helicon, a company office space, on 16th February 2017, on Moorgate, in the City of London, England.
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  • Passers-by and a fluffy pooch on a Camper shoes shop window in Bond Street, central London.
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