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The Things They Carried: The A-B of Items on the Move

75 images Created 19 May 2015

One psalm in my Street Photography mission, is the everyday purpose of transporting objects of retail, for construction and because of waste.

It is an opportunist theme that I inadvertently keep responding to, accidentally seeing even more diverse items and possessions that need moving around.

The A-B of items on the move is constant. Historically, these things are being carried by workers and couriers, shoppers, commuters, and businessmen - the professions of centuries.

The one aspect I can influence is their sequencing, an ordering of their shapes and coincidences.

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  • A workman struggles to carry packaging (including bubble wrap) in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
    city_people-30-06-04-2017.jpg
  • A workman delivers a tall stack of event chairs on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
    carrying_chairs-02-04-05-2017.jpg
  • An outdoor set is constructed for the Christian Dior fashion house in London's Bond Street during Vogue's Fashion's Night Out festival in the streets of the West End. Contracted workmen wearing high-vis tabard vests put the finishing touches to a raised ramp that a Dior-sponsored taxi cab will be placed upon, complete with fake double-yellow lines. The fake road surface is being laid out as other workmen prepare a Dior street sign and staple parts of the ramp together.
    dior_show2-08-September-2011.jpg
  • A workman with a tattoo on his arm carries a bundle of short wooden planks on his shoulder, about to cross Westminster Bridge towards the Houses of Parliament, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
    southbank_people-11-12-09-2017.jpg
  • South London youth walks past the site entrance of the regeneration project at Elephant & Castle, London borough of Southwark.
    elephant_and_castle21-22-04-2015.jpg
  • A walking theme shop window display at Louis Vuitton on Bond Street, central London.
    louis_vuitton10-03-09-2015.jpg
  • Carpet fitters carry off a rolled-up new carpet again after trimming it for the interior of the Lyceum Theatre on Wellington Street, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    carpet_fitters-12-05-03-2019.jpg
  • Muslim women carry heavy carpet along street on Walworth Road, Elephant & Castle, London borough of Southwark.
    elephant_and_castle09-22-04-2015.jpg
  • A workman manhandles a heavy roll of carpet in a Mayfair street, central London.
    carpet_man02-28-01-2016.jpg
  • A man carries a heavy new rolled-up carpet on his back to a West End Hotel, on 6th February 2019, in London England.
    carrying_carpet-01-06-02-2019.jpg
  • Two women carry an awkward floor covering in the window of Veletrzni Palace, on Dukelskych hrdinu street, Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-233-20-03-2018.jpg
  • A team of Asian workmen manhandle a roll of industrial carpet in a side street and destined for a nearby shop in London's New Bond Street. Heaving the rolled rug into a manageable length, the men pick up the goods and carry it across the road and into nearby premises.
    street_carpet05-27-02-2013.jpg
  • Two delivery workmen carry a heavy roll of carpet along a south London street.
    carpet_delivery3-20-July-2011.jpg
  • Removals workmen position a prop into a West End theatre while partially blocking pavement to pedestrians on Charing Cross Rd.
    street_props01-05-10-2010.jpg
  • Work team and other people pass-by on the pedestrian pavement in Trafalgar Square in central London.
    trafalgarSq_people04-15-05-2012.jpg
  • A red-shirted workman carries an awkward heavy load and a wall picture showing a gondolier and the church of Santa Maria della Salute church in Venice, on 16th March 2017, on the corner of Duke of York Street, in St james's, London, England.
    venice_scene-08-16-03-2017.jpg
  • Young women hail a black cab while carrying 21st birthday balloons, on Charing Cross Road, on 19th October 2017, in London, England.
    birthday_balloons-01-19-10-2017.jpg
  • On their way to a concert that evening, musicians cary their bulky double-bass musical instruments through Levstikov street in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    slovenia-513-27-06-2018.jpg
  • Architecture students carry awkward plywood cut-out shapes as part of their course at University College London (UCL), on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
    students-04-03-08-2017.jpg
  • Man carries a piece of furniture on his shoulder echoing the brick pattern on an Edwardian park wall in south London
    carrying_furniture01-01-02-2012.jpg
  • A young woman carries a large box from clothing retailer Next on to a bus heading southbound over London Bridge, on 3rd September 2018, in London England.
    bus_box-02-03-09-2018.jpg
  • Commuters walk southwards over London Bridge, from the City of London - the capital's financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st century - to Southwark on the south bank, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    london_bridge-06-06-08-2018.jpg
  • Commuters walk southwards over London Bridge, from the City of London - the capital's financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st century - to Southwark on the south bank, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    london_bridge-27-06-08-2018.jpg
  • A man carrying a white box emerges from shadows in the Broadgate development in the City of London.
    carrying_box02-15-02-2013.jpg
  • A courier delivers boxes on his shoulder along a narrow side street at the junction of King William Street in the City of London, the capital's Square Mile, and its financial heart.
    city_people03-05-07-2013.jpg
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