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  • A lone young woman applies lipstick using her smartphone as a mirror during a London bus journey.
    bus_girl02-03-03-2014.jpg
  • Making life-changing calls at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair30-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • A bus with an ad for an educational college passes through the  in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England. The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL) offers a wide range of apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships and courses across many different subjects to give students the skills, knowledge and experience they need to succeed at work or university.
    city_people-36-22-08-2019.jpg
  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief - that invention is the vital spark that drives the world's technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
    inventors_fair02-19-10-2007.jpg
  • In the privacy of her own country home, an elderly French lady is about to have eye-drops administered by her local doctor in the Vosges town of Ban de Laveline. Holding her eyelids up with a thumb in preparation of giving the woman the necessary medicine, the young health professional reaches for his equipment and the lady is left looking rather startled and uncomfortable for a few moments as her eye stares wildly. We are in her small cottage on the outskirts of town and the doctor is making his rounds to various patients unable to attend his daily surgery. The lady wears a colourful apron, typical of French working people, and is possibly in her seventies, living alone with only kind neighbours to ensure her safety. ....http://www.france-voyage.com/en/
    elderly_doctor10-16-1997.jpg
  • Straightening one's tie at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair46-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young job-seekers get advice at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair44-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Taking notes on a stand at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair37-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • receiving advice from a CV clinic at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair22-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young man's striped suit at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair14-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Detail of a hand holding a job magazine at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair02-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Audiience listening to seminar at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair40-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Flirting with the opposite sex at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair28-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young job-seekers get advice at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair06-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Hong Kong-born Chinese queue outside ImmigrationTower to apply for naturalisation as British Dependent Territories Citizens, one year before the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 29th March 1996, in Hong Kong, (then a British colony but latterly, China).
    hong_kong_immigration-29-03-1996_1.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up05-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up04-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up03-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up02-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up01-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A black student works diligently alongside a white-skinned man at the communications company Cable & Wireless in London, England. We see in the foreground, the dark-skinned young man with a short beard is writing with a pencil that has a rubber on the top but the man in the background is out of focus. It is an image of ethnic diversity, of a multicultural Britain with students living and working uninterrupted side-by-side. They are both concentrating on their work in  a generic office or classroom, perhaps entering an examination or performing a corporate test.
    misc-london03-30-08-2007.jpg
  • Pat Marden rreaches up to attend an arch of apples at the East Malling Research, Kent, England that provides science-based plant and food solutions to industry and Government. As a  Horticultural Technician Pat and her colleagues work for this organisation which is the principal UK provider of top-class horticultural research and development for the perennial crops sector. They have for example, genetically fingerprinted all 2300 apples and over 250 pears of the National Fruit Collection and used DNA markers called microsatellites to produce individual profiles for trees. Looking upwards we see Pat balanced on a tapering ladder to reach leaves and branches that form this feature in the laboratory gardens and which has eight similar arches.
    orchard01.jpg
  • Hong Kong-born Chinese queue outside ImmigrationTower to apply for naturalisation as British Dependent Territories Citizens, one year before the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 29th March 1996, in Hong Kong, (then a British colony but latterly, China).
    hong_kong_immigration-29-03-1996_3.jpg
  • Two employees of musical instrument retailer Westside apply a transfer for the Martin Company's Dreadnought guitar brand in Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley, Soho, London.
    westside_window-01-17-05-2016.jpg
  • Decorator and part-time chimney sweep Alan Squires prepares to apply another coat of emulsion paint to the exterior walls of a cottage called Burnside in the tiny hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. With his shadow looming large on the newly-painted off-white pebbledash that is rendered a warm orange in the low sunlight, Alan walks with his long roller after a day's decorating in this beautiful place near Dunvegan. Alan is an Englishman who came to Skye in 1987 for the community spirit. "everybody knows everybody' he says though admits that southerners come from the south in search of an idyllic lifestyle but harsh winters often send them back to warmer climates. Alain's fresh paint therefore needs to dry before winter weather blows in from the Atlantic. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
    9999-RPB59-alan_squires68-28-09-2007.jpg
  • Hong Kong-born Chinese queue outside ImmigrationTower to apply for naturalisation as British Dependent Territories Citizens, one year before the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 29th March 1996, in Hong Kong, (then a British colony but latterly, China).
    hong_kong_immigration-29-03-1996.jpg
  • Two employees of musical instrument retailer Westside apply a transfer for the Martin Company's Dreadnought guitar brand in Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley, Soho, London.
    westside_window-06-17-05-2016.jpg
  • Two employees of musical instrument retailer Westside apply a transfer for the Martin Company's Dreadnought guitar brand in Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley, Soho, London.
    westside_window-05-17-05-2016.jpg
  • Long-distance London Marathon athletes warm-up and apply vaseline to sensitive areas in Greenwich Park.
    marathon_muscles01-21-04-1991.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism09-13-11-2020.jpg
  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
    party_women-14-05-1998.jpg
  • A detail of a Boeing 777 airliner during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. The plane's colour scheme across its fuselage and cabin has been carefully chosen and applied by Boeing whose aircraft this is as it makes a European press and PR tour to help foreign airlines make their choice of an American manufacturer.
    farnborough05-02-08-2000.jpg
  • Blue paper, glue remnants and Damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window03-26-03-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window04-07-02-2013.jpg
  • A Union Jack flag hangs above white emulsion paint which has been smeared over a shop window in Lavender Hill, Battersea, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    britain_recession_window1-05-August-...jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism08-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism07-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism06-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism05-13-11-2020.jpg
  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs and restaurant businesses are slowly re-opening and a contractor smooths a over a sticker sign just applied to the window of Wasabi in Shaftesbury Avenue in the capital's West End, on 6th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-12-06-07-2020.jpg
  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs and restaurant businesses are slowly re-opening and a contractor smooths a over a sticker sign just applied to the window of Wasabi in Shaftesbury Avenue in the capital's West End, on 6th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-11-06-07-2020.jpg
  • The runners and riders for the 5th and 6th races during a horseracing meeting at the British-built Kolkata racecourse, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The race course was built in 1820 and is maintained by the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC), founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata, India) and became the premier horse racing organisation in India during the British Raj. At one time it was the governing body for almost all courses in the sub-continent, defining and applying the rules that governed the sport. During its heyday the races it organised were among the most important social events of the calendar, opened by the Viceroy of India. During the 1930s the Calcutta Derby Sweeps, organised by the club, was the largest sweepstake in the world. It is still an exclusive private club and still operates the Kolkata Race Course.
    calcutta-18-11-1996_2.jpg
  • A make-up artist smiles while applying a makeover to a customer in the window of a Covent Garden hairdressers, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
    window_makeover-01-04-05-2017.jpg
  • A shop employee applies make-up from a brush in the window of a House of Fraser store in the Square Mile, on 31st March 2017, in the City of London, England. House of Fraser is a British department store group with over 60 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it was known as Fraser & Sons.
    house_of_fraser-08-31-03-2017.jpg
  • A generic business has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window01-04-07-2013.jpg
  • A CCTV security warning and damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window04-26-03-2013.jpg
  • Damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window01-26-03-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe04-28-02-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe03-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window01-07-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window06-07-02-2013.jpg
  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    books_etc02-30-01-2013.jpg
  • A group of elderly Chelsea Pensioners are seen from high above, as an aerial view, as they sit on board an open-top bus as they prepare to parade through the streets of London, during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. A Chelsea pensioner is an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. Historically, however, the phrase applied more widely, referring to both in-pensioners and out-pensioners.
    chelsea_pensioners01-20-11-1983.jpg
  • Amateur dramatic actors sit applying make-up and rehearse dialogue before their local production of Bonaventure.
    actors_play1-14-06-1992.jpg
  • During an August heatwave, the population of Brixton and many others from all over London, bask in the glorious weather at the Brockwell (Brixton)  Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. The Lido is a magnet for families, select groups, the young and old and represents an amalgam of humanity who enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends and new acquaitances. We see two men of Afro-carribean origin who have a corner of the Lido to themselves. One wears a towel wrapped around his lower-body and sits, arms folded with a look of territorial superiority while the other applies sun lotion to his leg. There is little space left on the full pavement which retains its solar heat long after the sun has left the quadrangle of the lido's oblong design but their colourful towels and possessions are spread out on the paving stones along with childrens' toys including an Action Man toy soldier who is also tanning himself. It is a scene of fun for all ages and backgrounds. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. It is now a Grade II listed building
    RB-0169.jpg
  • A British lady applies a layer of sun cream to her hand on a beach in Magaluf.  In the foreground, and aligned with the lady's own body is a sun lounger with a beach towel draped over which depicts the torso and legs of a cartoon Hercules Adonis character complete in ancient Greek style with muscular thighs and short skirt. In the background is a hotel building and two other tourists with their tanned backs towards the viewer. Magaluf is a popular holiday resort on the island of Mallorca, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands. A seedy resort very much orientated around British tourists and catering for both young parties as well as families, it is considered as a hot and exotic alternative to the chilly seaside towns around the UK's coast.  .
    RB-0049.jpg
  • In late afternoon, three conscript soldiers  of the Polish army are dressed in brown uniforms eating ice cream cones in Plac Zamkowy, outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish army (Wojsko Polskie) is the name applied to the military forces of Poland. The name has been used since the early 19th century, although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko L?dowe), Navy (Marynarka Wojenna) and Air Force (Si?y Powietrzne) branches and are under the command of the Ministry of Defense (Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej). The combined Polish armed forces consist of 215,000 active duty personnel and in addition 450,000 reserves. The armed forces are made up of conscripts who serve for a period of 9 months, and professional soldiers.
    misc_poland12-06-09-2007.jpg
  • 'Last Day' is written on a closed taylors business in London, a victim of the UK recession. Reduced prices and services are listed on the glass with a poster urging customers to grab a bargain. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day02-19-12-2009.jpg
  • NHS Paramedic Janet Greenhead attends to a lady passenger in Heathrow airport's terminal 3 who has tripped on escalators and badly gashed her leg. Janet applies a dressing and cleans the deep wound before advising the lady to visit a local hospital. Paramedics 'Responders' are with the cycle response unit (CRU), part of the London Ambulance Service whose job is to attend injuries within Heathrow, cycling through the terminals on mountain bikes. She answers radio calls from those with a cut finger, a baggage handler who's injured an arm, a child who's fallen over with cuts and bruises or a much more serious incident like a cardiac arrest which are common in an airport where passengers feel under stress or who forget to take their medicines while jet lagged. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1207-13-08-2009.jpg
  • "No Distance Covered." The leathery soles of a new-born 3 day-old baby girl's feet are seen in detail. Her skin is wrinkled and cracked despite applying foot lotion to keep them soft. The tiny toes have yet to support her upright body and walk anywhere because she has been at home from hospital for only a few days. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella05-20-04-1995.jpg
  • A shop window in Camden north London proclaims in red stencilled letters the business is open seven days a week when the store has gone out of business and the words No Hope have been added after the pane of glass has been white-washed. Stickers have been applied and torn off again. It is a graphic picture of irony and delusion, a misguided shop owner who thought his company was successful when it was heading for closure.
    window_nohope_03003-17-04-2007.jpg
  • A shop employee applies make-up from a brush in the window of a House of Fraser store in the Square Mile, on 31st March 2017, in the City of London, England. House of Fraser is a British department store group with over 60 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it was known as Fraser & Sons.
    house_of_fraser-06-31-03-2017.jpg
  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    books_etc01-30-01-2013.jpg
  • An artist is incongruously enclosed in roadworks barriers at the busy junction of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Painting with an easel and applying careful brush strokes amid the noise and chaos of this busy traffic junction in the capital. A young man walks past barely noticing the artist as he strides through the heart of London's west end. But on the youth's t-shirt is a modern interpretation (wearing glasses and apparently spitting liquid into a cup) of Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero (Bernardo Bembo)" German-born artist Jan van Mimnelinghe (Hans Memling, c. 1435-94) was well known all over Europe. During his lifetime, he painted commissions not only for the Burgundian Dukes, but also for patrons in Germany, Austria, Venice, Florence and London.
    street_painter1-12-09-2011.jpg
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