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  • Good-looking trendy young people spill out of a pub one sunny afternoon in fashionable Notting Hill in West London. Their confidence and sense of fun and living for the moment is seen in their clothes and style. But out-of-sight around the corner on this street stands a rather nervous-looking poor woman, an elderly lady perhaps in her sixties who is holding some shopping bags with her coat buttoned up, despite being warm outside. Her demeanour is that of tiredness and hardship - the opposite of the young generation. There is a wide generation gap here: The division of wealth, health and outlook between these two demographic groups which also symbolises a modern Britain, used to the class system that is alive and well.
    elderly_pub10-27-1997.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right's day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
    frinton_lifeguards-26-06-1992.jpg
  • Retired theatre-goers queue outside the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road to see a matinee performance of the hit musical 'Rip It Up', on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    garrick_theatre-04-22-05-2019.jpg
  • Retired theatre-goers queue outside the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road to see a matinee performance of the hit musical 'Rip It Up', on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    garrick_theatre-03-22-05-2019.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-04-10-06-2017.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-01-10-06-2017.jpg
  • Awaiting the visit from his local country doctor to pay him a visit to his remote French farmhouse, an elderly gentleman sits alone in his favourite armchair. Uncertain what the future may hold, the man is old and frail and he looks down to the floor of this front room with worry across his face. He is suffering from cancer and may not live long but the presence of another human being, especially a doctor, is a small comfort from. Someone to share his concerns with and to seek advice from this terminal condition. It is a bright summer morning but even with the sun, it's a gloomy part of the house in which he lives alone.
    french_elderly10-16-1997.jpg
  • A rather rotund man wearing a flat cap, a checked shirt under braces that keep his ample trousers up above his fat tummy, affectionately tickled his pet dog, a Whippet ,who stands still with two paws on his master's large leg. It is a bright day on the beach at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Bathers are running on the sand in the background and the man and his dog are content to watch the world go by from their promenade bench. Their is a great deal of trust and love these two have for each other - the gentleman having brought his dog on holiday to the seaside with him, rather than leave him with friends or in kennels. The dog is healthy, lithe and obviously has great speed in those muscular legs, vastly different to the man, whose frame is heavy and slow.
    cap_whippet05-25-1992.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-02-10-06-2017.jpg
  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997.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
  • A man walks his dog past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-55-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-53-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-52-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-51-20-11-2019.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man28-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man04-26-04-2012.jpg
  • An older uncle with his two nephews sit on tropical grass in the family African garden in 1970.
    seventies_archive03-20-07-1970.jpg
  • A smart suited businessman walks past an unfortunate homeless man holding his worldly possessions.
    homeless_man3-18-10-2011.jpg
  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy140-23-10-2010.jpg
  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see two groups representing this colonial territory's population. Commuters walk through Chater Garden about to pass another group of older exercise class. Towering above them all is the Bank of China skyscraper, then the tallest building in Asia, As the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Almost 7 million people call a territory of 1100 sq km home, squeezing onto only 10% of the available land space. This is a metropolis of high population density and one of the world's economic powerhouses.
    hk_exercise07-31-1997_2.jpg
  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
    family_archive2820-12_1967.jpg
  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2713-05_1967.jpg
  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2620-07_1970.jpg
  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
    family_archive2420-11_1960.jpg
  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
    family_archive2315-06_1960.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997.jpg
  • A few pedestrians and a homeless person on the junction at Bank Triangle, in front of Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the 'City of London', the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city04-02-02-2021.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-56-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of London's plans to move into Smithfield's General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-54-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A crowd of workers listen to speeches by their trade union during a council strike in Liverpool. A sea of faces looks towards us, their expressions serious and concerned at the loss of their jobs and livelihoods. Their trade union has organised this meeting out in the open air in the city centre, a protest against unfair reduction of earnings and an erosion of working conditions. These people are English Liverpool council workers recently made redundant and have gathered in the city centre to express their willingness to act againist their former-employers.
    crowd_people-19-06-1991.jpg
  • Bus passengers and city travellers are seen through a bus window as they await their next service into central London.
    bus_stop01-12-03-2013.jpg
  • A poverty-stricken homeless man looks down at the pavement while a smartly-dressed professional puts a finger on his location on a steel map (and his own position in life) - a scene of wealth and prosperity and the downtrodden in society. They are both in a place known as Bank Triangle in what is called the Square Mile, London's oldest district of banking and finance businesses.
    homeless_tourist01-17-05-1998.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
    commuters-16-07-1990.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his breaking sign for a menswear shop's closure sale.
    sign_man30-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man23-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man returns a dropped scarf for a young woman in central London.
    sign_man19-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man10-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man09-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man05-26-04-2012.jpg
  • A sleeping Big Issue magazine seller sits alone without passing business as disinterested on-lookers pass-by in London.
    big_issue_seller06-07-03-2011.jpg
  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy171-24-10-2010.jpg
  • Homeless man beneath the statue of philathropist, banker and entrepreneur George Peabody ( 1795 - 1869)
    peabody_statue01-03-04-1993.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old from the mid-sixties plays amongst lavender in his parents' property. He has the face of boyhood innocence as he traipses through the garden. It is the summer of 1967 and the colours are muted on this Kodachrome film slide which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    hughes_family.jpg
  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
    family_archive2515-03_1961.jpg
  • A multi-cultural British population is represented here at an exhibit within the Millennium Dome, a few months after 2000.
    millennium_faces-06-04-2000.jpg
  • A 1960s mother stands for a family picture in woodland with her 5 year-old son and 4 year-old daughter
    60s_mother01-01-07-1967.jpg
  • Wrapped in a sleeping bag, a homeless person lies in the doorway of Waterstones bookshop which is displaying copies of both Michelle and Barack Obama's bestselling books ('Becoming' and 'A Promised Land' respectively), on Piccadilly, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_night03-02-02-2021.jpg
  • The Broadgate Venus by Fernando Botero in Exchange Square, Broadgate, City of London.
    botero_venus01-21-06-1993.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man26-26-04-2012.jpg
  • A sleeping Big Issue magazine seller sits alone without passing business as on-lookers pass disdainfully in London.
    big_issue_seller03-07-03-2011.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993.jpg
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