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  • A young family walk gloomily past property Sold signs in a street at Grays, Essex England. Passing the prominent signs that bear the name of Quirk Deakin, a local estate agent in the industrial towns of south Essex and the Thames Gateway, is the location for dramatic increases of new housing developments. Both the parents and their daughter look depressed in this time of economic recession, when families are having their homes repossessed after defaulting on mortgage repayments. It is a bright summer day in Grays, east of the capital, just outside of the M25 orbital motorway and on the Thames river.
    river_business172-31-08-2007.jpg
  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote01-27-03-2013.jpg
  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote02-27-03-2013.jpg
  • A lone man sits in the sunshine, beneath a conbstruction site hoarding in central London.
    city_loneliness01-23-04-2013.jpg
  • A walker rests on a bench while on the Precipice Walk, to overlook the landscape of the river Afon Mawddach and out to the sea at Barmouth, on 13th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_walk-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape in central London's riverside.
    bankside_lunch01-11-03-2011.jpg
  • A lone bather looks over the edge of the artificial pier at Estoril near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_estoril-07-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Dystopian detail of three torn English flags above the window of a closed retailer in central London.
    england_dystopia01-10-12-2014.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag04-27-04-2013.jpg
  • A man leans back on his hands on the steps outside Tate Britain on Millbank, on 4th August 2019, in London, England
    tate_britain-07-04-08-2019.jpg
  • A man acts strangely while facing a blue wall at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 26th February, in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-02-26-02-2019.jpg
  • A man acts strangely while facing a blue wall at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 26th February, in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-01-26-02-2019.jpg
  • A person wearing an England cap looks down at the ground in Camberwell, on 26th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England.
    england_cap-01-26-09-2018.jpg
  • A person wearing an England cap looks down at the ground in Camberwell, on 26th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England.
    england_cap-03-26-09-2018.jpg
  • A person wearing an England cap looks down at the ground in Camberwell, on 26th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England.
    england_cap-02-26-09-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker takes a cigarette break in reflected light from a nearby skyscraper in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-44-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker takes a cigarette break in reflected light from a nearby skyscraper in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-43-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker takes a cigarette break in reflected light from a nearby skyscraper in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-42-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker takes a cigarette break in reflected light from a nearby skyscraper in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-41-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker sits on a sunlit corner of Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-32-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker sits on a sunlit corner of Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-31-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A financial services worker sits on a sunlit corner of Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-28-06-06-2018.jpg
  • With a pair of handcuffs attached to one wrist, an unidentified young woman dances next to a drunk man, on 21st June 1997, in London, England.
    nightclub_woman-21-06-1997.jpg
  • Dejected-looking businessmen sit looking at the ground in sunshine outside an office complex in the City of London.
    city_people04-17-04-2015.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag12-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag11-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag07-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag02-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag06-27-04-2013.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate05-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Street mural landscape and local man on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. The man carries a young girl in his arms, its face unseen to the viewer. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate04-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate02-27-03-2013.jpg
  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape near a kissing couple in London.
    bankside_lunch07-11-03-2011.jpg
  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape in central London's riverside.
    bankside_lunch05-11-03-2011.jpg
  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape near a kissing couple in London.
    bankside_lunch03-11-03-2011.jpg
  • Lunchtime diners in a sunlight window of a London Pret a Manger restaurant.
    pret_diners01-04-03-2011.jpg
  • Stratford High Street artwork and architecture before re-development for 2012 Olympics.
    stratford_olympics07-08-10-2010.jpg
  • Carrying a placard asking if Brexit is worth it, a pro-EU remainer waks alongside College Green opposite the Houses of Parliament at a time of crisis for the country when Prime Minister Theresa May deals with Brexit negotiations and minister resignations, on 15th November 2018, in London, England.
    eu_supporter-01-15-11-2018.jpg
  • A man stands on his own on a grassy bank to cut a lonely figure in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but lights still picks out the man against the darkening skyline. He stands with arms folded looking thoughtfully at the ground as if depressed or considering his isolation in the world. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf_person-13-08-1991.jpg
  • Mothers swing a child across a filthy puddle in the town of Nova Huta, an industrial Stalinist steel town oin southern Poland..In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    poland_children01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Despite a gloriously bright summer afternoon, we see a depressing corner of Southend-on-Sea's Adventure Island. A young couple sits on some white towels in front of a wall that is adorned with graffiti and has its paint rubbed away. It is a scene of squalor and desolation in a town that makes revenue from the day-tripper holiday market. Since Victorian times, many Londoners have traditionally come to this south-east coast on the Thames Estuary, close to the capital. Towns like this have seen a marked decline since the advent of the package tourism in favour of exotic beaches in Spain.
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  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen st the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area. .
    misc_poland06-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Beneath an ugly breeze block concrete wall, a couple are enjoying their holiday in the English seaside town of Paignton, Devon. Sitting in striped deckchairs they are both curiously touching their own genital areas between their legs, perhaps both scratching an itch. The lady in sunglasses wearing a floral dress on the left looks guilty while her topless male partner appears more amused by the interruption. In this depressing corner of Paignton, also called the English Riviera, the grey construction behind them is a grim reminder of what it is often like to holiday in one's own home country where few exotic luxuries are found. Such squalor is unfortunately common around the UK and a reason why people take their vacations abroad. Even the grass below them is bare with weeds growing and soil at the foot of the wall.
    england_beach01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis11-25-05-1997.jpg
  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
    derelict_beach-18-06-1989.jpg
  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
    misc_poland01-06-09-2007.jpg
  • A young man sits on an exterior ledge, benneath apartments at Waterloo, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    southbank_apartments-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • A London bus crosses London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    thames_life_ring-03-23-11-2018.jpg
  • A London bus crosses London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    thames_life_ring-02-23-11-2018.jpg
  • London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    thames_life_ring-01-23-11-2018.jpg
  • The Shard skyscraper, London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    london_shard-19-23-11-2018.jpg
  • The grim architecture of the London College of Communications (LCC) at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    LCC_exterior-02-03-05-2018.jpg
  • The grim architecture of the London College of Communications (LCC) at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    LCC_exterior-01-03-05-2018.jpg
  • Before its redevelopment in 2000, a lady shopper walks through the grim underpass of the Midland's infamous Bullring shopping centre, on 12th October 1997, in Birmingham, England.
    birmingham_bullring-12-10-1997.jpg
  • Damp walls, a doorway and new striped poles protruding from underneath a railway bridge, on 2nd March 2017, in Waterloo, London borough of Southwark, England.
    waterloo_doorway-01-02-03-2017.jpg
  • 'Have a Nice Day' banner on a central London bus during a morning shower in Whitehall, central London.
    nice_day-01-21-11-2016.jpg
  • Deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London.
    sad_valentines02-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge.
    city_people01-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge.
    city_people02-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge.
    city_people03-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge.
    city_people04-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge.
    city_people06-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the background.
    city_people07-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes a pedestrian crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the background.
    city_people08-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Smoking women and dejected-looking businessmen sit looking at the ground in sunshine outside an office complex in the City of London.
    city_people06-17-04-2015.jpg
  • Smoking women and dejected-looking businessmen sit looking at the ground in sunshine outside an office complex in the City of London.
    city_people05-17-04-2015.jpg
  • A lone, hooded figure stands looking vulnerable while hunched over railings towards the Seine on the Pont des Arts, Paris
    paris01-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A downcast male pedestrian walks through reflected light shining from a City of London office building.
    city_road07-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A sign for the green environment in a housing estate located in the former Eastern Bloc Communist East Germany known as the GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the cold war. This was once a restricted zone due to its proximity to the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison before the fall of the Berlin wall in Nov 1989.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison02-05-0...jpg
  • A sign for the green environment in a housing estate located in the former Eastern Bloc Communist East Germany known as the GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the cold war. This was once a restricted zone due to its proximity to the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison before the fall of the Berlin wall in Nov 1989.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison01-05-0...jpg
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  • The once busy Rialto Community Centre in Liverpool, England, is now a shell of a building, its windows smashed and caretaker's name painted over as if erased from those employed here to give the local population a sense of belonging. No-one is left here, the impoverished people having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction08-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool amid socially-deprived streets and terraced housing. Graffiti of girls' names has been painted on to the brick wall of a tenement building but is now peeling off. Weeds have grown around the cobbled pavement and the windows are boarded up in a landscape of urban dereliction and social depravity.
    liverpool_dereliction07-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction05-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A solitary person walks over wasteland in Liverpool, England, left after housing was demolished decades ago - its impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere. the sign tells us the name of this road but paint has been daubed over it in an attempt perhaps, to erase its identity now that the community has gone too. Billboards for consumer goods are on show for  non-existent shoppers.
    liverpool_dereliction04-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction02-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A Loyalist wall and rubbish-strewn wasteground shows the dereliction of 1990s Belfast, northern Ireland. Rubbish and missing brickwork tell us of a city a decade after the Troubles when protestant fought catholic causes, a clash of religion and ideology with poor investment by a London-based government.
    belfast_dereliction-26-09-1996.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world04-28-04-2012.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world05-28-04-2012.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world03-28-04-2012.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world02-28-04-2012.jpg
  • The fantasy of a model sunbathing on a beach is the opposite of rainy London on an April morning for local girl.
    rain_ad01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Lonely looking woman standing at the kerbside on a London street, seen from a travelling commuter bus.
    bus_journey03-26-04-2012.jpg
  • London commuter wearing earrings rides on a bus with stencilled cycle route stencil outside of window.
    bus_journey01-26-04-2012.jpg
  • London bus passenger showing the everyday tedium of commuting in the UK capital and a romantic film ad.
    bus_commuter02-27-04-2012.jpg
  • London bus passenger showing the everyday tedium of commuting in the UK capital and a romantic musical ad.
    bus_commuter01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of London mother's drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window11-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of McDonalds restaurant and Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window10-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window04-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window06-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window02-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window03-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window01-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Child's scooter lies on wasteland, a disused graffiti sprayed platform on an inner-city overland station.
    graffiti_landscape01-24-02-2012.jpg
  • Bin-bags and refuse in back-to-back housing alleyway during the Merseyside dustmens' strike of 199
    liverpool_refuse01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Derelict Halal restaurant businesses left to decay on Toynbee Street, Tower Hamlets, East London.
    derelict_shops06-19-11-2010.jpg
  • Mercedes car parked by derelict restaurant business left to decay on Toynbee Street, Tower Hamlets, East London.
    derelict_shops05-19-11-2010.jpg
  • New burger shop with derelict restaurant businesses left to decay on Toynbee Street, Tower Hamlets, East London.
    derelict_shops03-19-11-2010.jpg
  • Two Cheryl Cole L'Oreal poster ads next to filthy derelict doorway with stenciled face, a scene of wealth versus poverty.
    cheryl_cole_ad02-19-11-2010.jpg
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