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  • A dirty Keep Devon Tidy council sign discouraging litter at their seaside has been written over by graffiti.
    devon_rubbish1-04-August-2011.jpg
  • A greasy spoon cafe fry-up breakfast for a worker surrounded by dirty crockery left by his mates in industrial Grays, Essex
    river_business43-31-08-2007.jpg
  • A shipbuilder wearing a face mask, leans through the incomplete window belonging to the superstructure of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work. His overalls are torn from jagged steel edges and his skin is dirty. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today the city of Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard04-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit26-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit23-16-11-2020.jpg
  • As a tour bus drives past, a rough-looking man searches through a bin, on 8th March 2017, London borough of Westminster, England.
    our_NHS-01-08-03-2017.jpg
  • Locals await the next bus in a public transport bus shelter, St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
    bus_shelter02-14-03-2014.jpg
  • Londoners sit and stand in a packed carriage on an overground rail service, stopped at a central London station. The windows are filthy with railway and city grime and the faces on passengers tell the story of a miserable experience travelling at rush-hour in the capital. The 90s carriage was an old style phased out in the late 90s, their construction proving unsafe and out-of-date with a modern transport infrastructure.
    train_misery01-19-03-1992.jpg
  • City pigeons help themselves to abandoned lunch plate food on an outside table top in London's Barbican.
    pigeons_table2-05-July-2011.jpg
  • A young girl volunteer is hauled from a mud hole after an activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo. Beaming from ear to ear, the lady relishes her time here in one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It will have been a life-changing experience for her and her new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    expedition_woman03-27-01-2011.jpg
  • A young girl volunteer is caked in mud after an activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo. Beaming from ear to ear, the lady relishes her time here in one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It will have been a life-changing experience for her and her new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    expedition_woman01-28-09-1992.jpg
  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy34-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy32-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Man walking along pavement near local shop on corner of Florence street corner
    florence_italy116-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
    england_beach06-15-12-2007.jpg
  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
    england_beach02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A message for help has been left on the inside of a vacant business in Cheapside (Street) in the City of London. Written back to front from inside, the writer has mis-spelled the word 'we're' . In the UK, vacant or redeveloped shops and businesses, are smeared with diluted white emulsion paint and water thereby obscuring the building's interior for security reasons.
    window02.jpg
  • A window in Redchurch Street, East London England, proclaims the opening soon of a business. Using emulsion paint and water to obscure the interior, we see the optimistic sign and the swirls of the window pane. The patterns and shapes inadvertantly traced are confusing and neurotic.
    window_opensoon01-23-04-007.jpg
  • The rear of a cab, its chassis and hydraulic control hoses of an HGV lorry parked at a supermarket distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot191-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit30-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit29-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit27-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit25-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit24-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit22-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit20-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit19-16-11-2020.jpg
  • 1990s passengers on board a London Underground train at Bank Station beneath the streets of the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    london_tube-18-02-1992.jpg
  • Litter and graffiti on the beach of Lisbon's Praca do Commercio.
    portugal_lisbon-16-11-07-2016.jpg
  • Purple light from a nearby office building is reflected onto plain walls in Orange Yard, Soho, central London.
    orange_yard05-06-03-2015.jpg
  • Purple light from a nearby office building is reflected onto plain walls in Orange Yard, Soho, central London.
    orange_yard01-06-03-2015.jpg
  • Girl and rope swing in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
    the_land179-18-06-2014.jpg
  • Girl and rope swing in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
    the_land178-18-06-2014.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. A train guard watches for a green signal as Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station02-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters02-09-03-1992.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters01-09-03-1992.jpg
  • An aerial landscape view of a railway network whose tracks and rails converge on a station in central London. Three trains filled with commuters all make their way into this unseen railway hub. The route curls away into the distance, slicing its way through the capital. London Rail is a directorate of Transport for London (TFL), involved in the relationship with the National Rail network within London, UK. It manages non-tube rail systems in London. Railways started to change the landscape of London itself, followed by its suburbs in the mid to late 19th century when streets and neighbourhoods were cut in half by the new infrastructure.
    railway_trains-13-05-1993.jpg
  • An old City of London street sign for Poultry EC2 beneath a rusting police bylaws sign on a late 1980s brick wall. Before the older signage was replaced in the mid-1990s for more modern architecture, these signs will have disappeared or available through vintage auctions. Poultry is a short street in the City of London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House Street, near Bank junction. It takes its name, like other medieval roads nearby such as Milk Street and Bread Street, from the various produce once sold at Cheapside, meaning "market-place" in Old English. The street gave its name to a prison, Poultry Compter, once located there.
    city_sign-12-04-1989.jpg
  • With three drinks cartons sit propped up on a stone ledge, three tourists rest around its corner, surrounded by the shadows of three commuters.
    london_bridge12-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Sreeet sweeper reads a magazine during his morning shift at the Tower of London. .
    london_time10-03-09-2008.jpg
  • A young girl volunteer is caked in mud after an activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo. Beaming from ear to ear, the lady relishes her time here in one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It will have been a life-changing experience for her and her new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    expedition_woman02-28-09-1992.jpg
  • Next to a beach bather, water pours from an outlet pipe on a tourist beach on Coloane island Cheoc Van beach, Macau, China.
    beach_pollution01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
    florence_italy89-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
    florence_italy86-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Bright colours of plastic flowers bouquet underneath shabby and decaying religious mural on Florence wall.
    florence_italy139-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Bright colours of plastic flowers bouquet underneath shabby and decaying religious mural on Florence wall.
    florence_italy138-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
    florence_italy113-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Grinning from ear to ear, young volunteers throw themselves over a fallen tree during a strenuous activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo, one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It has been a life-changing experience for them and their new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    raleigh_climbers09-28-1992.jpg
  • A young girl volunteer is caked in mud after an activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo. Beaming from ear to ear, the lady relishes her time here in one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It will have been a life-changing experience for her and her new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    raleigh-international01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
    RB-0136.jpg
  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.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
  • Aerial view through scaffolding of the of the Gdansk shipyard, from a high gantry overlooking ships, Gdansk, Poland.
    gdansk_shipyard06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A newsagents shop business is newly open for business but a sticker urges people to stay out in a contradictory message near Angel, north London England.
    news_shop_01dd-00-2007 .jpg
  • Faded newspaper sheets are stuck to a closed newsagent's window in Dulwich, South London UK
    windows_05 copy.jpg
  • A window in Redchurch Street, East London England, proclaims the opening soon of a business. Using emulsion paint and water to obscure the interior, we see the optimistic sign and the swirls of the window pane. The patterns and shapes inadvertantly traced are confusing and neurotic.
    window_opensoon04-23-04-007.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
  • Young men in a ghetto housing estate in town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
    esa_guiana35516-08-2007.jpg
  • Satellite dishes in a ghetto housing estate in town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
    esa_guiana35316-08-2007.jpg
  • Signpost in Kourou, named after English gravity scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in French Guiana, home of ESA's Spaceport.
    esa_guiana34416-08-2007.jpg
  • Aged warning sign and spotlight at a side entrance of the European Space Agency's Spaceport at Malmanoury Creek French Guiana
    esa_guiana31416-08-2007.jpg
  • In front of a closed Ecomax supermarket, a cyclist pedals past heap of rubbish lying in colonial Kourou car park
    esa_guiana25816-08-2007.jpg
  • Fading sign advertising Kodak films attached to fading architecture in new colonial quarter of Kourou in French Guiana
    esa_guiana25716-08-2007.jpg
  • Peeling mural of golf club trolley on the side of green container parked near the European Space Agency's Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana25216-08-2007.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit28-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit21-16-11-2020.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of polluting street traffic below St Paul's Cathedral during the early-1990s. Looking down from a high viewpoint we see London traffic and polluted streets below with the corner of St Paul's Cathedral before its stonework was cleaned, its stained surfaces removed after centuries of grime and poor air quality. Red Routemaster buses drive from Ludgate Hill towards Cannon Street into the City, London's London's financial district.
    street_aerial-01-05-1993.jpg
  • A former HSBC Bank name and logo on the side of a closed branch in the City of London.
    closed_bank07-27-09-2013.jpg
  • As a departing train disappears round the corner at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, a lone woman waits for the next service. This is the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform on the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station03-19-02-1993.jpg
  • With three drinks cartons sit propped up on a stone ledge, three tourists rest around its corner, surrouded by commuters
    london_bridge11-08-04-2011.jpg
  • With three drinks cartons sit propped up on a stone ledge, three tourists rest around its corner, surrouded by commuters
    london_bridge10-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner on Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
    florence_italy87-22-10-2010.jpg
  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy31-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy29-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
    florence_italy114-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Stratford High Street artwork and architecture before re-development for 2012 Olympics.
    stratford_olympics07-08-10-2010.jpg
  • lizzard_mural02-19-08-2010.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
  • With orange sparks falling away below, a shipbuilder welds while standing on a scaffolding gantry on the hull of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the worker wears a protective hood on his head. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard11-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Seen from St Catherine's Church in the old city of Gdansk, Poland, the famously sprawling shipyard is seen from across the city's old housing and trees. Once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Nazi swastika and BNP graffiti scrawled on a grubby lorry drivers' toilet wall in Grays, Thames Gateway
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  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • Messages and doodles on the dirty glass at the entrance of a vacant office property on Sun Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
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  • Dirty US Nacy crewmen on the deck of US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf, on 8th May 2000, in the Persian Gulf. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
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  • A man sells fresh oranges from his bicycle in chaotic street in Kathmandu, Nepal. In the heart of the Nepali capital, the busy streets are popular with produce sellers and shoppers as wellas tourists to see the genuine sprawl of Kathmandu, a destination for travellers from around the world. Amid the dark and dirty background, the oranges become a bright addition to this urban landscape. Oranges are grown in places such as Nayagaun Gulmi. Kathmandu is the capital and largest urban agglomerate of Nepal. Its 2011 census shows it has a population of more than 2.5 million inhabitants.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly at the dirty picket fence with their Volvo car parked on the gravel drive outside their home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have paid the $200,000 fee for a seat on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  ...
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  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
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  • Messages and doodles on the dirty glass at the entrance of a vacant office property on Sun Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-41-08-08-2019.jpg
  • Messages and doodles on the dirty glass at the entrance of a vacant office property on Sun Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-39-08-08-2019.jpg
  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
    slovenia-344-25-06-2018.jpg
  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
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  • The day after Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg faced Senate Committee questions in Washington, a London bus with an ad for dirty washing drives past the offices of Cambridge Analytica on New Oxford Street, the UK tech company accused of harvesting the personal details of Facebook users (including Zuckerberg himself) in its data privacy scandal, on 11th April, 2018, in London, England.
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  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    hosing_pavement-06-05-03-2018.jpg
  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    hosing_pavement-04-05-03-2018.jpg
  • Seen through the window of a dirty bus stop is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
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  • The graves of Irish Republican hunger strikers in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast. Their roll-call of names are on stones laid o the ground including that of Bobby Sands, the elected MP. The five-year protest during The Troubles began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. The second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death?including Sands, whose funeral was attended by 100,000 people,
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  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
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  • "First shoes in Wales." An eleven month-old infant tries to walk in her first pair of proper rigid shoes whilst on holiday in Snowdonia, North Wales UK. Tentatively taking a few unconfident steps the young girl  cries out in surprise, almost falling over. Her mother instinctively grabs her coat hood before she topples into into the pebbles and soft mud of a river bed which would soil her clean clothes. We see a mother preventing her daughter from getting dirty and from hurting herself, a fast reaction to stop injury on a small child. 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.
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