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  • Possessions and rubbish collects outside a repossessed Victorian terraced house in south London. In the foreground we see a For Sale sign strapped on the brick wall by local estate agents Burnet Ware & Graves in Herne Hill, Lambeth SE24. The front bay window has been sealed up with plyboard to stop squatters gaining entrance and the domestic remnants of evicted owners who have perhaps defaulted on their mortgage is thrown on the path - a scene of domestic poverty. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the loss of owners' homes. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
    repossessed_house-08-11-1991.jpg
  • A young mother holds her child while sitting on a street bench outside a closed 1990s Job Centre. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the closure of the Job Centres of the day. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
    job_centre-12-11-1991.jpg
  • The exterior of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel in Victoria, London, whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel06-24-08-2020.jpg
  • The exterior of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel in Victoria, London, whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel03-24-08-2020.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. According to the country's Ministery of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt57-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. According to the country's Ministery of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt52-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Guards and a few tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt50-01-03-2016.jpg
  • A generic business has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window01-04-07-2013.jpg
  • A CCTV security warning and damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window04-26-03-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window04-07-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window01-07-02-2013.jpg
  • A workman wheels in packing boxes into the Oxford Street store of photo retailer Jessops. Placed into administration by its owners, the high-street branch of UK chain of photographic merchandise and equipment, staff are busy behind shutters packing company assets and stock to be sold elsewhere. Jessops shut all the doors of its 187 UK stores, resulting in the loss of about 1,370 jobs, for the last time. Founded in Leicester in 1935 by Frank Jessop, it has been hit in recent years by increasing competition from supermarkets and internet retailers.
    jessops_closure02-15-01-2013.jpg
  • London 15/1/13: HMV the music and film retailer has been placed into administration after disappointing Christmas sales. The Oxford Street brand which employs approx 7,000 workers is Britain's biggest seller of CDs and DVDs and their shop in central London remains open while the brand's sale can be organised by Deloite, becoming the U.K. retail industry's second high-profile casualty in the space of a week.
    hmv_closure07-15-01-2013.jpg
  • Closed Down is written on a paint-covered window of a generic business in Central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_down01-15-01-2013.jpg
  • Last Day Friday notice for now closed business in central London, a victim of the UK recession. .
    last_day01-27-02-2012.jpg
  • A Union Jack flag hangs above white emulsion paint which has been smeared over a shop window in Lavender Hill, Battersea, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    britain_recession_window1-05-August-...jpg
  • A council worker wheels his cart along the street outside the now-closed music and DVD shop Zavvi, seen in Bradford city centre, Yorkshire - a victim of the UK's economic recession.
    bradford_windows05-09-05-2009.jpg
  • The locked and security grilled doorway of a Pakistani takeaway shop on the Lumb Lane near Bradford City centre, Yorkshire.
    bradford_windows02-09-05-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the opening times in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses118-28-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the word Bookshop in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses113-28-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the words CD and cassettes in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses111-28-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over a laundry business window in a central London street, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses110-28-04-2009.jpg
  • Empty shoe shop in London's Covent Garden, a victim of the Uk recession.
    closed_businesses92-27-03-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses73-17-03_2009.jpg
  • The last day of liquidated trading for shoppers in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths.
    woolworths09-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Rusting metal shutters texture seen in Unity Street, Bristol during the UK recession.
    closed_businesses17-27-12_2008.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fish and chip shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
    closed_businesses05-27-12_2008.jpg
  • 'Store Closing, All Stock Reduced' posters stuck to the window of a Woolworths shop in the town of Nailsea, Nth Somerset. .
    closed_businesses01-24-12_2008.jpg
  • Last Day Friday notice for now closed Card Warehouse business in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession. ..
    closed_business64-15-02_2009.jpg
  • Closed Thai restaurant business The King and I, in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business61-15-02_2009.jpg
  • A poster showing a utopian beach is seen outside the Victoria offices of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel07-24-08-2020.jpg
  • The exterior of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel in Victoria, London, whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel05-24-08-2020.jpg
  • Empty tourist riverside cafe and restaurant furniture on overlooking the Nile in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt352-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. According to the country's Ministery of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt58-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Minus tourists, the tall Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt55-01-03-2016.jpg
  • A closed cafe that once offered all day breakfast with empty seating in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    recession_cafe01-16-05-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe03-28-02-2013.jpg
  • An anonymous shop doorway and window has been boarded up with plyboard, identifying writing obscured with black paint in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    recession_business01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Man with a red hat and scarf stoops to access a small case in a central London street.
    pickup_man01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • London 15/1/13: HMV the music and film retailer has been placed into administration after disappointing Christmas sales. The Oxford Street brand which employs approx 7,000 workers is Britain's biggest seller of CDs and DVDs and their shop in central London remains open while the brand's sale can be organised by Deloite, becoming the U.K. retail industry's second high-profile casualty in the space of a week.
    hmv_closure03-15-01-2013.jpg
  • London 15/1/13: HMV the music and film retailer has been placed into administration after disappointing Christmas sales. The Oxford Street brand which employs approx 7,000 workers is Britain's biggest seller of CDs and DVDs and their shop in central London remains open while the brand's sale can be organised by Deloitte, becoming the U.K. retail industry's second high-profile casualty in the space of a week.
    hmv_closure02-15-01-2013.jpg
  • Last Day Friday notice for now closed business in central London, a victim of the UK recession. .
    last_day02-27-02-2012.jpg
  • Cracked glass and emulsion painted window of a Leicester Permanent Building Society branch in Bromley High Street, London.
    closed_business02-19-11-2010.jpg
  • Derelict fish and chip shop window in a Dulwich back steeet, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business01-15-07-2010.jpg
  • Poster boy advertising the Royal Mail's post office in south London as many branches close due to recession.
    closed_postoffice02-21-05-2010.jpg
  • 'Last Day' is written on a closed taylors business in London, a victim of the UK recession. Reduced prices and services are listed on the glass with a poster urging customers to grab a bargain. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day02-19-12-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the words that described a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses117-28-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the word Formerly in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses116-28-04-2009.jpg
  • Fading newspaper has been hanged across a window of a closed clothing alteration business, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business91-20-03_2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses76-17-03_2009.jpg
  • A face appears through white emulsion paint which has been smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses74-17-03_2009.jpg
  • The words 'Last few days DVD Sale' are painted on a window of a closed business in Kennington South London.
    windows_dvdsale_03.jpg
  • Corrugated sheeting and a staring mannequin clothes model in Camden London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses48-16-01_2009.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fast food shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
    closed_businesses07-27-12_2008.jpg
  • Closed Thai restaurant business The King and I, in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business59-15-02_2009.jpg
  • The last day of liquidated trading for shoppers in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths. ..
    woolworths09-05-01_2009.jpg
  • 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
  • A poster showing a utopian beach is seen outside the Victoria offices of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel11-24-08-2020.jpg
  • A poster showing a utopian beach is seen outside the Victoria offices of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel08-24-08-2020.jpg
  • The exterior of international budget flight and holiday booking service, STA Travel in Victoria, London, whose parent company has just announced its insolvency, a casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England. STA Travel (Student Travel Australia) was a travel agency specializing in youth travel. It was owned by the Swiss Diethelm Keller Holding (DKH) and employed almost 2,000 employees in over 200 stores worldwide. STA dated back to 1979 when two students in Australia organized the company after returning from their travels.
    STA_Travel04-24-08-2020.jpg
  • A closed Bed and Breakfast business on Ramsgate's Marine Parade, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-141-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The London headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on Bishopsgate in the City of London, UK.
    RBS_London-04-15-08-2016.jpg
  • Empty tourist riverside cafe and restaurant furniture on overlooking the Nile in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt353-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Empty tourist riverside cafe and restaurant furniture on overlooking the Nile in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt351-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Minus tourists, the tall Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt56-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. According to the country's Ministery of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt  is down by up to 80% in 2016 after the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt51-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Blue paper, glue remnants and Damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window03-26-03-2013.jpg
  • Damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window01-26-03-2013.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_cafe04-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Apart from yellow furniture, white emulsion paint partially obscures the interior of a failed restaurant in the City of London, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million.
    recession_window06-07-02-2013.jpg
  • Snow-covered apples on sale at an outside farmer's market in south London.
    apples_snow01-20-01-2013.jpg
  • The optimistic words Be Happy with two smiley faces drawn on a whitewashed shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
    be_happy02-25-07-2012.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. 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_graveyard04-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • An announcement banner of a business' imminent closure is in the window of a Rio Beach clothing outlet on a fashion mannequin in their Earlham Street shop. Their web site says: "Rio Beach sells men's clothing for the beach and beyond. As one of the only places that stocks fashionable swimming trunks year round, this is a useful place if you're planning an unseasonable holiday."
    closing_down1-30-09-2011.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of an all day breakfast cafe, a victim of the recession in Weston-super-Mare.
    recession_window1-06-August-2011.jpg
  • The words Closing Party are almost covered by fly-posters on a closed shop window, the victim of the economic recession.
    recession_window2-09-July-2011.jpg
  • The stencilled words 'breakfast bowls' have been left on a lunchtime food business after a recession closure
    recession_window5-05-July-2011.jpg
  • The stencilled words 'lush soup & breakfast bowls' have been left on a lunchtime food business after a recession closure
    recession_window4-05-July-2011.jpg
  • The stencilled words 'breakfast and lunch' have been left on a lunchtime food business after a recession closure
    recession_window1-05-July-2011.jpg
  • Painted over pillar of business, a victim of the Uk economic recession.
    closed_business01-12-07-2010.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over a sandwich shop, a victim of the UK recession.
    recession_window01-08-07-2010.jpg
  • Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source. With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength against the pity and tragedy of a past conflict that claimed millions of lives.
    bank_triangle01-04-20-1997.jpg
  • last_day01-19-12-2009.jpg
  • A closing down sale window is written on smeared whitewashed glass on a former village shop.
    closed_businesses119-07-06-2009.jpg
  • Seen through a takeaway and restaurant window of Coka-Cola (Coke) ads, two elderly ladies are about to pay their bill after their fish and chip supper in Bradford City Centre.
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  • As if parting the blinds of a high-street business, a life-size cut-out of a Pakistan Airlines (PIA) air hostess is propped up in the window of Lumb Lane travel agency, Bradford, Yorkshire.
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  • Posters and price details seen on the floor of the now-closed music and DVD shop Zavvi, seen in Bradford city centre, Yorkshire - a victim of the UK's economic recession.
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  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the word Software in the window  of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • A saddened face has been drawn over white emulsion paint, smeared in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses112-28-04-2009.jpg
  • A deflated union jack flag beach lilo is abandoned in in a window of a seaside shop called The Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession and the tourist trade.
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  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over a former hair and beauty salon's window in Hereford town centre, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster that is pasted on a high street window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
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  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster next to a local pub advert that are pasted on a former high street business window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
    closed_businesses101-13-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared and paper sheets placed over an Anglian window centre front window in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses096-11-04-2009.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over an Anglian window centre front window in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses094-11-04-2009.jpg
  • The number 270 and a slot for the post is painted on to plyboard of a business, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses88-17-03_2009.jpg
  • Metal sheeting has been secured to a shop window containing no valuables, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses87-17-03_2009.jpg
  • A cartoon picture and re-opening writing have been drawn in white emulsion paint, smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed-businesses79-17-03_2009.jpg
  • A cartoon picture has been drawn in white emulsion paint, smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
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