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  • A line of information kiosks, pretend phone boxes provided by Newjam Council, the borough hosting during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. As a team member makes a call outsidethe iconic shape of the red telephone box known as the quintessential British design, crowds of spectators and travellers pass-by near the main Olympic Park complex. A mother pushes her child's buggy and Newham employees hand out local maps and info to Olympic visitors.
    olympic_stratford39-06-08-2012.jpg
  • Wearing a safety helmet and t-shirt , a nine year-old girl cyclist pretends to be asleep, having has collapsed on the grass at Peckham Rye Park in South London after a marathon ride into the centre of London. 'Freewheel' was a Hovis-sponsored event for riders and families to enjoy a day of traffic-free cycling through the capital's streets and this girl has ridden 18 miles on this late-summer Sunday - starting and finishing in this park. The shadow of a rear bicycle wheel can be seen to her right and she feigns death by spreading out on the grass, pretending to sleep before reviving herself with a drink and pedalling on home, yet another mile away.
    freewheel01-23-09-2007.jpg
  • Looking down on them from above, we see a brother and sister play with free airline blindfolds while in their parents' bed at the family home in South London. Pretending to be blind, they giggle at this hilarious and childish game as if acting out the speak and see no evil. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam26-23-07_2002.jpg
  • An actor plays the part of an office worker, toiling away at a desk-top PC while outside in the courtyard of the Z33 art gallery in Hasselt, Limburg Belgium. The lady artist sits typing at an imaginary work station with jackets hanging on a coat stand and with her area marked out in sand on the gravel. This incongruous scene is played out during the gallery's 'Werk Nu' (Work Now) exhibition that reflected upon the concept and meaning of 'work' in our present society, with issues such as flexibility, mobility, motivation, significance, and the work-life balance are dealt with. The art works in 'Work Now' are direct or ambiguous, whimsical.
    hasselt019-27-06-2009.jpg
  • Costumed tourists pose for pictures in the Splendid China model village theme park in Shenzen, China.
    shenzhen_tourism-21-04-1995.jpg
  • As afternoon light fades, we see an incongruous landscape of false forest trees amid an industrial airport lot. A supporting pillar from the hotel chain, Sofitel, a 605 bedroom, 27 suite and 45 meeting room accommodation and business hub, is situated at the Heathrow Airport 's Terminal 5 hotel. The woodland screen is hiding a wasteland of undeveloped land that may soon be another airport hotel but at the moment, it makes for a strange rural/urban scene where the viewer is not sure where reality stops and fiction takes over. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport862-22-07-2009.jpg
  • A businessman pulls his case past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster.
    claridges_hoarding03-01-04-2014.jpg
  • Construction worker and cut-out site character telling pedestrians crossing a London Victoria street development.
    street_workmen01-22-07-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo29-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo26-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A 15 year-old teenager points a Minigun cannon from the top deck of HMS Illustrious over the river Thames at Greenwich, London. During which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier was docked on the river, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day39-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Young men re-enact the former border crossing between Communist East and West Germany during the Cold War at the site of the former Checkpoint Charlie, the border. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    checkpoint_charlie_tourists04-05-04-...jpg
  • London 8/1/13: Passing a disabled beggar, a man dressed as a NASA moon walking astronaut walks along Oxford Street outside the Selfridges department store in central London - part of a PR promo for deodorant brand Lynx who have launched a competition, with the first prize a once-in-a-lifetime chance to blast into orbit. The 22 winners, which will include one Brit, will experience Earth from outer space on the Lynx SXC (Space Expedition Corporation) space shuttle. Shoppers and passers-by seem oblivious to this symbol of 20th century American technology, now reduced to a PR stunt for the Lynx aftershave brand hosted by Selfridges. Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909.
    selfridges_astronaut04-08-01-2013.jpg
  • At first glance, we see an angry male holding the severed head of another man in his right hand. But this is a circus act from the Archaos troupe, a french company of oerformers who tour the world with their anarchic version of big top entertainment. With a dark background and with the apparent  murderer wearing black, it is an image of raw, homocidal thuggery: A massacre and attack on another human being. Despite it being a pretence, an act for the sake of an audience with a thirst for the macabre, it is still very disturbing.
    archaos_circus-27-09-1990.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall15-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall21-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall20-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Visitors and re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall14-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Joystick controller at BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator test a Red Arrows pilot at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. All fast-jet pilots are required to complete an emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
    Red_Arrows256_RBA.jpg
  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
    greek_olympiad010-21-10_2003.jpg
  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad002-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Sheriff Woody Pride, aka Woody, the cowboy character from the Pixar/Disney CGI fantasy film Toy Story, lies forgotten outside a south London charity shop.
    toystory_woody05-02-12-2014.jpg
  • Two decorators walk past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster.
    claridges_hoarding01-01-04-2014.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo31-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo28-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo27-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is helped by a medic during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo24-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty (so not reality) is rescued by a medic during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo09-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Actors in US and Soviet army uniforms hold flags to recount German history during the second world war and later, the cold war - beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Germany. The site is near the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Here also, Berlin was separated by the occupying sectors of US, British, French and Soviet forces after WW2. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
    brandenburg_gate_tourism02-05-04-201...jpg
  • Actors in US and Soviet army uniforms hold flags to recount German history during the second world war and later, the cold war - beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Germany.
    brandenburg_gate_tourism01-05-04-201...jpg
  • London 8/1/13: A man dressed as a NASA moon walking astronaut walks along Oxford Street outside the Selfridges department store in central London - part of a PR promo for deodorant brand Lynx who have launched a competition, with the first prize a once-in-a-lifetime chance to blast into orbit. The 22 winners, which will include one Brit, will experience Earth from outer space on the Lynx SXC (Space Expedition Corporation) space shuttle. Shoppers and passers-by seem oblivious to this symbol of 20th century American technology, now reduced to a PR stunt for the Lynx aftershave brand hosted by Selfridges. Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909.
    selfridges_astronaut03-08-01-2013.jpg
  • London 8/1/13: Two characters dressed as NASA moon walking astronauts, walk along Oxford Street outside the Selfridges department store in central London - part of a PR promo for deodorant brand Lynx who have launched a competition, with the first prize a once-in-a-lifetime chance to blast into orbit. The 22 winners, which will include one Brit, will experience Earth from outer space on the Lynx SXC (Space Expedition Corporation) space shuttle. Shoppers and passers-by seem oblivious to this symbol of 20th century American technology, now reduced to a PR stunt for the Lynx aftershave brand hosted by Selfridges. Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909.
    selfridges_astronaut02-08-01-2013.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen19-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Man checks his watch near a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen18-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen17-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction workers and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen14-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen10-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen07-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans film ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen11-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Statue for Sir Henry Irving and an off-duty clown pulling his act possessions.
    clown_statue01-03-03-2011.jpg
  • A street busker dressed as a crusader stands silent and motionless outside the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq.
    crusader_busker02-24-11-2010.jpg
  • Anti-Iranian protesters show the government's policy of political executions. Seen in Whitehall, central London.
    anti_iranian_protest04-25-08-2010.jpg
  • Anti-Iranian protesters show the government's policy of political executions. Seen in Whitehall, central London.
    anti_iranian_protest03-25-08-2010.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall28-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • An awkward young man walks past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster.
    claridges_hoarding08-01-04-2014.jpg
  • Businessmen bring back takeaway lunches, walking past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster.
    claridges_hoarding04-01-04-2014.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty (so not reality) is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo30-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo22-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A young boy, too short to reach points a Minigun cannon from the top deck of HMS Illustrious over the river Thames at Greenwich, London. During which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier was docked on the river, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day48-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    leicester_square09-04-12-2012.jpg
  • Real construction workers in the background and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    construction_men03-02-04-2012.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans movie ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen12-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Anti-Iranian protesters show the government's policy of political executions. Seen in Whitehall, central London.
    anti_iranian_protest02-25-08-2010.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldiers at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall23-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall25-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldiers at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall22-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • While visiting London's tourist sites, a young boy of about 5 years-old spends time at Horse Guards where a soldier from the Household Cavalry, also dressed in a deep red coat, stands motionless and at-ease. It is a bright day and the gray stonework amplifies the scarlett uniform tunics as the boy has his picture taken by family. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
    RB_134-25-06-1989.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
    greek_olympiad011-23-10_2003.jpg
  • Sheriff Woody Pride, aka Woody, the cowboy character from the Pixar/Disney CGI fantasy film Toy Story, lies forgotten outside a south London charity shop.
    toystory_woody04-02-12-2014.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo25-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A volunteer casualty is rescued by medics and firefighters during a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team's demonstration with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo23-14-05-2013.jpg
  • London 8/1/13: Two characters dressed as NASA moon walking astronauts, emerge outside on Oxford Street outside the Selfridges department store in central London - part of a PR promo for deodorant brand Lynx who have launched a competition, with the first prize a once-in-a-lifetime chance to blast into orbit. The 22 winners, which will include one Brit, will experience Earth from outer space on the Lynx SXC (Space Expedition Corporation) space shuttle. Shoppers and passers-by seem oblivious to this symbol of 20th century American technology, now reduced to a PR stunt for the Lynx aftershave brand hosted by Selfridges. Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909.
    selfridges_astronaut01-08-01-2013.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans film ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen20-30-03-2012.jpg
  • A misleading landscape pretending that the street works relate to the demolition in Edwardian times of a Wren church.
    works_barrier01-22-03-2012.jpg
  • A man pretends to sip someone's wine while returning from a cafe in Porto, Portugal.
    portugal_porto-60-20-07-2016.jpg
  • A workmen messes about by reptending to paddle a boat while riding on a trolley cart outside Westminster Abbey, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    abbey_workmen-01-09-05-2018.jpg
  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • A workmen messes about by reptending to paddle a boat while riding on a trolley cart outside Westminster Abbey, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    abbey_workmen-02-09-05-2018.jpg
  • A young couple pose for wedding photos on the Southbank, on 29th November 2016, in London England.
    wedding_couple-08-29-11-2016.jpg
  • Girl in stripes passes-by railings and child theme advertisement in south London.
    child_ad02-28-03-2012.jpg
  • Girl in stripes passes-by railings and child theme advertisement in south London.
    child_ad01-28-03-2012.jpg
  • Two young boys concentrate on piling plastic bottle crates on top of each other making towers that echo the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. On the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, the pile of crates is untidy and unstable making them lean at odd angles making the boys hold on to their building projects. They are dressed for a summer afternoon's activity in a seemingly rural location but which is, in fact, an area of inner-city London.
    RB-0096.jpg
  • Children practice winning a sprint final on the grid-like patterned floor in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The kids race under a pretend track tape held by two volunteer Games Makers who offer the everyone winners' chocolate gold medals. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. .
    olympic_park81-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Tired and disappointed tourists and a pretend Egyptian pharaoh busker stand awaiting custom in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Uffizi galleries, the two young visitors sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • A teenage boy tries the sights of a WW2 sten gun during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Picking up the replica weapon, the boy takes aim along the barrel of the gun, pretending to shoot an unseen enemy. Wearing military clothing and a hat with union jack colours plus flag in a back pocket, he plays the soldier at a time of remembrance of those killed during wartime. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
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  • As bright sunlight fills a bare studio room, and a wooden cross is propped up in the corner, Paula Douthett (left) and three other members of the evangelical Sacred Dance Ministry (Group) perform a moment from the biblical nativity scene in her house at Milbourne St Andrew, Dorset, England. Together they are acting as part of the International Christian Dance Fellowship whose performers include performers, choreographers and teachers of all styles of dance technique, as well as those who dance in worship, intercession, healing, evangelism and prophetic interpretation. In the middle, a lady pretends to be holding the baby Jesus while the others play the roles of angels as they express wonder and admiration for this miraculous moment.
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  • "Flight to Portugal." An eleven month-old child stands on a restaurant  table and is held by her mother whilst holidaying on the Algarve, southern Portugal. Caught with side-lit flash and ambient Mediterranean evening light, her with arms and fingers are outstretched and the balancing infant girl who is learning to stand on her own before attempting to walk, pretends to fly in mid-air, relishing a sense of space and freedom. We see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. 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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