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  • Following UK commercial driving law, a lorry driver relaxes by reading in a window at the M40 motorway services in Warwickshire, England. Leaning back while engrossed in his book, the man is sitting in sunlight on this summer's day. Outside is a poster advertising the premium ice cream brand, Magnum. A girl is shown also lounging about enjoying a Magnum on a beautiful sun-kissed beach, with the sun reflecting on a calm sea. We see Magnum's web site and their products of Classic and White chocolate snacks in their wrappers. The man is oblivious to the nature of the ad but it lends a sense of paradise versus reality, between the fantasy of youth, natural beauty and the reality of an older working man on the road.
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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
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  • As a passenger with baggage walks past on his way to a platform, a young child watches a large screen showing an augmented reality world of the station concourse and fantasy creatures, part of a loop of ads for Visit Scotland and for HBO's Game of Thrones, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • As young child is captivated by a large screen showing an augmented reality world of the station concourse and fantasy creatures, part of a loop of ads for Visit Scotland and for HBO's Game of Thrones, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    station_screen-01-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • As a passenger with baggage walks past on his way to a platform, a young child watches a large screen showing an augmented reality world of the station concourse and fantasy creatures, part of a loop of ads for Visit Scotland and for HBO's Game of Thrones, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    station_screen-04-04-12-2019.jpg
  • As young child is captivated by a large screen showing an augmented reality world of the station concourse and fantasy creatures, part of a loop of ads for Visit Scotland and for HBO's Game of Thrones, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    station_screen-02-04-12-2019.jpg
  • An athletic man poses against a wall on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida. This fine specimen of a man wears roller-blades and trousers tucked into his skates with a yellow t-shirt with the word Frequency across his pectoral muscles. His shdow appears across the wall and because of the angle, his shape has been greatly exaggerated, his body becoming a much wider, stockier proportion than the reality. He stands with an arm resting high on the wall and the other on his hip, almost in a feminine manner. He is nonetheless the epitome of maleness, of virility with the healthy physique that women adore and other men are jealous of! The sdidewalk pavement arcs around a corner and the wall with its long shadow is a strong diagonal line across the picture, disappearing to the far right.
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  • Aerial view of a Sandals Holidays ad on the roof of a London taxi and the reality of passers-by at Elephant & Castle on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Aerial view of a Sandals Holidays ad on the roof of a London taxi and the reality of passers-by at Elephant & Castle on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
    sandals_ad-02-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Aerial view of a Sandals Holidays ad on the roof of a London taxi and the reality of passers-by at Elephant & Castle on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
    sandals_ad-01-23-04-2018.jpg
  • The fantasy of an estate agent's car and the reality of a desk-bound job seen through the office window.
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  • 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). .
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  • A visitor looks at an interactive augmented reality scale model of the Airbus H160 helicopter in the company's hospitality chalet at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. The Airbus Helicopters H160 (formerly X4) is a medium utility helicopter being developed by Airbus Helicopters.
    farnborough_airshow-13-18-07-2018.jpg
  • Aerial view of a Sandals Holidays ad on the roof of a London taxi and the reality of passers-by at Elephant & Castle on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
    sandals_ad-03-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Two young British Asian men stand in front of a Bollywood action hero poster, while waiting for a bus in Southhall, West London, England. The lads are in their early twenties and are dressed against the cold European winter. The muscular Indian man in the movie poster is in his prime, posing as a tough guy and making a serious face towards the viewer, his rippling biceps wet with sweat. We see two ordinary young men living the harsh reality of life in a big English city, with all the pressures, paradoxes and cultural differences of India or Bangladesh, and that of multicultural Britain. It may be sunny but the biting winter day is raw with cold.
    london_asians07-30-08-2007.jpg
  • 2012 Olympic wasteland and PR fantasy on a hoarding near the sports arenas in Stratford, East London.
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  • The fantasy of a model sunbathing on a beach is the opposite of rainy London on an April morning for local girl.
    rain_ad01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • 2012 Olympic wasteland and PR fantasy on a hoarding near the sports arenas in Stratford, East London.
    2012_stratford12-08-03-2012.jpg
  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
    shrek_man-04-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Locals walk in a concrete walkway beneath a travel billboard ad featuring an idyllic countryside scene for GWR railways at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    elephant_walkway-04-03-05-2018.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exteriour of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-02-05-03-2017.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.
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  • 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
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at family, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    street_rapunzel23-19-03-2011.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
    police_kids-01-28-08-2019.jpg
  • A Say Yes to Something message on the outside of a closed pub, 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-140-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Alongside an ad for the Burberry brand, an elderly lady holds two armfuls of shopping whilst waiting for the next bus at a bus stop at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 11th October 2018, in London, England.
    bus_stop-01-11-10-2018.jpg
  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
    shrek_man-06-09-05-2018.jpg
  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
    shrek_man-05-09-05-2018.jpg
  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
    shrek_man-02-09-05-2018.jpg
  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
    shrek_man-01-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Mannequins stand beneath a country idyllic picnic scene in a railway billboard ad at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-24-29-03-2018.jpg
  • Mannequins stand beneath a country idyllic picnic scene in a railway billboard ad at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-23-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A hats market stall at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-19-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A hats market stall at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-18-29-03-2018.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exteriour of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • Aspirational illustration of future housing development where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London.
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  • Aspirational illustration of future housing development where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London.
    camberwell_gentrification04-12-05-20...jpg
  • Aspirational illustration of future housing development where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London.
    camberwell_gentrification03-12-05-20...jpg
  • Aspirational illustration of future housing development where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London.
    camberwell_gentrification01-12-05-20...jpg
  • Construction hoarding showing apartment interior and shovel with sand for making concrete.
    sand_hoarding02-27-04-2015.jpg
  • Construction hoarding showing apartment interior and shovel with sand for making concrete.
    sand_hoarding01-27-04-2015.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
  • Construction worker and cut-out site character telling pedestrians crossing a London Victoria street development.
    street_workmen01-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church01-02-06-2013.jpg
  • A Jesus Saves neon sign in the entrance of an evangelical church in Peckham, south London. Nearby are the voices and cries of the faithful, gathered on Easter Sunday, an important date in the Christian calendar. The cross is mounted on the inside wall, illuminated by its neon tube inside the plastic outer casing.
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  • A Jesus Saves neon sign in the entrance of an evangelical church in Peckham, south London. The yellow doors at the top of steps with two doormats are open to welcome worshippers of this Christian community in south London. Inside are the voices and cries of the faithful, gathered on Easter Sunday, an important date in the Christian calendar. The cross is mounted on the inside wall, illuminated by its neon tube inside the plastic outer casing.
    jesus_saves02-29-03-2013.jpg
  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote01-27-03-2013.jpg
  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote02-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world05-28-04-2012.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world03-28-04-2012.jpg
  • Peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl a dystopian "It's a wonderful world."
    wonderful_world02-28-04-2012.jpg
  • London bus passenger showing the everyday tedium of commuting in the UK capital and a romantic film ad.
    bus_commuter02-27-04-2012.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at woman, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    street_rapunzel57-19-03-2011.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at passers-by, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    street_rapunzel41-19-03-2011.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at elegant lady, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    rapunzel_window12-23-03-2011.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at woman, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    rapunzel_window04-23-03-2011.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at women, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    disney_window08-22-03-2011.jpg
  • Backdrop of Banksy / Disney Jungle Book characters to illustrate de-forestation & loss of animal habitats due to human logging
    greenpeace_backdrrop09-11-09-2010.jpg
  • TV holiday women and bleak-looking Scottish Loch in Glencoe area, Scotland.
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  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzhen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
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  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the breaking news flashes from Fox TV's studios that there are expected to be no more survivors found at Ground Zero. The tragic message reads 'No Signs of Life' in large red letters, read by passers-by along the on the Avenue of the Americas on Manhattan. As the news travels across the building, the camera blurs other TV pictures of live broadcasts with a sense of urgency, speed and desperation in the fruitless search for life.
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  • An elderly man of South-Asian descent stands waiting for a bus in Southall, West London. To his right is a Bollywood action-hero poster, the tough-man actor is posing with his biceps bulging and in anothr picture, is hugging a beautiful girl. The movie advertised is by Rakesh Roshan, a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films. It is an image of paradox, the old gentleman using a walking stick and dressed against a British multicultural winter, with hat and overcoat - and a tropical romance played out on the movie poster. It may be sunny but the biting winter day is raw with cold.
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  • We see the upper-body of a businessman walking past the lower-body of another man also wearing a suit. We see the passer-by in a shirt and tie but only two hands, legs and trousers up to the waist of the sunbather, the rest of his upper-body is obscured by the angle of the lens. It is a witty perspective, leading us to believe that the two men are the same person. It is high-summer and lunchtime in the City of London, England, where workers exit their offices to lap up the welcome sunshine during a rare city heatwave that many take advantage of by lying on steps and benches, while fully-dressed in their work clothes.
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London engineering officials examine the huge crater left by the terrorist device. We see debris around the hole with drainage and road material. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
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  • Outdoor hairdressers cut customers' hair in a Calcutta street with heroic Bollywood movie posters on wall behind
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  • A chilling sign warning of death next to barbed wire in Auschwitz I (O?õwi?ôcim) concentration camp, Poland.
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  • In the shade of mid-day heat near a mural, Maldivian youths sit about on a park bench in the Maldives capital Male.
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  • Warm evening sunshine casts shadow of painter and decorator on hilltop cottage wall in hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, Skye
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  • Warm evening sunshine casts shadow of decorator and his roller on hilltop cottage wall in hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, Skye
    9999-RPB59-alan_squires07-28-09-2007.jpg
  • Activist 'Hoosie' aka Robert House stands outside his bus-turned-home early on a Sunday morning at the Faslane Peace Camp...
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  • Outdoor decorator stands with roller in evening sunshine near hilltop cottage wall in hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, Skye
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  • Activist 'Hoosie' aka Robert House, stands outside his bus-turned-home early on a Sunday morning at the Faslane Peace Camp...
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  • Activist 'Hoosie' aka Robert House, wakes up early on a Sunday morning in his bus-turned-home at the Faslane Peace Camp.
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  • The tattooed hermit, Tom Leppard (1935-2016) at his secret island hideaway on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 2007. <br />
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(See main gallery caption).
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  • Decorator and part-time chimney sweep Alan Squires prepares to apply another coat of emulsion paint to the exterior walls of a cottage called Burnside in the tiny hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. With his shadow looming large on the newly-painted off-white pebbledash that is rendered a warm orange in the low sunlight, Alan walks with his long roller after a day's decorating in this beautiful place near Dunvegan. Alan is an Englishman who came to Skye in 1987 for the community spirit. "everybody knows everybody' he says though admits that southerners come from the south in search of an idyllic lifestyle but harsh winters often send them back to warmer climates. Alain's fresh paint therefore needs to dry before winter weather blows in from the Atlantic. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • David Reynolds (aka Eco) is a long-term activist, campaigner in the peace movement and resident of the Faslane Peace Camp, Scotland. His home of three years is called the Earth Shack and is largely re-cycled from scrap and garbage found locally on rubbish tips. Eco leans against his garden fence holding a mug of coffee this chilly Sunday morning. Signs of his political beliefs adorn the place: CND logos and Peace on Earth statements. His mother was a ?Carnie? (after the word Carnival, someone working on the fairgrounds) so perhaps it?s from her that he more enjoys an alternative outdoor camping lifestyle after a few years in the army. Faslane Peace Camp is a makeshift site alongside Faslane Naval base where Trident nuclear deterrent missiles and submarines dock. The camp has been occupied continuously, in a few different locations, since 1982.
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  • The last light of day fades on the still waters of Sgeir Nam Biast, a bay overlooking Waternish Headland, near Dunvegan, north-west Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. A solitary light bulb glows from an upstairs room in this isolated cottage across the calm lake. The weather is perfect but unusual for one of the wildest parts of Britain. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many residents have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism....
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  • A customized caravan sits in the damp woods at the Faslane Peace Camp, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Matt Bury, 52, is one of the camp's 10 full time residents and has been living in this trailer for a year. Painted harlequin-styled diamonds adorn the walls of the van in a personal artistic statement. Calor gas bottles lie on the ground and weeds grow around this semi-permanent site. Faslane Peace Camp is a makeshift political activists' site alongside HM Naval Base Clyde where Trident nuclear deterrent missiles and Vanhuard Class submarines dock. The camp has been occupied continuously, in a few different locations since 12 June 1982. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • On a plyboard hoarding that has sealed up a Restaurant in Leicester Square, some graffiti suggests that the Coronavirus pandemic is a conspiracy reminiscent of George Orwell's cult dystopian work, '1984', on 29th September 2020, in London, Westminster, England.
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  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
    police_kids-04-28-08-2019.jpg
  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
    police_kids-03-28-08-2019.jpg
  • Alongside an ad for the B&Q DIY brand, an elderly lady holds two armfuls of shopping whilst waiting for the next bus at a bus stop at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 11th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A mermaid in the window of a seaside business warns in both the English and Welsh languages, of the dangers of litter on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
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  • A poster showing a tropical paradise and construction scaffolding in the West End, on 11th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book
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  • Locals walk in a concrete walkway beneath a travel billboard ad featuring an idyllic countryside scene for GWR railways at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
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  • Locals walk in a concrete walkway beneath a travel billboard ad featuring an idyllic countryside scene for GWR railways at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
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  • Two people with mobile phones hold a physical conversation on the street, on 11th April, 2018, in London, England.
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  • A hats market stall at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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