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  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
    england_beach06-15-12-2007.jpg
  • The texture of wall plaster echoed in the skin of a theatrical character in the San Marco shopping district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_108-23-07-2015.jpg
  • The texture of wall plaster echoed in the skin of a theatrical character in the San Marco shopping district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_108-23-07-2015.jpg
  • Taking a break from the London Marathon, a young runner dressed as Superman emerges from a Portaloo after a quick toilet stop. Located at the London Fire Brigade's station on Lower Thames Street in City of London in the capital's historic financial district, their empty fire hose snakes across the ground. The young man wears trainers, a red skirt, a Super-hero top with the Superman emblem on his chest and he walks out of the portable convenience adjusting a green frizzy wig. Disgarded mineral water bottles have been thrown on the ground by other passing athletes but this is a theatrical pun, that Superman changes personality, name and powers when leaving a telephone box. Apart from the colour (color) of the toilet, the runner and the hose, the background is drab and overcast.  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.
    RB-0133.jpg
  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
    eurotunnel12-01-1990.jpg
  • Removals workmen position a prop into a West End theatre while partially blocking pavement to pedestrians on Charing Cross Rd.
    street_props01-05-10-2010.jpg
  • Months after the Millennium, a theatre group perform outside the London Aquarium on the Southbank and beneath a burning flame and the Millennium Wheel (later to be renamed The London Eye), on 6th April 2000, on the Southbank, London, England.
    millennium_walk-06-04-2000.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-57-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-48-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-45-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-36-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-25-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-17-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-15-15-04-2019.jpg
  • A young boy reaches up to touch a Yoda busker and other passers-by in front the faces from The Taking of Christ (c1602) the painting of the arrest of Jesus, by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio and exhibited at the National Gallery, London.
    caravaggio_people-09-30-09-2016.jpg
  • Employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
    Ernst+Young_Academy47-21-09-2007.jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-54-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-52-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-51-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-48-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-55-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-56-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-53-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-50-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-44-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-43-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-39-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-35-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-33-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-31-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-30-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-27-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-26-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-24-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-22-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-21-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-20-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-19-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-16-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Old West End theatre posters uncovered on Charing Cross Road in central London.
    theatre_posters01-03-09-2015.jpg
  • Roddy Doyle's The Commitments at London's Palace Theatre at Cambridge Circus.
    london_theatre04-13-02-2014.jpg
  • The faces of theatre-goers mix with the actors at the entrance of the Vaudeville in London's Strand where Arthur Miller's Broken Glass is playing. The actors' faces of the production's starring roles  are seen in their characters during the Miller's play. Bob Hiskins, Tara FitzGerald and Antony Sher all share the limelight in this story focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht, in Nazi Germany. The play's title is derived from Kristallnacht, which is also known as the Night of Broken Glass.
    theatre_faces1-21-09-2011.jpg
  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    RB-0131.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.
    RB-0126.jpg
  • Four energetic party goers are dressed up as eccentric 70s punks at a Halloween event in Adrenaline Village, Battersea, London UK. Taken from below them with flash the group is in a dark club environment, their make-up is authentic-looking complete with hair gel and mascara.  They wear tights and a girl on the left has safety pins while being licked on the neck by a man. Another is wearing a Union Jack sleeveless T-shirt while one person is looking directly at the camera. They might look authentic but it has been 20 years since Punk was the huge youth culture of the day.
    RB-0036.jpg
  • 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.
    london_asians08-30-08-2007.jpg
  • On stage, two beautiful topless girls stand semi-naked with a gentleman admirer during a variety show at the famous Parisian cabaret company Paradis Latin, Paris France. In front of glittery stars, the two ladies of the night are dressed in satin stockings and suspenders, flirting with this male dressed in top hat and tails, holding the hand of one lady and the about to kiss the cheek of the other, all the time lit with stage spotlights and the silhouetted heads of the front row audience at the bottom of the picture. The two girls appear to be twins but are probably wearing blonde wigs to make them look like a male 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' fantasy. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    RB_049-26-12-1994.jpg
  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham dances with local women and children in a compound of the govenor of north Darfur, Osman Mohammed Yousef Kibir at Al Fashir, Sudan. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the govenor in his own compound.
    sudan120-23-05-2009.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, gather to dance and sing traditional songs in a compound belonging to the Govenor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues.
    sudan118-23-05-2009.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, gather to dance and sing traditional songs in a compound belonging to the Govenor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues.
    sudan117-23-05-2009.jpg
  • Stage hand of the rock band Status Quo adjusts overhead lights high above the stage while on European tour at in Lille, France.
    status_quo002-15-10-2007.jpg
  • Accountancy employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
    Ernst+Young_Academy128-21-09-2007.jpg
  • Mannequins wear sexy underwear on display in the window of an adult shop window in London's Old Brompton Street, Soho.
    electricity130-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Circus acrobats perform high above auditor staff during a company Academy Day held for 3,000 of their London employees at Excel in London's Docklands England. Lit with blue light by powerful spotlights, the two girls are suspended in mid-air using hoops attached to safety ropes. They both make dramatic shapes in the air to demonstrate confidence, synchronised teamwork and co-operation between partners, the themes of this corporate day out of the office. The employees out of sight below are attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
    Ernst+Young_Academy129-21-09-2007.jpg
  • An adult business window displays the naughty underwear worn by five mannequin models of a Soho sex shop on Old Compton Street in London's West End. Tilted slightly to the left, we see the 5 models posing in various positions of suggestive stances, all demonstrating the shop's array of erotic clothing for the Good Time Girl! On the far right is the artwork of a topless woman, wearing only knee-length stockings. See from behind, the line-drawing of the female suggests a dancer on a Parisian stage act such as the Folies Bergere or Paradis Latin - variety performances for the male admirer. She looks over her left shoulder as if to wink in our direction, all part of the illusion of coquettish desire and greedy eroticism. Old Compton Street is known for cafes, bars and especially the gay, trans-gender scene and for sellers of erotic toy 'accessories'!
    electricity129-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-53-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change activists with Extinction Rebellion campaign for a better future for planet Earth after blocking Waterloo Bridge and as part of a multi-location 5-day Easter protest around the capital, on 16th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-49-16-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-58-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-54-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-52-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-51-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-49-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-47-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-46-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-42-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-41-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-38-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-37-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-34-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-32-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-29-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-28-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-23-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block Oxford Circus and simultaneously stop traffic across central London including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    climate_extinction-18-15-04-2019.jpg
  • A young boy reaches up to touch a Yoda busker and other passers-by in front the faces from The Taking of Christ (c1602) the painting of the arrest of Jesus, by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio and exhibited at the National Gallery, London.
    caravaggio_people-08-30-09-2016.jpg
  • Garrick theatre showing a West End production of Twelve Angry Men on Charing Cross Road.
    london_theatre02-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Red London Routemaster bus passes Garrick theatre showing a West End play on Charing Cross Road.
    london_theatre01-13-02-2014.jpg
  • On stage, a beautiful topless dancer with a gentleman admirer during a variety show at the famous Parisian cabaret company Paradis Latin, Paris France. In front of glittery stars, the two ladies of the night are dressed in satin stockings and suspenders, flirting with this male dressed in top hat and tails, holding the hand of one lady and the about to kiss the cheek of the other, all the time lit with stage spotlights and the silhouetted heads of the front row audience at the bottom of the picture. The two girls appear to be twins but are probably wearing blonde wigs to make them look like a male 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' fantasy. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    paris_cabaret1-26-12-1994.jpg
  • The faces of theatre-goers mix with the actors at the entrance of the Vaudeville in London's Strand where Arthur Miller's Broken Glass is playing. The actors' faces of the production's starring roles  are seen in their characters during the Miller's play. Bob Hiskins, Tara FitzGerald and Antony Sher all share the limelight in this story focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht, in Nazi Germany. The play's title is derived from Kristallnacht, which is also known as the Night of Broken Glass.
    theatre_faces3-21-09-2011.jpg
  • An ad poster with the actor Andile Gumbi as Simba in the Lion King is on the door of a central London telephone kiosk for the Disney production. The man in blue walking past is wearing his taxi driver's license badge around his neck and has perhaps taken a break from his job driving around the capital to pick up an Evening Standard newspaper and some sandwiches from the Pret a Manger food chain. The Lion King, the musical of the Disney cartoon has been running in London's West End since October 1999, breaking its own box office record, taking more than £34m during 2010 - £2m more than the previous year - and ending the year with its best ever week of ticket sales. Big musicals are so far defying the economic gloom, and theatre in general is proving surprisingly resilient. More than 800,000 saw this Disney musical cartoon in its 11th year in West End
    lion_king2-12-09-2011.jpg
  • Statue for Sir Henry Irving and an off-duty clown pulling his act possessions.
    clown_statue01-03-03-2011.jpg
  • Changeable theatre production lightboxes, awaiting new posters outside the Gielgud theatre.
    theatre_panels01-02-02-2011.jpg
  • Two customers in a Pret a Manger sandwich chain try to ignore Hari Krishna devotees who chant through the window, London.
    hare_krishna001-17-09-2007.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
  • The circus animal trainer leads two of his elephant friends one morning after a Gerry Cottle show the night before. Riding a bicycle across a field in London, he leads one beast, its trunk holding his white stick while another follows behind. Peters is topless, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and bright blue trousers. Marcel Peters is a circus animal trainer who has worked in the ring for many years, starting with Billy Smart's Circus and working with Polar bears, tigers, lions and elephants. Gerry Cottle sold his elephants and Peters moved with them to the Spanish Circus Mundial. His real name is Marcel Peter Hodge.
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  • 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.
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  • On a night out with friends, a group of five ladies are queuing for screen 2 in a Croydon cinema, South  London to see a Bollywood romantic film. On a poster behind, a giant movie hero's face looks towards the viewer with a hand raised in a salute. The man is of a dashing, handsome character  whose dark skin looks like a tanned European person. The women are in good spirits before their favourite film and gather together in the cinema's foyer in expectation. One lady is dressed in a long, smart dress and is staring with wide open eyes. She has a large handbag over the left shoulder and her long hair is spilling down her back....
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  • Against the strong spotlight of the Big Top, a ringmaster announces the next act during an afternoon performance by the Gerry Cottle circus in North London. With his top hat perched firmly on his head and holding his microphone, the leader of his troupe smiles confidently and speaks with authority to the unseen audience who eagerly await the skills of acrobats or clowns who are about to enter the ring. In his scarlet red coat and holding a pair of gloves in his other hand, the man is the epitome of showmen - a picture of show businesses and variety, of the presenter from another era.
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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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  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham dances with local women and children in a compound of the govenor of north Darfur, Osman Mohammed Yousef Kibir at Al Fashir, Sudan. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the govenor in his own compound.
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  • Employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • Employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, shops like Hamleys continue opening along London's Regent Street where childrens' entertainers again provide theatrical action for passing kids, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, Theatrical posters around the side of Wyndham's Theatre, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, Theatrical posters around the side of Wyndham's Theatre, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-22-18-03-202...jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, shops like Hamleys continue opening along London's Regent Street where childrens' entertainers again provide theatrical action for passing kids, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-36-02-07-2020.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, Theatrical posters around the side of Wyndham's Theatre, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-24-18-03-202...jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, Theatrical posters around the side of Wyndham's Theatre, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Half-way across the thin taut wire of a tightrope, an tightwire walker acrobat riding a monocycle pauses and wobbles to compensate his balance before continuing his journey across to safety at the other end of two supporting poles The act forms part of the Canadian circus troupe Cirque de Soleil during a show in Battersea, London. Blue and red spotlights illuminate this daredevil and we see his tights, his wide-sleeved theatrical shirt and the concentration and grim determination on his face - the look of a professional trickster at work. He may be showing a seemingly dangerous and unpredictable stunt though in truth, he will have rehearsed this simple balancing act for many years but must still keep up the illusion of danger for the sake of a gasping, gullible audience.
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