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  • Seen from an office block high vantage point, thousands of commuters pour northwards over London Bridge against the direction of queueing buses and cars. It is a scene about the transient business community and mass transport. The working population arrives early for work over the bridge in the City of London's historic financial district. We see the sunlit faces of those walking towards the viewer which echo the red tail lights of the stationary vehicles. So gridlocked is the traffic on the southbound carriageway, there is a lone cyclist stuck and squeezed between the curb and a double-decker bus. On the other side of the road, the street is almost empty of motors adding to the drama and chaos. 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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  • Neon tubes reflected in a retailer's window on London's Oxford Street.
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  • A teenager's messy bedroom with clothes, books and possessions abandoned across the floor.
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  • A teenager's messy bedroom with clothes, books and possessions abandoned across the floor.
    ella_room02-10-09-2014.jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
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  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    siva_kandiah2-12-August-2011.jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
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  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store8-12-Aug...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store7-12-Aug...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store6-11-Aug...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store4-11-Aug...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
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  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
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  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store28-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store25-11-Au...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store23-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store23-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store22-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store20-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store2-11-Aug...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store19-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store19-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store18-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store18-11-Au...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store14-12-Au...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store13-11-Au...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store11-12-Au...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store11-11-Au...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store10-11-Au...jpg
  • Loose cables and miscellaneous wiring detached from a wall of local painting in south London.
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company pose in bikinis and reveal swimwear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
    hawaiian_tropic01-13-05-1992.jpg
  • Near the chaotic road junction of Piazza Venezia in the Italian capital of Rome, we see a gridlock situation of traffic. Buses, cars and three scooters and riders appear to be stuck in the middle of a motoring nightmare as no-one goes anywhere - the progress of this journey to destinations and life itself, has ground to a halt. A bus passenger looks out resigned through her window, a driver on another vehicle rests his hand on a ledge and the riders are sandwiched between cars. The dot matrix sign on the 60 bus it mentions its own destination, the abbreviation for Piazza spelled as "P.za". The Piazza Venezia takes its name from the adjacent Palazzo Venezia, the former embassy in the city of the Republic of Venice. The piazza is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and near the Roman Forum.
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, an optometrist's business remains open (like the eye illustration at the frontage) but it is boarded up with plywood with the words Open as Usual painted by hand. Debris has been swept up on the pavement awaiting collection but the scene is otherwise as it should. But one person was killed when the one-ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church on 24th April 1993. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office and retail 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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  • A detail of a shoe shop window that has closed for economic reasons. The window is in Victoria, the area of central London close to the mainline station and has been distempered with a mixture of white emulsion paint and water which prevents outsiders from peering inside, where stock may still be stored. Swirls from the cloth that wiped the paint across the glass has left a chaotic and confusing trace that makes it an almost abstract piece of art made by a disturbed artist. The word Shoe remains in bright red lettering and the single letter M afterwards. ..
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  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
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  • On both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, line the platforms to we see from an aerial perspective. But the rail workers' union has called for industrial action and there are no trains yet for these passengers to board for north or southbound services. Sensibly away from the edges, people are standing up to six-deep in anticipation of a ride home as the exodus to the suburbs hits its peak time. 37 per cent of workers in the capital used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to regional and local statistics compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
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  • During an August heatwave, the population of Brixton and many others from all over London, bask in the glorious weather at the Brockwell (Brixton)  Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. The Lido is a magnet for families, select groups, the young and old and represents an amalgam of humanity who enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends and new acquaitances. We see two men of Afro-carribean origin who have a corner of the Lido to themselves. One wears a towel wrapped around his lower-body and sits, arms folded with a look of territorial superiority while the other applies sun lotion to his leg. There is little space left on the full pavement which retains its solar heat long after the sun has left the quadrangle of the lido's oblong design but their colourful towels and possessions are spread out on the paving stones along with childrens' toys including an Action Man toy soldier who is also tanning himself. It is a scene of fun for all ages and backgrounds. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. It is now a Grade II listed building
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of women taken from a very low angle , posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of photographers on La Croisette, Cannes' sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. One blonde girl is looking down into the camera while we see only the hips, arms, and legs of the others as they parade their bodies in front of the media who are grouped tightly together with cameras and a sound microphone. Young women publicising movies or just themselves regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Standing behind barriers opposite Prime Minister Brown's Downing Street in Whitehall, the heart of Britain's governmental district in Westminster, some of the thousands of pro-Tibet protesters angrily shout their messages to 80 torchbearing personalities who ran 31 miles through the UK capital's streets. We see them holding images of dead Tibetans, killed by Chinese forces during the most recent crackdown in Lhasa and holding placards with anti-Chinese messages. Amid chaotic scenes across London and Paris where mass-arrests and civil disobedience marked what was planned as a  pre-Olympic carnival, the IOC's event proved a disaster for Chinese organisers. 37 were arrested but these facts were blanked from official TV screens which showed only the calm personlities who carried in turn the Olympic flame.
    olympic_tibet_protests09-06-04-2008.jpg
  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
    hawaian_tropic_cannes-13-05-1992.jpg
  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient  Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, 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_olympiad001-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Gathered on the Docklands Light Railway track, a group of police investigators and health and safety experts stand beneath the devastation and wreckage caused by the IRA's docklands bomb on 10th February 1996. Office windows have been blown out and shattered glass lies everywhere making these workplaces unusable for many months afterwards. We see the men under the tall buildings looking tiny in comparison to the chaotic aftermath of this enormous explosion the day before. The bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. 2 people were killed in the half-tonne lorry bomb blast which caused an estimated £85 million damage.
    docklands_bomb_team-11-02-1996.jpg
  • As if about to be crunched underfoot, shattered glass from the windows of offices in the historic City of London side-street, stickers and notices for Access (Mastercard) and American Express (Amex) credit cards lie on the disaster-strewn pavement (sidewalk). This is some of the debris lying about after the huge Bishopsgate bomb on 24th April 1993, London's most expensive terrorist atrocity during the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) sustained bombings on the British mainland. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 sq m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million and was possibly the IRA's most successful military tactic since the start of what was called the Troubles from 1969 onwards.
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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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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
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  • During an August heatwave, the population of Brixton and many others from all over London, bask in the glorious weather at the Brockwell (Brixton)  Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. The Lido is a magnet for families, select groups, the young and old and represents an amalgam of humanity who enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends and new acquaitances. We see a mass of people in late afternoon light with deep tans from the extended hot summer. There is little space left on the full pavement which retains its solar heat long after the sun has left the quadrangle of the lido's oblong design. They lay reading a newspaper or book, spread themselves on small towels or just chat to fellow-bathers. Swimmers are in the unheated water, others jump in or stand on the edge thinking about their next dive. It is a scene of chaotic fun for all ages and backgrounds. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. It is now a Grade II listed building
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    RB-0091.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Commuters walk about in all directions in the heat of summer in the city during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. People near Victoria Station, a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes so we see businessmen in dark suits during the heatwave, women striding along towards their transport home and we look up at them from a low-angle in the street. One man seems to pause from indecision while others are more confident about their fate and direction in life.
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  • Through a bus shelter window, commuters queue for buses during a 3-day tube strike and a city heatwave
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  • An Evening Standard newspaper headline announces the fury of London commuters' at a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we also see a stressed and exasperated-looking commuter walking past this kiosk with a Starbucks coffee container in hand, needing to get into work rather than take public transport. As a result of the industrial action, the busses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk.
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  • Commuters to-and-fro in the heat of a city summer during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we see masses of pedestrians and buses reflected in the glass of a bush shelter window. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. An official points out directions, someone shields his eyes from the sun, a lady walks with her hands in pockets, the 239 bus to Victoria approaches and sightseeing tours sign advertises tickets. People are seen in differing scales and sizes.
    tube_strike_commuters10-04-09-2007.jpg
  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • An artist is incongruously enclosed in roadworks barriers at the busy junction of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Painting with an easel and applying careful brush strokes amid the noise and chaos of this busy traffic junction in the capital. A young man walks past barely noticing the artist as he strides through the heart of London's west end. But on the youth's t-shirt is a modern interpretation (wearing glasses and apparently spitting liquid into a cup) of Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero (Bernardo Bembo)" German-born artist Jan van Mimnelinghe (Hans Memling, c. 1435-94) was well known all over Europe. During his lifetime, he painted commissions not only for the Burgundian Dukes, but also for patrons in Germany, Austria, Venice, Florence and London.
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  • A Polish man leans over to put the finishing touches to two small snowmen that now occupy a park bench on Goose Green in East Dulwich, Southwark, South London, England. This otherwise green space has seen snow falls that have gripped this part of the capital with unsalted road surfaces and commuting nightmares. But this young man is having fun with his diminutive snowy creations who have been dressed up in his and a friend's glasses, their scarves and gloves and with locally-found twigs. The park is relatively quiet with only a hint of the chaos elsewhere but the time spent on pointless pursuits is one way of enjoying adverse weather, rather than the more serious business of getting to work, proving also that snow brings out the childish nature in us all.
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  • Empty chairs and open Bibles, all bathed in yellow artificial light make this airport chapel in Frankfurt am Main, Germany a European modernist haven from the chaos of global air travel; an escape from delays, terrorism and overall fears of flying. Predominately Christian with small corners for Muslim believers, the new modernism at Frankfurt/Main reflects a strong European tradition of functional design ? far removed from the drab, dourness of many similar American facilities. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • Commuter chaos at Victoria during tube Strike of September 07.
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