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Telephone Lines

53 images Created 7 Apr 2017

As a component of larger Street Photography work, the use of (smart)phones in the wider world proves a love of constant, portable contact with our personal and professional networks - symbolising our hunger of the always, the everywhere and the immediate.

Eating into every moment of our conscience hours, the telephone, as seen on the street, is an extension of our limb and brain.

These pictures (from 1994 to present) record a generation whose minds are wholly synchronised with the signal from a transmitting mast, while on the go.

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  • Young women use their smartphones beneath a poster girl for Burberry sunglasses they call Eyewear, in a sunlit London street. Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories.
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  • Six office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank. They rush to work while one figure stands and talks into his mobile phone, at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
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  • A symmetrical gentleman wearing a pinstripe suit talks on his phone, reflected in plate glass in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
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  • During a phone speed-dating night in a City of London wine bar, a group of young girls enjoy white wine, their girlfriends' company but also, the possibility of finding a male mate. With the boys an other tables whose numbers are swapped around they may find the love of their lives although the whole evening is a giggle for these pretty lady office workers in the capital's oldest quarter and heart of its financial district.
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  • City people check for messages and use social media in the street, sitting in autumn sunshine, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy sunshine near the pillars of Royal Exchange during an unusual autumn heatwave on 13th September 2016, in the City of London, England.
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  • A muscular young man checks messages below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • On a busy Friday night in the Accident and Emergency section of the royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, East London, a city businessman, still in his pin-stripe suit, with his mobile phone and wearing slippers, sits rigid, grimacing in pain on with severe back pain a trolley (gurney) while two medical staff using a clipboard assess his treatment. The Royal London is one of London's oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away.
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  • A delegate sends a text message from a mobile phone in a mock-up airliner cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • A young man cradles his beloved smartphone after drinking a Starbucks coffee in central London.
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  • A young woman walks over London's Millennium Bridge while using her smartphone.
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  • A lone man makes a smartphone call beneath a supermarket shelter with its long shadows across three parking bays.
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  • A woman texts a friend in front of a red phone kiosk advertising Natwest's online banking for students.
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  • A tourist photographs Tower Bridge near the image of a Beefeater on a railing in front of the Tower of London, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • In front of a fire station, visitors use smartphones to record the new One World Trade Center opposite the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • A businessman gets upright again while checking messages by an urban garden of bushes and shrubs.
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  • While holding a conversation on his smartphone, a stooping gent struggles to slide a free copy of the Evening Standard newspaper into his briefcase, beneath the high walls of the Bank of England in the City of London.
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  • A city worker crouches on the pavement and opens his attache briefcase to check details written inside during his phone call conversation.  He is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and makes his call using a 90s mobile (cell) phone in afternoon sunlight near a menswear shop on a street corner.
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  • Fans use smartphones to photograph the makeshift shrine, where Londoners commemorate Apple's creator Steve Jobs the morning after hearing of his death overnight from pancreatic cancer  at the age of 56 on the 6th Oct 2011. This Apple Store in the capital's Regent's Street was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Jobs who started the company as a student in 1977.
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  • Young girl watches young smoker at a south London bus stop.
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  • Phone user walks past Samsung shop window ad for new S6 model.
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  • A young man listens to his phone in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • A man speaks into his phone using the speakerphone feature, in a sunny corner next to 'Sketch', a gastro-gallery on Conduit Street, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A young woman holds a conversation on her phone while standing in the foyer of The Helicon, a company office space, on 16th February 2017, on Moorgate, in the City of London, England.
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  • Passers-by and a fluffy pooch on a Camper shoes shop window in Bond Street, central London.
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  • Two men walk and check social media, in front of a Sainsbury's poster, on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
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  • A missing panel in a street directions sign, frames a businessman on his phone, beneath the Monument where the Great Fire of London of 1666 is commemorated, in the City of London.
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  • Passer-by and a City cafe in sunlight on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
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  • A lady carries her phone while walking past a Porsche luxury car ad where a new dealership is due to open on the corner of Clarges Street, and Piccadilly, W1, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A young woman keeps the door open of a public phone box as another person dials a number with finger.
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  • A woman wearing bling earrings and ring checks messages at a London bus stop.
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  • A businessman holds a conversation in the noisy city while also ignoring a Wet Paint sign, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
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  • A family of rive ride fast on a motorbike on a road in modern Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • A local man talks on his mobile phone on the top deck of the state-run ferry across the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Pedestrians pass workmen preparing to erect a shop flag for sportswear retailer Asics, on 1st August 2017, in Regent Street, London, England.
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  • Two workmen sit in the back of their truck during a break of their shift in Soho, central London.
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  • Girl checks messages outside the entrance of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in the covered Procuratie Nuovo of Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.
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  • Pinstriped suit businessman checks messages during a cigar break, beneath tall of columns at Cornhill, City of London.
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  • Woman wearing matching red beret and coat stands beneath orange and yellow architecture.
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  • Two men check messages or social media on their smartphones, against a background of primary colours, on 21st March 2017, in London, England.
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  • Red construction safety hoarding and phone man in a central Covent Garden Piazza.
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  • A sleeping auburn-haired boy sleeps soundly in his buggy during a daytrip to London.
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  • A symmetrical reflection of a lady using her phone at a bus stop in The Strand, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • A parked tour coach for Platinum Holidays features famous London landmarks as a businessman walks past checking his smartphone.
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  • A pedestrian using a smartphone walks past a business window of healthfood and coffee retailer Abokado, on 26th June, in the City of London, England. Abokado is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom, founded by Mark Lilley and his wife Lindsay in 2004, with the first store opening in London's Covent Garden.
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  • Chef relaxes at a table picturing the ancient ruins of Gerrha, in front of a panorama of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon outside a Lebanese cafe in London's Soho.
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  • A rear view of a company receptionist checking her phone, under her desk in a corporate foyer, on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
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  • Londoners walk through reflected light while using their phones at lunchtime on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • Asian tourists struggle with smartphone technology while outside Selfridges on Oxford Street on a bright day in central London.
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  • Three young men are seen from a very low angle as they make arrangements with other friends to meet at the Spring Feria in Seville, Spain. Beneath dozens of colourful lights which hang from cables above their heads, two stand holding drinks while the third speaks into his mobile phone. They are all impeccably dressed in smart jackets and tasteful ties with one owning a carnation in his lapel. It is a lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast fairground area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • Tourists photograph the Palace of Westminster with a postcard of Prince Charles also looking up.
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  • A Maldivian crewman uses a mobile phone after a day's tuna fishing aboard a dhoni fishing boat in a remote area of Indian Ocean
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