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  • A man wearing a plaster cast and using mobility aids, hobbles past another male wearing a foot boot in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 21st September 2021, in London, England.
    plaster_leg-02-21-09-2021.jpg
  • A man wearing a plaster cast and using mobility aids, hobbles past another male wearing a foot boot in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 21st September 2021, in London, England.
    plaster_leg-01-21-09-2021.jpg
  • Personal underwaer clothing hangs from string against a wall of peeling plaster, on 21st March 1994, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    lisbon_washing-21-03-1994.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
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels06-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels05-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels03-19-03-2012.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
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels04-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels02-19-03-2012.jpg
  • A pair of womens' red shoes have been left on a white wall in south London. With rough plaster on the top of the wall and weeds growing at the foot of the dividing section of cement, the red shows look like Judy Garland's Dorothy's shoes in the Wizard of Oz movie. There is also a tradition of film titles, music and a fairy tale by Hand Christian Anderson that are inspired by Red Shoes as a cultural theme.
    red_shoes1-20-July-2011.jpg
  • High-contrast shadows and textures from a village plaster wall wire, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-91-25-05-2017.jpg
  • A detail of broken windows, crumbling plaster and brickwork, of a derelict, abandoned house that features traditional Portuguese tiles, on 12th July 2016, at Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal. Across the country, and even at important tourist landmarks, buildings sit vacant and often collapsing. Sometimes it is because a previous generation have passed away to leave properties in the hands of arguing families. Beautiful buildings are therefore left to collapse in town centres. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_cascais-04-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Mid-day shadows of date palm tree branches seen on the white plaster of a mudbrick wall in a village near Medinet Habu on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt231-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Plaster Catholic idols in a corner of the church at Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France.
    french_church04-09-07-2014.jpg
  • A detail of the English oak timbers used to construct the open-theatre know as Shakespeare's Glob on London's southbank. Recreating the Tudor playhouse, 20th century builders, techniques used in the reconstruction of the theatre were painstakingly accurate. 'Green' oak was cut and fashioned according to 16th-century practice and assembled in two-dimensional bays on the Bankside site; oak laths and staves support lime plaster mixed according to a contemporary recipe and the walls are covered in a white lime wash. An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree"), of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ..
    oak_timbers01-12-06-2003.jpg
  • In the Villa of the Vettii in Pompeii we see a fresco in the lararium where a shrine to Roman guardian spirits of the household was situated. Family members performed daily rituals here to guarantee their protection by these domestic spirits. The first two characters are the deeply venerated 'lares' (presumed sons of Mercury and Lara) depicted as two young men in dancing postures, holding drinking horns that guaranteed prosperity. In the centre is the 'genius'. She is another guardian and fertility spirit ensuring the family line (gens) would continue and she wears the 'toga praetexta', bordered in purple, the garment of high-ranking Roman magistrates. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, these frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of volcanic ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster...
    pompeii01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • High above the streets of Old Lisbon, we see a Portuguese lady leaning out of her window to hang out her washing on the line that is attached to her home's exterior wall in the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. Items of underwear, socks and other miscellaneous clothing have been strung out on the line that is now pegged along the crumbling wall's surface with faded, peeling plaster and paint. A TV aerial has also been fixed precariously by the window and it's shadow can be seen in the sunshine which is strong and side-lighting the scene which has a warm, morning glow about it. Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a diferent personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.  ...
    RB-0194.jpg
  • A wall landscape of cracked and peeling plaster and a poster for an all-day breakfast cafe called the Coffee Pot located around the corner, on 3rd October 2019, in Dartford, Kent, England. Voters in Dartford voted 64% in favour of Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
    dartford_journey-11-03-10-2019.jpg
  • An Anglican vicar shares a joke with a patient whose leg is in plaster, in a ward of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_4.jpg
  • High-contrast shadows and textures from a village plaster wall wire, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-83-25-05-2017.jpg
  • High-contrast shadows and textures from a village plaster wall wire, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-86-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Mid-day shadows of date palm tree branches seen on the white plaster of a mudbrick wall in a village near Medinet Habu on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt233-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Mid-day shadows of date palm tree branches seen on the white plaster of a mudbrick wall in a village near Medinet Habu on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt232-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Peeling plaster and polished door bells in a narrow street in Castello, a district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_78-22-07-2015.jpg
  • Plaster Catholic idols in a corner of the church at Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France.
    french_church03-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Plaster Catholic idols in a corner of the church at Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France.
    french_church01-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. 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.
    aviation_corbis18-05-10-2000.jpg
  • High-contrast shadows and textures from a village plaster wall wire, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-84-25-05-2017.jpg
  • In the peristyle of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii is a fresco  where an ancient painted mural to the Greek Goddess Urania was unearthed from volcanic ash after 2,000 years. In Greek mythology, Urania which stems from the Greek word for 'heavenly' or 'of heaven', was the muse of astronomy. Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus, usually depicted as having a globe in her left hand, she can foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars and is often associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit. Those who are most concerned with philosophy and the heavens are dearest to her. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, the frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
    roman_mural-01-09-1991.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
    greek_olympiad011-23-10_2003.jpg
  • Shapes and form created by high-contrast shadows on a plaster-rendered wall, on 27th May, 2017, in Carcasonne, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    carcasonne_france-08-27-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a plaster-rendered village wall, on 25th May, 2017, in Homps, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    homps_france-05-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Shapes and form created by high-contrast shadows on a plaster-rendered wall, on 27th May, 2017, in Carcasonne, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    carcasonne_france-07-27-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a plaster-rendered village wall, on 25th May, 2017, in Homps, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    argens_ minervois-01-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Shapes and form created by high-contrast shadows on a plaster-rendered wall, on 27th May, 2017, in Carcasonne, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    carcasonne_france-09-27-05-2017.jpg
  • With their heads and faces obscured by their load, two workmen carry construction boards through Covent Garden in the West End, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    workmen_street-02-12-10-2021.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops05-19-07-2020.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops06-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict poor housing in Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_lisbon-131-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Local electioneering markings where local candidates post their proclamations on commune farm walls, Langlade, Charente-Maritime, France.
    longlade_village02-01-07-2014.jpg
  • Removed graffiti and 'Post No Bills' stencil on cleaned white wall in central London street.
    no_bills01-23-10-2012.jpg
  • Front entrance doorway of Old Ferry House, now a remote self-catering house at Grasspoint, Loch Don, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Iron piles lean against a dry stone wall at the rear of Old Ferry House, now a remote self-catering house at Grasspoint, Loch Don, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Until 1881 a regular packet boat operated between Oban and Grass Point. This was replaced that year by a daily steamer service from Oban to Tobermory. Until that time, cattle from Rum and Eigg were transported by boat to Croig on Mull's north coast, and then driven across the island to Grass Point, on their way to the mainland. Parts of the old drover's route are still visible. The old stone quay is no longer used, except by occasional leisure craft. Grass Point means 'the field of the rock' in Gaelic...(http://www.isleofmullcottages.com/old_ferry_house.htm)
    isle_of_mull350-21-11-2011.jpg
  • Highlander effigy on an outside wall of Old Ferry House, now a remote self-catering house at Grasspoint, Loch Don, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Until 1881 a regular packet boat operated between Oban and Grass Point. This was replaced that year by a daily steamer service from Oban to Tobermory. Until that time, cattle from Rum and Eigg were transported by boat to Croig on Mull's north coast, and then driven across the island to Grass Point, on their way to the mainland. Parts of the old drover's route are still visible. The old stone quay is no longer used, except by occasional leisure craft. Grass Point means 'the field of the rock' in Gaelic...(http://www.isleofmullcottages.com/old_ferry_house.htm)
    isle_of_mull347-21-11-2011.jpg
  • The Holy child protected by St. Lawrence or St Francis at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church37-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus crucifixtion figure on wall at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church33-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross with TV screen inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church26-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Noticeboard with Mary and Jesus figures at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church03-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy32-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Man walking along pavement near local shop on corner of Florence street corner
    florence_italy116-23-10-2010.jpg
  • The sign for an Assembly Point is on a white wall, cracked and unsafe near a construction site.
    cracked_wall-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority 'Can't evict our ideas'. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat - a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
    derelict_bradford05-08-05-2009.jpg
  • A family shift house sofa furniture in an alleyway during their move from a home in Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter...Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a diferent personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.  ...
    lisbon_street01-20-03-1994.jpg
  • Mr Matar Mohammed, a former farmer from Taweela, a Darfur village in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp, (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fashir. Mr Mohammed was once a successful farmer who grew tobacco and sorghum and has occupied this house with his 14 family members since May 2004, surviving on twice a day aid hand-outs. Many family members and friends have been killed . " We had a good life," he says adding "we would go back if security was guaranteed .."
    sudan205-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Mr Matar Mohammed, a former farmer from Taweela, a Darfur village in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp, (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fashir. Mr Mohammed was once a successful farmer who grew tobacco and sorghum and has occupied this house with his 14 family members since May 2004, surviving on twice a day aid hand-outs. Many family members and friends have been killed . " We had a good life," he says adding "we would go back if security was guaranteed .."
    sudan204-24-05-2009.jpg
  • With their heads and faces obscured by their load, two workmen carry construction boards through Covent Garden in the West End, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    workmen_street-01-12-10-2021.jpg
  • In advance of a re-opening of businesses and before a change to a Tier 2 for London during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic,  on 30th November 2020, in London, England. WHile retailers have remained closed, construction and street repairs have continued throughout this phase of the pandemic.
    street_landscaping01-30-11-2020.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Flag Empire Blend', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops04-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Shadow patterns and a street lamp on a wall on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-76-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict poor housing in Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_lisbon-130-14-07-2016.jpg
  • The cracked walls of a police checkpoint outbuilding near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt512-09-03-2016.jpg
  • 'Love Anarchy' graffiti on a wall on a wall on the Rio de San Margherita canal in Dorsoduro, a district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_110-23-07-2015.jpg
  • Whitewashed render of a rural farmhouse in Steinegger, Eppan-Appiano in South Tyrol, Italy.
    steinegger_italy01-13-07-2015.jpg
  • Green stained render on walls of building in Eppan-Appiano, South Tyrol, northern Italy.
    appiano_italy59-12-07-2015.jpg
  • Green stained render on walls of building in Eppan-Appiano, South Tyrol, northern Italy.
    appiano_italy57-12-07-2015.jpg
  • Wall mural showing WW2 bombing targets in what is now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland at Seething, Norfolk England. Seething is a former Royal Air Force station, assigned to the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) flying B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The group enered combat on 22 December 1943, and until April 1945 served primarily as a strategic bombardment organization, hitting such targets as aircraft factories in Gotha, ball-bearing plants in Berlin, an airfield at Hanau, U-boat facilities at Kiel, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, synthetic oil refineries at Politz, aircraft engine plants at Rostock, marshalling yards at Cologne, and a Buzz-bomb assembly plant at Fallersleben. Some of these buildings are in a reasonable condition, although they are derelict and overgrown.
    WW2_bomber_base07-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Removed graffiti and 'Post No Bills' stencil on cleaned white wall in central London street.
    no_bills02-23-10-2012.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, one with a recently broken ankle.
    Red_Arrows501_RBA.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross and TV coverage of altar inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church38-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus crucifixtion figure on wall at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church36-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross with TV screen inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church35-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross with TV screen inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church28-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross with TV screen inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church27-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Jesus on the cross with TV screen inside at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church23-23-08-2010.jpg
  • The Holy child protected by St. Lawrence or St Francis at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church17-23-08-2010.jpg
  • The Holy child protected by St. Lawrence or St Francis at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church16-23-08-2010.jpg
  • Noticeboard with Mary and Jesus figures at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
    catholic_church02-23-08-2010.jpg
  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
    florence_italy89-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner on Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
    florence_italy87-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
    florence_italy86-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy34-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Decaying medieval gate house once near city walls, now in Piazza Guiseppe Poggi on Florence's south bank.
    florence_italy120-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
    greek_olympiad010-21-10_2003.jpg
  • In a farmer's tool shed, a painted mural depicting B-24 Liberators sweeping over the cracked brick wall of what was once an officers? mess at the WW2 Wendling airfield, Norfolk England. Below this scene of heroic military might, young officers flying Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group gathered before and after raids into Germany from November 1943 to July 1945. The runway is now partly covered by a turkey farm and this building is now full of car and tractor parts. 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. .
    aviation_corbis19-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy31-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy29-22-10-2010.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
  • Mr Matar Mohammed, a former farmer from Taweela, a Darfur village in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp, (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fashir. Mr Mohammed was once a successful farmer who grew tobacco and sorghum and has occupied this house with his 14 family members since May 2004, surviving on twice a day aid hand-outs. Many family members and friends have been killed . " We had a good life," he says adding "we would go back if security was guaranteed .."
    sudan203-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Members of the 'Guild of Young Freemen' (in red) walk past The Worshipful Company of Plasterers' (in blue) along London Wall before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's financial and historic district, on 13th November 2021, in London, England. Alderman Vincent Keaveny has been elected as the 693rd Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Show dates back to the 13th century, when King John allowed the ancient City of London to appoint its own Mayor and each newly-elected mayor has been making the same annual journey through the streets for over 800 years.
    lord_mayors_show-26-13-11-2021.jpg
  • Members of the 'Guild of Young Freemen' (in red) walk past The Worshipful Company of Plasterers' (in blue) along London Wall before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's financial and historic district, on 13th November 2021, in London, England. Alderman Vincent Keaveny has been elected as the 693rd Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Show dates back to the 13th century, when King John allowed the ancient City of London to appoint its own Mayor and each newly-elected mayor has been making the same annual journey through the streets for over 800 years.
    lord_mayors_show-25-13-11-2021.jpg
  • Old apartment and iron balcony architecture in Lisbon's old Arabic Alfama district. Murals of classical Portuguese figures adorn the plaster walls next to crumbling windows and balconies which have the look of vintage from a former era in Lisbon's capital. Alfama is the oldest district of Lisbon, spreading on the slope between the Castle of Lisbon and the Tejo river. Its name comes from the Arabic Al-hamma, meaning fountains or baths. It contains many important historical attractions, with many Fado bars and restaurants.
    alfama_architecture-21-03-1994.jpg
  • A seller of flowers stands looking down a street in the Polish capital, Warsaw. Holding a single bouquet, the elderly man has located himself on the corner of Zapiecek and Piwna Street awaiting a buyer. With his hand on one hip, he has laid more yellow and red flowers that he has probably grown himself and is trying to make a meagre living from. But there are few people on this street this early in the oldest part of Warsaw and the walls appear to be damp, with discoloured plaster after decades of decay under a Communist government. Old paving slabs on the pavement and a cobbled road give a sense of history and wartime destruction for these streets saw many atrocities during the German occupation in WW2. This is a scene of pessimism and poverty yet with a small degree of hope in the fresh flowers.
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
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  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
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  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
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  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
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  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
    florence_italy80-22-10-2010.jpg
  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
    florence_italy79-22-10-2010.jpg
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