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  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at. Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. While embracing her young man, she gazes off into the distance amid the otherwise busy airport terminal where the emotions of parting as well as the joys of reunited loved-ones are played out in various parts of aviation hubs around the world. They are both in their own worlds, removed from the noise and confusion of other passengers. Her departure is brief and yet their sadness of being separated is plainly too much to bear. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1483-19-08-2009.jpg
  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the streets between 66th and 67th Streets, in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, was a point of focus for those with missing relatives who attached thousands of posters to walls with pictures and messages to loved-ones in the hope of being reunited. DNA samples were taken at the nearby Armory so human remains might be identified. Here, the coloured ink from desktop printers prints have streaked after rain soaked the posters leaving a sense of the tragic disappearance of thousands - a haunting detail of the missing and the dead. Emotions were therefore running high and we see the sad, rain-soaked messages, the faces of happy people and their physical descriptions and contacts numbers. In most cases, these people were never seen again..
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  • The detail of two sad bunting Union Jacks on the exterior of a red and white striped wooden beach hut, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable-04-31-03-2019.jpg
  • We look down behind an airline passenger who is alone on seating in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Mourning the death of a mother, the lady sits with a floral tribute to the recently-deceased relative whose name 'Mum' is laid out next to her in pink flowers. On her lap is the organic Soil Association's magazine Living Earth. Perhaps the woman is on her way to a family funeral and is flying from T5 on this sad flight. Amid the otherwise bustling international airport, the woman seeks solace and tries to sleep before her check-in zone opens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1122-12-08-2009.jpg
  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster that is pasted on a high street window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
    closed_businesses102-13-04-2009.jpg
  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster next to a local pub advert that are pasted on a former high street business window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
    closed_businesses101-13-04-2009.jpg
  • A single sad bouquet of dying flowers are attached to the fence of a Northumbrian North Sea town harbour, on 25th September 2017, in Amble, Northumberland, England.
    amble-10-25-09-2017.jpg
  • A single sad bouquet of dying flowers are attached to the fence of a Northumbrian North Sea town harbour, on 25th September 2017, in Amble, Northumberland, England.
    amble-11-25-09-2017.jpg
  • Deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London.
    sad_valentines02-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London.
    sad_valentines01-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Two young girls play around the grand Victorian memorial grave stones in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery09-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a man and father called Nigel died at Huggin Hill, City of London, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?To Daddy.  Love you always and forever. Your little girl. 24th Dec 1967 - 9th May 2001.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials008-12-05_2001.jpg
  • A window display of a high street funeral directors showing patriotic Union Jacks and replica medals of a local man, Second Lieutenant Reginald Cuthbert Chilvers of the Norfolk Regiment, a casualty in 1917 during WW1, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
    surbiton_journey-10-07-11-2019.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-314-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Emotional scenes on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster where local schoolchildren have drawn pictures and messages, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-32-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Emotional scenes on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster where local schoolchildren have drawn pictures and messages, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-31-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people is the torn poster of a young girl called Jessica Urbano, missing from Grenfell tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
    grenfell_tower-10-26-06-2017.jpg
  • Memorial flowers left on a bench, on 22nd April 2017, in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.
    bench_flowers-01-22-04-2017.jpg
  • A park bench dedicated to a dead relative in the south London public space called Ruskin Park.
    bench_memorial01-27-04-2016.jpg
  • Lone man stands with a lamp post shadow against a grey construction hoarding in central London's Trafalgar Square.
    trafalgar_hoarding09-23-09-2015.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery10-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery07-09-07-2014.jpg
  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season
    winter_seaside01-14-03-2014.jpg
  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season
    winter_seaside02-14-03-2014.jpg
  • A stone angel and branches of a tree in winter, in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_angel01-25-02-2014.jpg
  • A middle'-aged while in her back garden during the 1980s. It is a close-up detail of the lady's face that shows the lines and wrinkles of a long life, her silver hair swept in a side parting. She sits in summer sunshine in her back garden with a worried look on her face.
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes25-06-12-2013.jpg
  • The WW1 Somme Courcelette cemetery. Courcelette was a major tactical objective in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive of the First World War during which the nearby village was razed. Courcelette is 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Cemetery, signposted in the village, is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track (suitable for cars) from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres.
    WW1_cemetery07-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery03-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
    WW1_battlefield03-20-08-2003.jpg
  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A 4 year-old girl sheds a tear during an emotional moment while playing in her back garden.
    girl_tears-10-09-1999.jpg
  • A memorial placed where young lawyer Alex Barlow died in a 2002 cycling accident on London Wall A1211, City of London..Supplied non-exclusive 26/3/12 to:.LouisaChadwick@leopardfilms.com.Leopard Films  .1-3 St Peters Street.Islington.London.N1 8JD.United Kingdom.+44 (0) 207 704 3300.+44 (0) 207 704 3301
    alex_barlow_memorial01-16-07-2002.jpg
  • Overgrown tomb and gravestones are covered by ivy undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. On the left is a memorial ('With loving memory of Charlotte Catherine, the beloved wife ..") including an angel figure that leans over at an angle, probably caused by tree roots or perhaps by vandalism during the 50s and 60s when this land was left open for youngsters to commit criminal damage to stonework and carvings. During the cemetery's annual open day, there is an opportunity for the of the cemetery 'Friends' (society) to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young, to help preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery12-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Honeymooners kiss before their round-the-world adventure departing from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B
    heathrow_airport1525-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1486-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1485-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan178-24-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery06-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery04-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called 'Carl.' died in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "He was our North, our south/Our east, our West/Our working week and our Sunday rest/Our Noon, our Midnight, our talk, our song/We thought that love would last forever, we were wrong." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. We also nowadays lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and cities with simple, haunting remembrances.
    memorials018-01-02_2001.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called ?Aiden? died in Prebend Street, London, England. If we just ignored this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?Champion among men, now a champion of angels/A star in the Heavens has been named in memory of Aiden.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials017-05-07_2000.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where murdered school boy Damilola Taylor died at Hordle Promenade, North Peckham Estate, London, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?May your sweet little soul rest in perfect Peace/?Evil kids has took your life away (but your spirit is always with us).? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences..
    memorials013-30-11_2000.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young Spanish schoolboy boy called 'Diego' died at Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "?Diego our friend, we are sorry you had to die like this.? ?School will never be the same without you.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
    memorials011-10-05_2000.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where ?Sarah? died near the A29 in Pulborough, Sussex, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to there too with touching poems and dedications written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?A little Angel lent, not given/to be born on earth/and grow in Heaven/We have lost a Princess, but gained an Angel/To take you so soon is tragic we know/but when Jesus calls, you just have to go." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. We lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on roadsides and cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials006-05-07_2000.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a man called 'Andre,' died at Butterfly Walk, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "?Did you witness anyone leaving the area with bloodstained clothing?." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
    memorials002-24-08_2000.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a young man called Michael died beneath the TGV and Eurostar train overpass at Goussainville, France. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?Ses amis." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials001-27-07_2000.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-313-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-312-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-311-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Emotional scenes durng the memorial service on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-27-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Sheriff Woody Pride, aka Woody, the cowboy character from the Pixar/Disney CGI fantasy film Toy Story, lies forgotten outside a south London charity shop.
    toystory_woody04-02-12-2014.jpg
  • Sheriff Woody Pride, aka Woody, the cowboy character from the Pixar/Disney CGI fantasy film Toy Story, lies forgotten outside a south London charity shop.
    toystory_woody05-02-12-2014.jpg
  • A woman with blue painted nails holds on tight to her partner in a public street.
    hugging_couple01-04-08-2014.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery09-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Wreaths and flowers on a grave for dad and Grandad in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_grave02-25-02-2014.jpg
  • Family album of photos framed and attached to a tree in a south London cemetery.
    family_pictures02-25-02-2014.jpg
  • The mud and soil of a grave for Grandad in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_grave01-25-02-2014.jpg
  • A stone angel and branches of a tree in winter, in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_angel02-25-02-2014.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes24-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes12-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval04-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval03-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery02-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
    WW1_battlefield02-20-08-2003.jpg
  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery01-05-10-2000.jpg
  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the breaking news flashes from Fox TV's studios that there are expected to be no more survivors found at Ground Zero. The tragic message reads 'No Signs of Life' in large red letters, read by passers-by along the on the Avenue of the Americas on Manhattan. As the news travels across the building, the camera blurs other TV pictures of live broadcasts with a sense of urgency, speed and desperation in the fruitless search for life.
    september11th016-17-09_2001.jpg
  • Young lovers say tearful farewells in departures concourse of Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport636-15-07-2009.jpg
  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of a British Airways 747 before their round-the-world adventure from Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1520-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan185-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan184-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan180-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery17-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Overgrown Victorian headstone, almost covered in undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery13-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a youth called ?Indian? died on Warner Road, Camberwell, London, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?Yo Crucial/Wherever you are you are great.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances
    memorials020-21-08_2001.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called ?Franklyn? died on the Prince of Wales Road, London, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?I will neva 4get U, love U enough will miss U loads/What hope for dead loved ones (From a left copy of The Watchtower).' From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials016-21-08_2001.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where ?Amy? died on the A27 near Binstead, Sussex, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?To Amy (aged 14)/In my heart there is a picture worth more than silver and gold/it is a picture of my auntie Amy/whose memory will never grow old/Death comes so very quick/you never know when you?re going to be picked.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances
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  • A memorial has been placed where two policemen called Tony and Mark died at A2 Shooters Hill, London, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. Two read: ?Metropolitan Police Memo. With deep regrets/?C? team, Lewisham.? And "May God be with your families at this time.  From Custody.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • A memorial has been placed where a man called Dennis died on the  A227 Coldharbour Lane, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "This was a good man." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • This memorial has been placed where a young man called 'Clinton' died on the A1206 Manchester Road, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "Your body is soft, not like street, Clinton." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
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  • This memorial has been placed where young men called Steve, Si and Sammy died on the A286 Easebourne, Sussex, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "?I am the lucky one - my son survived - I wish so much it had been all of them.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances?
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  • Dystopian detail of three torn English flags above the window of a closed retailer in central London.
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  • Detail of a memorial with the faded image of a child on an untended grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
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  • Detail of a memorial and artificial flowers on an untended grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
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  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
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  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
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  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
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  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
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  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of other passengers before their round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen embracing at the departure gate as the remaining air travellers filter through the last security checks and board their long-haul flight. The young lady has a look of contentment on her face, the look of happiness and comfort in the arms of her new husband and they hug with all the affection of young love and trust. Another passenger grins in their direction during this show of devotion. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of their Boeing 747-400 that will soon take them on a round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen as silhouettes against the natural light of the large plate glass windows. As the aircraft is readied and before the flight's air travellers are called to the departure gate, the young man and woman put their heads imagining what new things they will see as their airliner is about to transport them to experience new cultures and possibly a new life. In the background, we see other jets that are parked in their respective jetties across the main movement area, the apron. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
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  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan181-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan177-24-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
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  • A memorial has been placed where an unknown person died at Beulah Hill, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials019-10-07_2001.jpg
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