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  • Ken, a gas worker's name, written on a trench and hole covering in a south London street.
    ken03-03-03-2015.jpg
  • 'Last Day' is written on a closed taylors business in London, a victim of the UK recession. Reduced prices and services are listed on the glass with a poster urging customers to grab a bargain. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day02-19-12-2009.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June and an abusive message about Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been written on plyboard of a closed business near Leicester Square in the capital, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-11-26-05-2020.jpg
  • A London bus carrying banner advertising written in Chinese characters for the worldwide online property rental and listings site website UHOMES, and passes the columns of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in the heart of the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 11th March 2020, in London, England.
    budget_day_city-05-11-03-2020.jpg
  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
    in_memoriam-02-01-03-2020.jpg
  • Three men use their phones and a laptop beneath the slogan 'Live Simply and Live in Peace' has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-88-09-10-2019.jpg
  • Three men use their phones and a laptop beneath the slogan 'Live Simply and Live in Peace' has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-87-09-10-2019.jpg
  • The word Thank You written in chalk on Ramsgate's sea wall near the former ferry terminal in the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-193-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
    slovenia-345-25-06-2018.jpg
  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
    slovenia-344-25-06-2018.jpg
  • Graffiti written on the window of a London bus and urban tower blocks at Elephant & Castle, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
    bus_graffiti-02-13-11-2017.jpg
  • Graffiti written on the window of a London bus and commuters crossing London Bridge, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
    bus_graffiti-01-13-11-2017.jpg
  • The numbers 44 written both ways round on a window undergoing  renovation in Mayfair, on 4th September 2017, in London, England.
    fourty_four-02-04-09-2017.jpg
  • Two businessmen pass-by a slogan about the future of the aviation industry written on a red hoarding at Britain's Farnborough Air Show, Hampshire, England. "What aviation needs is a giant leap forward" it says on a deep red background, next to a door that has also been covered in the primary colour. A pole vaulter is about to leap across the picture to prove the giant momentum needed to spring aviation into the future. The Air Show is one of Europe's premier aviation show events, attracting global companies selling aerospace equipment and enthusiasts who watch daily flying displays. It is seen as a thermometer for current innovation and future trends.
    farnborough_air_show16-14-07-2008.jpg
  • The message in graffiti lettering "Don't come here they attack you" has been written on a wall outside a house in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, Merseyside England. Flat 1A has a bright red-painted door and red bricks in an otherwise poverty-stricken district of this poor inner-city where crime and social deprivation has become the normal way of life for Scouses (someone from Liverpool). We see the red theme carried throughout this image of threat and ill-discipline where survival is clearly hard. These 'back to back' terraced houses have largely been demolished during Liverpool's regeneration during the 60s and 70s though some remain, accommodating unfortunate families on low-income.
    RB_111-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A close-up detail of teenage words, written in marker pen on a young person's arm in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Holding the handles of her baggage trolley that has an open bag in which we see some possessions, the girl displays the words 'I (heart) love you' and the name of Kentin Bisou. It may be a declaration of true love or just a teenage prank before an adventure starts from this aviation hub. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport619-15-07-2009.jpg
  • A message for help has been left on the inside of a vacant business in Cheapside (Street) in the City of London. Written back to front from inside, the writer has mis-spelled the word 'we're' . In the UK, vacant or redeveloped shops and businesses, are smeared with diluted white emulsion paint and water thereby obscuring the building's interior for security reasons.
    window02.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June and an abusive message about Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been written on plyboard of a closed business near Leicester Square in the capital, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-12-26-05-2020.jpg
  • As the number of UK Coronavirus cases rose to over 8,000, it was announced that thousands of 15-minute home tests could be made available within days to those self-isolating with symptoms. Fading chalk writing is written on the pavement outside a now closed general store business selling gloves and masks in Camberwell, south London, on 25th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Walworth-26-25-03-2020.jpg
  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
    in_memoriam-01-01-03-2020.jpg
  • A man uses his laptop beneath the slogan 'Live Simply and Live in Peace' has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-84-09-10-2019.jpg
  • A man uses his laptop beneath the slogan 'Live Simply and Live in Peace' has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-85-09-10-2019.jpg
  • A man uses his laptop beneath the slogan 'Live Simply and Live in Peace' has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-86-09-10-2019.jpg
  • The word Thank You written in chalk on Ramsgate's sea wall near the former ferry terminal in the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-192-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
    slovenia-343-25-06-2018.jpg
  • A message written by someboy, on a sign in a north Somerset forest.
    wrington_walk07-26-10-2015.jpg
  • Opposite a City of London pub, a notice written on a newspaper vendor's shelter tells drinkers not to use the unit as a toilet
    toilet_writing01-23-04-2013.jpg
  • last_day01-19-12-2009.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown eases and small shops and businesses re-open, a quote from 1980s British band, The Police's song 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' has been chalked on to the pavement outside a bar, asking customers to keep their social distance, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_shops03-19-07-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, an optimistic morale-boosting message has been left on the windows of Le Garrick, a French restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-33-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, an optimistic morale-boosting message has been left on the windows of Le Garrick, a French restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-32-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, an optimistic morale-boosting message has been left on the windows of Le Garrick, a French restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-31-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, an optimistic morale-boosting message has been left on the windows of Le Garrick, a French restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-30-22-04-2020.jpg
  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pub's food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
    sign_painter-01-17-02-2020.jpg
  • An environmental activist leads his pet Great Dane dog after drinking from a public fountain, while protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-83-09-10-2019.jpg
  • A detail of a business's window in Mayfair, showing its new location after a recent change of address, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    mayfair_window-02-05-06-2019.jpg
  • Met police officers walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England. The Met have been criticised for allowing the protests to continue their occupations of major roads and junctions such as Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus.
    extinction_rebellion-20-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-16-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-13-18-04-2019.jpg
  • The London skyline beyong graffiti on Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-12-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Met police officers walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England. The Met have been criticised for allowing the protests to continue their occupations of major roads and junctions such as Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus.
    extinction_rebellion-10-18-04-2019.jpg
  • As protests continue across the capital by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion, graffiti remains on the outside of Shell's London headquarters on the southbank, on 18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-48-17-04-2019.jpg
  • The word STOP sprayed on to a road surface, on 21st June 2018, in Kobarid, Slovenia.
    slovenia-178-21-06-2018.jpg
  • A young man concentrates on writing in a notebook in the window of a City of London cafe, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-04-04-06-2018.jpg
  • A detail of a sign on a film rental shop, mis-spelled by a wrongly-used apostrophe, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
    videos_sign-01-25-01-2018.jpg
  • A businessman gestures with his face partially-obscured by the writing in a cafe window, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
    cafe_man-01-13-11-2017.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exteriour of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-02-05-03-2017.jpg
  • No Parking request between arrows and painted on construction hoarding in south London.
    no_parking01-18-03-2014.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church04-02-06-2013.jpg
  • The Back to front cottage doorway at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    southwold02-25-07-2012.jpg
  • The word Contamination has been stencilled diagonally on a pane of glass in a building site in central London.
    contamination1-30-12-2011.jpg
  • paradise_lost1-14-August-2011.jpg
  • The last day of liquidated trading for shoppers in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths. ..
    woolworths09-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Shop window mannequins and banners for Sale and further redictions in the wide window pane of Austin Reed in London's regent Street, England.
    windows_regent_street02-13-07-2007.jpg
  • Shop window mannequins and banners for Sale and further redictions in the wide window pane of Austin Reed in London's regent Street, England.
    windows_regent_street01-13-07-2007.jpg
  • Faded newspaper sheets are stuck to a closed newsagent's window in Dulwich, South London UK
    windows_05 copy.jpg
  • Personalised insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots are worn during a shift at importers New England Seafoods
    new_england90-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Letting coloured in yellow painted on a wall says Car Park Open, in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity214-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Rusting corrugated iron sheeting and sprayed graffiti on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity215-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • A boarded-up derelict cafe that once served All Day Breakfasts, now on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham..
    electricity216-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, optimistic morale-boosting messages have been left on the windows of Le Garrick, a French restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-29-22-04-2020.jpg
  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pub's food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
    sign_painter-02-17-02-2020.jpg
  • The London skyline beyong graffiti on Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-19-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Met police officers walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England. The Met have been criticised for allowing the protests to continue their occupations of major roads and junctions such as Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus.
    extinction_rebellion-18-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Met police officers walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England. The Met have been criticised for allowing the protests to continue their occupations of major roads and junctions such as Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus.
    extinction_rebellion-17-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-15-18-04-2019.jpg
  • The London skyline beyong graffiti on Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-14-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-11-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-09-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-08-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-07-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-06-18-04-2019.jpg
  • The London skyline beyong graffiti on Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-04-18-04-2019.jpg
  • The London skyline beyong graffiti on Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-05-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-01-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-02-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Airline pilots walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-03-18-04-2019.jpg
  • As protests continue across the capital by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion, graffiti remains on the outside of Shell's London headquarters on the southbank, on 18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-50-17-04-2019.jpg
  • As protests continue across the capital by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion, graffiti remains on the outside of Shell's London headquarters on the southbank, on 18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-49-17-04-2019.jpg
  • As protests continue across the capital by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion, graffiti remains on the outside of Shell's London headquarters on the southbank, on 18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-47-17-04-2019.jpg
  • A young man concentrates on writing in a notebook in the window of a City of London cafe, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-05-04-06-2018.jpg
  • A detail of a sign on a film rental shop, mis-spelled by a wrongly-used apostrophe, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
    videos_sign-02-25-01-2018.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exteriour of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • The word NO stencilled on a section of resurfaced tarmac in south London, on 13th January 2017 in London, England.
    no_pavement-01-13-01-2017.jpg
  • The village church of St James, Cooling, Kent. It dates  from the late 13th century which is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust and open to visitors daily. In the churchyard are a group of children's gravestones which are widely considered to have inspired Charles Dickens' description of the churchyard in the opening scene of the novel Great Expectations. The tower was completed to the height at which it now stands by about 1400. St James' Church seems to have been little altered until the 19th century.
    cooling_church06-02-06-2013.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church02-02-06-2013.jpg
  • Visitors inspect the row of childrens' graves in the churchyard of St James, Cooling, Kent. Charles Dickens wrote about these graves in the opening of his famous novel Great Expectations. Dickens lived nearby in Higham and referred to this row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves. Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....' In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
    cooling_church01-02-06-2013.jpg
  • A filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool amid socially-deprived streets and terraced housing. Graffiti of girls' names has been painted on to the brick wall of a tenement building but is now peeling off. Weeds have grown around the cobbled pavement and the windows are boarded up in a landscape of urban dereliction and social depravity.
    liverpool_dereliction07-08-08-1991.jpg
  • 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. ..
    shoe_window-10-12_2002.jpg
  • Pasted to the wall in Gerrard Street, Soho, in London's Chinatown, the Metropolitan Police are appealing for witnesses to help with their investigation of a murder of Vien Xuan Cao, a Chinese immigrant who was murdered in this street after being attacked with a meat cleaver. The implication is that this was a Triad turf war, a territorial dispute between gang members of this secret society. We see the young man's face photocopied to the paperwork, laid over more traditional images of ethnic Chinese and a boxing contest promotional poster. "Can you Help?" reads the Police's appeal and alongside, the same text has been translated into Chinese for locals to read.
    RB_118-08-10-1992.jpg
  • Someone's pet spaniel is enjoying the smell of another dog's faeces that has been deposited on the pavement at Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland, northern England. Using its wet nose to test its acute sense of smell, the spaniel shows great curiosity in another animals crap that has been left by the other animal's owner, rather than be collected and placed in a dog poo receptacle. The irony is that there is graffiti on the sea wall of this seaside town. The mis-spelled words 'England For Ever' have been sprayed in aerosol on the wall and we see someone's idea of a utopian England and another's lowered standards where the fouling of a public pavement is seen as acceptable.
    england_forever-18-07-1994.jpg
  • Through a filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool a local man still washes his car amid socially-deprived streets and housing
    liverpool_alley01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Closing down and all stock must go posters outside branch of 'Books Etc.' after the closure of parent company Borders.
    shop_window03-02-12-2009.jpg
  • The last customers help themselves to sweets at the Pic n Mix dispenser in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths.
    woolworths08-05-01_2009.jpg
  • A young boy browses through last remaining DVDs in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store...
    woolworths07-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Sheets of posters telling the last customers of the closure and liquidation of the Woolworths Camberwell branch ..
    woolworths04-05-01_2009.jpg
  • A newsagents shop business is newly open for business but a sticker urges people to stay out in a contradictory message near Angel, north London England.
    news_shop_01dd-00-2007 .jpg
  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
    RB_074-16-02-1992.jpg
  • Shop window mannequins and banners for Sale and further redictions in the wide window pane of Austin Reed in London's regent Street, England.
    windows_regent_street05-13-07-2007.jpg
  • Shop window mannequins and banners for Sale and further redictions in the wide window pane of Austin Reed in London's regent Street, England.
    windows_regent_street04-13-07-2007.jpg
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