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  • A clutch of deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London. Looking up we see a detail of the bright reds of the banner and balloons plus electrical and telephony wiring tacked along the bricks on Walworth in the London borough of Southwark. It is a scene of sadness and depression - a dystopian landscape of ended love after the annual celebration of amour and relationships. The depressed wall shows us the opposite of the perfect Valentine ideal.
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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_1.jpg
  • At a Hindu wedding the newly wed bride, Shweta Singhal,  looks out of the car window in a mixture of sadness and happiness as she departs with her husband, Rohit, to begin a new life, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • 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.
    september11th014-18-09_2001_1_1_1.jpg
  • A 4 year-old girl sheds a tear during an emotional moment while playing in her back garden. Seen in close-up detail we see a tear creeping down her right eye and another making its way down her left cheek - her large eyes looking sad and upset.
    girl_tears-10-09-1999_1_1.jpg
  • 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_1.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
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-46-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-27-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-33-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-52-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-25-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-39-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-34-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-42-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-29-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-51-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-47-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-38-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-30-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial organised by the multi-faith charity Faiths Forum, appeared on the bridge showing the faces of victims and their friends, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-41-02-12-201...jpg
  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern Southwark end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk past on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-24-02-12-201...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 12 year-old 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
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir. The French inscription reads "To our mother and grandmother" and faded flower petals surround the ribbon with other family members having purchased memorial plaques from a nearby monumental masons.
    civray_cemetery09-09-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir. The French inscription reads "To our mother and grandmother" and faded flower petals surround the ribbon.
    civray_cemetery07-09-07-2014_1.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_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery02-20-08-2003_1_1_1.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_1_1_1.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_1_1.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
  • 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
  • In front of car ad billboards, a memorial has been placed where ‘Jay’ died on St George's Circus, 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: “Everything you touched turned to gold” 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
    memorials015-30-05_2001.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
  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. 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_1.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 persons 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
  • 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 in the south London borough of Southwark. Memorial benches paid for by grieving relatives are a popular way of remembering deceased loved-ones in a place liked during their lifetime. Inscriptions along the back often give the persons name and dates of birth and death along with a short statement about how they loved this place.
    bench_memorial01-27-04-2016.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. Facing the viewer, we see the happy features of this famous movie character - whose on-screen narrative is that of a forgotten toy, now unwanted by his growing-up boy owner. As art becomes reality, Woody has been left on the pavement after being dumped by his previous family.  A common problem is that charity donors leave unwanted things outside in the street, for others to come and rifle through, leaving a mess that's difficult for volunteers to clean up.
    toystory_woody05-02-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A woman with blue painted nails holds on tight to her partner in a public street. The amourous couple squeeze each other, hugging in a gesture of fond farewell or a happy hello. Either way, we see the lady's hands spread across the back of her friend or partner, comforted and comfortable - or in a desperate bid not to let go. Their relationship is close and intimate, their support of each other, proof of their dependency.
    hugging_couple01-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season. Looking miserable and wintry, the landscape shows us the grim weather of a grey day on England's south coast - except perhaps, for the bright colours of the umbrella which blows on a sea breeze. The six-seater of a bench is empty too, as visitors to this area have yet to return to the promenades and pavements of this East Sussex coastal resort.
    winter_seaside-14-03-2014.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.
    80s_family01-20-10-1986_1.jpg
  • Pedro Cárcamo, a “gaucho”, farm worker on Jose Menedez farm near Rio  Grande. In his room, Patagonia, Argentina
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  • 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_1_1_1.jpg
  • The WW1 Courcelette cemetery in Picardie, France. 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 was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when almost 2,000 graves were brought in, mostly those of men who died around Courcelette and Pozieres in 1916. 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_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery05-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery03-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • WW1 Ovillers cemetery, the resting place of allied and commonwealth war dead from the Somme, France. Surrounded by summer corn fields, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago.<br />
There are now 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery01-20-08-2003_1_1_1.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_1_1_1.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
  • Memorials have been placed where a young man called 'Marurice' died on the A215 Walworth Road in 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 read: “Top fella/Don't worry, I'll look after your sisters/May you and your family find true justive so your soul may rest in Peace.” 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.
    memorials021-30-05_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
    memorials014-05-07_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 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.
    memorials012-11-04_2001.jpg
  • 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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  • A memorial has been placed where a young lawyer called Alex died on London Wall A1211, City of 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: "“Missing you so very much at this time of year. Mum and Dad.” 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 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 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 remberences.
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  • 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.
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  • A memorial has been placed where a fictitious TV character called Victor Meldrew was filmed being killed at Shawford Station, Hants, England, UK. If we drove past 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: "We don't want to win a million, we want Victor back!" 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 man called 'Lee' died on the A3130 Tickenham Road, Somerset, 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: "“Do not stand at my grave and weep/I am not there, I do not sleep.” “I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in a circled flight.” 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 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 remberences.”
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  • 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.
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  • 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 remberences.”
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  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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
  • Bernhardt "Buddy" Elias, Anne Frank's cousin at home in Basel, Switzerland. Elias runs the Anne Frank fund donating to good causes in her name.Bernhardt "Buddy" Elias, Anne Frank's cousin at home in Basel, Switzerland. Elias runs the Anne Frank fund donating to good causes in her name.<br />
Elias, 93, sits on the bed in the room that was occupied by Otto, Frank's father after World War Two. Behind him are photographs of Frank and himself before the war.
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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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  • On the tarmac of RAF Northolt, a military and VIP airfield in north London, the recently-deceased body of Diana Princess of Wales is borne on the six shoulders of an RAF pallbearer guard, her coffin carried away from the Royal Air Force (BAe) 146 jet belonging to the Queen's flight used by members of the Royal family to travel to location around the country. Draped in the Royal Standard which is the flag used by Queen Elizabeth II in her capacity as Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The servicemen are in full ceremonial uniforms and wear immaculate white gloves to handle this very solemn occasion in British history. Their duty as servants to the crown being respectful and professional.
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  • After the funeral of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 hundreds of people follow the car carrying the coffin on its way to the cemetery.  Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community.
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  • The coffin of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 is surrounded in the Adath Yisroel synagogue, Stamford Hill, London for his funeral. Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community, hundreds of people attended his funeral.
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  • Headstones in a Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Enfield, North London. Space in the cemetery is limited and graves are very close together. The dates on the headstones are from the Jewish calendar.
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  • Wartime wreaths lie at the Cenotaph in Londons Whitehall after Remembrance Sunday, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • Wartime wreaths lie at the Cenotaph in Londons Whitehall after Remembrance Sunday, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • A memorial to a soldier named Gary Golbey wreaths lie after Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in Londons Whitehall, on 12th November 2019, in London, England. A Gulf War veteran who developed a brain tumour but went back on active service had died, aged 42. Colour Sergeant Gary Golbey, originally from Kidsgrove, was taken ill in 2005 when he was part way through his second tour of service in Iraq. But he fought back from his illness to return to the army while in remission. The champion Army boxer spent more than two decades with the Staffords – now 3 Mercian – and saw active service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq, where he completed two tours of duty.
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  • Wartime wreaths lie at the Cenotaph in Londons Whitehall after Remembrance Sunday, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • Polish students learn about the Katyn massacre on Grodzka street, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland. The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by Soviet secret police in April and May 1940. Though the killings occurred in several locations, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered.
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  • Fading flowers on the memorial to the murdered WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. Jamess Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St Jamess Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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  • The memorial tree in memory of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. Jamess Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St Jamess Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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  • On the 10th consecutive day of protests around London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, a makeshift memorial to those killed in the terorist attacks in Sri Lanka, on 24th April 2019, at Marble Arch, London England.
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s Chinese man stands in prayer near family vaults in the Muslim and Catholic cemetery, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • Detail of a bouquet of dying flowers, gathered for a local memorial to a killed French Resistance fighter during German-occupied WW2, on 26th April 2008, in Paris France.
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  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • The many wreaths at the Centotaph left 2 two days after  Remembrance Sunday, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-27-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-26-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-15-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-14-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-02-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-10-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-05-13-11-2018.jpg
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