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  • A closed DVD rental shop in south London has gone bust, a victim of the UK's economic climate. 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'.
    recession_window06-30-10-2010.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
  • Sprayed writing on a closed recession business window. The words 'Last Day Closing .. any reasonable offers'. 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_day01-31-05-2012.jpg
  • Last Day notice for a now closed business in central London, a victim of the UK recession. The words have been written on the pane of glass in white emulsion paint that has dripped and run before drying properly on the window of this anonymous office building in Holborn, London. 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. The current one was 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. Picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day01-27-02-2012.jpg
  • A closing down sale window is written with emulsion paint on glass in a London furniture shop. The reflection of the street behind can be seen with armchairs and cots. 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'.
    closed_business01-23-11-2009_1.jpg
  • The words 'Last Day' are painted in white emulsion on a window Camden North London, England. A Jesus figure, dolls  and various bric a brac are seen in the window behind the large lettering. 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'.
    window_lastday_03002-17-04-2007_1_1.jpg
  • A CCTV security warning and damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. 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'.
    recession_window04-26-03-2013.jpg
  • Last Day Friday notice for now closed Card Warehouse business in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession. Poinsettias sit in a plastic bucket, each selling for £1.25. 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'.
    closed_business64-15-02_2009_1.jpg
  • The locked and security grilled doorway of a Pakistani takeaway shop on Lumb Lane near Bradford City centre, Yorkshire. 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'.
    bradford_windows02-09-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Bust of Henry Dunant (1828-1910), founder of the ICRC, in a stairwell at the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. Jean Henri Dunant, also known as Henry Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern-day Italy. The man whose vision led to the creation of the worldwide Red Cross and Red Crescent movement; he went from riches to rags but became joint recipient of the first Nobel peace prize.
    christian_schuh94-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • A flag and a bust in the museum at Chandannagar, originally the home of Joseph François Dupleix who was appointed governor of the city in 1730. Chandannagar, India
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  • Bust of Giacomo Serpotta outside the Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita which he created between 1686 and 1718, Palermo, Italy
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  • Lenin bust in preserved office of former Minister in charge of GDR secret police chief, Erich Mielke - an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. After the fall of the socialist state, Mielke was sentenced to 6 years in prison and died in 2000, aged 92.
    berlin_stasi_museum22-07-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A bust of the founder of Letchworth, Ebeneezer Howard<br />
In 1898 Ebenezer Howard published his book "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform" (later "Garden Cities of Tomorrow") founding the Garden Cities Association. His plan was to create a new, planned  settlement that combined the best of town and country - the first of which became Letchworth Garden City in 1903, laid out by architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. It was followed in 1920 by a second garden city at Welwyn. The movement inspired Garden Cities in Europe and currently has been revived as a potential solution to Britain's housing crisis
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad002-20-10_2003_1.jpg
  • Portrait bust of Antoninus Pius at The Stoa of Attalos or Attalus located in the east side of archaeological site of the Ancient Agora in Athens just oposite the Adrianou street in Monastiraki. The Stoa of Attalos was built around 150 BC, by Attalos II, King of Pergamos as a donation to Athens. The construction of the building began in 159 BC and ended in 138 BC. The building was the largest in length in Greece during the antiquity. It was rebuilt in the same style and shape from 1953 to 1956 with beautifully crafted marble columns. It is recognised as one of the most impressive stoa in the Athenian Agora. Typical of the Hellenistic age, the stoa was more elaborate and larger than the earlier buildings of ancient Athens. The stoa's dimensions are 115 by 20 metres wide (377 by 65 feet wide) and it is made of Pentelic marble and limestone. The building skillfully makes use of different architectural orders. The Doric order was used for the exterior colonnade on the ground floor with Ionic for the interior colonnade. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • A man points to a bust in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, MANN, formerly Real Museo Borbonico Bourbons Royal Museum is considered the most important Italian archaeological museum and one of the most important in the world for classical, and particularly ancient Roman, archaeology. Its collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times and especially Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
    SFE_171006_073.jpg
  • A young black graduate stands beneath the bust of Nelson Mandela after his graduation eremony, in celebration of his university academic achievement, outside the Festival Hall, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
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  • Young black graduates stand with a caucasian friend beneath the bust of Nelson Mandela after their graduation eremony, in celebration of their university academic achievement, outside the Festival Hall, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
    southbank_graduation-12-20-07-2017.jpg
  • Young graduates stand beneath the bust of Nelson Mandela after their graduation eremony, in celebration of their university academic achievement, outside the Festival Hall, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
    southbank_graduation-09-20-07-2017.jpg
  • Bust of Hemingway. Cojimar is a small fishing village close to Havana where Hemingway spent a lot of time. It is said that this is where he got inspiration for 'The Old Man and the Sea'.
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  • The words 'Closing Party' are almost obscured by fly-posters on a closed shop window, the victim of the economic recession. Only the remnants of the poster glue have left the traces of sheets of paper on the window, making for an almost abstract landscape of urban decay. Few clues remain of the shop's former business model though it might be assumed it was once a cafe as we see many chairs at a table. 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'.
    recession_window2-09-July-2011.jpg
  • 'Store Closing, All Stock Reduced' posters stuck to the window of a closing Woolworths shop in the town of Nailsea, Nth Somerset. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909 In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off. 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.
    closed_businesses01-24-12_2008_1.jpg
  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. 28 BOOKS etc. shops, with over one million square feet of retail space taking around 8% of the retail bookselling market. In 2008 and 2009 the store numbers were reduced before the collapse of the chain. They also operated one single branch in Ireland, but closed this early in 2009. On 26 November 2009 it was announced that Borders (UK) had gone into administration. All stores closed on 24 December 2009. 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.
    books_etc01-30-01-2013_1.jpg
  • Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson figure head.  Standing at about 9ft (2.7m), the wooden bust which once adorned the bows of HMS Trafalgar is on show alongside HMS Victory in Portsmouth's dockyard.
    UK-Admiral-Lord-Nelson-2444.jpg
  • Bahiana busts are common in Brazil, depicting women, usually of African origin, who hail from the north east of the country of the state of Bahia, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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  • The rent to own retailer BrightHouse has gone into administration closing all 240 stores across the UK, including this one photographed behind hazard tape on the 10th of April 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The retailer allowed customers to spread the cost of household items such as appliances, technology and furniture over an extended timeframe using high-interest credit. Customers usually end up paying much more for the items than if theyd paid for them outright.
    UK-Pandemic-Lockdown-6975.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths01-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • Eva Perons grave in Recoleta Cemmentary, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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  • Detail shots of some of the tombs at Recoleta Cemmentary, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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  • A stone carving of the German-born news tycoon, Paul Julius Reuter, seen at lunchtime in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron de Reuter) (21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), a German entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency. Reuter founded Reuters, one of the major financial news agencies of the world. On 17 March 1857, Reuter was naturalised as a British subject, and on 7 September 1871, the German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred a barony (Freiherr) on Julius Reuter. The title was later "confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England"
    city_symmetry04-10-04-2014.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_tributes03-06-12-2013.jpg
  • A tourist sits by a statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, MANN, formerly Real Museo Borbonico Bourbons Royal Museum is considered the most important Italian archaeological museum and one of the most important in the world for classical, and particularly ancient Roman, archaeology. Its collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times and especially Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
    SFE_171006_088.jpg
  • A woman takes a photograph whilst a bored guard rests in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, MANN, formerly Real Museo Borbonico Bourbons Royal Museum is considered the most important Italian archaeological museum and one of the most important in the world for classical, and particularly ancient Roman, archaeology. Its collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times and especially Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
    SFE_171006_046.jpg
  • Eva Perons grave in Recoleta Cemmentary, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    _MG_4251_1.jpg
  • Detail shots of some of the tombs at Recoleta Cemmentary, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    _MG_4231_1.jpg
  • Detail of the staircase at the house of the French Ambassador, Pondicherry, India. Pondicherry now Puducherry is a Union Territory of India and was a French territory until 1954 legally on 16 August 1962. The French Quarter of the town retains a strong French influence in terms of architecture and culture.
    SFE_130313_110.jpg
  • Plaque in Recoleta Cementery, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.
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  • The Nritya Gopal Smriti Mandir (known as the Old Library) and a statue of Rabindranath Tagore, Chandannagar, India
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  • A statue of Rabindranath Tagore outside the largely derelict library in Chandannagar, India
    SFE_13039_205.jpg
  • A stone carving of the German-born news tycoon, Paul Julius Reuter, seen at lunchtime in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron de Reuter) (21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), a German entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency. Reuter founded Reuters, one of the major financial news agencies of the world. On 17 March 1857, Reuter was naturalised as a British subject, and on 7 September 1871, the German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred a barony (Freiherr) on Julius Reuter. The title was later "confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England"
    city_symmetry05-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Detail of an exhibit at the Sir John Soanes Museum, London
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  • Tourists take pictures inside the Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita. Palermo, Italy
    SFE_130919_038_1_1.jpg
  • A couple sit in the Om Kalthoun cafe in Elfi, Cairo, Egypt
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  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909 In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths03-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths02-05-01_2009_1_1.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_tributes19-06-12-2013.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_tributes18-06-12-2013.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_tributes16-06-12-2013.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_tributes02-06-12-2013.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_tributes01-06-12-2013.jpg
  • As if about to be crunched underfoot, shattered glass from the windows of offices in the historic City of London side-street, stickers and notices for Access (Mastercard) and American Express (Amex) credit cards lie on the disaster-strewn pavement (sidewalk). This is some of the debris lying about after the huge Bishopsgate bomb on 24th April 1993, London's most expensive terrorist atrocity during the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) sustained bombings on the British mainland. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 sq m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million and was possibly the IRA's most successful military tactic since the start of what was called the Troubles from 1969 onwards.
    credit_crunch01-24-04-1993_1.jpg
  • An announcement banner of a business' imminent closure is in the window of a Rio Beach clothing outlet on a fashion mannequin in their Earlham Street shop. Their web site says: "Rio Beach sells men's clothing for the beach and beyond. As one of the only places that stocks fashionable swimming trunks year round, this is a useful place if you're planning an unseasonable holiday."
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  • Closed Down is written on a paint-covered window of a generic business in Central London, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Beijing Panjiayuan Antique Market is Beijing’s biggest and best-known arts, crafts, and Chinese antiques market. It is located in south east Beijing, China near the Panjiayuan Bridge in Chaoyang District. It covers an area of 48,500 square meters, of which 26,000 square meters are for business. There are over 4,000 stalls in the market, with nearly 10,000 dealers and sellers. Much of that on sale are trinkets and stones, although there are some genuine antiques.
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  • Wigs on bust models seen in the window of a retailer in central London. Reflected in a curved mirror, the mannequins' busts appear as repetitions into the distance along with outside vegetation from an exterior plant arrangement in the street. Various hair styles are seen for women to try on and buy.
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  • Salon dining room with unicorn busts on the walls, Faena Hotel, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.
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  • Rathaus / town hall exterior and fountains, historic architecture, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall exterior and fountains, historic architecture, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall interior, Rathausmarkt square, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall interior, Rathausmarkt square, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall exterior and fountains, historic architecture, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall exterior and fountains, historic architecture, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Rathaus / town hall exterior and fountains, historic architecture, Hamburg, Germany.
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  • Now closed menswear outfitters' empty window display in Moorgate, City of London, stencil red lettering telling us the shop once sold suits from £99. 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'. s
    closed_business01-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Now closed menswear outfitters' empty window display in Moorgate, City of London, stencil red lettering telling us the shop once sold suits from £99. 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'. s
    closed_business03-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Now closed menswear outfitters' empty window display in Moorgate, City of London, stencil red lettering telling us the shop once sold suits from £99. 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'. s
    closed_business02-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Now closed menswear outfitters' empty window display in Moorgate, City of London, stencil red lettering telling us the shop once sold suits from £99. 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'. s
    closed_business03-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Now closed menswear outfitters' empty window display in Moorgate, City of London, stencil red lettering telling us the shop once sold suits from £99. 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'. s
    closed_business02-19-02-2014.jpg
  • A cafe offering breakfasts for £1.95 Pounds in central London has closed, a victim of the UK recession. Swirls of emulsion paint on the business's window creating abstract patterns on the glass. 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'.
    recession_cafe01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos of about 325-300BC in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus Roman equivalent Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
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  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos of about 325-300BC in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus Roman equivalent Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-25-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos of about 325-300BC in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus Roman equivalent Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-23-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos of about 325-300BC overlooks the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus Roman equivalent Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-21-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-03-11-04-2018.jpg
  • London, UK. Monday 18th February 2013. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at  Tate Modern brings together 125 of artist Roy Lichtenstein's most definitive paintings and sculptures. Nude with Bust (1995)
    20130218roy lichtenstein tate_X.jpg
  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-02-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A cyclist and pedestrian pass-by in a London street with circles on a construction hoarding behind. Purposely blurred as they pass across this urban scene, we see the figures in the same posture, back bent and leaning forward towards their destinations. Concentric circles on the background hoarding belongs to a new business due to open soon on this bust shopping street in central London.
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  • Three young tourists boys carry identical tour rucksacks beneath blue banners across Regent Street, central London. From a low angle we look up to the lads making their way beneath the banners that hang across one of the capital's bust shopping streets. Their matching blue packs have perhaps been given to them by Study Tours, an organisation offering cheap student travel, guided student tours, weekend tours and day trips.
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9569_1.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9567_1.jpg
  • At the height of financial uncertainty, we see from a low pavement angle investors queueing outside the Maddox Street branch of the troubled Northern Rock Bank, off Regent Street, Mayfair, in September 2007. Their hard-earned savings appear to be in jeopardy after the bank announced an emergency loan from the Bank of England. Despite reassurances from officials who insisted that the Bank which has £113bn in assets, was not in danger of going bust, concerned men and women wait in line, some with their faces on view and reading newspapers or more commonly, wishing to remain anonymous and keeping their backs to reporters and cameras. The rush of customers demanding their investments almost spelled the demise of the bank with over £2bn removed from accounts in a few days. Northern Rock struggled since money markets seized up over the summer.
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  • Netting protects statues from birds on the roof of Gibson Hall in the capital's Bishopgate Street in the heart of the capital's financial district. Protecting the artworks from local wildlife high up overlooking the bust streets of the capital's oldest area, the netting has been carefully placed across the bodies of classical figures. Gibson Hall (1864 - 5), by John Gibson is a fine example of Victorian, neo-classical banking architecture designed as the HQ of a bank that replaced an earlier neo-Palladian mansion.
    city_architecture22-04-03-2013_1.jpg
  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Portrait bust of a Roman man and portrait head of Terentia. Both AD 1-79.
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  • London, UK. Monday 18th February 2013. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at  Tate Modern brings together 125 of artist Roy Lichtenstein's most definitive paintings and sculptures. Nudes with Beach Ball (1994) and Nude with Bust (1995)
    20130218roy lichtenstein tate_V.jpg
  • London, UK. Monday 18th February 2013. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at  Tate Modern brings together 125 of artist Roy Lichtenstein's most definitive paintings and sculptures. Galatea (1990) and behind Nudes with Beach Ball (1994) and Nude with Bust (1995)
    20130218roy lichtenstein tate_P.jpg
  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-04-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A man next to a Man At Work traffic sign, stands up after crouching on the bust street on 8th September 2016, in the City of London, England UK. In the background are the pillars of Royal Exchange. It is rush hour and commuters are beginning their journeys home from the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first century.
    city_people-20-08-09-2016.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9578_1.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9572_1.jpg
  • Pedestrian and cyclist on rental Boris Bike in a Soho side-street, patterned with purple. During a bust lunchtime in London's Soho many pedestrians and cyclists pass-by a splash of purple that plays across a side street off Charing Cross Road. Produced by reflective coloured panels on an adjacent building - and after a period of light rain in the capital, the vivid rays of colour are a welcome oasis of hues. Motorcycles are parked with mirrors showing the street beyond. A lady walks across the landscape with a cigarette in hand and a male cyclist pedals past on a "Boris bike" - one of the rental bicycles that can be hired for 30-minute journeys across the capital.
    purple_street04-06-10-2010 12-43-43.jpg
  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Ancestors in domestic shrines. A small number of small busts which survived.
    D57110.jpg
  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Ancestors in domestic shrines. A small number of small busts which survived.
    D5710J.jpg
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