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  • Display of curtains (drapes) in a central London street shop window. Arranged in a neat display across the width of the window are the fabrics of someone's future home, the tastes being traditional and slightly retrospective with the quality reflected in the low prices, seen on labels alongside the material. A building is under construction in the background, across the road with a crane seemingly lifting the tassel that dangles from the store's ceiling.
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  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
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  • Mothers and families engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens03-17-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens10-17-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens07-17-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens06-17-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens06-17-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Mothers and families engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens03-17-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • Children engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
    southbank_screens10-17-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • A detail of net curtains in the window of a home furnishings business, on 31st March 2019, in Faversham, Kent, England.
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  • A detail of net curtains called Twitter, in the window of a home furnishings business, on 31st March 2019, in Faversham, Kent, England.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu, 29  working at sewing machine with fellow monk where they are making  curtains within the complex of Atsog monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China
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  • Open wooden shutters and traditional lace curtains in the window of a house, on 24th May, 2017, in Ribaute, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
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  • Red curtains at a window in a traditional Bhutanese farmhouse in Punakha valley, Bhutan
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  • Interior of a sheepfold with religious icon and woollen weaving on the wall and net curtains at the window, Lunca Ilvei, Romania
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  • A couple sit and talk Customers in the Indian Coffee House in Nagpur, India, shielded by thick curtains from the afternoon sun. The Indian Coffee Houses are a national chain of worker-owned cafes that were integral to Indias pre and post Indepence movements.
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  • Framed portrait of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe through window of London embassy. Just as evening light is fading, we look through net curtains to the President's formal photograph that adorns embassies and high commissions around the world. Seating for those awaiting visas etc. is seen below the frame and London streets reflected in the distance. Controversial Robert Gabriel Mugabe has served since 31 December 1987. As one of the leaders of the rebel groups against white minority rule, he was elected as Prime Minister, head of government, in 1980, and served in that office until 1987, when he became the country's first executive head of state. He has led the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) since 1975.
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  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat sitting on the ledge in the French town of Gonesse, a town to the north of Paris. The puss sits looking at something close-by, surrounded by drying pine cones and beneath old fashioned lace curtains that have images of cats in their design. The exterior is slightly shabby, with unpainted and rusting features.
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  • A lovely lady and a grumpy man live here. Sign in a living room front window filled with net curtains of a council flat in Southwark, London, UK.
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  • Embroidered cushions and net curtains at the window in the interior of a Romanian peasant farmer's home in the village of Desesti, Maramures, Romania.
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  • Net curtains and floral display pots past their best, outside a small village cafe, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
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  • A couple sit and talk Customers in the Indian Coffee House in Nagpur, India, shielded by thick curtains from the afternoon sun. The Indian Coffee Houses are a national chain of worker-owned cafes that were integral to Indias pre and post Indepence movements.
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  • Net curtains and floral display pots past their best, outside a small village cafe, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
    rothbury-05-25-09-2017.jpg
  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat sitting on the ledge in the French town of Gonesse, a town to the north of Paris. The puss sits looking at something close-by, surrounded by drying pine cones and beneath old fashioned lace curtains that have images of cats in their design. The exterior is slightly shabby, with unpainted and rusting features.
    french_windows01-29-07-2002_2_1.jpg
  • 'Christmas Comes but once a Year ..'  A grandfather holds his tired granddaughter at arms-length while watching a television prgramme at Christmas time. The baby girl is 5 months-old and yawns with a wide, open mouth while the elder relative pouts, looking grumpy. Both are seated on an armchair in the family home's living room. A decorated Christmas tree is seen in the far corner and the curtains behind are drawn. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • "Brave New World." On a maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a tiny new-born baby girl sleeps in her cot at the foot of her mother's bed. We see the mum's legs and feet pointing towards some curtains against which her infant is wrapped in an NHS shawl to keep her snug and warm. But it's Summer and the bedding is ruffled at the bottom to keep the heat down for an exhausted mother comfortable in an otherwise airless room. It is a scene of serenity and safety, at a time when mother and baby are bonding. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella04-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • A net curtain at a window in the old Catholic church in Song Duu Kayan ethnic minority village in Kayah State, Myanmar on 15th November 2016
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  • A contestant for the next Torbay Carnival Princess and Queen is interviewed by a man as the competition thrones await their newest occupants during the seaside town’s fair in Devon, England. A crown, hat and two bouquets of flowers are for the young girls too. The theme of the stage is blue, with matching colours on both cushions and the backing curtain (drapes). We get a sense of the tacky and the old-fashioned nature of the carnival and of its princess competition.
    carnival_princess03-22-10-2012_1.jpg
  • Curtained entrance to industrial unit. Kyoto Japan
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  • A resident of Bowater House on the Golden Lane Estate cleans a window with a banner on the balcony protesting about the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Residents on the Estate have erected banners by artists Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price to picket the developers. Despite this, Wimpey say, We are one of the UKs largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities.
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  • A resident of Bowater House on the Golden Lane Estate with a banner on the balcony protesting about the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Residents on the Estate have erected banners by artists Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price to picket the developers. Despite this, Wimpey say, We are one of the UKs largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities.
    denizen_protest-11-30-10-2017.jpg
  • A framed photograph of the wedding of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to commoner Jetsun Pema at Punakha Dzong on 13 October 2011 - in a tourist restaurant in Punakha, Western Bhutan. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the fifth and current reigning Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King" of the Kingdom of Bhutan.
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  • Iqbal Geoffrey, Pakistani artist, whose unorthodox modernist styles has made him internationally famous.<br />
In 1989 London's Hayward Gallery managed to damage or lose300 of his works. At time of writing Geoffrey is pursuing legal action against the gallery. London, UK.
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  • Win this Mercedes in a central London amusement arcade, a temptation for gamblers to enter an electronic draw. The bonnet (hood) of the supercar is pointed out towards passers-by in the street, a clear ploy to attract them inside to spend their money on a risk worth taking. The URL for the gambling support group 'gambleaware.co.uk' is carefully positioned in the corner to allow potential risk takers to decide on how to gamble responsibly. Some people gambling can become a serious problem, both for themselves and for their family, friends, and those concerned about them. Gambleaware provide tools to help them to recognise problem gambling behaviour.
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  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
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  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house16-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • A neon sign forming the letters spelling the word Morning Glory outside a cafe in Soho, on 15th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A group of women gather to read the Koran and chat, while their husband discuss matters related to their palm oil smallholdings outside the house Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He is part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, increasing yields, and improving farm management.
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  • Slices of traditional cake on a plate in a peasant farmer's kitchen in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania
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  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house19-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house14-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • A Merry Christmas message and a Neighbourhood Watch sticker in the sash window of a Victorian terraced house in Herne Hill, SE24, on 18th December 2017, in London, England.
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  • A Merry Christmas message and a Neighbourhood Watch sticker in the sash window of a Victorian terraced house in Herne Hill, SE24, on 18th December 2017, in London, England.
    christmas_window-02-18-12-2017.jpg
  • A prisoner stands at his cell window inside HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.
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  • A prisoner stands at his cell window inside HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
    prague-76-18-03-2018.jpg
  • Man wearing a face mask passes a pink curtain in the window of a closed hair dressers as the third national coronavirus lockdown continues, during the first days of the easing of lockdown restrictions on 30th March 2021 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. After months of lockdown, the first signs that life will start to get back to normal begin, with more people enjoying the company of others in public, as the rule of six starts the first stage of lockdown ending.
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  • Pink curtain in the window of a closed hair dressers as the third national coronavirus lockdown continues, during the first days of the easing of lockdown restrictions on 30th March 2021 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. After months of lockdown, the first signs that life will start to get back to normal begin, with more people enjoying the company of others in public, as the rule of six starts the first stage of lockdown ending.
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  • Man wearing a face mask passes a pink curtain in the window of a closed hair dressers as the third national coronavirus lockdown continues, during the first days of the easing of lockdown restrictions on 30th March 2021 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. After months of lockdown, the first signs that life will start to get back to normal begin, with more people enjoying the company of others in public, as the rule of six starts the first stage of lockdown ending.
    20210330_covid pink curtain_002.jpg
  • A young Nepali man peers out from a curtain to talk to an unseen neighbour in a remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal. It is a colourful (colorful) scene as the curtain fabric is a striking blue with mauve leaf motifs drawn in but it is a natural opposite colour against the badly-painted yellow wooden walls of his shack. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller.
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  • In front of a red curtain, the comedian Phil Nichol performs on stage in London. With the microphone (mic) on its stand, the comic is free to gesture without hindrance, amplifying his voice to the unseen audience, he comic recounts his narrative and gestures to help him make his point. A double shadow is seen on the curtain (drape) from the rudimentary stage lighting. Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor (source http://www.gloriousmanagement.com/artist/phil-nichol).
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  • In front of a red curtain, the comedian Phil Nichol performs on stage in London. With the microphone (mic) on its stand, amplifying his voice to the unseen audience. The comic strums his acoustic guitar with his jumper (pullover) over his head, a sort of caricature of a court jester. he comic recounts his narrative and gestures to help him make his point. A double shadow is seen on the curtain (drape) from the rudimentary stage lighting and the silhouetted heads from the audience front row listen to this man's act. Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor (source http://www.gloriousmanagement.com/artist/phil-nichol).
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  • In front of a red curtain, the stand-up comedian Chris Neill performs on stage in London. Holding a microphone (mic) to amplify his voice to the unseen audience, the comic recounts his narrative and gestures to help him make his point. This is an upright picture, weighted to the bottom to allow more blank space above his head. A double shadow is seen on the curtain (drape) from the rudimentary stage lighting. Chris Neill (born 1968) is a British comedian, producer and writer who features regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. Performing also as a stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, he has presented five solo shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2002 (source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Neill).
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  • Huge Shoreditch development by Curtain Street in London, United Kingdom. This is site of The Curtain theatre which started in 1577 and where the first performance of Romeo and Juliet was given.
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  • The laces of child’s bootie shoe ties together a cartoon-print curtain. Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a curtain at Princess Alice’s Adoption home; a children’s home in association with BigShoes Foundation.
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  • A view from a flat window with a floral net curtain at a tower block on a Birmingham estate. Birmingham, West Midlands. United Kingdom.
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  • Assistant keeper hangs a curtain to prevent the sun's rays from being concentrated and causing a fire before automation at Start Point lighthouse, Devon, UK. Start Point is one of the most exposed peninsulas on the English Coast, running sharply almost a mile into the sea on the South side of Start Bay near Dartmouth. Start Point lighthouse was automated in 1993 and the station is now monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre at Harwich in Essex via a telemetry link.
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  • A green shiny curtain hanging over a doorway in a home in the Vietnamese Hindu Cham weaving village of My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam.
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  • A green shiny curtain hanging over a doorway in a home in the Vietnamese Hindu Cham weaving village of My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam.
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  • Curtain with landscape mural in the Alleys, Shangri-la. Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • Curtain naturally dyed with indigo at a window in studio of master dyer Juana Gutierrez Contreras in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 24 November 2018.   November 2018.  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • A net curtain hangs at a farmhouse window, Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • Chivalry is Not Dead painted on a boarded up bar on Curtain Road to support NHS workers  during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Chivalry is Not Dead painted on a boarded up bar on Curtain Road to support NHS workers  during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Details of a curtain in a clapboard house, Principe, Sao Tome and Principe<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Details of a net curtain in a clapboard house, Principe, Sao Tome and Principe<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Near the mainline station called Santa Maria Novello, a young couple whose upper bodies and faces are hidden by a drawn curtain (drapes) have their portrait taken in a Florence street photobooth. We assume that the man is seated on the rotating stool while his partner sits on his lap, both their trainers viewed at the bottom as the automatic machine takes their pictures at a price of 2, 4 or 5 Euros. The Italian word Fotoressera is written on the top of the kiosk. This is particular form of photography used primarily for institutional purposes, usually for identity documents; licenses; identity cards; railway passes and resumes.
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  • A comic entertainer with glitzy backdrop performs a stand-up routine on stage during cruise ship voyage. Surrounded by the showbiz styled curtain (drapes) we see the rather fat man wearing a waistcoat and bow tie as he paces around the stage while entertaining the ship’s evening audience. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship with whirlpools, nightclubs, a casino and duty-free shopping. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships.
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  • Posh court-type chair seen through the window of a hotel in central London. We look through the window where an upper net curtain splits the image two for us to see the empty seating.
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  • The chairs for the next Torbay Carnival Princess and Queen competition winners awaits their newest occupants during the seaside town’s fair in Devon, England. A crown, hat and two bouquets of flowers are for the young girls too and the sash has the words ‘Princess for a Day’ across the material. The theme of the stage is blue, with matching colours on both cushions and the backing curtain (drapes). There is no one in this landscape but we get a sense of the tacky and old-fashioned nature of the carnival and of its princess competition.
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  • Skater riding a tram through central Sophia. Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Momiclgrad. A town prodominantly occupied by ethnic turks who have reisted the authorities attempts at enforced assimilation to be met with force and deportations. Bulgaria, April 1989.
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  • 9th September Place. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Family celebration. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Monument to Lenin. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Georgi Dimitrou Mausuleum. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Mladost housing estate on the outskirts of Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Interior of a home in Ninh So, bamboo basket weaving village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • Typical decorations on a wall in a home in the Vietnamese Hindu Cham weaving village of My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam.
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  • Musician and singer Guilherme de Caravalho at home, Sao Tome. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Musician and singer Guilherme de Caravalho at home, Sao Tome. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Dog and window, Knightsbridge London, UK.
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  • Firefighters assess charred remains damage of the Savoy Theatre fire, on 14th February 1990, in London, England. While the theatre was being renovated in February 1990, a fire gutted the building, except for the stage and backstage areas.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Three seats awaiting musicians before a local village concert at Wells-next-the-Sea in Nofolk. Quavers and a pattern of other musical notations appear on the black background while the fold-up chairs are untidily vacant.
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  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
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  • Detail of a street vendor's food stall in a street cafe in Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert, Egypt. The head and face of a young man is seen through the window and the heat of mid-day can be imagined in the bright background of Kharga town centre. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. Two seemingly gay men are kissing on the lips but this is one of the most famous paintings – a symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War. It shows Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art and an old Trabant car at the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Trabants were the common Socialist vehicle in East Germany, exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery12-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery05-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery01-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery04-06-04-2013_1.jpg
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