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  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote01-27-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Mothers swing a child across a filthy puddle in the town of Nova Huta, an industrial Stalinist steel town in southern Poland. In filthy this industrial street, three street urchins watch the colourfully-dressed girls pass-by. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. After the Second World War, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town named Nowa Huta - New Steel Mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
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  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen at the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    poland_poverty-20-06-1990.jpg
  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
    misc_poland01-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Beneath an ugly breeze block concrete wall, a couple are enjoying their holiday in the English seaside town of Paignton, Devon. Sitting in striped deckchairs they are both curiously touching their own genital areas between their legs, perhaps both scratching an itch. The lady in sunglasses wearing a floral dress on the left looks guilty while her topless male partner appears more amused by the interruption. In this depressing corner of Paignton, also called the English Riviera, the grey construction behind them is a grim reminder of what it is often like to holiday in one's own home country where few exotic luxuries are found. Such squalor is unfortunately common around the UK and a reason why people take their vacations abroad. Even the grass below them is bare with weeds growing and soil at the foot of the wall.
    england_beach01-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Despite a gloriously bright summer afternoon, we see a depressing corner of Southend-on-Sea's Adventure Island. A young couple sits on some white towels in front of a wall that is adorned with graffiti and has its paint rubbed away. It is a scene of squalor and desolation in a town that makes revenue from the day-tripper holiday market. Since Victorian times, many Londoners have traditionally come to this south-east coast on the Thames Estuary, close to the capital. Towns like this have seen a marked decline since the advent of the package tourism in favour of exotic beaches in Spain.
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  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen st the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    misc_poland06-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
    derelict_beach-18-06-1989_1.jpg
  • A clutch of deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London. Looking up we see a detail of the bright reds of the banner and balloons plus electrical and telephony wiring tacked along the bricks on Walworth in the London borough of Southwark. It is a scene of sadness and depression - a dystopian landscape of ended love after the annual celebration of amour and relationships. The depressed wall shows us the opposite of the perfect Valentine ideal.
    sad_valentines02-16-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A London bus passenger shows the everyday tedium of commuting in the UK capital. The woman looks bored and depressed as she stares out from her rear seat. Behind the vehicle we see a romantic film ad that seems to contrast the woman's solitary existence. Rain has recently fallen on the capital's streets making the day seem more mundane.
    bus_commuter02-27-04-2012_1.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London. This might be a metaphor for the state of the nation today, a dystopian society of pessimism and oppression as if from Orwellian fiction. It may also suggest a country during revolution or quanrantine, closed behind the security fence.
    england_flag11-27-04-2013_1.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London. This might be a metaphor for the state of the nation today, a dystopian society of pessimism and oppression as if from Orwellian fiction. It may also suggest a country during revolution or quanrantine, closed behind the security fence.
    england_flag06-27-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Amid post-War inner-city concrete, an elderly man struggles up a slope in Birmingham’s infamous Bull Ring, a development of open-air market stalls, offices and a new indoor shopping centre, the first indoor city-centre shopping centre in the UK. It symbolised everything horrid about architecture in a modern Britain. The words ‘Unspoilt by progress’ seems to be a statement of extreme  falsehood, a lie for those using this grim feature of modernism. The market began in medieval 1154 but it was its 1964 regeneration that gave it a reputation of an oppressive urban monstrosity though it  was considered the height of modernity. But higher rents meant traders turned away and the public shunned subways and escalators which stopped working regularly. Much disliked by the public it contributed to the popular conception that Birmingham was a ‘concrete jungle’.
    birmingham_concrete-25-06-1997_1.jpg
  • Street mural landscape and local man on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. The man carries a young girl in his arms, its face unseen to the viewer. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate04-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Fly tipping of refuse and van on the edge of a park during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus lockdown saw a surge in fly tipping due to an increase of household waste and the closure and controlled visiting rules for tips and recycling centres. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
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  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge. It is mid-morning but the misty conditions have still to improve enough for visibility to allow a clear view a cross the river where city offices and skyscrapers are normally seen. London's Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians linking Bankside with the City of London. Construction began in 1998 and it initially opened in June 2000. Londoners nicknamed the bridge the "Wobbly Bridge" after pedestrians initially felt an unexpected swaying motion.
    city_people06-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge. It is mid-morning but the misty conditions have still to improve enough for visibility to allow a clear view a cross the river where city offices and skyscrapers are normally seen. London's Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians linking Bankside with the City of London. Construction began in 1998 and it initially opened in June 2000. Londoners nicknamed the bridge the "Wobbly Bridge" after pedestrians initially felt an unexpected swaying motion.
    city_people01-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Before its redevelopment in 2000, a lady shopper walks through the grim underpass of the Midlands infamous Bullring shopping centre, on 12th October 1997, in Birmingham, England.
    birmingham_bullring-12-10-1997.jpg
  • The fantasy of a model sunbathing on a beach is the opposite the experience of a local girl on a dark and rainy London on an April morning. The difference between dream and dystopia are evident in this backdrop, an ad for Salvatore Ferragamo (1898 – 1960) who was an Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. Film stars and celebrities continue to patronize his company, which has evolved into a luxury goods empire spanning the world.
    rain_ad01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • A sign for the green environment in a housing estate located in the former Eastern Bloc Communist East Germany known as the GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the cold war. This was once a restricted zone due to its proximity to the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison before the fall of the Berlin wall in Nov 1989.
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  • Damaged cash machine on the high street during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Food bank with long queue for those in need during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
    _E6A6721.jpg
  • Derelict housing block, boarded up and covered in graffiti during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
    _E6A6666.jpg
  • Fly tipping of refuse and van on the edge of a park during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus lockdown saw a surge in fly tipping due to an increase of household waste and the closure and controlled visiting rules for tips and recycling centres. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
    _E6A6695.jpg
  • Derelict housing block, boarded up and covered in graffiti during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
    _E6A6672.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians and a jogger crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge. It is mid-morning but the misty conditions have still to improve enough for visibility to allow a clear view a cross the river where city offices and skyscrapers are normally seen. In the foreground are old wooden posts that once formed jetties and landing stages on what was once a very busy waterway in the capital. London's Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians linking Bankside with the City of London. Construction began in 1998 and it initially opened in June 2000. Londoners nicknamed the bridge the "Wobbly Bridge" after pedestrians initially felt an unexpected swaying motion.
    city_people02-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Smoking women and dejected-looking businessmen sit looking at the ground in sunshine outside an office complex in the City of London. During a lull in afternoon work, the two men are sitting in a warm place outside the corporate building, talking quietly about an issue or problem. Two women stand in a similar pose in almost matching coats holding cigarettes in their fingers - a few minutes respite from their office jobs. The are is a pedestrian zone on Lime Street in the City, the heart of the capital's financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century.
    city_people05-17-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl the dystopian message "It's a wonderful world." The differences between dream and dystopia make for a comical, if slightly sad landscape in this south London street called Coldharbour Lane SW9, the home for housing estates and problem families in the borough of Lambeth. Peeling sheets of past ad campaigns after rainfall has helped tear the top layer to reveal others underneath. <br />
Primesight is one of the UK's leading Outdoor advertising companies with ownership of a diverse portfolio of products in a range of environments.
    wonderful_world02-28-04-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
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  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
    england_beach02-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • Morning fog envelopes pedestrians and a jogger crossing the river Thames on the Millennium Bridge. It is mid-morning but the misty conditions have still to improve enough for visibility to allow a clear view a cross the river where city offices and skyscrapers are normally seen. In the foreground are old wooden posts that once formed jetties and landing stages on what was once a very busy waterway in the capital. London's Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians linking Bankside with the City of London. Construction began in 1998 and it initially opened in June 2000. Londoners nicknamed the bridge the "Wobbly Bridge" after pedestrians initially felt an unexpected swaying motion.
    city_people03-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Bibijamel is 60. She clasps her tranquilizers, "I can’t eat, I don’t like anything, I feel nothing. I am depressed. We have all suffered trauma and difficulties. Luckily I am a member of a women’s group who meet weekly to support each other. By listening to each other and knowing each other’s stories and life problems, we can help each other through our stresses."
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  • A young family walk gloomily past property Sold signs in a street at Grays, Essex England. Passing the prominent signs that bear the name of Quirk Deakin, a local estate agent in the industrial towns of south Essex and the Thames Gateway, is the location for dramatic increases of new housing developments. Both the parents and their daughter look depressed in this time of economic recession, when families are having their homes repossessed after defaulting on mortgage repayments. It is a bright summer day in Grays, east of the capital, just outside of the M25 orbital motorway and on the Thames river.
    river_business172-31-08-2007.jpg
  • A man stands on his own on a grassy bank to cut a lonely figure in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but lights still picks out the man against the darkening skyline. He stands with arms folded looking thoughtfully at the ground as if depressed or considering his isolation in the world. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf_person-13-08-1991_1.jpg
  • A person wearing an England cap looks down at the ground in Camberwell, on 26th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England.
    england_cap-02-26-09-2018.jpg
  • A walker rests on a bench while on the Precipice Walk, to overlook the landscape of the river Afon Mawddach and out to the sea at Barmouth, on 13th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_walk-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • With a pair of handcuffs attached to one wrist, an unidentified young woman dances next to a drunk man, on 21st June 1997, in London, England.
    nightclub_woman-21-06-1997.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-09-02-06-2020.jpg
  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    toxteth_alley-14-06-1991_1_1.jpg
  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, xxx as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England. The banners are for the current art exihibition of Italian Baroque artist, Artemisia Gentileschi.
    coronavirus_lockdown3_41-05-01-2021.jpg
  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Samaritans helpline on Waterloo Bridge over the River Thames on 15th June 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Teams of volunteers are to patrol Waterloo Bridge, trying to intercept people who might be considering suicide by jumping into the Thames.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-05-02-06-2020.jpg
  • A detail of a warning sign of cliff top height dangers at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-05-26-12-2019.jpg
  • A young man sits on an exterior ledge, benneath apartments at Waterloo, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    southbank_apartments-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • Carrying a placard asking if Brexit is worth it, a pro-EU remainer waks alongside College Green opposite the Houses of Parliament at a time of crisis for the country when Prime Minister Theresa May deals with Brexit negotiations and minister resignations, on 15th November 2018, in London, England.
    eu_supporter-01-15-11-2018.jpg
  • Pete Swift, head of internal audit. posing for a portrait at his office, in Southampton.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Sheik, alone in his house with no money and nothing to do. A former security guard, he was retrained after his mutilation and became a baker. He has an oven but few people can afford to buy his bread. Several years ago his wife fled to the USA and took his children with her. Sometimes she sends money.  Village near Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • As a summer sun sets behind evening clouds, there is a moment of peace for a solitary man, silhouetted while seated on bench in the cemetery of the Holy Rude Church in Stirling, Scotland. Taking a while to collect his thoughts, to consider aspects of a troubled life or simply to think spiritual meanings, the man has found tranquillity and inner-strength from this beauty spot, a mound overlooking the headstones and graves of Scottish nobility.
    stirling_cemetery08-30-07-2010-1_1_1.jpg
  • The message in graffiti lettering "Don't come here they attack you" has been written on a wall outside a house in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, Merseyside England. Flat 1A has a bright red-painted door and red bricks in an otherwise poverty-stricken district of this poor inner-city where crime and social deprivation has become the normal way of life for Scouses (someone from Liverpool). We see the red theme carried throughout this image of threat and ill-discipline where survival is clearly hard. These 'back to back' terraced houses have largely been demolished during Liverpool's regeneration during the 60s and 70s though some remain, accommodating unfortunate families on low-income.
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  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    RB_017-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A rather obese woman stands in the waves at the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. With hands behind her back and fingers interlocked the lady wears a turquoise bathing costume that just about fits her ample, wide body. Her bottom is large as are her legs that have cellulite on the tops of her thighs. She looks left alone, a solitary person standing with her back to the viewer - or perhaps she is standing guard, keeping watch on children as they play safely in the sea. Water splashes against her lower legs and is frozen still by a fast shutter speed. It is a fine, bright sunny afternoon on this Eastern coast of England, more noted for very changeable weather rather than the heatwave experienced here.
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  • Poor terraced housing and alleyway in Liverpool with black refuse bags left against poor housing brick walls. Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmen’s' strike of 1991, we see a cobbled alley of 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    liverpool_refuse01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Two young ‘Scouse' girls sit on a telephone junction box and against a brick wall on which there is graffiti and childish scribbles. They are near a back alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. The older, taller girl is of Asian-descent and the younger is White British who hides her face with her top. Both are facing other activity in this inner-city street where there are 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre and home to deprived families. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • A filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool amid socially-deprived streets and terraced housing. Graffiti of girls' names has been painted on to the brick wall of a tenement building but is now peeling off. Weeds have grown around the cobbled pavement and the windows are boarded up in a landscape of urban dereliction and social depravity.
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  • A solitary person walks over wasteland in Liverpool, England, left after housing was demolished decades ago - its impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere. the sign tells us the name of this road but paint has been daubed over it in an attempt perhaps, to erase its identity now that the community has gone too. Billboards for consumer goods are on show for  non-existent shoppers.
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  • A wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Liver building is seen in the far distance as a symbol of the city centre beyond an empty street up which a solitary man walks his dog. Empty buildings await destruction after the terraced housing has long been razed to the ground in the 1960s - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
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  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction02-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A Loyalist wall and rubbish-strewn wasteground shows the dereliction of 1990s Belfast, northern Ireland. Rubbish and missing brickwork tell us of a city a decade after the Troubles when protestant fought catholic causes, a clash of religion and ideology with poor investment by a London-based government.
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  • A male clothing shop in the last week of a closing down sale on Oxford Street, London, United Kingdom.  The recent recession has forced many shop closures, especially small and independent shops.
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  • With one of the famous fountains at the base of Nelson's Column behind, a solitary person walks through Trafalgar Square and up the steps on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square01-12-11-2020.jpg
  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
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  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge opened 1864 is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
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  • A detail of a handmade package of notes at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
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  • Matt Walton Posing with  his car  Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson,Tennessee, with his family in the background. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around: that’s when you get to meet the real America. Matts car looked like it was worth more than his house.
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  • Handyman Matt Walton with his son, Nathan and partner outside their home, Lower Brownsville Rd, Jackson, Tennessee. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • Nathan Walton In his back yard swimming pool, Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson, Tennessee  with his father Matt, mother and friend in back ground. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • A downcast male pedestrian walks through reflected light shining from a City of London office building. Walking slowly at his own speed, the person looks downbeat, a downward-looking character in the bustle of the modern city. He walks past the pool of bright reflective lighting the City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past. They will continue through Royal Exchange Buildings in EC2, the heart of the capital's financial district.
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  • A downcast male pedestrian walks through reflected light shining from a City of London office building. Walking slowly at his own speed, the person looks downbeat, a downward-looking character in the bustle of the modern city. He walks past the pool of bright reflective lighting the City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past. They will continue through Royal Exchange Buildings in EC2, the heart of the capital's financial district.
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  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty on a Toxteth estate during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. With a crumbling brick wall now fallen on to long grass in the foreground and in the distance, the remains of former homes with gaping holes in roofs, now derelict and awaiting demolition now that all residents have left, their community dispersed to other nearby estates, an impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
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  • Commuters crowd through one of the metro stations in Shanghai, China on 11 May 2010.  A recent survey by domestic media have shown that over 75% of white collar workers are having the thought of leaving major commercial cities such as Shanghai and Beijing; as high cost of living, especially that of housing, have wiped out gains in income and stress of daily life are increasingly hindering their pursuit of happiness.
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  • Four water-logged deckchairs have been abandoned on a wet Brighton's East Pier in East Sussex. It is Spring but the rain has driven away holidaymakers from this desolate and depressing spot from England's South coast seaside resort. We see a gloomy, grey sky and empty horizon with neither people, nor water activity but the stripes of the railings are echoed in the reflective wooden planks on this Victorian-era pier and of the fabric on the deckchairs. We wonder who might have sat on these chairs and where they might be now?  This landscape might be the antithesis of a holiday poster that repels rather than attracts tourists to this location.
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  • Mrs Farzana Samimi on her talk show ‘Banuî with psychiatrist, Mohammed Yasin Babrak.<br />
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Farzana’s show centres on problems faced by Afghan women - largely a taboo subject. Currently, for security reasons guests have to talk by phone: “I remember one guest - a young girl -  who was forced ( by her parents) to marry.” Says Farzana. “But because she came on TV, her parents threatened to kill her”.  <br />
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 One of Farzana’s colleagues was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul in May 2005 and Farzana’s  husband wants her to stop presenting but she says:  “The show is very important. For a lot of women, their only source of help is from the TV.”<br />
A survey of women in Kabul found that 98 percent suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic depression or severe anxiety. Dr Babrak, Farzana’s co presenter says. “Most women who come to me suffer from mood swings and schizophrenia," <br />
 Farzana can empathize: “During the Taliban I was depressed and I am still traumatised. It took me two years after the collapse of the Taliban to stop wearing the burkha. Educated women wouldn’t come out on the streets even after the Taliban fell. But gradually women got more courage and things are changing.”
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  • Shop selling alcohol by the rail tracks on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Selma is the main town of Dallas County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in Alabama and one of the most economically depressed towns in America. It was known as the Queen of the Black Belt for its rich soil that proved ideal for highly profitable cotton growing and extended the years of slave labour after the slave trade had been outlawed. Now it struggles with joblessness, drugs and disenfranchisement.
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  • Downtown drugstore in the evening on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Selma is the main town of Dallas County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in Alabama and one of the most economically depressed towns in America. It was known as the Queen of the Black Belt for its rich soil that proved ideal for highly profitable cotton growing and extended the years of slave labour after the slave trade had been outlawed. Now it struggles with joblessness, drugs and disenfranchisement.
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  • Dollar General Store, main street, on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Selma is the main town of Dallas County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in Alabama and one of the most economically depressed towns in America. It was known as the Queen of the Black Belt for its rich soil that proved ideal for highly profitable cotton growing and extended the years of slave labour after the slave trade had been outlawed. Now it struggles with joblessness, drugs and disenfranchisement.
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  • Dollar General Store, main street, on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Selma is the main town of Dallas County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in Alabama and one of the most economically depressed towns in America. It was known as the Queen of the Black Belt for its rich soil that proved ideal for highly profitable cotton growing and extended the years of slave labour after the slave trade had been outlawed. Now it struggles with joblessness, drugs and disenfranchisement.
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  • School children waiting outside a fast food bar at Aldgate on 26th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Eating fast food has been linked to obesity, high cholesterol, and depression. Many fast foods tend to be high in saturated fat, sugar, salt and calories.
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  • A kitten sits on the ledge outside London Cat Village in Rivington Street, Shoreditch. The puss (aka moggie) rests on the ledge with netting to stop it jumping out into the street below - its cute face and striped fur an attraction for passers-by and customers of this business. The owners say, "A little over 2 years ago, my husband was depressed due to stress which led to constant battles to hospital, our hope was finding a Holistic solution." A cat café is a theme café whose attraction is cats that can be watched and played with.
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  • Oxford Street information point and resting RSPCA dog. The animal is spread across the pavement while its charity minder hopes for donations in the bucket provided and alongside the dog. Along the street we see  a depressed-looking street information helper who should be offering advice to shoppers and visitors to Oxford Street in central London, UK. It is a scene of misery and dejection, of depression and disinterest
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  • A woman sitting in Miami Beach Post Office a famous landmark built during the great depression as a way of getting people into work. She sits infront of a wall of PO Boxes
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  • Detail of stone architecture dated anno domini 1928, on the surface of a wall on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City. This famous street symbolises the US economy. September 1929 was the peak of the stock market. and a few days later, on October 24, stock values plummeted and the market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. t
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  • Detail of stone architecture dated anno domini 1928, on the surface of a wall on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City. This famous street symbolises the US economy. September 1929 was the peak of the stock market. and a few days later, on October 24, stock values plummeted and the market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. t
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  • A house-proud housewife trims her lawn with a pair of scissors in new housing on a terraced Liverpool street. Stooping down to ground level, the lady snips and preens individual blades of grass on an almost perfectly manicured lawn. Her home is new, surrounded by the early 20th century and Victorian terraced housing that populates this part of north-western Britain. There are few cars and two other people cross the road without fear of approaching vehicles – the economy here is largely depressed. And yet, the female gardener has taken the trouble to mow her garden and then trim her esteemed plot. She wears an orange suit too, a splash of colour in an otherwise drab street.
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  • An elderly lady widow resident of a tower block, enjoys the company of TV newsreader in her inner-city home. Watching the television news programme on which a black man of perhaps afro-Caribbean descent is presenting, the lady sits with a cup of tea, wearing pink slippers and surrounded by personal possessions that line the sill of her high-rise window, overlooking the Middlesex Estate in the City of London. She is alone apart from the on-screen presence of the male presenter empty of human contact or friendly neighbours. She lives alone in this inner city flat but she is looking after herself showing brushed hair, a lace top and lipstick. The world outside is a depressingly empty landscape of concrete walkways and garage doors, an inner-city environment devoid of human interaction or friendliness.
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  • Lu Yafang, an investor who claimed that she lost her life saving of 100,000 RMB (roughly 15,500 USD) to investment schemes promoted by the local government, photographed in Shanghai, China on 04 August, 2011. With the banking interest rate artificially depressed by the Chinese government, the average Chinese citizen has little option to increase their wealth in the face of inflation, causing some of them to put their money in risky and often fraudulent schemes.
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  • Lu Yafang, an investor who claimed that she lost her life saving of 100,000 RMB (roughly 15,500 USD) to investment schemes promoted by the local government, photographed in Shanghai, China on 04 August, 2011. With the banking interest rate artificially depressed by the Chinese government, the average Chinese citizen has little option to increase their wealth in the face of inflation, causing some of them to put their money in risky and often fraudulent schemes.
    QS110805Shanghai011.jpg
  • Lu Yafang, an investor who claimed that she lost her life saving of 100,000 RMB (roughly 15,500 USD) to investment schemes promoted by the local government, photographed in Shanghai, China on 04 August, 2011. With the banking interest rate artificially depressed by the Chinese government, the average Chinese citizen has little option to increase their wealth in the face of inflation, causing some of them to put their money in risky and often fraudulent schemes.
    QS110805Shanghai008.jpg
  • Lu Yafang, an investor who claimed that she lost her life saving of 100,000 RMB (roughly 15,500 USD) to investment schemes promoted by the local government, photographed in Shanghai, China on 04 August, 2011. With the banking interest rate artificially depressed by the Chinese government, the average Chinese citizen has little option to increase their wealth in the face of inflation, causing some of them to put their money in risky and often fraudulent schemes.
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