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  • 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 Latino ad for a Spanish language newspaper and local bike business at Elephant & Castle, where massive regeneration is due. Against a very dirty old Victorian railway arch wall, we see the bright colours of advertising fro the Spanish-speaking world in an area of south London where migrants and travellers from around the world live and work. The titles of this media such as Latino Times and International Extra appear on the poster with the images of a Latin homeland, for expats to enjoy news from the motherland in a western country.
    elephant_gentrification08-27-04-2015...jpg
  • Construction hoarding and background of estate garden, a dystopian landscape in Bond Street. A bucket is ready to be raised back into the site and a plaster board rests against the hoarding. The background image shows a rural country garden of a fine house, complete with garden features of statue and hedge topiary landscaping. The screen sections off the building work for this latest store by the Dior brand, a long-time resident of this fashionable street in central London.
    bondstreet_hoarding03-12-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Vodafone mountains ad for 4G network services and dystopian refuse bins in south London. While a mountaineer stands on his a personal summit of achievement, amid the adventure of utopian snowy peaks and the great outdoors compared to the reality of the inner-city, an urban ghetto environment of the Elephant & Castle in south London where the streets are filthy and the bins by Veolia Environmental Services have graffiti on them.
    elephant_gentrification04-27-04-2015...jpg
  • Sea view telescope on West Cliff Promenade that overlooks the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-08-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The Disney cartoon character Pinoccio seen beneath concrete stairs on the Aylesbury Estate, on 4th January, London borough of Southwark, England.
    southwark_estate-13-04-01-2017.jpg
  • Lady smoker and roadworks signs below an Oasis fashion poster featuring a young woman in a utopian fantasy about to cross a road. Stopping for a smoke before carrying on her journey, the scene behind her is of a scene of retail paradise that features the model wheeling a shopping trolley, we also see a dystopian reality of the everyday city, the abandoned traffic signs leaning against this poster for the womens' retailer Oasis. A No Right-Turn and a Priority sign have been left on the ground, perfectly in context with the message above.
    oasis_poster03-16-04-2014.jpg
  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy31-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • A Polish version of Disneyland that features a childrens merry-go-round carousel, on 18th September 2019, near the Wielka Krokiew ski jump, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-147-18-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of a Polish version of Disneyland that features a deflated childrens inflatable bouncy castle, on 18th September 2019, near the Wielka Krokiew ski jump, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-140-18-09-2019.jpg
  • With a sign warning that the footpath sidewalk is closed, a smoker stubs her cigarette out beneath a construction hoarding at a new development called One Crown Place on Sun Street near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-29-08-08-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-26-08-01-2019.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
  • Resembling a punched face is a rusting cigarette receptacle in a Northumbrian town, on 26th September 2017, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
    alnwick-08-26-09-2017.jpg
  • A dystopian landscape of Westminster council sweepers barrows and an inspirational corporate slogan on a construction hoarding, on 31st January 2017, in Chinatown, London, England.
    council_bins-03-31-01-2017.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
  • Lone man on central London bus and film advertising. The passenger rides on the toip top deck of the bus, distant in thought as he travels southwards in the capital. On the side of the vehicle we see the face of Charlize Theron in her role as Imperator Furiosa, a character in the remake of dystopian fantasy film Mad Max.
    mark_bus01-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Two police officers patrol past a group of Chinese state news consumers in a Shenzhen street. Locals stop to scan headlines and the stories of the day from the sheets of newsprint posted up on street corners. The policemen in uniform patrol the area with a presence to deter petty crime in a new and prosperous China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and until the 1980s, almost all media outlets in Mainland China were state-run. Independent media outlets only began to emerge at the onset of economic reforms, although state-run media outlets such as Xinhua, CCTV, and People's Daily continue to hold significant market share.
    90s_china_police-21-04-1995_1.jpg
  • London bus passengers endure the misery of another morning commute into the city. As they sit looking miserable, squashed in the bus, its windows steamed up they are unaware of The Chronicles of Narnia movie poster that shows itself to the outsider. In the panoramic banner often used by the film industry for forthcoming movie productions, we see the main characters from Narnia in heroic, romantic and epic story roles. But the reality of another commute into London is also a heroic experience when wintry conditions often stop the flow of public transport and its infrastructure. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages.
    narnia_dystopia02-01-12-2010.jpg
  • A mural depicting God's garden of Eden on wasteland alongside the river Avon in central Bristol. Representations of the animals of Noah’s Ark are present, as children like to see them. An elephant, an ape and various other land creatures occupy the earth in a biblical image of paradise and harmony. And yet this is a dystopian landscape, forgotten by any local community and hidden from a roadside by undergrowth.
    god's_garden1-07-August-2011_1.jpg
  • A dystopian view of a Londoner passing a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    2012_stratford06-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-96-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-89-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-79-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-75-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-65-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-35-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-34-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-17-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The squashed perspective of a grenadier guardsman standing as sentry next to a doorway and a closed down business - a metaphor for Brexit, on Oxford Street, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    street_sentry-04-12-12-2017.jpg
  • The possessions of a homeless person beneath an aspirational ad for Samsungs Infinity Display and a paradise lifestyle, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    homeless_samsung-02-22-11-2017.jpg
  • Before the area was completely redeveloped with a pleasure fairground, 1990s sunbathers stretch out on bare grass on the seafront that still shows its heyday landscape, on 2nd August 1993, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    southend_landscape-02-08-1993.jpg
  • In the year that Britain will start the process of Brexit leaving the European Union, an Asian businessman walks past a crumpled British Union Jack flag in the window of a City retailer, on 2nd February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    britain_flag-03-02-02-2017.jpg
  • Christmas trees attached to a red hoarding near an Xmas theme village on Londons Southbank, on 21st November 2016, London, England.
    southbank-10-21-11-2016.jpg
  • A security employee working for Londons Southbank carries a life ring coincidentally passing through circular artwork overlooking the River Thames, on 21st November 2016, Southbank, London, England.
    southbank-07-21-11-2016.jpg
  • A dystopian landscape alongside the Forresters Pub, a long-standing bar featuring exotic dancing ladies on 17th September 2016, on the Eastern Esplanade, at Southend, Essex, England. Far right is the dome of the towns famous Kursaal entertainment centre, now fully restored after decades of semi-dereliction. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
    southend_seafront-26-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Lambeth property called The Corniche development marketing hoarding landscape. Workmen attend to an issue on the roadside in front of a futuristic impression of a penthouse balcony cityscape where a young affluent couple gaze over the Thames in a utopian dream. The homes going up here will " .. offer a selection of luxurious one, two and three bedroom apartments and penthouses boasting magnificent views of some of London's most iconic landmarks.."
    property_hoarding09-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding and construction materials. Plastic sleeves for cabling plus a pile of sand ballast is seen in the foreground, in front of an incongruous panoramic scene of a luxury apartment with a view over central London. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, will be a mixed-use development approved for construction at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development make make up a 52-storey tower of a maximum height of 170m and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail. In addition a new public space will be created.
    blackfriars_property11-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • A middle-aged man walks beneath the sign of the London Stock Exchange at their old premises known as the Tower.  The gent looks hunched as if with all the troubles of the world on his shoulders, a pessimistic view on the world. He makes a sorrowful figure with such a strong presence against the wall shadow. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986, this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange-20-04-1989_1_1_1.jpg
  • A female Italian cyclist pedals along a graffiti-lined street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. With the words 'I Love Weed' that refers to the popularity and merits of cannabis, the graffiti of other tags and assorted writings can be seen stretching into the distance where a family have passed-by and are continuing their journey towards their home to the east of the city.
    florence_italy141-23-10-2010_1.jpg
  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
    florence_italy89-22-10-2010_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
  • A detail of a Polish version of Disneyland that features a deflated childrens inflatable bouncy castle, on 18th September 2019, near the Wielka Krokiew ski jump, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-141-18-09-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-93-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-87-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-25-08-01-2019.jpg
  • As passers-by blur when walking past, a homeless street beggar sleeps on the ground outside Holborn tube station, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    street_beggar-02-22-11-2017.jpg
  • Roadside kerb landscape in front of an incongruous panoramic scene of a luxury apartment with a view over central London. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, will be a mixed-use development approved for construction at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development make make up a 52-storey tower of a maximum height of 170m and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail. In addition a new public space will be created.
    luxury_development01-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A tourism postcard sign above a drainpipe at the underpass beneath Westminster Bridge on London's Southbank. With the promise of a panoramic delight above, the sign tells us that postcards of the local area can be bought here. Above there is utopia where all is well, while below is the world of a dystopian underclass where tunnels and underpasses, rust and decay are all around.
    london_tourism01-03-02-2014.jpg
  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned
    florence_italy28-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • A landscape with a sign warning that the footpath sidewalk is closed benath a construction hoarding at a new development called One Crown Place on Sun Street near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-27-08-08-2019.jpg
  • A rental Mobike leans against a tree next to an illustration of a cycling utopia at a new development called One Crown Place on Sun Street near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-23-08-08-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-84-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-72-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-66-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-71-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-43-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-20-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Sea view telescope on West Cliff Promenade that overlooks the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-05-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Locals walk in a concrete walkway beneath a travel billboard ad featuring an idyllic countryside scene for GWR railways at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    elephant_walkway-03-03-05-2018.jpg
  • A grilled doorway and painted no parking message on 4th January, London borough of Southwark, England.
    southwark_estate-18-04-01-2017.jpg
  • A detail of a Santa sticker displayed in a security window of a vacant East End home, on 2nd January 2017, London, England.
    santa_window-01-02-01-2017.jpg
  • Aspirational illustration of future housing development where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London. The illustration conveys a fantasy for many, for a quality lifestyle in affordable housing though the reality is far from this as ordinary people struggle to afford a place to live of their own. Camberwell is undergoing massive change as new flats and apartments are built to satisfy the government's need to develop housing for a population desperate for new homes. The image and graffiti seem to have been written as a no hope, disrespect to those wanting their own property.
    camberwell_gentrification03-12-05-20...jpg
  • A dystopian landscape of construction materials and an inspirational view above the city - seen through a wire and netting street fence. Lettering on the hoarding tells us the scene below is inspirational, a capital from a new perspective. But the mess of aggregates and soil, tools and rubble tell a different story: an incongruous landscape of an idealised city and the reality of unfinished work.
    city_roadworks07-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A closed and abandoned primary school playground in Oban, Scotland.  At near ground level, we see across the broken surface of a play area where young children once played outside between lesson in this western Scottish town. Three palm trees have been painted on a wall beyond the overgrown plants grow between the cracks on concrete and roughly-made tarmac. It is a dystopian scene, one of hope and optimism and tropical optimism and decline and squalid reality.
    oban_school01-03-08-2010-1.jpg
  • The still new Canary Wharf tower stands tall in the distance with a foreground of a city in turmoil. A still derelict space occupies the space where large offices will be built in the future. Fences stop trespassers from entering a water-filled hole on wasteland. This docklands development in east London is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. The centrepiece was 1, Canada Square, also known as the Canary Wharf tower.
    docklands_landscape-22-10-2012_1.jpg
  • Two young women pass a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    2012_stratford07-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-11-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The utopia of tropical island palm trees and the reality of construction scaffolding in a side street in central London, on 11th July 2018, in London, England.
    tropical_scaffolding-01-11-07-2018.jpg
  • An image of a guardsman and a money exchange list that once displayed foreign currencies and their values, on 3rd February 2017, in London, England.
    exchange_rates-01-03-02-2017.jpg
  • Christmas trees attached to a red hoarding near an Xmas theme village on Londons Southbank, on 21st November 2016, London, England.
    southbank-11-21-11-2016.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding and construction materials. Plastic sleeves for cabling plus a pile of sand ballast is seen in the foreground, in front of an incongruous panoramic scene of a luxury apartment with a view over central London. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, will be a mixed-use development approved for construction at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development make make up a 52-storey tower of a maximum height of 170m and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail. In addition a new public space will be created.
    blackfriars_property10-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • A landscape of a Polish version of Disneyland that features a childrens merry-go-round carousel, on 18th September 2019, near the Wielka Krokiew ski jump, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-146-18-09-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-99-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-73-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-60-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-52-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-57-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The closed lift on West Cliff Promenade that overlooks the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-01-08-01-2019.jpg
  • From the famous speech by US civil rights politician Martin Luther King is his inspirational quote I Have a Dream written in neon at the entrance of a youth centre on the Ayeslbury Estate, on 7th December 2017, in Southwark, south London England.
    Ihad_a_dream-01-07-12-2017.jpg
  • In the year that Britain will start the process of Brexit leaving the European Union, a crumpled British Union Jack flag in the window of a City retailer, on 2nd February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    britain_flag-04-02-02-2017.jpg
  • A moored narrow boat lies partially submerged with Christmas tinsel still attached to the bow rail, on 2nd January 2017, in Regents Canal, central London, England.
    regents_canal-06-02-01-2017.jpg
  • A Chinese couple have their wedding photos taken amid the chaotic repairs to Londons Tower Bridge, on 6th October 2016, in London, England. Closed for repairs to traffic and disrupting this major Thames crossing and surrounding roads for the next three months.
    tower_bridge-08-06-10-2016.jpg
  • A cartoon character promotes chips outside the now vacant Britannia pub on 17th September 2016, on the Eastern Esplanade, at Southend, Essex, England. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
    southend_seafront-32-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London. Popular destination for Asian travellers and especially for newly-weds who want the backdrop of European cities for their wedding album, it is common to see touring couples having their pictures taken in front of the famous sights around the UK capital. The romantic image is however purely based on the background and not on the surrounding landscape which can often be more dystopian than that desired.
    chinese_wedding04-12-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Roadworks signs below a fashion poster featuring a young woman in a utopian fantasy about to cross a road. In a scene of retail paradise that features the model wheeling a shopping trolley, we also see a dystopian reality of the everyday city, the abandoned traffic signs leaning against this poster for the womens' retailer Oasis. A No Right-Turn and a Priority sign have been left on the ground, perfectly in context with the message above.
    oasis_poster01-16-04-2014.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
  • 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
  • A rental Mobike leans against a tree next to an illustration of a cycling utopia at a new development called One Crown Place on Sun Street near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-20-08-08-2019.jpg
  • A seafront landscape on Ramsgates Marine Esplanade, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-133-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-91-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-61-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-68-08-01-2019.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London. Popular destination for Asian travellers and especially for newly-weds who want the backdrop of European cities for their wedding album, it is common to see touring couples having their pictures taken in front of the famous sights around the UK capital. The romantic image is however purely based on the background and not on the surrounding landscape which can often be more dystopian than that desired.
    chinese_wedding01-12-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Aspirational message on construction hoarding where gentrification is happening in Camberwell, south London. The design message conveys a fantasy for many, for a quality lifestyle in affordable housing though the reality is far from this as ordinary people struggle to afford a place to live of their own. Camberwell is undergoing massive change as new flats and apartments are built to satisfy the government's need to develop housing for a population desperate for new homes. The graffiti seems to have been written as a no hope, disrespect to those wanting their own property.
    camberwell_gentrification01-27-04-20...jpg
  • 2012 Olympic wasteland and PR fantasy on a hoarding near the sports arenas in Stratford, East London. A landscape of utopian harmony and nature is viewed on the construction site board that surrounds a vacant plot a kilometre south of the Olympic Park and stadium site. In the background is a new housing tower block by design and build contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London. This landscape is more dystopian however as the reality of the empty lot is not what is promised by the imagery on the hoarding.
    2012_stratford13-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-48-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a peeling and faded pub sign feating its Saturday night entertainment in a Northumbrian town, on 26th September 2017, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
    alnwick-07-26-09-2017.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-77-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-23-08-01-2019.jpg
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