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  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
    graffiti_tunnel05-22-06-2012_1.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
    graffiti_tunnel02-22-06-2012_1.jpg
  • A detail of a fist adorned with gold rings, a bracelet and bling of a gangster family security man during the East End funeral to notorious criminal twin Ronnie Kray. The anonymous man is only seen from is lowered hand and the man who wears a black leather coat. He stands guard before the Kray coffin appears from the Bethnal Green undertakers. Ronald, commonly referred to as Ron or Ronnie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia while he and his twin brother Reggie were involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets and violent assaults including torture during the 1950s and 60s. They terrorised their organised crime competitors but were loved by the communities of East London. The Kray gangster twins were eventually jailed separately in 1969 and Ronnie remained in Broadmoor (psychiatric) Hospital until his death on 17 March 1995.
    ronnie_kray_funeral03-29-03-1995.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
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-28-01-06-2018.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, riot police tower over a young German girl outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_3.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-10-01-06-2018.jpg
  • A boy spreads his hands and fingers out on a Gatwick South Terminal window. Outside is the nose of an American Northwest Airlines DC-10 with its third engine mounted high on the rear fuselage) that is parked at a satellite gate at London Gatwick airport. The boy is a silhouette against subdued light and the aircraft's nose resembles a shark's face that is menacingly close to the young child. Such is the flattening of perspective by a telephoto lens, the aircraft looks much closer than in reality. Gatwick airport, as well as Heathrow, Stansted, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Southampton in the UK, is owned and administered by BAA, the British Airport Authority.
    RB-0047.jpg
  • A night view of the green Yorkshire Moors countryside looking down from a nearby hill to the top secret intelligence-gathering base of RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. One sees the lights of passing traffic past  surreal-looking white radomes in the shape of golf balls - each containing a satellite dish - that are dotted across the science-fiction landscape. Many of these are used for signals interception from communications satellites and are commonly thought to be part of ECHELON, a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network. Other parts of this notorious  site are thought to be used by the Space Based Infrared System employed by the US National Missile Defence program. The base has attracted significant levels of protest from anti-nuclear and pacifist groups.
    RB_107-18-05-2001.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-18-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-11-01-06-2018.jpg
  • An effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London. Encased in a glass-sided box and behind what resembles yellow garden fencing, the Christian idol stands with outstretched arms, a traditional figure for Catholics to practice idolatry. The church walls are constructed from red brick, in a style much-seen in industrial buildings.
    catholic_jesus01-16-10-2014_1.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-17-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-08-01-06-2018.jpg
  • An effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London. Encased in a glass-sided box and behind what resembles yellow garden fencing, the Christian idol stands with outstretched arms, a traditional figure for Catholics to practice idolatry. The church walls are constructed from red brick, in a style much-seen in industrial buildings.
    catholic_jesus03-16-10-2014_1.jpg
  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
    RB_105-05-05-1994.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-31-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-30-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-12-01-06-2018.jpg
  • A local shopper walks beneath an effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London. Encased in a glass-sided box and behind what resembles yellow garden fencing, the Christian idol stands with outstretched arms, a traditional figure for Catholics to practice idolatry. The church walls are constructed from red brick, in a style much-seen in industrial buildings.
    catholic_jesus04-16-10-2014_1.jpg
  • A view of the green Yorkshire moors countryside looking down from a nearby hill to the top secret intelligence-gathering base of RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. One sees the surreal-looking white radomes in the shape of golf balls - each containing a satellite dish - that are dotted across the science-fiction landscape. Many of these are used for signals interception from communications satellites and are commonly thought to be part of ECHELON, a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network. Other parts of this notorious  site are thought to be used by the Space Based Infrared System employed by the US National Missile Defence program. The base has attracted significant levels of protest from anti-nuclear and pacifist groups.
    RB-0062.jpg
  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
    RB_104-05-05-1994.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-37-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-45-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-23-01-06-2018.jpg
  • An adult skates past an Audi showroom where an employee makes a phone call in Mayfair, on 21st March 2017, in London, England.
    westminster_people-02-21-03-2017.jpg
  • Akba has been a soldier and guard for fifteen years. He originally fought  in the Mujahideen against the Soviets with the warlord Gulbuddin before most recently, joining Majad Maly to fight against the Taliban in Khandahar province. Now he is a security guard working for WRN (Witan Risk management ).
    afghan27_10_093_1.jpg
  • The silhouette of a figure walking through a park, with a foggy residential street in the background. The menacing figure looks ghostly, a menacing and eerie scene that seems to threaten the safety of approaching others. Freezing fog lies in the street in this south London suburb in the depths of mid-winter. We can't see his face or features and his ominous and sinister shape guarantees his anonymity.
    foggy_dusk03-11-12-2013_1.jpg
  • Around the perimeter wall of the Field Day Festival on 1st June 2018, in Brockwell Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England. Highlighting the use of green space for private enterprise has led to protests around the UK, against borough councils handing over public parks otherwise enjoyed by local communities for many weeks before and after the event.
    brockwell_wall-13-01-06-2018.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Pasted to the wall in Gerrard Street, Soho, in London's Chinatown, the Metropolitan Police are appealing for witnesses to help with their investigation of a murder of Vien Xuan Cao, a Chinese immigrant who was murdered in this street after being attacked with a meat cleaver. The implication is that this was a Triad turf war, a territorial dispute between gang members of this secret society. We see the young man's face photocopied to the paperwork, laid over more traditional images of ethnic Chinese and a boxing contest promotional poster. "Can you Help?" reads the Police's appeal and alongside, the same text has been translated into Chinese for locals to read.
    RB_118-08-10-1992.jpg
  • The British Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn, MP for Darlington is seen startling a young baby during a constituency visit to St George's Start-up Centre which offers crèche facilities, health and employment advice and wider support services for local children and families, in Netherfield, Nottingham England. The child looks scared to death as Milburn leans over with a fearful look on his face, as the child sits on its father's knee. Milburn was a supporter of Tony Blair (and therefore called a Blairite) and held numerous governmental posts, including: Minister of State for Health (1997-1998); Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1998-1999); Secretary of State for Health (1999-2003) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2004 to 2005). Source: www.alanmilburn.co.uk.
    alan_milburn03-03-03_2005_1.jpg
  • A dumped armchair and other domestic rubbish, fly-tipped on a street corner in south London. Abandoned on the pavement, the items have made a mess in this urban location. Furniture and household possessions have been added, perhaps by others, making this area look and feel intimidating. increase in amount of rubbish illegally dumped on roadsides and back alleys cost local authorities £45m in 2014. The figures also reveal the rising cost to the public purse of cleaning up and prosecuting people who dump rubbish, with the clearance bill for local authorities rising 24% to £45.2m.
    regeneration_protest33-25-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Before they were all replaced as working modes of public transport, a conductor is seen while travelling along a London road, as part of a two-man crew of a number 11 red London bus, England UK. The bus is a traditional design called a Routemaster which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage and tourist routes. From any angle, the bus is easily recognisable as that classic British transport icon. The conductor is the last human link with friendly public travel in London. He is usually a friendly face to accompany unsure travellers, often helping them reach their stop and answering questions about the journey with good humour and kindness. Their removal in favour of single driver crews meant that bus travel became more intimidating.
    routemaster_bus03-22-11-1997.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
  • An elderly lady walks past the intimidating backdrop of tagged walls of Plaistow, an east London station after the crime of defacement and criminal damage to London Underground property has been committed by persons unknown - a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. If caught, juvenile delinquents may escape with only a caution because of their age but older ones are prosecuted, though some times after leaving many thousands of tags across their neighbourhood.
    graffiti_tagging04-08-11-1989_1.jpg
  • Before they were all replaced as working modes of public transport, a conductor sells a ticket wgile travelling along a London road, as part of a two-man crew of a number 88 red London Rotemaster bus, England UK. A parked car is seen through the open ledge of the bes' rear, blurred in the back ground and a lady passengers sits patiently as the bus speeds on its journey along its route through the capital. The man holds two fingers up to a foreign tourist to make sure they want two tickets for their destination. The conductor is the last human link with friendly public travel in London. He is usually a friendly face to accompany unsure travellers, often helping them reach their stop and answering questions about the journey with good humour and kindness. Their removal in favour of single driver crews meant that bus travel became more intimidating.
    RB_120-22-11-1997.jpg
  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
    cnd_thatcher-19-04-1986_1.jpg
  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko, leader and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka,  the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight, Araucania, Chile. February 14, 2018.
    20180214_chile_mapuches_169.jpg
  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka, the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistence of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight.
    20180215_chile_mapuches_073.jpg
  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka,  the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight, Araucania, Chile. February 14, 2018.
    20180214_chile_mapuches_150.jpg
  • A constant security pressence guard the developing building site, outside Dipton in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 , County Durham, United Kingdom. Many locals have complained about tactics of intimidation and excessive use of force during the eviction in May. Day of protest in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 against the extraction of coal by the mining company Banks outside Dipton in Pont Valley, County Durham. Locals have fought the open cast coal mine for thirty years and three times the local council rejected planning permissions but central government has overruled that decision and the company Banks was granted the license and rights to extract coal in early 2018. Locals have teamed up with climate campaigners and together they try to prevent the mining from going ahead. The mining will have huge implications on the local environment and further coal extraction runs agains the Paris climate agreement. A rare species of crested newt is said to live on the land planned for mining and protectors are trying to stop the mine to save the newt.
    IC5A3512.jpg
  • A constant security pressence guard the developing building site, outside Dipton in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 , County Durham, United Kingdom. Many locals have complained about tactics of intimidation and excessive use of force during the eviction in May. Day of protest in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 against the extraction of coal by the mining company Banks outside Dipton in Pont Valley, County Durham. Locals have fought the open cast coal mine for thirty years and three times the local council rejected planning permissions but central government has overruled that decision and the company Banks was granted the license and rights to extract coal in early 2018. Locals have teamed up with climate campaigners and together they try to prevent the mining from going ahead. The mining will have huge implications on the local environment and further coal extraction runs agains the Paris climate agreement. A rare species of crested newt is said to live on the land planned for mining and protectors are trying to stop the mine to save the newt.
    IC5A3509.jpg
  • Woman who was threatened and intimidated by Zanu PF during elections in Zimbabwe.
    ZIM23.jpg
  • A constant security pressence guard the developing building site, outside Dipton in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 , County Durham, United Kingdom. Many locals have complained about tactics of intimidation and excessive use of force during the eviction in May. Day of protest in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 against the extraction of coal by the mining company Banks outside Dipton in Pont Valley, County Durham. Locals have fought the open cast coal mine for thirty years and three times the local council rejected planning permissions but central government has overruled that decision and the company Banks was granted the license and rights to extract coal in early 2018. Locals have teamed up with climate campaigners and together they try to prevent the mining from going ahead. The mining will have huge implications on the local environment and further coal extraction runs agains the Paris climate agreement. A rare species of crested newt is said to live on the land planned for mining and protectors are trying to stop the mine to save the newt.
    IC5A3491.jpg
  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison13-05-0...jpg
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