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  • An obscured workman manhandles a wooden board sheeting past an business receptionist, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    board_workman-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • A ladys face is obscured as she walks past a Qatar Airways travel agencys video loop, seen through its window in Mayfair, on 15th July 2019, in London, England.
    qatar_airways-01-14-07-2019.jpg
  • We see the upper-body of a businessman walking past the lower-body of another man also wearing a suit. We see the passer-by in a shirt and tie but only two hands, legs and trousers up to the waist of the sunbather, the rest of his upper-body is obscured by the angle of the lens. It is a witty perspective, leading us to believe that the two men are the same person. It is high-summer and lunchtime in the City of London, England, where workers exit their offices to lap up the welcome sunshine during a rare city heatwave that many take advantage of by lying on steps and benches, while fully-dressed in their work clothes.
    city_london13-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • With face obscured, a workman carries wooden board supplies past concrete anti-terrorism security blocks off Leicester Square in the West End, on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
    workman-02-29-04-2019.jpg
  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
    electricity122-17-01-2008 _1.jpg
  • A obscured businessman leans his A4 paper on a cafe window to write some notes, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_writing-06-05-10-2017.jpg
  • A obscured businessman leans his A4 paper on a cafe window to write some notes, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_writing-04-05-10-2017.jpg
  • A No Loading parking sign obscures the right eye of a female model outside a fashion retailer in Oxford Street, central London. Carefully juxtaposed against the poster, we see the tall sign obscuring one of the woman's eyes - as if an eye patch.
    london_shoppers01-15-09-2015.jpg
  • Viewed from a low angle, an unidentified youth is seen spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face lit from behind with a strong amount of flash which throws a well-defined shadow of his hand holding a spray can. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
    RB-0088.jpg
  • A businessman gestures with his face partially-obscured by the writing in a cafe window, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
    cafe_man-01-13-11-2017.jpg
  • Neon tubes reflected in a retailer's window on London's Oxford Street. Obscuring a woman's face, the squiggles and zigzags of the fluorescent lighting that are seen in the window of a high street retailer on this busy London shopping street. In the distance is Oxford Circus and spherical Christmas lights hanging between buildings. In the weeks before Christmas, retailers compete for shoppers' Pounds.
    retail_reflections01-20-11-2014_1.jpg
  • Lionheart theme in a fashionable shop window in central London. Obscuring the eyes of the lion, printed on a ladies' top, we see two hearts in red, the same colour as the crown on the top of its fury head.
    lionhearts01-15-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The legs of anonymous airline employees are seen from below a smoking screen that obscures their faces outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building. In afternoon sunshine, the women wear their airline uniforms and are sharing an off-duty puff on their cigarettes as part of their working shift at this international aviation hub. Without seeing their upper-bodies, we imagine their conversation and gossip. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1058-11-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Looking downwards from a high vantage point on a hillside, we see one mountain-biker leading a second cyclist as they traverse across a sunlit mountainside near the hamlet of Masecha in the parish of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The late afternoon sun is low across the valley and there is a haze that partly obscures and refracts light over the distant landscape. There is snow on the distant mountain peaks but the countryside has the brown look of a snowless winter. Far off villages and hamlets hug the hillsides and golden light floods the scene. The tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.
    RB-0017.jpg
  • The legs of anonymous airline employees are seen from below a smoking screen that obscures their faces outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building. In afternoon sunshine, the women wear their airline uniforms and are sharing an off-duty puff on their cigarettes as part of their working shift at this international aviation hub. Without seeing their upper-bodies, we imagine their conversation and gossip. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1058-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • The cover of a smartphone obscures the face of a businessman in the City of London. Holding his handset to his ear, it hides his features making him another anonymous person going about his business in the capital.
    apple_user02-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A poor-sighted shopper examines close-up, a map of central London while shopping in Oxford Street. We look at her from a low angle as she holds the folded map of the capital. Her fingers have rings and her nails are painted while another lady stands attending her smartphone. In the background we see shopping crowds entering and leaving the John Lewis department store.
    map_shopper02-21-12-2015.jpg
  • The words 'Last Day' are painted in white emulsion on a window Camden North London, England. A Jesus figure, dolls  and various bric a brac are seen in the window behind the large lettering. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    window_lastday_03002-17-04-2007_1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle16-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • While customers sit in winter sunlight, a workman stands on stepladders to repair the awning of Cafe Grand by Concerto on on the corner of Dover Street and Piccadilly, on 18th February 2020, in London, England.
    mayfair_cafe-01-18-02-2020.jpg
  • Covered fairground carousel horses on the Southbank, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    covered_merrygoround-06-09-05-2018.jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997_1.jpg
  • A person pauses outside business premises with a blue exterior, to put on a blue plastic cagoule poncho over their head in a Brixton street, on 15th March 2021, in London, England.
    blue_person01-15-03-2021.jpg
  • Woman tipping a bowl to her face drinking the remainder of her ramen broth soup in a restaurant in London, United Kingdom.
    20190309_ramen bowl_003.jpg
  • Woman tipping a bowl to her face drinking the remainder of her ramen broth soup in a restaurant in London, United Kingdom.
    20190309_ramen bowl_005.jpg
  • Woman tipping a bowl to her face drinking the remainder of her ramen broth soup in a restaurant in London, United Kingdom.
    20190309_ramen bowl_001.jpg
  • Fab Four art Beatles' faces peer from criminal scarves on street mural by artist Mr Brainwash at the Old Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
    street_mural07-23-10-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle22-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • A woman wearing yellow carries a pink balloon in the crook of her arm, on 30th May 2019, in London, England.
    oxford_street-16-30-05-2019.jpg
  • Woman tipping a bowl to her face drinking the remainder of her ramen broth soup in a restaurant in London, United Kingdom.
    20190309_ramen bowl_002.jpg
  • Woman tipping a bowl to her face drinking the remainder of her ramen broth soup in a restaurant in London, United Kingdom.
    20190309_ramen bowl_004.jpg
  • Holding drained pint beer glasses that symbolises an economic recession, City of London office workers gather to drink at lunchtime while dressed in red ties and white shirts, on the 23rd April, St George's Day, England's national day. In recent years, more English flags have become more prevalent in a resurgence of national pride and more citizens have come to work dressed with a red and white theme such as ties and shirts, hats or shoes. Anything for a little fun in such gloomy times. This anonymous trio have all agreed to dress identically and enjoy an early warm spell of good weather to show-off their dress sense and patriotism.
    st_georges_day19-23-04-2009_1.jpg
  • Lying on his stomach, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle08-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle02-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance19-07-11-2009.jpg
  • A CCTV security warning and damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window04-26-03-2013.jpg
  • Awkwardly, carrying their giant rubber rings by wrapping their left hands over the top curves, three kids make their way tentatively down a ramp of concrete to a poolside ride called River Run. There are two yellow rings and one red, alternatively manhandled along the path which is already wet from other holidaymakers in this northern seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. We do not see the childrens' faces or upper-bodies and are therefore anonymous. A sign for the ride lists a series of rules for safe enjoyment of this leisure pursuit which they are urged to obey.
    pool_rings08-21-1992.jpg
  • Faceless Russian delegates are in deep discussion in a hall at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. With the flag of the Russian Federation strategically placed to the right of the stand, the three anonymous are secretively talking business in a group meeting, their crumpled suits show they have been working on this project for many hours or days. Two of the men have exchanged business cards to make new contacts. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
    paris_air_show53-20-06-2007.jpg
  • A male commuter disappears underground after a rail journey terminated at the London Bridge mainline station. Travelling downwards into the London Underground tube system, the man seen as a generic silhouette is seen only from the upper legs and moves against the orange light from the escalator well wall. The polished machinery is in the foreground and the floor is spotlessley clean. London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
    london_bridge_commuters039-12-09-200...jpg
  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of their Boeing 747-400 that will soon take them on a round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen as silhouettes against the natural light of the large plate glass windows. As the aircraft is readied and before the flight's air travellers are called to the departure gate, the young man and woman put their heads imagining what new things they will see as their airliner is about to transport them to experience new cultures and possibly a new life. In the background, we see other jets that are parked in their respective jetties across the main movement area, the apron. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1521-19-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Business and hospitality people in the Airbus Chalet at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-02-16-07-2018.jpg
  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    DIRFT135-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • A woman shades her head with a newspaper while walking at Elephant & Castle, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-01-10-10-2018.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998_1.jpg
  • Two workmen carry a large board before a special event at the Banqueting House on Whitehall in Westminster, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-02-14-06-2019.jpg
  • Woman with fan shielding her face from sunchine passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
    teeth_people05-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen squinting down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle14-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance18-07-11-2009.jpg
  • A map detail of the London underground (subway) network has been sprayed by an unknown graffiti tagger, whose swirling aerosol spray has indelibly marked the illustration of tube lines and stations in England's capital. We see the poster title Journey Planner and the shadow of the tube station wooden roof overhang and three styles of graffiti by three perpetrators. Graffiti vandalism costs the British taxpayer £100 million Pounds a year, £6 million alone is spent by transport companies whose cleaning squads remove offending material.
    RB-0089.jpg
  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
    RB_122-28-08-2000.jpg
  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of their Boeing 747-400 that will soon take them on a round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen as silhouettes against the natural light of the large plate glass windows. As the aircraft is readied and before the flight's air travellers are called to the departure gate, the young man and woman put their heads imagining what new things they will see as their airliner is about to transport them to experience new cultures and possibly a new life. In the background, we see other jets that are parked in their respective jetties across the main movement area, the apron. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1521-19-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A close-up detail of a male passenger's hand that holds on to his family's travel documents before proceeding to his British Airways check-in zone at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. With a Silver company Executive 'One World' loyalty card, his ticket and British passport to hand, he waits in line after registering at a self-service kiosk where his seat has been designated. A BA employee then only needs to take his luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009)
    heathrow_airport1395-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, an unseen business passenger hides his face while reading the Business section of the Daily Telegraph. With his laptop perched across his knees the anonymous man sits by a window where natural light is a feature of this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport913-10-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Looking up through a transparent floor, we see motionless passengers standing and waiting for a lift to arrive at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 'Heathrow Express' train link to central London. With their possessions of wheelie bags and a trolley laden wuth luggage, the unseen peoples' feet make a hard impression on the flooring with strong diagonal lines of this industrial design by architects HOK International in conjunction with Rogers, Stirk, Harbour & Partners. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport813-22-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Looking up through a transparent floor, we see motionless passengers standing and waiting for a lift to arrive at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 'Heathrow Express' train link to central London. With their possessions of wheelie bags and a trolley laden wuth luggage, the unseen peoples' feet make a hard impression on the flooring with strong diagonal lines of this industrial design by architects HOK International in conjunction with Rogers, Stirk, Harbour & Partners. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport813-22-07-2009_1.jpg
  • A detail a spoiled poster painting of Colonel William Gordon of Fyvie by Pompeo Batoni, outside the National Museum of Scotland where the exhibition Wild and Majestic about Scotlands Romantic art movement of the 18th and early 19th century is currently being exhibited, in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-17-25-06-2019.jpg
  • Covered fairground carousel horses on the Southbank, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    covered_merrygoround-05-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Covered fairground carousel horses on the Southbank, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    covered_merrygoround-03-09-05-2018.jpg
  • A down arrow and anonymous headless man walks past window markings, on 1st September 2016, in Southwark, south London, England UK. Among the long line shapes marked on the glass, the man strides in Autumn sunshine while a stranger follows towing a suitcase.
    city_people-08-01-09-2016_1.jpg
  • Workman carries awkward construction panel through a London street. Hidden by the large panel that he manhandles on his shoulder, the man walks past a stall selling tourist trinkets in the West End of London. He delivers the load to a nearby site.
    carrying_panel01-03-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Through steamy windows, businessmen have informal talks inside a City of London bar, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
    cafe_window-01-22-01-2019.jpg
  • A pedestrian walking two dogs carries a wrapped square item across the road in Hoxton, on 24th February 2021, in London, England.
    shoreditch_crossing02-24-02-2021.jpg
  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle10-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • From 1,100m away, a shooting target at a firing range belonging to the Land Warfare Centre, has been punctured by bullet holes from a new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England.  Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1km. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The army say it's their best ever sniper rifle.
    sniper_rifle09-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A detail a spoiled poster painting of Colonel William Gordon of Fyvie by Pompeo Batoni, outside the National Museum of Scotland where the exhibition Wild and Majestic about Scotlands Romantic art movement of the 18th and early 19th century is currently being exhibited, in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Enforcement agents employed by HS2 prevent the media from covering the removal of the last tunnel protester at Euston Station on the 26th of February 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The company erected a temporary wall and employed enforcement agents to wave umbrellas around to obscure the view trying to prevent the media from documenting the removal of the last tunnel protester, who goes under the name Bradley, who has been under ground in Euston Gardens for 31 days protesting against the HS2 high speed rail project. Bradley and several other tree protectors and climate activists have been under ground in tunnels since end of January making it one of the longest lasting tunnel protests in Britain. The garden and trees is a designated site for a temporary taxi rank in connection with the HS2 project. The HS2 high speed rail project running from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester and it is estimated to cost almost £100bn.
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  • Enforcement agents employed by HS2 prevent the media from covering the removal of the last tunnel protester at Euston Station on the 26th of February 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The company erected a temporary wall and employed enforcement agents to wave umbrellas around to obscure the view trying to prevent the media from documenting the removal of the last tunnel protester, who goes under the name Bradley, who has been under ground in Euston Gardens for 31 days protesting against the HS2 high speed rail project. Bradley and several other tree protectors and climate activists have been under ground in tunnels since end of January making it one of the longest lasting tunnel protests in Britain. The garden and trees is a designated site for a temporary taxi rank in connection with the HS2 project. The HS2 high speed rail project running from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester and it is estimated to cost almost £100bn.
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  • Enforcement agents employed by HS2 prevent the media from covering the removal of the last tunnel protester at Euston Station on the 26th of February 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The company erected a temporary wall and employed enforcement agents to wave umbrellas around to obscure the view trying to prevent the media from documenting the removal of the last tunnel protester, who goes under the name Bradley, who has been under ground in Euston Gardens for 31 days protesting against the HS2 high speed rail project. Bradley and several other tree protectors and climate activists have been under ground in tunnels since end of January making it one of the longest lasting tunnel protests in Britain. The garden and trees is a designated site for a temporary taxi rank in connection with the HS2 project. The HS2 high speed rail project running from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester and it is estimated to cost almost £100bn.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's passengers are on the Sun deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. One of the ship's photographers has passed around a ship's circular life ring buoy through which one busty blonde lady has posed for a photograph and is about to pass it on to her nearest neighbour. She is wearing a garish pink and yellow bikini and is holding the life-saving device so that only her breasts are showing, obscuring her face. We see the name of the ship, Ecstasy, around the ring and the plastic ropes are falling on the lady's cleavage, forming circles around her bosoms. In the background, another cruise traveller (traveler) wears a straw sun hat and is also sitting on a blue sun lounger. We see exposed, tanned skin and it looks baking hot with the tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The line calls its ships The Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
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  • Sheets of old newspapers cover the window of the closed branch of All Bar One on New Oxford Street, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in  London, England.
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  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Striding across the picture in different directions, two office workers: A lady in a red coat whose head and identity is lost in shadow, and a man wearing a dark suit whose stride is purposeful and confident. A third person, another man, leans against a wall looking thoughtfully into the distance. There is more shadow than highlight in this scene taken at Broadgate, a private estate of financial institutions and global businesses in the heart of the City of London. There are no spring leaves on the trees whose shadows are falling on an opposite wall. The headless lady looks sinister minus her face and there is tension in this image of linear and diagonal space. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • Sheets of old newspapers cover the window of the closed branch of All Bar One on New Oxford Street, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in  London, England.
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  • Sheets of old newspapers cover the window of the closed branch of All Bar One on New Oxford Street, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in  London, England.
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  • Sheets of old newspapers cover the window of the closed branch of All Bar One on New Oxford Street, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in  London, England.
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  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa Mays third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa Mays third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Sheets of old newspapers cover the window of the closed branch of All Bar One on New Oxford Street, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in  London, England.
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  • Low hanging clouds in Dolakha district in Nepal. A mountain road in 2.5 km hight is obscured by wet fog. The summer months is the rainy season and clouds are often obscuring the view of the Himalaya.
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  • Low hanging clouds in Dolakha district in Nepal. A mountain road running through a small village in 2.5 km hight is obscured by wet fog. The summer months are the rainy season and clouds are often obscuring the view of the Himalaya.
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  • Days before their royal marriage in London, the faces of Prince William and his wife-to-be Kate Middleton, appear on flags attached to railings opposite the towers of Westminster Abbey. Their wedding takes place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Btitons and foreign tourists. The faces of the couple are slightly obscured and twisted as the flag blows in a breeze in the capital. The royal standard is flying on the Abbey's left tower and crowds are already gathering at this prime location to see the ceremony occur across the road.
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  • Multiple McDonalds arch logos seen through a central London bus shelter. Multiple reflections of the logo is seen through the glass of a central London bus stop where buses frequently pause, again repeating the pattern and design across the scene. McDonalds are again increasing their presence in the capital, this time on a prominent corner of Cambridge Circus in the West End. A family walk past, their bodies partially obscured by the golden arches.
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  • A 12 year-old boy walks along a frozen rural road with his pet dog following alongside during wintry conditions in North Somerset. The viewer also follows on as the lad walks towards his home on a hill, set near the bare mid-winter trees during a particularly nasty period of the Christmas holiday period. The boy's house is in the distance with wood smoke curling from two chimneys. The smoke wafts across the remote road in the Mendip Hills, recently cleared of snow but still deceptively icy. The low sun is slightly obscured by bare branches and offers little warmth to this bleak landscape.
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  • Multiple McDonalds arch logos seen through a central London bus shelter. Multiple reflections of the logo is seen through the glass of a central London bus stop where buses frequently pause, again repeating the pattern and design across the scene. McDonalds are again increasing their presence in the capital, this time on a prominent corner of Cambridge Circus in the West End. Two women walk past, their bodies partially obscured by the golden arches.
    mcdonalds_signs10-15-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The words 'Closing Party' are almost obscured by fly-posters on a closed shop window, the victim of the economic recession. Only the remnants of the poster glue have left the traces of sheets of paper on the window, making for an almost abstract landscape of urban decay. Few clues remain of the shop's former business model though it might be assumed it was once a cafe as we see many chairs at a table. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
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  • Four ladies are seen from behind wearing Union Jack hats and waving Britain's national flag flags. It is the Queens' Golden Jubilee celebrations in London's Hyde Park and this scene of patriotic fun is common when crowds gather to acknowledge their monarch's long reign over her people. The women's faces are obscured but there is a blurred face of an unknown singer leading a concert of rousing songs - perhaps Rule Britannia - that excites the crowd still in the semi-darkness. It is the end of a long day of marches and appearances of Her Majesty on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, marking her 50th year on the throne.
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  • An Opening Soon sign announces a future new business. Written in prominent blue letters whose shadows that duplicates the message on a white sheet hiding the obscured window. The new shop will offer new jobs to local employees, a workforce anticipating a return to prosperity, a symbol of recovering economic growth.
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  • A mans head is obscured while exhaling vaping smoke next to a new cycling path, a regenerated landscape created outside Croydon College and Fairfield Hall, on 20th January 2020, in Croydon, London, England.
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  • The seine river, bridge and buildings with the sun obscured by clouds and smog, 10th May 1980, Paris, France.
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  • Days before their royal marriage in London, the faces of Prince William and his wife-to-be Kate Middleton, appear on flags attached to railings opposite the towers of Westminster Abbey. Their wedding takes place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Btitons and foreign tourists. The faces of the couple are slightly obscured and twisted as the flag blows in a breeze in the capital. The royal standard is flying on the Abbey's left tower and crowds are already gathering at this prime location to see the ceremony occur across the road.
    royal_wedding_preview-1-27-April-201...jpg
  • Advertising woman seen through blue graffiti on a bus in central London. From the top deck of a London bus, blue writing has been scrawled in permanent marker pen on the glass and we look through its writing madness to the background landscape. The travel ad's woman model's face is obscured to make an anonymous person - a scene of hidden beauty and criminality in an urban context.
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  • From the side of a road in south London, we see a group of naked female mannequins, standing and sitting with furniture on the forecourt of an office supplies business. A clearance sign stands partly-obscured but one’s attention is to the physiques of each model that tends to signify whichever the fashion industry has decreed is the ‘look’ of the decade – whether buxom or skinny – and shop windows are therefore occupied with the clothing shapes of the day. Some women stand in that classic fashion pose, with arms at the side and one leg in front of the other, or sitting with one leg elegantly crossed: All designed to make the clothes they wear look attractive.
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  • A masked youth is seen after spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face while holding a spray can in one hand. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
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  • Viewed from a low angle, an unidentified youth is seen spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face lit from behind with a strong amount of flash which throws a well-defined shadow of his hand holding a spray can. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
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  • On a street in Macau (also Macao) in the Chinese Special Economic Region (SER), we see the tall stack of cardboard on the back of a bicycle. Its partly-obscured rider and owner has one foot placed on the bike's pedal while his right arm has firm hold of the pile of materials to prevent it from toppling over. In the background we see the signs of many local businesses, their Chinese characters seen clearly on the sides of buildings as pedestrians walk on the pavements. Administered by Portugal until 1999, Macau was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma
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  • Thick fog over London obscures The Shard which is under construction at London Bridge making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as towers appear and disappear. Modern commercial architecture is releaved through a mist. Construction of London's latest planned skyscraper, the Shard (aka The Shard of Glass). It is being built on the south side of the city near London Bridge. Shard London Bridge, previously known as London Bridge Tower, and also known as the Shard of Glass. The Shard is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Southwark. When completed in 2012 it will be the tallest building in Europe. The tower will stand at 310 m (1,017 ft) tall and have 72 floors, plus 15 further floors in the roof. Renzo Piano, the building's architect, worked together with architectural firm Broadway Malyan during the planning stage of the project.
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