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  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London. This might be a metaphor for the state of the nation today, a dystopian society of pessimism and oppression as if from Orwellian fiction. It may also suggest a country during revolution or quanrantine, closed behind the security fence.
    england_flag11-27-04-2013_1.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London. This might be a metaphor for the state of the nation today, a dystopian society of pessimism and oppression as if from Orwellian fiction. It may also suggest a country during revolution or quanrantine, closed behind the security fence.
    england_flag06-27-04-2013_1.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society.
    city_london_workers06-16-07-1990_1.jpg
  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority ‘Can’t evict our ideas’. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat – a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
    derelict_bradford05-08-05-2009_1.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society.
    commuters-16-07-1990_1.jpg
  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding appears to be watching pedestrians and their long shadows on Neal Street, London. Reminiscent of an Orwellian 'Big Brother' scenario, where in the book 1984, the State is seen to be spying on its citizens, we see the portion of the large face's eye open and gazing at the passers-by who walk past unaware of their secret surveillance. It is an autumn afternoon and long shadows stretch across the pavement as the pedestrians get on with everyday life - activities that may require reporting on by those needing to know what the People are doing, saying and thinking.
    eye_hoarding02-21-09-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • Interior shot of a screen  at a training centre in a London office conjures up visions of the nanny state and controlling organisations reminiscent of  George Orwell’s big brother scenario in his classic novel 1984. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
    479B_glaxokline10_604_1.jpg
  • 'Support Jeremy' (Jeremy Corbyn, - the left-wing Labour leader elected in September 2015) writing on a Nunhead, south London brick wall. Roughly painted on to the Victorian bick wall is the message dated to the Labour leadership campaign, eventually controversially won by Corbyn. Above the writing we see barbed wire - as if the message of a dystopian, Orwellian political landscape.
    support_jeremy03-24-09-2015.jpg
  • 'Support Jeremy' (Jeremy Corbyn, - the left-wing Labour leader elected in September 2015) writing on a Nunhead, south London brick wall. Roughly painted on to the Victorian bick wall is the message dated to the Labour leadership campaign, eventually controversially won by Corbyn. Above the writing we see barbed wire - as if the message of a dystopian, Orwellian political landscape.
    support_jeremy02-24-09-2015.jpg
  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see six screens that show various locations around the city centre. Some car parks, a stair well, and some views of a shopping precinct. In some the landscapes are empty of people and in others, there are citizens and passers-by all going about their business and all unaware that their movements are being watched by the authority's camera operators and security personnel. The middle camera dates the camera pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of an Orwellian police state.
    cctv01-22-07-2002_1.jpg
  • A jogger runs past some 'Support Jeremy' (Corbyn, - the left-wing Labour leader elected in September 2015) writing on a Peckham, south London brick wall. Roughly painted on to the Victorian bick wall is the message dated to the Labour leadership campaign, eventually controversially won by Corbyn. Above the writing we see barbed wire - as if the message of a dystopian, Orwellian political landscape.
    support_jeremy06-24-09-2015.jpg
  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding watches street next to a workman up a ladder on Neal Street, London. The workman stands on top of the hoarding structure and attends to a detail in the shop's frontage, equipped with tools that hang from his belt. Below him is the large-scale face being covered by the model's hand and whose fingers are open wide across his right eye. His left is seen gazing across the city - almost an Orwellian scenario of the writer's 'Big Brother' story from 1984.
    eye_workman01-22-09-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see over the shoulder of a council camera operator spying on innocent pedestrians and a view of a shopping precinct. Citizens and passers-by go about their own business unaware that their movements are being watched by camera lenses and their human eyes and security personnel. Other monitor screens date the pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of a Big Brother-type Orwellian police state.
    cctv02-22-07-2002_1.jpg
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