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  • Repetition and visual pun of stripes from zebra crossing and number 11 Routemaster bus. As a visual pun of stripes and straight parallel lines, the eleven and white bars of the zebra crossing can be seen as a coincidence, a street trick. The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
    routemaster_bus04-08-09-2014_1.jpg
  • As a visual pun, the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds seeminly paints clouds in blue sky from outside the Royal Academy in Piccadilly during the Summer Exhibition, on 13th August 2019, in London, England. This is a new cast of the original that was first exhibited outside the RA in 1904 and is an allegory of the human need for new challenges, of our instinct to always be scanning the horizon and the future. Sir Joshuas statue stands in the Annenberg Courtyard of Burlington House.
    joshua_reynolds-06-13-08-2019.jpg
  • A woman hails a taxi in a London street that has been visited by the cartoon graffiti street artist Nathan Bowen of fireman created outside Shaftesbury Ave fire station. Striking a similar pose as the cartoon character, she also raises her arm to make a humourous street moment. But there is also another visual pun of the double-yellow parking lines endemic in the capitals that are echoed in the cartoon's high-visibility clothing.
    lines_graffiti1-30-09-2011.jpg
  • During the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June, a tourist trinket shop on Oxford Street reminds customers to Mind the Gap, a pun on the gaps on the underground transport system platforms as well as social distance 2m rule, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-21-26-05-2020.jpg
  • As part of Art in the City in the City of London, the artwork entitled Temple 2008 by Damien Hirst occupies a space in Lime Street near a coil of plastic pipe collars, a visual pun about the resemblance of intestines in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London, the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.
    sculpture_pipes-03-26-03-2018.jpg
  • A Brexit pun using pet kittens at a closed pet shop in Greenwich, on 21st March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_cats-01-21-03-2019.jpg
  • An exterior landscape of a Christmas Tree business pun called Tree Amigos on Goose Green in East Dulwich, in south London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    christmas_trees-01-04-12-2019.jpg
  • One day before Brexit Day the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union, a pro-EU Remainer stands outside parliament alongside a Latin pun referring to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Queens annus horribilis her 1992, a year of disaster fire at Windsor Castle and royal scandal. Remainers chose to celebrate the UKs membership with the EU for one last time for A party like theres no tomorrow outside parliament, in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-11-30-01-2020.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding landscape. A visual pun of the crane's structure that echoes that of the plant's texture shows us a humourous landscape. 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_property03-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • A businessman strides along a London street holding a banana whose shadow appears to be part of another man's anatomy. As strong sunlight shines on this part of a London pavement, we see the confident stride of the man in the foreground, probably on his way back from a lunchtime stroll and returning to his office with the fresh fruit and a sandwich. What cannot be anticipated by the viewer, or by the second man, is that the banana has superimposed itself to the exact place of his groin area. The banana, by its very curved shape has long been the butt of sexual innuendo and double-entendre. The surrogate penis being the perfect adult pun.
    banana_man01-15-01-1991_1.jpg
  • Workman feed yellow plastic tubing through an under pavement shaft to clear a subterranean blockage, working beneath a round pastry post ad. The works are outside a corner shop (store) in the south London district of Waterloo (celebrating the famous battle victory by Wellington over Napoleon in 1815) and the site is half-covered by a barrier that prevents pedestrians from falling down the opened manhole cover on the pavement (sidewalk). The two men force-feed the plastic piping to free whatever is obstructing the route to another site 50 metres down the street. The visual pun of the coiled cabling and the swirls of the Danish pastries make for a humorous scene.
    cable_works03-19-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding landscape. A visual pun of the crane's structure that echoes that of the plant's texture shows us a humourous landscape. 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_property07-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • A young woman in stripes passes-by railings and child theme advertisement in south London. The poster ad for Vigin Media showing a precocious child in an aggressive or angry pose is a misleading juxtaposition to suggest the child is reacting to the girl when it is purely a coincidental relationship. There is a visual pun of this false landscape and the stripes of her clothes and railings.
    child_ad01-28-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Man carries a piece of furniture on his shoulder echoing the brick pattern on an Edwardian park wall in south London. With such an awkward item to carry some distance, the man has decided to carry the piece with his head through the middle - the coincidence of the patterned brick makes for a humerous scene, a visual pun.
    carrying_furniture01-01-02-2012_1.jpg
  • A bicycle has been locked high up on a City of London street sign post where arrows point up and down, the coincidence of a visual pun - in the heart of the capital's financial district. The authorities recommend locking up a bike in specified areas, making sure they're secured with a substantial D-lock. The bike is a Specialized road bike of a single-gear variety.
    bike_humour01-04-03-2013_1.jpg
  • A makeshift street sign for Tahrir Square, London made in a local design, outside St. Paul's Cathedral during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest21-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • A pro-Brexiter protestor and a Leave Means Leave bus at the junction of Parliament Square in a week that Prime Minister Theresa May asks for MPs to back her Brexit deal, on 14th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-15-14-01-2019.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, the image of a leg with wrap around straps matches the tie cords keeping the billboard in place during the construction of a new Versace store on New Bond Street during the Covid pandemic lockdown, now easing after three months of the Stay At Home policy but now being relaxed as the shops re-open, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions on the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July and replaced with one metre plus in the hope it stimulates the struggling UK economy.
    coronavirus_westend-20-26-06-2020.jpg
  • A pro-Brexiter protestor and a Pro-EU Remainer at the junction of Parliament Square in a week that Prime Minister Theresa May asks for MPs to back her Brexit deal, on 14th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-13-14-01-2019.jpg
  • A pro-Brexiter protestor at the junction of Parliament Square in a week that Prime Minister Theresa May asks for MPs to back her Brexit deal, on 14th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-11-14-01-2019.jpg
  • Beneath a makeshift street sign for Tahrir Square, London made in a local design, young protestors rest during a warm spell outside St. Paul's Cathedral during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest20-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK governments lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a quirky landscape of a three-sided square that marks safe social distance marks outside a branch of Gap in Piccadilly Circus, 20th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-30-20-04-2020.jpg
  • A Gelato kiosk and a stool at the southern Southwark end of London Bridge, on 30th May 2018, in London, England.
    gelato_cone-03-30-05-2018.jpg
  • A smoker stands in front of a construction hoarding featuring cloud and sky patterns, on 31st July 2017, in Covent Garden, London, England.
    smoker_clouds-02-31-07-2017.jpg
  • A pro-Brexiter protestor at the junction of Parliament Square in a week that Prime Minister Theresa May asks for MPs to back her Brexit deal, on 14th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-09-14-01-2019.jpg
  • A supplies delivery van featuring a city of cheese buildings, with the architecture of financial institutions in the Square Mile, the capitals financial district, on 3rd March 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-04-03-04-2017.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, an anonymous red-haired woman walks towards a business using red as its theme of frontage in north London. Dyed as bright as a prime colour to make her own personal fashion and style statement, she has made a choice to show her individuality and uniqueness.
    red_hair01-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Travel agency screen featuring walking airline pilot with City of London walker background. The picture suggests a theme of walking - of the pedestrian making their way through the urban streets. The window belongs to an agency for booking holidays for city workers outside and the lure of summer holidays indoors, where workers can come in to book the getaways from the office or simply dream of beach fantasies in Asia, such as Thailand or Australia - faraway places that this company aims to bring closer.
    agency_reflection04-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Queen holding paint can and pet corgi dog 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_mural08-23-10-2012_1.jpg
  • A team of labourers wearing hi-visibility tabards with the name of construction company Barnwood on the back, struggle to manhandle a very heavy plate-glass window through a City of London street. With tape that is crossed to avoid accidents, the glass is carried by the team of men in a narrow (medieval) side-street in the heart of the capital's financial district otherwise known as the Square Mile, after its circling Roman wall.
    glass_workmen05-07-02-2013_1.jpg
  • A bucket (pale) of smokers' cigarette butts have been extinguished in a London back street alleyway. Stubbed out in sand to prevent them reigniting for safety reasons, the fags (English slang for cigarettes) echo the steel pegs on the ground. A single packet is also in the bucket at the rear entrance of a London restaurant. Catering staff takes a break from long hours working inside and smoke. The UK government say each year smoking causes 80,000 deaths, costing the National Health Service (NHS) £2.7bn. Just 22% of Britons are smokers - down from 27% at the end of the 1990s - and two-thirds say they would like to give up.
    cigarette_butts01-14-03-2011_1.jpg
  • A Deliveroo rider cycles past large concrete blocks, part of a construction site on the corner of Brook and New Bond Streets, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    brook_street-02-06-04-2018.jpg
  • Grenadier guardsman mannequin and faceless Santa. Outside a Bureau de Change on London's Oxford Street, we see the two mannequins wearing red costumes - one the uniform of a guardsman soldier in ceremonial dress - and the other a father Christmas character, in front of the tourist trinket shop in the capital's West End.
    christmas_mannequins02-12-12-2014_1.jpg
  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of darkening skies and danger sign. Beachcombers walk along the beach as the jet aircraft fly their display overhead on a rather dull summer day on the English Channel near Bristol. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
    Red_Arrows521_RBA.jpg
  • Reflected in a plate glass window, two women walk along Cannon Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test41-30-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 154 covid deaths reported in the last 24hrs, bringing the total to 43,081 in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic, a man walks towards a social distance notice, attached to a parking sign pole outside the rear entrance of the Royal Academy in Burlington Gardens, whose statues to Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus appear to be practicing correct lockdown rules, on 24th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westend-12-24-06-2020.jpg
  • With a further 154 covid deaths reported in the last 24hrs, bringing the total to 43,081 in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic, a social distance notice has been attached to a parking sign pole outside the rear entrance of the Royal Academy in Burlington Gardens, whose statues to Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus appear to be practicing correct lockdown rules, on 24th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westend-11-24-06-2020.jpg
  • A pedestrian points towards a London site next to a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilberts winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called Londons most famous work of sculpture.
    piccadilly_eros-05-25-02-2020.jpg
  • A lady stoops to fetch something from her bag at a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of Eros, the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilberts winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called Londons most famous work of sculpture.
    piccadilly_eros-09-25-02-2020.jpg
  • The eyes of a model on the side of a London bus, that features an ad of style and fashion, peer through round apertures of a bus station shelter roof, while stopped at Victoria Station, on 18th October 2019, in London, England.
    victoria_bus-06-18-10-2019.jpg
  • A lady pauses to take a picture of the nearby Lloyds Building next to a closed shop poster featuring a businessman enjoying leisure time on the golf course wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-08-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A businessman pauses next to a closed shop poster featuring a similar man also wearing a blue suit and enjoying leisure time on the golf course - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-10-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A young businessman checks messages with a cigarette by posters featuring men in matching blue suits in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-01-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A picture of St. Pauls cathedral dome and some construction background of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-30-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-23-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Friends chat near a parking meter and the shadow of street lighting on a city wall, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
    quebec_canada-11-01-1999_1.jpg
  • Construction hoarding woman and stationary contract street cleaning trolley in Covent Garden, central London. The hoarding seemingly is being attended to by the lady appearing as a lady who shops - an ironic sight, perhaps. The council have employed a contract street cleaning company to maintain tidiness in this part of the capital frequented by foreigh visitors.
    city_people22-06-07-2015.jpg
  • The crooked church steeple of Church of St Mary and All Saints in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It's believed that the twisting of the spire was caused by the lead that covers the spire. Chesterfield Parish Church is an Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary and All Saints, located in the town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. Predominantly dating back to the 14th century, the church is a Grade I listed building and is most known for its twisted spire, an architectural phenomenon which has led to the church being given the common byname of the Crooked Spire.
    chesterfield_steeple01-12-06-2015.jpg
  • Street busker dressed as Star Wars character Yoda with tourists in Trafalgar Suare. With a raised hand to attract tourists, Yoda awaits business while other pedestrians in the background experience the madness of characters dressed as fantasy characters in this central London loaction. In the background is the statue of James II as a Roman emperor, wearing Roman armour and a laurel wreath – traditionally awarded to a victorious Roman commander.
    ceasar_yoda04-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Male model seemingly sitting on a bicycle in central London. As a scene of humour and misinterpretation, we see the funny said eof fashion and advertising - the juxtaposition of male beauty and the nature of a parked bike: the random positioning of the ad with the everyday. The #PERFECTPAIR hashtag comes from the Aldo shoe brand.
    bike_model01-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A person carries a bicycle wheel, minus its tyre, past a cycle path in central London. Seen from a low angle, the anonymous man holds the bike wheel in one hand before crossing the road near Holborn. Walking along the cycle path that is otherwise reserved for cyclists, he has walked over the cycle path arrow and bike stencil on the pavement. London is undergoing a massive building programme for dedicated cycle lanes where cyclists will enjoy more separation from traffic that has unfortunately lead to many collisions and deaths in the capital.
    carrying_wheel01-06-02-2015_1.jpg
  • Bond Street guides holding orange-themed brolleys stand next to two construction site workmen. Mimicking the orange of the umbrellas and that of the hi-vis tabards, we see a coincidental urban scene in the week before Christmas. The guides stand on the street corner available to pass on retail information for visiting buyers as London is eager to encourage the spending of foreign money.
    hermes_hoarding03-16-12-2014_1.jpg
  • 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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  • Members of the royal household's carriage troop process through Ascot during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot61-19-06-2013_1.jpg
  • Two passing construction workers look towards the scaled printed version of a human colleague figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London. The project kown as VT12 is a multi-million Pound series of infrastructure improvements by Westminster city council in and around Victoria station.
    roadworks_workmen14-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Londoners in the street with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth stands in the entrance of a pub in the City of London ahead of a weekend of nationwide celebrations for the monarch's Diamond Jubilee. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    queens_jubilee25-01-06-2012.jpg
  • A woman waits for her turn to be interviewed with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Prince William in a London street during the filming of a vox pop. In the weeks before the royal wedding event gripped a largely negative public in terms of anti-royalism, the royal theme seemed to be everywhere, with flags and memorabilia on sale everywhere. Here, the woman thinks about her probable answers before a microphone and camera that will record her views and opinions on the British monarchy.
    prince_william_prop05-07-04-2011.jpg
  • October 9th 2011. Blockade of Westminster Bridge organised by UK Uncut before the NHS bill goes before Parliament on October 12th. An older woman lies on the road with a walking stick and a placard saying 'Stick up for the NHS'.
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  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster03-14-03-2013_1.jpg
  • A businessman stoops down to tie a shoelace, resting his leg in Fye Foot Lane EC4 in the financial City of London. Crouching on one leg with the other on a stone plinth, the man ties the laces while on his lunch break. The City sign tells us the location and postcode of this area, in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
    city_streets13-31-01-2013_1.jpg
  • Businessmen and city workers pass near a new construction-building project by Brookfield Multiplex in London's financial district, the Square Mile. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, is a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district, the City of London. On completion, it will become the tallest building in the City of London and the second tallest building in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Brookfield Multiplex builds, engineers, develops and maintains property and infrastructure around the world. Over the past five decades we have successfully completed over 726 major projects, with a combined value of over $27.5 billion in Australasia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
    city_businessmen07-27-04-2012_1.jpg
  • Visitors to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show make their way home through local streets after the last day's plant sell-off. An English gentleman walks along the street grasping his plants and flowers after just leaving the show.  The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. The show is the most famous flower show in the United Kingdom, perhaps the world attracting visitors from all over the world to see this annual festival of innovative garden design themes and the most perfect of plants presented during the week in May every year.
    chelsea_flower_show02-26-05-2012_1.jpg
  • The legs of a young girl appear on an ad billboard, echoing two of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station. It is early morning in this part of south London that is soon to be redeveloped to accommodate the New US Embassy at Nine Elms. But here we see the kids’ fashion advertisement juxtaposed with the post-industrial structure that has been a famous London landmark since the 1930s. Battersea was once a coal-fired power station providing the well known, four chimney layout. The station was decommissioned from generating electricity in 1983 but used in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help! and on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals.
    battersea_chimneys01-25-03-1998_1.jpg
  • A discarded miniature child's toy car and nearby billboards ads promoting Disney Christmas films, in East Dulwich, on 25th December 2020, in London, England.
    abandoned_car04-25-11-2020.jpg
  • New social distance bollards have widened the pavement to allow for social distancing in Threadneedle Street during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
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  • New social distance bollards have widened the pavement to allow for social distancing in Threadneedle Street during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    city_verticals02-26-10-2020.jpg
  • A pair of eyes and glasses frames from an ad for opticians retailer Specsavers, and a young girl wearing a t-shirt featuring sunglasses, on 14th Septermber 2020, in East Dulwich, London, England.
    specsavers_billboard07-14-09-2020.jpg
  • With a further 154 covid deaths reported in the last 24hrs, bringing the total to 43,081 in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic, a social distance notice has been attached to a parking sign pole outside the rear entrance of the Royal Academy in Burlington Gardens, whose statues to Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus appear to be practicing correct lockdown rules, on 24th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westend-09-24-06-2020.jpg
  • With the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. A wider range of retailers are due to re-open their doors for non-essential purchases next Monday 15th June and a contractors markers showng a set of footprints showing shoppers where to queue and wich echo that of sports footwear in the window of the Nike shop at Oxrord Circus, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • The lower limbs of a model appears on a small section of a large billboard during the renovation of a Versace outlet, at a pedestrian crossing on New Bond Street, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945 and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. A skeleton wearing a surgical face mask lies across the windscreen of a van, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945 and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. A skeleton wearing a surgical face mask lies across the windscreen of a van, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-17-08-05-2020.jpg
  • A two direction sign for pedestrians leans against a temporary construction hoarding, beneath the partially hidden statue of the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilberts winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called Londons most famous work of sculpture.
    piccadilly_eros-02-25-02-2020.jpg
  • The eyes of a model on the side of a London bus, that features an ad of style and fashion, peer through round apertures of a bus station shelter roof, while stopped at Victoria Station, on 18th October 2019, in London, England.
    victoria_bus-02-18-10-2019.jpg
  • Following the attack by far-right Tommy Robinson supporters on Remain protesters the previous week, the notable pro-EU campaigner, Steve Bray shouts through his oversized megaphone to where Boris Johnson is meeting his team on Great College Street in Westminster, on 16th July 2019, in London, England. A crowdfunded plea to replace destroyed Remain flags and poles resulted in over £50,000 being raised.
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  • The symmetrical reflection of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
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  • A couple enjoy the shopping experience in central London, on 21st September 1999, near Old Bond Street, london, England.
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  • A tourist lady covers her head with a red coat while others  wearing rain-proof capes walk in front of the Tower of London, on 14th September 2017, in London, England. Over many centuries, the Tower saw countless executions and beheadings of those accused and tried of treason and crimes against the state.
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  • A supplies delivery van featuring a city of cheese buildings, with the architecture of financial institutions in the Square Mile, the capitals financial district, on 3rd March 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Salt & Battery shop window sign on 112 Greenwich Avenue, New York City,  New York, United States of America.  The cafe restaurant serves traditional British Fish and Chips.
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  • Street busker dressed as Star Wars character Yoda with tourists in Trafalgar Suare. A woman tourist holds Yoda's hand and other pedestrians in the background experience the madness of characters dressed as fantasy characters in this central London loaction. In the background is the statue of James II as a Roman emperor, wearing Roman armour and a laurel wreath – traditionally awarded to a victorious Roman commander.
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  • A construction hoarding showing London's Shard skyscraper and Give Way triangle at a road junction in south London. As a visual rhyme, we see the echoes of shapes and geometry, a repeating of triangles and diagonals - a geometric shape and a skyscraper with scale and perspective. Standing 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union, by Italian architect Renzo Piano that dominates this borough of Southwark in south London.
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  • Apple iPhone ad, striding pedestrian and bent fashion retailer hanger dropped on a central London side street. The person walks fast along the pavement with legs matching the shape of not only the iPhones but also the hanger that was dropped by someone else on the sidewalk.
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  • Coincidence of yellow frames in shop window next to yellow fire hydrant sign outside retail business in the City of London. Meanswear on male mannequins are displayed in the window of this London shop - casual more than formal - and we see the obvious connection between the yellow theme of the suares in this urban landscape.
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  • Corporate Marketing Suite and construction paraphernalia. With a foreground of aggregate and roadworks signs behind orange road barriers, we see the sign telling us that the Marketing Suite  is open for viewing. The truth however shows us the site is unfinished. The project is at 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars which 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.
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  • Piles of rubbish bags awaiting collection by council refuse collectors in central London. As a mimic to the retail design in the background, we see the bags as a pile of contained shapes in Long Acre in London's Covent Garden. The refuse of emptied local litter bins by street sweepers, they are destined for recycling or landfill - the waste of modern city and developed western society, happy to offload its waste to unknown places.
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  • Leaping models advertise clothing retailer H&M above street drain covers in central London. The two men a pictured in mid-air - jumping up while holding Christmas gifts and looking happy to have spent their money during the Xmas retail frenzy. The hoarding that screens off construction work on Oxford Street, is next to the drains that the men appear to be dancing over. In 1947 Hennes women’s clothing store opened in Västerås, Sweden. Today the H&M Group offers fashion for everyone under the brands of H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and & Other Stories, as well as fashion for the home at H&M Home.
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  • Leaping models advertise clothing retailer H&M above street drain covers in central London. The two men a pictured in mid-air - jumping up while holding Christmas gifts and looking happy to have spent their money during the Xmas retail frenzy. The hoarding that screens off construction work on Oxford Street, is next to the drains that the men appear to be dancing over. In 1947 Hennes women’s clothing store opened in Västerås, Sweden. Today the H&M Group offers fashion for everyone under the brands of H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and & Other Stories, as well as fashion for the home at H&M Home.
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  • Passing voter and the anti-EU 'UK Independence Party's (UKIP) political billboard shows an escalator leading up the white cliffs of Dover (a metaphor for unrestricted immigration access to Britain) in East Dulwich - a relatively affluent district of south London. The ad is displayed before European elections on 22nd May and UKIP's controversial right-wing policy of no foreigners into the UK to take British jobs, is promising to do well in the forthcoming election.
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  • On a rainy day, pedestrians hurry past during a shower outside where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing. Prominently, a person carries a large brolley design with a Uniuon Jack flag and bright gree bag. To visitors, it is always raining in England, located on the eastern edge of the Atlantic. But April and May 2012 saw sustained above average ranfall while UK water companies still insisted on drought conditions throughout the country.
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  • A lady tries on a pair of spectacles using a faced mirror outside a London optician. In afternoon sunshine she looks into the mirror to decide whether to buy or leave them behind. But on the reverse side is another face, not too dissimilar of the female customer.
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  • A lady tries on a pair of spectacles using a faced mirror outside a London optician. In afternoon sunshine she looks into the mirror to decide whether to buy or leave them behind. But on the reverse side is another face, not too dissimilar of the female customer.
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  • A masseuse pushes the sore back of a street patient during the demonstration of an Anma acupressure treatment in a central London street. Anma is Japanese for 'press and rub'. Matching the stance of the practitioner wearing a blue tunic who puts his weight forward into the pressure point of the lumbar area, a young mother holds on to the pushchair of her young child. There are many different methods in Anma, including massage, acupressure, stretching But it is important to note that there are many different versions of anma. Many massage therapists in the west have adapted this old technique to work with their more modern methods. Most common is the stretching, pulling, and pulling of affected areas. This is done to try and achieve the release of muscle tension that in return will help to encourage the proper blood flow and lymph flow.
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  • "First ladies." A six month-old infant girl has a shocked look on her face as she plays with a copy of the broadsheet Guardian newspaper whose front page headline photograph is of Hilary Clinton, then First Lady of the United States. Clinton is also looking aghast at something she is experiencing. Coincidentally, the President's wife and the first-born of this family are both first ladies. The child has sunk down into her high-chair, reacting to something her mother has said. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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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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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team perform training display over the skies above their Lincolnshire home. Their winter training flight takes them over Brattleby Hill just outside the perimeter fence of their base at RAR Scampton. But ironically, the word Slow has been stencilled on this quiet road though the Hawk jets fly up to 500mph. During their training period, they fly up to 6 times daily, when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres.
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  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at women, exemplifying feminine beauty. A smaller than life-size model of the Disney character Rapunzel from their company’s film called Tangled stands in the window of their London store, seemingly looking out in admiration and delight at a young woman with a very short striped skirt and red shoes. Advertising the forthcoming opening of the movie, the display of the central character exemplifies feminine health, beauty, and inadvertently, of American or white European values. The woman walks past oblivious at the attention that this fictitious person is affording them – her own lifestyle being an everyday personal choice of style and a statement about femininity and gender on this urban street.
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  • Stopping to take in the sights of the UK capital, four similarly dressed tourist couples stand outside the Ugandan embassy during their tour of London in the rain. Alternating colours make the landscape of yellows and blues slightly comical.
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  • Londoners in the street with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth stands in the entrance of a pub in the City of London ahead of a weekend of nationwide celebrations for the monarch's Diamond Jubilee. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
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  • Friends sheltering from April rains under a spotted umbrella walk past a hoarding featuring a leopard for a reopening Cartier shop in New Bond Street, one of two centres for the jewellery industry in the capital. The coincidental patterns on the leopard and the brolley seem comical. Cartier S.A., commonly known as Cartier is a French jeweller and watch manufacturer. The corporation carries the name of the Cartier family of jewellers whose control ended in 1964. Pierre Camille Cartier opened and managed the London Cartier store in 1902.
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