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  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy31-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
    florence_italy89-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • The graffiti left on walls inside the Reichstag building by Soviet soldiers after their battles in the German capital at the end of the second world war. The building, having never been fully repaired since the fire, was damaged by air raids. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture due to its perceived symbolic significance. Today, visitors to the building can still see Soviet graffiti on smoky walls inside as well as on part of the roof, which was preserved during the reconstructions after reunification.
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  • 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
  • A female Italian cyclist pedals along a graffiti-lined street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. With the words 'I Love Weed' that refers to the popularity and merits of cannabis, the graffiti of other tags and assorted writings can be seen stretching into the distance where a family have passed-by and are continuing their journey towards their home to the east of the city.
    florence_italy141-23-10-2010_1.jpg
  • With a setting sun reflected as a starburst of light in a street lamp, we see the yellow-painted plaster wall of a building on the corner of Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, Florence. A pigeon is caught flying at speed past the viewer and graffiti spoils this otherwise idyllic landscape in the renaissance city. Properties that line the piazza are already in deep shadow but there are still many visitors standing around on the stones to admire the Santa Croce church that is located to the left of this street.
    florence_italy88-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • Urban wall seen through blue graffiti on a bus at Elephant & Castle in south 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 of the roof of a bus stop shelter and passing people and waiting passengers - a scene of London and criminality in an urban context.
    bus_graffiti07-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • City of London seen through blue graffiti on a bus while crossing Waterloo Bridge. 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 of the River Thames and the capital - a scene of London and criminality in an urban context.
    bus_graffiti06-20-05-2015_1.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.
    bus_graffiti02-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
    florence_italy79-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_G.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_F.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_C.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_D.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120315street art jo peel_A.jpg
  • Students walk past scrawled messages on a street corner wal near Coimbra University, on 17th July, at Coimbra, Portugal.
    portugal_coimbra-31-17-07-2016.jpg
  • Pink graffiti tag scrawled over the face of a model, appearing on a central London fashion poster. Written over the woman's left cheek is the mark of a local teenager who has decided to leave their mark in pink on the features of the female, seen in central London.
    defaced_face01-27-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Single telephone that is now only contact with local officers at closed East Dulwich police station, Lordship Lane. Graffiti has been scrawled on what was the main entrance doorway to the now vacant building on Lordship Lane, south London. As part of government economic austerity cuts, East Dulwich station has been closed and local crimes and law enforcement, dealt with at nearby Brixton and Peckham, some miles away. The community's anger to losing their local police is one example of how everyday hardships are being squeezed by the absence of healthy spending in the public sector, including the closures of libraries and many healthcare services.
    dulwich_police01-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Walking past a boarded-up shop on a Liverpool street corner, a middle-aged woman passes graffiti scrawled by local youths on the doors. The scene is of a poor area needing investment but this is an area of the city known for high crime and areas of dereliction where the community are treated as second class citizens.
    scouse_woman-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Messages of love written in marker pen on a public park sign containing local bylaws. The large letters form the words LOVE YOU in the centre of frame - an amorous declaration of affection - by an admirer followed in red writing of the words "I love you too!" The scrawled writing is on the background of a local park's laws that indicate in parts 2 and 3 what not to do in this public space in south London, England.
    love_you01-08-01-2013.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
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  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-02-05-03-2017.jpg
  • The face of the Conservative candidate in Britain's general election Charlotte Vere has been defaced by the childish scrawls over her eyes and mouth. In this residential street of the Brighton Pavillion constituency, we see the one sign that urges voters to support the Tories, spoiled and another in the background untouched by the political jokers. Vere is a Tory business woman fighting this parliamentary seat in East Sussex under the leadership of party leader David Cameron.
    tory_poster01-01-05-2010_1_1.jpg
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