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  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. 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-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • As suited commuters begin their homeward journeys across London Bridge, towards the station that will transport them home to families and security, a homeless man without the warmth of relatives nor a roof over his head, rants and shouts at the respectable people with jobs and incomes. He has been drinking alcohol and sits leaning against the bridge's wall, pointing and threatening but all walk on past, afraid and embarrassed. We see the social divisions of English society, of prospects and wealth versus hopelessness and poverty as those who are marginalised and perhaps suffering from mental health problems are ignored by the successful capitalist.
    city_london_workers04-16-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • A charity worker is handing out leaflets in a London street, his hope is to entice the public to give money or lend support to the work of his organisation. He holds out his paper while wearing a bib saying Homeless Not Hopeless meaning that those without a home isn't necessarily without aspiration nor pride. But passers-by only want to continue their journeys unhindered and not bothered by what in Britain are known as charity muggers - or chuggers - and hated for their common presence on street corners, watching for their target demographics to donate hard-earned money. The man walking past without making eye contact is a gentleman of south-Asian or of Arab appearance and he looks to the ground without acknowledging the volunteer worker.
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  • 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
  • Two smart, young city suited office workers stand outside in warm summer sunshine outside the Crispin pub at 3 Finsbury Avenue in London's Broadgate. Wearing hot, dark clothing that they might also wear in Winter, the men stand holding pint glasses of lager or bitter that hold equal measures of alcohol though they don't appear to be enjoying each other's company. Perhaps they are colleagues or client and customer but both seem nervous or uncomfortable in each other's company. It might also be the so-called Englishman’s stiff upper lip. St Crispin is the Christian patron saint of cobblers, tanners and leather workers.
    city_london_workers05-16-07-1994_1.jpg
  • Anarchists gather as a black bloc for the Fuck Parade to party and protest at the class and wealth divide between rich and poor and the gentrification of London, the demonstration was organised by anarchist group Class War on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The parade is now part of the May Day activism calendar as dissatisfaction about the establishment, the police and the inadequacy of the press is highlighted. Ian Bone publisher of anarchist newspaper Class War seen here with protesters. He has been involved in social campaigns since the 1960s.
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  • Anarchists gather as a black bloc for the Fuck Parade to party and protest at the class and wealth divide between rich and poor and the gentrification of London, the demonstration was organised by anarchist group Class War on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The parade is now part of the May Day activism calendar as dissatisfaction about the establishment, the police and the inadequacy of the press is highlighted. Ian Bone publisher of anarchist newspaper Class War seen here with protesters. He has been involved in social campaigns since the 1960s.
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  • The City of London seen from Crossrail Bridge crossing Shoreditch High Street during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Crossrail is a 73-mile new railway line under development in the United Kingdom. Crossing London from west to east, at each end of its central core the line will divide into two branches: in the west to Reading and to stations at Heathrow Airport; in the east to Abbey Wood and to Shenfield.
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  • 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
  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June. Each are standing in order of size, from tallest (who holds a Tesco supermarket bag) to smallest and watch as two posh couples arrive for the day's racing dressed in showy dresses for the ladies and the men in formal top hat and tails. The posh lady in the front is in yellow and holds on to her straw hat on this windy summer day. Each wears their red Ascot badges allowing them entry to this exclusive royal event attended by the Royal Family and the hoi polloi of English society. We see the two sides of the class system but it is a humerous scene. There is good nature between the two groups with smiles exchanged with one couple but discomfort from those behind.
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  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June. Each are standing in order of size, from tallest (who holds a Tesco supermarket bag) to smallest and watch as a posh racegoer arrives for the day's racing dressed in a formal jacket and tails and will also have on red Ascot badges allowing him entry to this exclusive royal event attended by the Royal Family and the hoi polloi of English society. We see the two sides of the class system but it is a humorous scene. There is good nature between the two groups with smiles exchanged but here the man strides past knowing he is under inspection from the common people.
    ascot_posh01-18-06-1992_1.jpg
  • Man with large belly touts for tickets next to a society bar in the street 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.
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  • Arriving hoi polloi for Royal Ascot's Ladies Day parade to a private members' enclosure gate, watched by the Common People. Ladies' Day is the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, held at the famous Ascot race course. A young boy and his mother gawp at the fashionistas - the glitterati  - of the sporting calendar who parade past in outlandish costumes, making fashion statements of their wealth and ostentation. A man has a young woman on his arm – he sears a top hat and tails and she, a purple and mauve number. <br />
They will also have on red Ascot badges allowing them entry to this exclusive royal event attended by the Royal Family and the hoi polloi of English society. We see the two humorous sides of the class system.
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  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • As passers-by walk by, a homeless man sits with all his worldly possessions on Piccadilly in central London. A well-dressed gentleman strides past the vagrant who sits forlornly on the pavement, surrounded by his worldly good - plastic bags attached to an old bike. We see a scene of poverty and privilege - of wealth versus hopelessness - on this prestgious London street where money speaks volumes for those with successful lives.
    homeless_wealth02-06-03-2014.jpg
  • As passers-by walk by, a homeless man sits with all his worldly possessions on Piccadilly in central London. Two children accompanied by adults who walk past the vagrant who sits forlornly on the pavement, surrounded by his worldly good - plastic bags attached to an old bike. We see a scene of poverty and privilege - of wealth versus hopelessness - on this prestgious London street where money speaks volumes for those with successful lives.
    homeless_wealth05-06-03-2014.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange takes a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime. Alongside him on another bench is a homeless man in the City of London in a scene of wealth with prosperity versus the fate of poverty and loss. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_2_1.jpg
  • A young woman begs on London Bridge, sitting on the pavement to read her newspaper as a cleaning contractor sucks up litter around her. The girl doesn't move from her place on the pavement at the northern end of the crossing across the Thames, a busy thoroughfare taking commuters to the southern side mainline station - and a favoured spot for beggars asking for loose change. She reads the latest edition of the Evening Standard, London's free tabloid newspaper. Passing her is the workman who points his large vacuum tube that removes street rubbish.
    beggar_cleaner01-24-10-2013_1.jpg
  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
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  • A young woman walks along Waverly Road on Northumberland Park estate on 30th October 2017 in North London, England. Many from the local community have divided opinions regarding the estate redevelopment plans.
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery05-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery01-06-04-2013_1.jpg
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