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  • A tidy pile of autumn leaves gathered together in neat mounds in Russell Square Park, on 8th October 2018, in London, England.
    park_leaves-02-08-10-2018.jpg
  • Window dresser cleans and tidies the floor in a central London retail display. On her hands and knees, the employee adjusts the detail of the display, her black and white checked jacket matching the dots of the word White and those on the washing machines on sale inside. The scene is monochrome, lacking vibrant colour.
    window_dresser01-10-06-2015.jpg
  • Coils of plastic cable casings and roadworks signs all tidied away behind fencing in a London side street, Southwark. As part of stringent Health and Safety rules that contractors need to adhere to, the materials and tools of workers are behind the correct screens or barriers. The street is off Lordship Lane in south London's East Dulwich  where ongoing improvements for telecommunications and gas utility connections plague local residents and traffic.
    roadworks01-11-01-2012.jpg
  • A house-proud housewife trims her lawn with a pair of scissors in new housing on a terraced Liverpool street. Stooping down to ground level, the lady snips and preens individual blades of grass on an almost perfectly manicured lawn. Her home is new, surrounded by the early 20th century and Victorian terraced housing that populates this part of north-western Britain. There are few cars and two other people cross the road without fear of approaching vehicles – the economy here is largely depressed. And yet, the female gardener has taken the trouble to mow her garden and then trim her esteemed plot. She wears an orange suit too, a splash of colour in an otherwise drab street.
    scissors_grass01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A detail of a tightly-bound bale of supermarket retail cardboard, ready for recycling and reprocessing in London, UK. Squashed together is the packaging of branded merchandise just removed from inside the nearby supermarket in London, UK. The materials will be taken to a central plant where they will be correctly recycled.
    recycling_cardboard02-30-11-2013_1.jpg
  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    olympic_stratford21-15-03-2012.jpg
  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    olympic_stratford17-15-03-2012.jpg
  • The detritus of a family Christmas awaits the next recycling collection by the local authority, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, Noth Somerset, UK.
    christmas-04-27-12-2018.jpg
  • Two homeless people sleep with their collected cardboard under the roofs at the harbour front. It is early morning and the first commuters have not arrived yet and the place is quiete. It is winter time and the nights are cool but dry. 7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it Hong Kong the most vertical city in the world.
    _MG_1076_1.jpg
  • A prisoners bottom bunk bed, with family pictures up on the wall. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-7248_1.jpg
  • A collection of domestic tools stored on the wall of a small farmstead garage. Nailed into a home-made board attached to the wall of this shed, the tools have their own specialplace, marked by drawn shapes of each item allowing easy replacement after use. Hammers, chisels, screw drivers, hacksaws, alan keys and spanners all their own location giving the idea of a well-organised workshop.
    shed_tools02-04-05-2013_1_1.jpg
  • A schoolboy of Afro-Caribbean descent stands looking confused on a platform at Victoria mainline station in central London. The young lad looks smart in a new school uniform of cap, blazer, long trousers and polished black shoes. We might guess that it is the start of a new academic year and that he is about to attend a new school for which he needs to take a train on his own. His mother and younger and older sister are also to the far right of the picture so he may go with his elder sibling carrying a multi-coloured umbrella and a bright blue briefcase containing his lunch and a few items needed for lessons. Surrounded by adult commuters, some of who look on with mild amusement, also make await their train from the city out of town. Mostly, people mind their own business and what is a special day for the boy will become a much-travelled route.
    platform_schoolboy09-23-1994.jpg
  • A British Army Gurkha recruit stands to attention during a barracks inspection at the Gurkha Regiments training centre at Church Crookham, on 16th January 1996, in England UK. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in Nepals Himalayan foothills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. Only 160 are recruited with training continuing at this barracks until joining various units within the army. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_barracks-16-01-1996.jpg
  • A wing cleaner mopping the floor of Beaufort House, a skill development unit for enhanced prisoners. Part of HMP/YOI Portland, a resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-6589_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery05-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Seen from a high viewpoint, a young girl rides on her father's shoulders in the middle of the Longleat Hedge Maze. She can barely see over the walls of foliage, so tall is the labyrinth of twisty pathways, and she holds out her hands to brush against the green foliage. Made up of more than 16,000 English Yews, Longleat’s spectacular hedge maze - the world's largest - was first laid out in 1975 by the designer Greg Bright. The Maze covers an area of around 1.48 acres (0.6 hectares) with a total pathway length of 1.69 miles (2.72 kilometres). Unlike most other conventional mazes it’s actually three-dimensional.
    RB-0105.jpg
  • In neat diagonal rows, young Nepali boys are crouching on the ground at the British Army's Gurkha base in Pokhara, Nepal where the Britain's Ministry of Defence recruits the best choices to become fully-trained soldiers in the UK's Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    RB_052-20-11-1996.jpg
  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery02-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery01-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • During a weekday lunchtime in the City of London, a young man sleeps on the grass in St. Paul's Churchyard, near the outer walls of the cathedral. Office workers have gathered with friends and colleagues taking advantage of warm weather to lie on the grass and eat their lunches. The man is asleep on the short lawn, having spent 20 minutes fiddling with his iPhone, scrolling through messages and sending emails after finishing his own sandwich, which has been put away next to his prone body, in a plastic bag. A council worker pushes a wheelbarrow along the path laden with refuse as the young man lies resting before another afternoon at his nearby desk.
    lunchtime_sleepers03-02-07-2010.jpg
  • Looking down on office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market. In the foreground a man in a dark suit has taken off his jacket and is lying down to complete his Financial Times (FT) crossword. Nearby, a lady and man are sitting eating a packed lunch. The City, is the historic financial core of London from which the modern conurbation grew and its one square mile (2.6 km) boundary has remained constant since the Middle Ages.
    finsbury_sheep_people-08-03-2007_1.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman prunes his precious crop of fresh red roses from his front garden that sits astride the small River Wandle at Carshalton, south London. trimming off their heads, he s dressed in a straw hat and white apron. He is a very active gardener, the nurturing of plants and flowers being his passion now that he is of retirement age after a lifetime of work. Now he enjoys the rewards of his labours from mother earth in this lush plot of his that looks every bit the perfect English cottage garden despite it being in an urban inner-city.
    elderly_roses09-15-1993_1.jpg
  • While seated to have dinner at home, a young boy of about 10 years of age hides his face and wipes his lips with a serviette. Demonstrating perfect manners that his parents must have instilled in him, the lad's face is hidden from the viewer as he presses the cloth to his face to obscure his identity. He is eating some sort of pudding with a spoon and a fork rests on the highly-polished table on which an ornamental posy of flowers is reflected. It is a scene of immaculate etiquette that a boy from a middle-class background might be expected to show to elders and visitors. It is an example of grooming and pedigree to take with him out into the outside world where he will be expected to be the best behaved.
    boy_table-16-03-1991_1.jpg
  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting or conference room awaiting a future event for attendees and speakers, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
    barbican_room-02-05-03-2017.jpg
  • The WW1 Courcelette cemetery in Picardie, France. Courcelette was a major tactical objective in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive of the First World War during which the nearby village was razed. Courcelette is 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when almost 2,000 graves were brought in, mostly those of men who died around Courcelette and Pozieres in 1916. The Cemetery, signposted in the village, is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track (suitable for cars) from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres.
    WW1_cemetery07-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A man sweeps his own area where he sells food in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries and a third of families in the camps are headed by women.
    sudan172-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • A wide view of the graveyard in the cemetery of Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, Scotland. It is one of the town's most historically important buildings. It was rebuilt in the 1400s after Stirling suffered a catastrophic fire in 1405, and is the only surviving church in the United Kingdom apart from Westminster Abbey, to have held a coronation. On 29 July 1567 the infant son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned James VI of Scotland here. Musket shot marks from Cromwell's troops during the War of the Three Kingdoms are clearly visible on the tower and apse. Another important historical religious site in the area is Cambuskenneth Abbey.
    stirling_cemetery03-30-07-2010-1_1_1.jpg
  • Overwhelmed by the task ahead, we look down from a high viewpoint, an estate worker wearing blue overalls stands on tall stepladders to trim the famous Longleat Hedge Maze with electric clippers. Made up of more than 16,000 English Yews, Longleat’s spectacular hedge maze - the world's largest - was first laid out in 1975 by the designer Greg Bright. The Maze covers an area of around 1.48 acres (0.6 hectares) with a total pathway length of 1.69 miles (2.72 kilometres). Unlike most other conventional mazes it’s actually three-dimensional.
    RB-0104.jpg
  • Large round bales of hay drying in summer sun after the harvest near Reedham, a small village on the Norfolk Broads. Round bales are harder to handle than square bales but compress the hay more tightly. These round bale is partially covered with net wrap, which is an alternative to twine. Round bales, which typically weigh 300 to 400 kilograms (660–880 lb), are more moisture-resistant, and pack the hay more densely (especially at the center). Round bales are quickly fed with the use of mechanized equipment.
    norfolk_bales02-29-07-2013_1.jpg
  • Large round bales of hay drying in summer sun after the harvest near Reedham, a small village on the Norfolk Broads. Round bales are harder to handle than square bales but compress the hay more tightly. These round bale is partially covered with net wrap, which is an alternative to twine. Round bales, which typically weigh 300 to 400 kilograms (660–880 lb), are more moisture-resistant, and pack the hay more densely (especially at the center). Round bales are quickly fed with the use of mechanized equipment.
    norfolk_bales01-29-07-2013_1.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
  • An elderly lady makes her way from her community village Memorial Hall which she has been volunteering this winter morning as part of a charity funds raising event. The lady might be old and frail but her spirit is such that she still finds the time to integrate into community life and remains active despite her years. Walking beneath the wrought-iron sign in Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire, she edges under tentatively to make her way home wearing a quilted coat and her wedding ring on her gnarled hands. A chilly late-morning sun shines across the architecture of the building and this is the look of a lady happy with her morning's activities with fellow parishioners.
    village_hall11-18-1995_1_1.jpg
  • A junior officer speaks into a walkie-talkie to communicate instructions to an unknown member of the ship's company. With a coil of naval line (rope) to his side, the man is dressed in full naval working white uniform and a combination cap. The insignia on his shoulder rates him as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. We are on-board the USS Winston Churchill designated DDG-81, one of the Navy's stealth warships that was on exercise in British waters in 2001. The Churchill is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the 31st destroyer of a planned 62-ship class. The Churchill is named after the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Her home port is in NS Norfolk, Virginia.
    US_navy_officer-22-08-2001_1.jpg
  • A businessman stoops to pick-up dropped paperwork that has spilled onto the pavement (sidewalk) in London.
    picking_up_man01-03-02-2011.jpg
  • Striding urgently are a group of rail commuters emerging from London Bridge main line station in central London along a station concourse. Marching in step, the strangers are on their way to work in the City of London or Southwark on the south bank of the Thames. They are all passing-by a mobile smoothie drink kiosk that has the slogan "Guaranteed to keep you going till lunch." 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_commuters051-12-09-200...jpg
  • Young common hornbeams growing in a Herefordshire meadow. Freshly-trimmed and shaped, the young saplings are spaced around this garden field. Like alders and hazels, hornbeams are part of the birch family, all of which produce male and female flowers in the form of catkins. In hornbeams, the catkins are normally hidden until spring. There are around 70 species of hornbeams found worldwide, mainly in East Asia, but the one most often found in the British Isles is the common hornbeam.
    hornbeam_trees11-25-08-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Cleaning up street the morning after the TUC-organised anti-government cuts to Britain's economy. The Westminster council employee sweeps up glass and rubbish from Piccadilly with paint-spattered windows of the tax-evading Santander bank after a day's rioting by anarchists who broke away from a largely peaceful protest agasinst government economic cuts. Organisers estimated between 250,000 and 500,000 people took part but police said a total of 201 arrests had been made during the day largely for a variety of public order offences, they said. In addition, 66 people were reported to have been injured, including at least 31 police officers, 11 of whom required hospital treatment.
    riot_aftermath08-27-03-2011.jpg
  • Cleaning up street the morning after the TUC-organised anti-government cuts to Britain's economy.<br />
The words Smash the Bank have been sprayed with aerosol on wall relating to the belief by protesters that HSBC is a tax-evader. The riot by anarchists who broke away from a largely peaceful protest agasinst government economic cuts. Organisers estimated between 250,000 and 500,000 people took part but police said a total of 201 arrests had been made during the day largely for a variety of public order offences, they said. In addition, 66 people were reported to have been injured, including at least 31 police officers, 11 of whom required hospital treatment.
    riot_aftermath15-27-03-2011.jpg
  • Showing the face of a man who enjoys his job, a chef reaches for a ladle hanging inside an extractor cover in the kitchens at the Vivre restaurant in Sofitel, a 605 bedroom, 27 suite and 45 meeting room accommodation and business hub Heathrow Airport's hub hotel attached to Terminal 5. The man is wearing a tall chef's hat called a toque and his uniform is pristine to reflect the hygiene standards expected of this luxury hotel and restaurant. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1224-15-08-2009_1.jpg
  • As others try to squeeze through a space on the narrow pavement, a hotel employee cleans the matt in front of the Hotel do Norte, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. Scrubbing the step and the matt which contain the name of this establishment, the cleaner takes up most of the space on the sidewalk.
    portugal_porto-28-20-07-2016.jpg
  • Building under refurbishment, is wrapped in a fake classical facade to make it look tidy during the process, London, United Kingdom.
    20190210_fake facade_002.jpg
  • The faces on a construction site hoarding peer over a contractor's pile of tarmac in the back of a small truck, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. A man appears to be looking at the small pile of tarmac with a doubtful expression and others look towards the viewer. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level.
    construction_hoarding18-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • Building under refurbishment, is wrapped in a fake classical facade to make it look tidy during the process, London, United Kingdom.
    20190210_fake facade_001.jpg
  • Springer spaniel sits on leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth. Days before the weekend starts and the field is used by youth league teams, the painted lines are more visible than before when they were covered, inhibiting clear decisions during a game. It is a scene of regular order, of a regimented and tidy landscape that suggests what pointless job someone has during times of austerity - when Lambeth council is closing libraries, toilets and childrens' play facilities.
    cleared_leaves03-03-11-2015_1.jpg
  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. His neatly trimmed mustache is tidy compared to the rather unkempt beard stubble that has formed on his chin.  The young man looks about mid-twenties (20s) and wears a green jacket and checked shirt.
    moustache_men11-28-May-2011.jpg
  • Piles of sawn logs, ready for a winter home fire, stays dry under cover in a small holding shed. The ends of this timber is kept out of the weather, drying in readiness for the family hearth that heats the home. Originally tree trunks from nearby woodland, it has been chopped into quarters and sawn so its flat ends neatly fit into a tidy pile.
    log_pile02-08-04-2012.jpg
  • As a metaphor to the toil and struggle of life and work, a construction site contractor carries heavy chains along the street in front of a hoarding featuring many faces, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level. The links of the chain drag behind him, as he lumbers on before dropping them to the ground around the corner.
    chains_man02-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • The leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth. Days before the weekend starts and the field is used by youth league teams, the painted lines are more visible than before when they were covered, inhibiting clear decisions during a game. It is a scene of regular order, of a regimented and tidy landscape that suggests what pointless job someone has during times of austerity - when Lambeth council is closing libraries, toilets and childrens' play facilities.
    cleared_leaves04-03-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Piles of sawn logs, ready for a winter home fire, stays dry under cover in a small holding shed. The ends of this timber is kept out of the weather, drying in readiness for the family hearth that heats the home. Originally tree trunks from nearby woodland, it has been chopped into quarters and sawn so its flat ends neatly fit into a tidy pile.
    log_pile01-08-04-2012.jpg
  • A woman's eye a construction site hoarding peers over the top of a timber traffic barrier and wiring, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. Yellow wiring and an illuminated red light alerts others to the industrial hazard. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level.
    construction_hoarding13-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • A baby's face on a construction site hoarding peers over the top of a timber traffic barrier and wiring, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. Yellow wiring and an illuminated red light alerts others to the industrial hazard. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level.
    construction_hoarding11-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • Curious people look through the aperture of a construction site window with a hoarding of many faces, to see the busy site below, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level. .
    construction_hoarding08-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • City of London (corporation) anti-butts litter campaign with burn holes from stubbed out cigarettes. The campaign encourages smokers to bin their butts and help clean up London's Square Mile. The City of London Corporation, in partnership with Keep Britain Tidy, launched the initiative aimed at reducing the number of cigarette butts littering the City’s streets. ‘It’s no small problem…’ is designed to illustrate to smokers that, although each cigarette butt is small, in total more than SIX MILLION BUTTS are dropped each year the City contributing significantly to the £3.8million bill to clean its streets every year.
    smoking_campaign03-17-10-2014_1.jpg
  • City of London (corporation) anti-butts litter campaign with burn holes from stubbed out cigarettes. The campaign encourages smokers to bin their butts and help clean up London's Square Mile. The City of London Corporation, in partnership with Keep Britain Tidy, launched the initiative aimed at reducing the number of cigarette butts littering the City’s streets. ‘It’s no small problem…’ is designed to illustrate to smokers that, although each cigarette butt is small, in total more than SIX MILLION BUTTS are dropped each year the City contributing significantly to the £3.8million bill to clean its streets every year.
    smoking_campaign02-17-10-2014_1.jpg
  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it 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.
    RB-0186.jpg
  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his early-twenties street portrait with moustache. His neatly trimmed mustache is tidy compared to the rather unkempt beard stubble that has formed on his chin. The young man looks about mid-twenties (20s) and has the look of someone vulnerable and lacking confidence.
    moustache_men86-28-May-2011.jpg
  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his mid-twenties street portrait with moustache. His neatly trimmed mustache is tidy compared to the rather unkempt beard stubble that has formed on his chin.  The young man looks about mid-twenties (20s)
    moustache_men65-28-May-2011.jpg
  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. His neatly trimmed mustache is tidy compared to the rather unkempt beard stubble that has formed on his chin.  The young man looks about mid-twenties (20s) and wears a green jacket and checked shirt.
    moustache_men6-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • The leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth. Days before the weekend starts and the field is used by youth league teams, the painted lines are more visible than before when they were covered, inhibiting clear decisions during a game. It is a scene of regular order, of a regimented and tidy landscape that suggests what pointless job someone has during times of austerity - when Lambeth council is closing libraries, toilets and childrens' play facilities.
    cleared_leaves06-03-11-2015_1.jpg
  • As a metaphor to the toil and struggle of life and work, a construction site contractor carries heavy chains along the street in front of a hoarding featuring many faces, on the corner of Limeburner Lane and Ludgate Hill, EC4. The construction and development company Skanska is responsible for its design, maintaining a clean and tidy site, separating the dangers of the site and Londoners at street level. The links of the chain drag behind him, as he lumbers on before dropping them to the ground around the corner.
    chains_man06-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • Detail of a crucifix on a derelict grave in a rural French hamlet in Indre-et-Loire. The long-forgotten effigy lies leaning against the piled up stone remains of the grave, gathered up and left in the corner, tidied up and abandoned by the authorities.
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  • Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray tidies up around a memorial that offers RIP to democracy with inflatable yellow hammers outside the Cabinet Office in Westminster on 17th September 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • 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.
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