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  • A detail of a notepad jotter with inspirational words on the top of each sheet of A5 paper. The words 'doodle, list, jot, collate, note down and create' help personnel at an Ernst & Young counselling workshop make the right decisions during a day of ideas and creativity brainstorming, held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. An out of focus biro pen is placed diagonally on the paper that has been left on  office table furniture for arriving staff.
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  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
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  • The words STOP and LOOK sprayed on to the pavement where cars cross the pavement near Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
    stop_look-01-05-07-2018.jpg
  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
    eternal_life-08-16-11-2017.jpg
  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. A small group rehearses a play about the economy  in front of the NatWest bank. A man wears a sweatshirt with the words 'Abolish money'.
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  • An anonymous billboard with the words of hope Please believe these days will pass pasted on a deserted St Thomas Street wall in Southwark, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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  • The words Thank You written in chalk on Ramsgates sea wall near the former ferry terminal in the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
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  • The words Thank You written in chalk on Ramsgates sea wall near the former ferry terminal in the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-192-08-01-2019.jpg
  • The words STOP and LOOK sprayed on to the pavement where cars cross the pavement near Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
    stop_look-02-05-07-2018.jpg
  • A discarded lunch bag with the words Eat Beautiful on the outside, on 24th January 2018, in Soho, London, England.
    lunch_bag-02-24-01-2018.jpg
  • A discarded lunch bag with the words Eat Beautiful on the outside, on 24th January 2018, in Soho, London, England.
    lunch_bag-01-24-01-2018.jpg
  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
    eternal_life-03-16-11-2017.jpg
  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
    eternal_life-01-16-11-2017.jpg
  • A young Egyptian boy practices his English words from a textbook at his home in the village of Bairat, on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. In 2012, the literacy rate in Egypt was 75.2 per cent - specifically, male (83.2) and female (67.3). Not all state schools teach English as the second language but favour instead the old colonial French.
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  • Buxton Street off Brick Lane, East London. June 8th 2014. Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. Mis-spelt words by Bob and Roberta Smith aka artist Patrick Brill, selling for £75 - £200
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  • Buxton Street off Brick Lane, East London. June 8th 2014. Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. Mis-spelt words by Bob and Roberta Smith aka artist Patrick Brill, selling for £75 - £200, which mock the education policies of the current coalition government and in particular Michael Gove.
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  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, we see visitors watching a re-enactment of a Civil War skirmish at the Gettysburg National Military Park. As a group of Confederate troopers parade on the battlefield, we see printed on a woman tourist's back, the quoted words spoken by President George W Bush on 9/11/01. His rallying call to the nation, answering the demand for vengeance against the 'evil-doers' is included in his rhetoric, reproduced on clothing and on messages displayed around the US. The American Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and was the one battle with the largest number of casualties: Between 46,000 and 51,000 killed in the three-days in July 1863.
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  • Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Hambling's Scallop (2003) stands on the north end of Aldeburgh beach. It is a tribute to Benjamin Britten and is pierced with the words "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" from his opera Peter Grimes. Aldeburgh is a coastal town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Located on the River Alde, the town is notable for its internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten. The Blue Flag shingle beach and fisherman huts is where freshly caught fish are sold daily.
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  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling . A protester talks to a policeman wearing a long sleeved white t-shirt with written on the back the words 'This land is your land, this land is my land, keep it clean, say no to fracking'.
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  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
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  • A female volunteer assists an African school-girl as she reads a literacy exercise in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa. They sit at a desk and have reading sheets on the desk. The volunteer points her pen at words that she would like the child to read. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A neon sign forming the letters spelling the word Morning Glory outside a cafe in Soho, on 15th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A hairy, male chest with the word HOT shaved into it, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • A hairy, male chest with the word HOT shaved into it, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • A valentines Day merchandise retail window in the City of London. The word Love has been pasted on to the window in large lettering above Happy Valentines. Cheap and cheerful gifts for this romantic occasion can be seen in the background as well as a Valentine's Day balloon. Valentine's Day takings are expected to exceed £1.3bn, says the British Retail Consortium. The spending is led by generous — or panicking — men. It was estimated last year that British men would fork out £622m between them, compared to the £354m spent by women
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  • A young African school girl holds her glasses and has a lively conversation with her reading coach in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.  She has just successfully read a new word.  Another student and teacher sit together in the background reading. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • An African school child looks at her volunteer literacy teacher in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The teacher is spelling a word that the child is trying to write in her exercise book. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8377.jpg
  • An all reduced sale of sports clothing supplier JJB.com stock, being sold by new buyer, Sports Direct shop in central London. JJB Sports has collapsed into administration, with arch-rival Sports Direct acquiring 20 stores. KPMG partners Brian Green, David Costley-Wood and Richard Fleming were appointed administrators before Sports Direct bought the JJB assets for £23.77m.
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  • An environmental activist leads his pet Great Dane dog after drinking from a public fountain, while protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-83-09-10-2019.jpg
  • Racist graffiti has been sprayed on a wall on Herne Hill in the south London borough of Southwark. Appearing some time over the weekend, the offensive message was left outside a jazz and funk bar called Dee Dee's in an otherwise very affluent suburb of the capital, making this offence very unusual and shocking many residents. It was initially partly painted over then covered by sheets before council workmen appeared to remove the graffiti within 30mins after it being reported.
    racist_graffiti03-26-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A closed DVD rental shop in south London has gone bust, a victim of the UK's economic climate. 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'.
    recession_window06-30-10-2010.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called ‘Aiden’ died in Prebend Street, London, England. If we just ignored this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: “Champion among men, now a champion of angels/A star in the Heavens has been named in memory of Aiden.” From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. A man holds a placard saying Stop Banking on Fraud
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. Finsbury Square. The library tent.
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  • A 2 year-old girl reads a book about being a big sister, coming to terms with role-play, the idea of having a newborn baby brother in his basket at home in south London. The siblings are in their south London home, the girl sitting up on the carpet and her brother - only a few weeks old - is starting to wake from a mid-morning sleep. The book being read is 'I'm a big sister' by writer Joanna Cole, written to help young girl's overcome the shock of suddenly no longer being the most important member of a young family, helping her deal with a new status as the eldest but more mature child.
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  • A female teacher guides a young school-boy though a reading exercise in the reading corner in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer teacher has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8054.jpg
  • A school-grade 2 African kid plays a board game designed to improve children’s literacy called ‘Cloudy Sky’ in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The game has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8018.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Ciceros ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto. The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_elephant&Castle-13-11-05...jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Ciceros ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto. The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_elephant&Castle-11-11-05...jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Ciceros ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto. The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_elephant&Castle-09-11-05...jpg
  • Full size cut out of a Grenadier Guardsman in full military uniform outside a closed down souvenir shop on 21st January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. This is an iconic symbol of Britishness for the tourism industry and for Britians identity. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
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  • Full size cut out of a Grenadier Guardsman in full military uniform outside a closed down souvenir shop on 21st January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. This is an iconic symbol of Britishness for the tourism industry and for Britians identity. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200121_closed guardsman_003.jpg
  • Full size cut out of a Grenadier Guardsman in full military uniform outside a closed down souvenir shop on 21st January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. This is an iconic symbol of Britishness for the tourism industry and for Britians identity. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200121_closed guardsman_004.jpg
  • Full size cut out of a Grenadier Guardsman in full military uniform outside a closed down souvenir shop on 21st January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. This is an iconic symbol of Britishness for the tourism industry and for Britians identity. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200121_closed guardsman_001.jpg
  • Closed down shop in Camden Town on 14th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200114_closed down shop_004.jpg
  • Closed down shop in Camden Town on 14th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200114_closed down shop_003.jpg
  • Closed down shop in Camden Town on 14th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200114_closed down shop_002.jpg
  • All reduced stock in a closed down shop in Camden Town on 14th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. With much economic uncertainty in the UK following Brexit and with more competition from online retailers, the high street is facing difficult times.
    20200114_closed down shop_001.jpg
  • A man uses his laptop beneath the slogan Live Simply and Live in Peace has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-86-09-10-2019.jpg
  • Three men use their phones and a laptop beneath the slogan Live Simply and Live in Peace has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-88-09-10-2019.jpg
  • A man uses his laptop beneath the slogan Live Simply and Live in Peace has been written on a wall by an environmental activist protesting about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-84-09-10-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming Graveyard of Lost Species, a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the Souvenir, a 39-foot Thames bawley 1933 which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
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  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming Graveyard of Lost Species, an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the Souvenir, a 39-foot Thames bawley 1933 which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-16-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Chalk writing warns letter posters of a freshly-painted Royal Mail postal box in Dulwich Village, on 7th January 2019, in Southwark, London, UK.
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  • A Say Yes to Something message on the outside of a closed pub, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-140-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    happy_birthday-04-06-08-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    happy_birthday-02-06-08-2018.jpg
  • Alphabet street art in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • A Welcome Home sign and flowers at the doorway of a terraced house in south London, on 7th December 2017, in London England.
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  • A closed shop still bears in its window the evidence of its last few days of business, on 1st August 2017, at Blackfriars, in London, England.
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  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library have written messages in chalk on the front steps in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the librarys doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
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  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library have written messages in chalk on the front entrance in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the librarys doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
    carnegie_library01-07-05-2016.jpg
  • Racist graffiti has been sprayed on a wall on Herne Hill in the south London borough of Southwark. Appearing some time over the weekend, the offensive message was left outside a jazz and funk bar called Dee Dee's in an otherwise very affluent suburb of the capital, making this offence very unusual and shocking many residents. It was initially partly painted over then covered by sheets before council workmen appeared to remove the graffiti within 30mins after it being reported.
    racist_graffiti05-26-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Racist graffiti has been sprayed on a wall on Herne Hill in the south London borough of Southwark. Appearing some time over the weekend, the offensive message was left outside a jazz and funk bar called Dee Dee's in an otherwise very affluent suburb of the capital, making this offence very unusual and shocking many residents. It was initially partly painted over then covered by sheets before council workmen appeared to remove the graffiti within 30mins after it being reported.
    racist_graffiti04-26-05-2015_1.jpg
  • City of London bench and modern city background. With sunlight illumination the wooden slats and cross-bar, we see the modern city in the background and the carved lettering of the Corporation of London's on the bench, used by passers-by at lunchtimes. The City of London is the capital's historic centre and financial heart, first occupied by the Romans in AD43 then expanded during following centuries until today. The Square Mile, as the City is also known, has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_bench03-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • City of London bench and modern city background. With sunlight illumination the wooden slats and cross-bar, we see the modern city in the background and the carved lettering of the Corporation of London's on the bench, used by passers-by at lunchtimes. The City of London is the capital's historic centre and financial heart, first occupied by the Romans in AD43 then expanded during following centuries until today. The Square Mile, as the City is also known, has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_bench02-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • City of London bench and modern city background. With sunlight illumination the wooden slats and cross-bar, we see the modern city in the background and the carved lettering of the Corporation of London's on the bench, used by passers-by at lunchtimes. The City of London is the capital's historic centre and financial heart, first occupied by the Romans in AD43 then expanded during following centuries until today. The Square Mile, as the City is also known, has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_bench01-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Tandem surfers Dhelia Birou, 20 and Clement Cetran, take time out at an event in Seignosse, France. Tandem surfing is a hybrid of surfing and acrobatics. It originated in the 1930s in Hawaii when the Waikiki Beach boys would take female tourists for rides on their boards.
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  • happy people on the opening day of Glastonbury Festival 2014.<br />
Shangri-La is the after-hours epicentre of Glastonbury Festival, a largely indescribable, ephemeral and interactive world that really comes to life after dark.<br />
Unique among festivals, Shangri-la has a central narrative that pins it all together,  it evolves year by year (a bit like Star Wars). All contributors respond to this narrative, and add to it via their installations, venues and performances. When it all comes together on site the audience have a wholly immersive world to become lost in with a myriad of places to explore.<br />
Exploration and discovery is an important aspect of  Shangri-la. A maze of covered alleys is riddled with nano-venues, performers and installations, artworks and hidden doors.<br />
 In 2014 Shangri-La explored the way we create heavens and hells for ourselves.
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  • Buxton Street off Brick Lane, East London. June 8th 2014. Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. Art lecture by Bob and Roberta Smith (Patrick Brill), attacking the coalition cuts to art education and remembering Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
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  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
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  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
    electric_car02-28-03-2014.jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Catching up on the latest from home, the young Chinese activists read newspapers reporting of the massacre by the Chinese regime on protesting students in Beijing. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
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  • William Blake's poem London is written in the pavement at Bunhill Fields, the place in the City of London where the poet is buried. London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. William Blake was a poet and artist who specialised in illuminated texts, often of a religious nature. He rejected established religion for various reasons, including the failure of the established Church to help children in London who were forced to work. Blake lived and worked in the capital, so he was arguably well placed to write clearly about the conditions people who lived there faced.
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  • The back of  famous greying-blonde head belonging to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic is seen during SpaceShipTwo's replica model unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Galactic. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • Waiting for an airshow display to commence, an aviation enthusiast family huddle in the cold at Mildenhall, a US Air Force base in Suffolk, England. Waiting for live TV coverage of the proceeding aerobatics to start, the people look miserable by their body language - hands thrust deep in pockets on this chilly afternoon and garden chairs providing welcome seats at the edge of the runway.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. Finsbury Square. A sign saying Tax havens are immoral.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. Tents in front of the cathedral and a sign saying Capitalism is Crisis.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. Tents in front of the cathedral and a sign saying Capitalism is Crisis.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. After holding a service outside the cathedral (it was closed because of the protest camp), the Reverend Adrian Benjamin, a prebendary of St Paul's, chats to a passer-by.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. Part of a banner in front of the cathedral saying 'Not profit'.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. St Paul's Cathedral. A notice on the closed doors of the cathdral saying '3.15 service btm of steps '.
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  • Occupy London October 23rd 2011. Finsbury Square. David Cameron mask with 'Spend Don't Think' written on his forehead.
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  • October 9th 2011. Blockade of Westminster Bridge organised by UK Uncut before the NHS bill goes before Parliament on October 12th. A man wearing a surgical mask holds a day glo coloured placard saying 'Fuck the fucking fuckers'.
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  • A young African school boy uses a computer with a literacy teacher in a classroom in Lourier Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The teacher is helping the pupil complete a reading task.  The computer and volunteer teacher are provided by the Life Matters organisation which is partnered with the Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African school-girl talks to her teacher during a writing exercise in a classroom in Prestwich Primary School, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa. She is holding a pencil and has been writing in her exercise book.
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  • A young African schoolgirl looks at her teacher to answer a question in a classroom in Prestwich Primary School, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa.  She is using red flash cards as a tool to learn reading.
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  • A young African school-girl reads a picture story book and is assisted by a volunteer teacher in a classroom in Prestwich Primary School, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa. The teacher is a volunteer provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A female teacher claps and congratulates a young African school child in his literacy class in a classroom in Prestwich Primary School, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa.  The teacher is a volunteer provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A female teacher shows a young African girl how to write in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African school girl looks at her teacher as she discusses the exercise with a volunteer literacy teacher in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa. They sit at a desk and have reading sheets on the desk. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African school girl shares a joke with her volunteer literacy teacher during a reading session in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa. The volunteer teachers have been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African boy practices writing with a volunteer teacher in a classroom in Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer teacher has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African school-child proudly holds his reading book and smiles in in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  He is learning to read independently.  The book has been provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young school-boy doing a writing exercise with a volunteer teacher in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer teacher has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African boy practices writing with a female volunteer in a classroom in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer uses a variety of literacy tools to help the children learn to read and write, these include the assisted reading books, flash cards and alphabet posters which can be seen in the picture.  The volunteer is from the Shine Centre organisation which aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young African boy looks at his volunteer reading teacher while she explains the rules of the game she is showing him.  The game is designed to improve children’s literacy and is called ‘Cloudy Sky’ in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • Protester with a placard which uses some colourful language to make their point. "Fuck teh Fucking Fuckers". Clearly an angry protester. UK Uncut shut down Westminster Bridge in a protest over NHS bill. Thousands of protesters occupied one of London’s most iconic landmarks on 9 October, in a last-ditch attempt to defeat legislation that is condemned by doctors as ‘undermining all that is precious about the NHS’. The anti-austerity direct action group demonstration blocked Westminster Bridge at 1pm on Sunday 9 October, days before the final vote in the House of Lords. The bill, which will see private patients treated at the expense of NHS patients, healthcare workers made redundant and reduce the priority of treating chronic and complex conditions, will be voted on by the Lords on the 12th October. The British Medical Association, the professional association of doctors in the UK, says the Bill “presents unacceptable risks to the NHS” and is calling for the Bill to be withdrawn.
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  • Protester with a placard which uses some colourful language to make their point. "Fuck teh Fucking Fuckers". Clearly an angry protester. UK Uncut shut down Westminster Bridge in a protest over NHS bill. Thousands of protesters occupied one of London’s most iconic landmarks on 9 October, in a last-ditch attempt to defeat legislation that is condemned by doctors as ‘undermining all that is precious about the NHS’. The anti-austerity direct action group demonstration blocked Westminster Bridge at 1pm on Sunday 9 October, days before the final vote in the House of Lords. The bill, which will see private patients treated at the expense of NHS patients, healthcare workers made redundant and reduce the priority of treating chronic and complex conditions, will be voted on by the Lords on the 12th October. The British Medical Association, the professional association of doctors in the UK, says the Bill “presents unacceptable risks to the NHS” and is calling for the Bill to be withdrawn.
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  • Protester with a placard which uses some colourful language to make their point. "Fuck teh Fucking Fuckers". Clearly an angry protester. UK Uncut shut down Westminster Bridge in a protest over NHS bill. Thousands of protesters occupied one of London’s most iconic landmarks on 9 October, in a last-ditch attempt to defeat legislation that is condemned by doctors as ‘undermining all that is precious about the NHS’. The anti-austerity direct action group demonstration blocked Westminster Bridge at 1pm on Sunday 9 October, days before the final vote in the House of Lords. The bill, which will see private patients treated at the expense of NHS patients, healthcare workers made redundant and reduce the priority of treating chronic and complex conditions, will be voted on by the Lords on the 12th October. The British Medical Association, the professional association of doctors in the UK, says the Bill “presents unacceptable risks to the NHS” and is calling for the Bill to be withdrawn.
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