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Food Bank Britain

January 30, 2023

During the recent nurses strike I spoke to a number of strikers who knew of colleagues using food banks or were using them themselves. As the cost of living soars more than half of NHS trusts and health boards are either providing or planning food banks for staff.

According to the Royal College of Nursing their members on average work an extra 6 hours for no extra pay each week. During the pandemic politicians lined up to have their photographs taken as they clapped for NHS workers. Now they are refusing to pay them a living wage for the incredible life saving work they do.

I hope the photomontage below expresses the outrage that millions of people in the UK feel about the lying, corrupt and hypocritical political class that rules over us. No one should have to use a food bank in the sixth richest economy in the world. Solidarity with everyone fighting back against the economic system that has brought a wretched poverty and life to millions in food bank Britain.

‘Food Bank Britain’ Photomontage January 2023.

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The Bridge

January 23, 2023
Woman walking under the bridge in Wheeler Street. London 1987
Woman walking under the bridge in Wheeler Street. London 1987.
Bangladesh 1996
Crossing a bridge in Sylhet. Bangladesh 1996.
Railway and motorcycle bridge. Hanoi, Vietnam 2019.
Regents Canal c.1988
Bridge over the Regents Canal. London.
Woman walking under the Bridge in Brick Lane, London 2012
Woman walking under the Bridge in Brick Lane, London 2012.
Crossing the railway foot bridge from Cheshire Street. East London 2018.
Three people cross a bridge, Spitalfields 1984
Three people cross the bridge, Spitalfields 1984.
Smoking and listening under a bridge in Braithwaite Street. East London, August 2018.

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Around Liverpool (34)

January 16, 2023
Wavertree High Street. Liverpool August 2022.
Outside the Picton pub on Picton Road. Liverpool, October 2019.
Drummers outside the Liverpool CWU building during a strike rally. Liverpool August 2022.
Cyclist and pedestrian on London Road. Liverpool August 2022.
rain
On a bike in Whitechapel. Liverpool, september 2018.
On the phone on London Road. Liverpool August 2022.
On the bus. Liverpool August 2022.
Free political prisoner Julian Assange. St Georges Hall, Liverpool August 2022.
'I, Daniel Blake". Liverpool May 2017.
‘I, Daniel Blake”. Liverpool May Day demonstration, 2017.

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Around Liverpool (33)

January 6, 2023
Crossing the road in Lime Street. Liverpool August 2022.
Lime Street. Liverpool, February 2020.
Wearing headphones on London Road. Liverpool August 2022.
Wearing Headphones on Smithdown Road. Liverpool 2019.
Having a laugh in the Belverdere pub. Liverpool August 2022.
Portrait through a glass in the Belverdere pub. Liverpool August 2022.
Inside Ye Cracke is a pub in Rice Street off Hope Street. Liverpool, February 2020.
Man wearing a mask on Picton Road. Liverpool August 2022.
On the phone at a bus stop on Church Road North. Liverpool, February 2018.

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World Streets (3)

December 15, 2022

A Lady walking past the Hotel Pommeraye. Nantes, France 2011.
Clothes shop assistant. Hoi An, Vietnam 2016.
Clothes shop assistant. Hoi An, Vietnam 2016.
Cheshire Street, London 1985
Cheshire Street. East London 1985.
East village. New York 2005.
East village. New York 2005.
Jonker Street market. Melaka, Malaysia 2017.
Jonker Street market. Melaka, Malaysia 2017.

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Smiles & Bikes

December 13, 2022
Cheshire Street. East London 2003.
A great smile. On the 61 bus. Liverpool 2017.
A great smile. On the 61 bus. Liverpool 2017.
woolen hat
Man on a bike in town. Liverpool, April 2018.
Abandoned bicycle frame
Abandoned bicycle frame, Bethnal Green 2008
Busker on Lime Street. Liverpool, February 2020.
Smiling in Whitechapel. East London 2009.

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World Streets (2)

December 7, 2022
Woman & child on a scooter. Hanoi, Vietnam 2019.
Berlin 2014
Berlin 2014.
Stall holder at the night market. Hanoi, Vietnam 2019.
Posters
Woman with a pushchair. Paris, 2004.
India c. 1992
Pulling a heavy load in Chennai. India 2007.
Pushing goods on Whitechapel market
Moving goods on Whitechapel market. East London, 2009.

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