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Around The East End (31)

July 19, 2022
Crossing Commercial Street. East London 2017.
Commercial Street c.1993
Bus stop in Commercial Street. East London 1993.
Outside Liverpool Street Station. East London 2017.
Bishopsgate 1998
Reflection on Bishopsgate. East London 1998.
Man in Brick Lane cafe
Silhouette of a man sitting in the window of a cafe in Brick Lane, 1983.
Outside Liverpool Street Station. East London 2017.
On the phone in Bishopsgate. East London 2017.
Cyclist wearing headphones on Brick Lane. East London, February 2019.
Entering a shop in Bell Lane. East London 2017.

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Berlin, Dhaka, Hanoi, London and Tamil Nadu

July 6, 2022
An old hand cart in the Sunday Petticoat Lane market. East London 1982.
India 2007
Tamil Nadu, India 2007.
Two old fashioned hand carts flank a young man eating his lunch
Whitechapel Market. East London 1984.
On the move, Dhaka Bangladesh 2008
On the move, Dhaka Bangladesh 2008.
Berlin 2014
Berlin, 2014.
Waiting at traffic lights in Hanoi. Vietnam 2019.
Lighting a cigarette in Osborne Street. East London, December 2017.
Lighting a cigarette in Osborne Street. East London, December 2017.

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Dhaka and London

June 30, 2022
Reflections in a lake, Dhaka. Bangladesh 2009.
River Thames 2009
River Thames. London 2009.
Street in Dhaka. Bangladesh 2009.
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View from the top of a bus on Bethnal Green Road. East London, July 2016.
Street in Dhaka. Bangladesh 2009.
Transporting goods on Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Transporting goods in Dhaka. Bangladesh 2009.
Whitechapel market. East London 2018.
Rooftop with a satellite dish in Dhaka. Bangladesh 2009.
Christ Church from Spitalfields roof top c.1988
Christ Church from Spitalfields roof top. London 1988.

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Escape

June 28, 2022
‘Escape’ – Photomontage / collage, 2022.

As a teenager at school I had a range of different jobs from paper boy and potato picking to stacking supermarket shelves. Then as a student teacher I worked during the holidays as a gardener and as a labourer on the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham. None of these jobs were particularly challenging from an intellectual point of view but in some ways I probably learnt more about real life than I did from the books I had to read.

During my labouring job I learnt how to let my mind wander. These days I note that the workers who have to cycle around delivering food and wait outside restauraunts similarly may have wandering minds. Perhaps they dream of escaping from the tedium of their precarious low paid work; hence the title of the above image of a cyclist on a mission in a dream like landscape: ‘Escape’.

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Around Liverpool (31)

June 27, 2022
Bus Stop on Picton Road. Liverpool 2022.
Playing cricket in Wavertree. Liverpool, 1978.
Cyclist delivering foodon Picton Road. Liverpool 2022.
Catholic Cathedreal from a distance. Liverpool 1979.
Catholic Cathedral from a distance. Liverpool 1979.
Thorneycroft Road. Liverpool, 2022.
Lodge Lane. Liverpool 1981
Lodge Lane. Liverpool 1981.
Thorneycroft Road. Liverpool, 2022.
Liverpool City Centre 2015
On the phone in Liverpool. City Centre 2015.
Thorneycroft Road. Liverpool, 2022.
Wearing headphones on the 79 bus. Liverpool, July 2019.
Supermarket on Smithdown Road. Liverpool, 2022.

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