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stolpersteine
Highgate Cemetary London
Highgate Wood London
rue de Cascades Paris 20eme
MK2 cinema Quai de la Seine - Paris 19eme
Schillerstrasse 65 Dusseldorf; Margarete Frochtling
Dusseldorf Altstadt
Stolpersteine Kirschfeldstrasse 145 Dusseldorf-Friedrichstadt; Henriette Lion
London southbank
Junction road London
Spitalfields market
Kings Cross Central
Thomas Hardy tree - Old St Pancras churchyard
Tel Aviv
Rothschild Blvd
Jaffa Port
Dead Sea
The game of monopoly
superman - haringey green lanes festival
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The flâneur appears to meander through the streets without plan or purpose. But this randomness is the flâneurs rationale - to experience the life of the city by surrendering to its ebb and flow - the chance encounters and unexpected discoveries, which can only be revealed through the act of walking. Follow le flâneurs walks...

    Rue Denoyez - Paris 20ème

    Les murs de Paris encore

    A recent trip to Paris in November 2011 encouraged me to re-trace some of the steps I had taken when I first created the series, 'Les Murs de Paris'. I wanted to see what had changed and what had remained the same over the five years that had passed from my initial walks around the city. Many of the things I photographed in…

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    The game of monopoly

    We are the 99% – Occupy London Stock Exchange

    'We are the 99%' is the refrain from Wall Street to London, from Oakland to Tel Aviv. A growing chorus of international resistance to the maintenance of the status quo following the impact of the financial crisis on individuals and societies across the developed world. As the 99% suggests the frustration lies with growing i…

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    Jerusalem - Western Wall

    Jerusalem – old city

    The old city of Jerusalem is an intense experience with the competing forces of so many gods and religions - all vying for supremacy. The disputed sites, memorials and interpretations create a bizarre overlay on an ancient city of the ghosts of past civilizations. Yet there is also a continuum, such as the ancient Armenian …

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    Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv

    A recent wedding took le flaneur to Tel Aviv, a city which in many ways embodies the vision of the founders of modern Israel, reflected in its Bauhaus inspired architecture, signalling a modernist drive to create a new urban ideal. The city follows the contours of the coast and was built on the sand dunes to the north of th…

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    London series – Harringay Green Lanes food festival

    The Green Lanes Food Festival celebrates the diverse mix of communities that live in and around Green Lanes. On 18 September 2011 almost 20,000 people walked down Green Lanes - just one month after the London riots. Green Lanes itself is an ancient London thoroughfare that was originally a cattle route from Hertfordshire to…

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    Pancras Road N1

    London series – Kings Cross

    Behind the glorious facade of St Pancras station and the newly renovated platforms that deliver us to exotic European destinations lies a post industrial landscape. The district north of St Pancras and KIngs Cross rail stations is an area in re-generation - one of the largest areas of re-development in central London. But a…

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    The impossible letters

    The impossible letters - how can read the letters of the alphabet in everyday objects, in buildings, on the street? This was the project challenge for a group of photographers who participated in a workshop organised as part of the inaugural London Street Photography Festival. After reviewing the work of the two course conv…

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    London series – Highgate Wood

    Highgate Wood is my local park - a place to walk, dream, relax and play. Part wildlife reserve, part Victorian park it lies on the ridge just below Highgate village. A remnant of the ancient forest of Middlesex, today it's an extension of our backyards - with a semblance of the village life in the urban metropolis. In the s…

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    Düsseldorf Altstadt

    Düsseldorfer Weihnachtsmarkt

    The Düsseldorf Weihnachtsmarkt brings a rural village to the capital of Germany's most populous state for a month before Christmas each year. Spread across the old town are lines of stalls selling traditional wooden toys, socks, crystals, candles - the perfect solution for last minute shoppers. Yet the heart of the market …

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    Regents Canal

    A London journey

    Unlike Paris, London has never truly seen a grand city plan. Rather districts within the city have grown and evolved in their own unique ways, driven by commercial imperatives and their individual communities. My journey follows a meandering pattern across London - starting from the Regents Canal in central London to Highga…

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    Schillerstrasse 65 Dusseldorf; Margarete Frochtling

    Düsseldorf Stolpersteine

    These small brass plaques, lodged in the pavement, are a reminder of the countless individual lives that make up the clinical statistics that confound our ability to assimilate the horror of the millions who died under Nazi 're-settlement'. My initial introduction to the Stolpersteine project was during a visit to Berlin…

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    This garden was originally an overflow burial ground for St John's Church

    London Series – Clerkenwell and Smithfield – Crime, revolutions and executions

    Crime, revolutions and executions seems an apt subtitle for Clerkenwell and Smithfield - a district that has housed prisons, acted as a site for public executions and has been the chosen residence of its fair share of revolutionaries over the centuries. Clerkenwell (Clerks Well) and Smithfield (Smooth field) are two ancient…

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    Krakow November 2005

    Memories of the Displaced

    The genesis of this project arose out of my first visits to Poland in 2005 and the stark differences I discovered between the Polish Catholic cemeteries and the state of the Jewish cemeteries in Krakow. It was not just the overgrown, cracked and broken tombstones - but also the years of death on many of the tombstones in th…

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    Villa de L'Ermitage - Paris 20eme

    Les Murs de Paris

    Walking through Paris from the fashionable 8ème to the rapidly gentrifying old working class districts to the North & North East brings you across a variety of signs and street art on the walls - official and unofficial. This series, collected over several years, also reflects the impermanence of the urban space - mura…

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    Brussels - Ixelles

    Brussels New Year 2007

    A random walk through Brussels in the closing days of 2007. The journey takes in the districts of Ixelles & St Gilles in the south with their combination of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and other architectural styles. A fine example of Art Nouveau is the house built for the industrialist Edouard Hannon with its frescos by Boud…

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    Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Oxley Bank

    Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    The 18th century parkland of Bretton Hall is, like any urban space, a man-made landscape - modeled and transformed to suit the tastes of it's owner. Today as the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the grounds of the estate provide an environment for the exhibition of contemporary sculpture. A recent addition is work by Andy Goldswor…

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    Fragment of a Sarcophagus Alyscamps

    Fragments of Roman Arles

    The collection of artifacts in the city museum of Arles is to trace a journey through a changing spiritual and social landscape from the 1st to the 4th Century. This was the time of Arles pre-eminence as a Greco-Roman city, a period richly described in Lawrence Durrell's last book, 'Caesar's vast ghost' - a part travelogue,…

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    Le-flâneur - the metropolitan wanderer

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    The random urban photographer

    Apr 07, 2011 | 1 Comment

    An intoxication comes over the man who walks long and aimlessly through the street. With each step, the walk takes on greater momentum; ever weaker grow the temptations of shops, of bistros, of smiling women, ever more irresistible the magnetism of the next street corner, of a distant mass of foliage, of a street name. …Continue reading →

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    Backyard Magazine – encouraging photographers to stay at home

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    If you haven’t come across Backyard – an online photo magazine – take a look. It celebrates the work of photographers who seek to explore the world at their doorstep – our local communities and friends – the stories that are literally around the corner. …Continue reading →

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