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regents canal
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Highgate Wood
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
Costa Coffee Archway station
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...

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London Southbank

I love walking along London Southbank - here a just a few things that have caught my eye...... Continue reading →…

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Lyme Regis - west dorset

Beach huts – friends welcome, relatives by appointment

Beach huts can be found across seaside resorts in the UK - little miniature homes on the high-tide mark. Their history goes back to the origins of the seaside resort - and the idea that the beach and the sea could offer restorative powers - initially an option only for the wealthy. The ancestor of the beach hut was the bath…

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Albert loves Emily - made in China

Lovelocks

I first came across lovelocks on a bridge in a small italian town, Cannobio on Lago Maggiore. Over a year later I found the Pont des Artes in Paris covered in a multi-cultural spread of padlocks offering public declarations of undying love. Always known as a meeting place for lovers it was something new to see a tapestry of…

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Planet Kebabs Archway Station

The view from the bus

This is my morning commute - seen through the screen of the top deck of a London bus. A series of fleeting momentary glances of a familiar landscape as the bus lurches and sways through the streets of London. This view of the street, up high and sometimes obscured by the condensation of cold winter days is the ideal voyeur …

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5 rue de la Cigogne

Brussels – an afternoon stroll

An afternoon stroll through St-Gilles in Brussels - looking at doorways. The spiralling twisted shapes of art nouveau doors and cartoon pictures on roller doors...... Continue reading

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Highgate wood

Highgate Wood – London

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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Pastorplatz 1 Aachen - Edith, Anne & Margot Frank

Stolpersteine in Aachen

Aachen the German border town that straddles Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium is probably best known for its Cathedral - the oldest in Northern Europe and the burial site of Charlemagne. The 'Imperial Cathedral' is a magnificent structure, composed of several distinct buildings constructed at various stages in its long…

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Schadowplatz

Düsseldorfer Weihnachtsmarkt

For the past 12 years I have spent Christmas in Düsseldorf - and each year I head to the Weihnachtsmarkt, the traditional Christmas market. For a month a little rural village arises on the streets of Düsseldorf. Spread across the Altstadt are lines of stalls selling traditional wooden toys, socks, crystals, and candles - …

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Garden Barge Square - Reeds Wharf, looking east

Garden barge square – an oasis on the thames

Reeds wharf on the southern side of the thames near Tower bridge is home to a floating garden - formed from a series of barges at the 200 year old Downings road moorings. The garden square is home to 70 residents with the gardens literally sitting on the barge roofs. Its a green oasis surrounded by the steel and glass of lu…

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Arriete, Lanzarote

Lanzarote

César Manrique's enduring impact on Lanzarote is impossible to avoid. An artist and architect, he recognised the potential of tourism but also its dangers. It led him to impose strict guidelines on development, aimed at preserving the integrity of the local architecture and community. As a consequence Lanzarote is not bli…

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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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Rocco Pod

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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O - walking off commercial street E1

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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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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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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