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  • The words 'No Dumping' writing on an urban brick wall in the south London borough of Lewisham, SE5. Painted by hand on to London stock bricks dating perhaps, to the late-Victorian or early 20th century period, we see the writing asking local residents and business owners not to fly-tip in this unauthorised location. Councils like Lewisham will prosecute those found to be dumping waste and litter. Amusingly, we also notice that the letter P has been empasised with the use of red.
    no_dumping03-08-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Messages of love written in marker pen on a public park sign containing local bylaws. The large letters form the words LOVE YOU in the centre of frame - an amorous declaration of affection - by an admirer followed in red writing of the words "I love you too!" The scrawled writing is on the background of a local park's laws that indicate in parts 2 and 3 what not to do in this public space in south London, England.
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  • Urban wall seen through blue graffiti on a bus at Elephant & Castle in south London. From the top deck of a London bus, blue writing has been scrawled in permanent marker pen on the glass and we look through its writing madness to the background landscape of the roof of a bus stop shelter and passing people and waiting passengers - a scene of London and criminality in an urban context.
    bus_graffiti07-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A prisoner writing a letter to his family at his cell desk. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-8668_1.jpg
  • City of London seen through blue graffiti on a bus while crossing Waterloo Bridge. From the top deck of a London bus, blue writing has been scrawled in permanent marker pen on the glass and we look through its writing madness to the background landscape of the River Thames and the capital - a scene of London and criminality in an urban context.
    bus_graffiti06-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • As the number of UK Coronavirus cases rose to over 8,000, it was announced that thousands of 15-minute home tests could be made available within days to those self-isolating with symptoms. Fading chalk writing is written on the pavement outside a now closed general store business selling gloves and masks in Camberwell, south London, on 25th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Walworth-26-25-03-2020.jpg
  • The words 'No Dumping' writing on an urban brick wall in the south London borough of Lewisham, SE5. Painted by hand on to London stock bricks dating perhaps, to the late-Victorian or early 20th century period, we see the writing asking local residents and business owners not to fly-tip in this unauthorised location. Councils like Lewisham will prosecute those found to be dumping waste and litter. Amusingly, we also notice that the letter P has been empasised with the use of red.
    no_dumping02-08-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A prisoner writing a letter to his family at his cell desk. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-8687_1.jpg
  • Greek-born writer of foward-fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes stands by a wall covered in urban graffiti with arms folded and a slightly mischevious look i his dark eyes. Author of Little Infamies (2002), The Maze (2004) and the Convent (2010) he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capitals Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-05-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Shop owner writes a reduced price on an upright mirror with bright furniture on sale in a London street.A shop owner writes a reduced price on an upright mirror with bright furniture on sale in a London street. Writing on the glass with a marker pen the man has decided to tell us the original price of this item was #250 and he writes down a new, reduced value of #170, making us believe there are massive savings to be had on this home furnishing. Behind him is a garish pink sofa chair that was made in Egypt and imported to the UK capital where it and other pieces sit in bright sunshine, their colours looking tacky and cheap.
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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.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8273.jpg
  • A young female prisoner writing a letter in her cell. HM Prison Styal is a Closed Category prison for female adults and young offenders, located in the village of Styal (near Wilmslow) in Cheshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Styal is a Closed Category prison for sentenced and remanded female adults and young offenders. There are also facilities for mothers with babies up to age 18 months. The education provision at Styal is contracted out to The Manchester College. Courses offered include hairdressing, information technology, art and design, ESOL, catering, industrial cleaning, painting & decorating, and Open University support.
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  • Writing on the wall of Tent City University tent, a tent used for workshops and meetings through-out the occupation. The writing says; 'World debt = $1.5 quadrillion unsustainable dollars. End derivatives.' The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th.
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  • A school child writing on the blackboard during class at Ikuna village primary school, near to Iringa in Tanzania. They are having a class run by a Student Partnerships Worldwide (SPW) volunteer.
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  • A cock struts under the detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.   Arabic writing is above the famous brand name showing the cultures that the US company's presence reaches.
    egypt29-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling. Demonstration against fracking 18.08.2013. Journalists writing in front of the site entrance.
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  • Graffiti has been sprayed in red with aerosol on the wall of an estate agent in Herne Hill, South London England. "Homes for the Homeless, not Yuppies" it reads along with the Anarchists' Circle-A symbol, meaning that housing should be made available for families needing a roof over their heads, rather than overpricing properties for the middle-classes buying for profit and investment. We see the writing on the wall beneath pictures in windows of houses and flats in the SE24 area where prices are posted along with details of the buildings. The house-buying market climbs according to demand in areas of the city such as this, forcing up values which are out of reach to ordinary, working people unable to climb the property ladder.
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  • 'Love Anarchy' graffiti on a wall on a wall on the Rio de San Margherita canal in Dorsoduro, a district of Venice, Italy. The writing is on bare plaster behind which we see brick of unknown date or era. Anarchist ideology can be seen in various locations around Venice though more common in the more residential district like Dorsoduro and Castello.
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  • A local farmer on his cart carrying sugarcane is pulled along past a blue wall and arabic writing in a village near Medinet Habu on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. This scene is typical of the quiet pace of rural everyday life, far away from the chaotic capital, Cairo whose government controls the policies that affect the people of small villages.
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  • East London June 09 . Columbia Rd. Women writing and reading in the sunshine
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  • Advertising woman seen through blue graffiti on a bus in central London. From the top deck of a London bus, blue writing has been scrawled in permanent marker pen on the glass and we look through its writing madness to the background landscape. The travel ad's woman model's face is obscured to make an anonymous person - a scene of hidden beauty and criminality in an urban context.
    bus_graffiti02-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A prisoner writing a letter to his family at his cell desk. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-8676_1.jpg
  • Balkh province Afghanistan. Samarkand-Dion. Children's centre, extra education. Girl writing in an exercise book.
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  • A sign written in Chinese writing on a breezeblock wall saying 'Be careful, one child policy', in the Naxi ethnic minority village of  Jiu Lian, Yunnan Province, China.
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  • Writing on the wall of Tent City University tent, a tent used for workshops and meetings through-out the occupation. The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th 2011
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  • Writing on the wall of Tent City University tent, a tent used for workshops and meetings through-out the occupation. The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th.
    IMG_3742_1.jpg
  • A black student works diligently alongside a white-skinned man at the communications company Cable & Wireless in London, England. We see in the foreground, the dark-skinned young man with a short beard is writing with a pencil that has a rubber on the top but the man in the background is out of focus. It is an image of ethnic diversity, of a multicultural Britain with students living and working uninterrupted side-by-side. They are both concentrating on their work in  a generic office or classroom, perhaps entering an examination or performing a corporate test.
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  • Seen from behind, two young boys are busy writing their graffiti tags on windows on a London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital’s rail system near Ladbroke Grove. Armed with heavy-duty semi-permanent marker pens, they lads are committing the crime of defacement and criminal damage to London Underground property, a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. Partitions and glass are being scribbled on with their unique identity signatures used by kids of this age to leave as a mark of their presence, like animals instinctively leave a scent on a street corner. If caught, juvenile delinquents like these may escape with only a caution because of their age but older ones are prosecuted, though some times after leaving many thousands of tags across their neighbourhood.
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  • A businessman gestures with his face partially-obscured by the writing in a cafe window, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
    cafe_man-01-13-11-2017.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capitals Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-03-09-12-2021.jpg
  • 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.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8073.jpg
  • A prisoner writing a letter to his family at his cell desk. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-8670_1.jpg
  • The words 'No Dumping' writing on an urban brick wall in the south London borough of Lewisham, SE5. Painted by hand on to London stock bricks dating perhaps, to the late-Victorian or early 20th century period, we see the writing asking local residents and business owners not to fly-tip in this unauthorised location. Councils like Lewisham will prosecute those found to be dumping waste and litter. Amusingly, we also notice that the letter P has been empasised with the use of red.
    no_dumping01-08-05-2015_1.jpg
  • 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.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8098.jpg
  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
    toshiba_buyers-03-03-1990_1_1.jpg
  • Sprayed writing on a closed recession business window. The words 'Last Day Closing .. any reasonable offers'. 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'.
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  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
    florence_italy89-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • France. Refugees. Calais. So-called Jungle camp , partly under water after heavy rain. A refugee walks in front of a shelter with writing on it saying 'Lets go England GB'.
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  • A prisoner sitting at the desk in his cell writing a letter. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset. A resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.
    UK-Criminal-Justice-Prison-2232_1.jpg
  • Two students study outside at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus. Writing up notes and reading course work, the two young men sit on wooden steps with other students. London Metropolitan University is one of the foremost providers of undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and vocational education and training in Britain. Their courses are planned in consultation with employers and examining bodies in commerce, industry, the world of art and design, the financial services industries and other professions. To compare profiles, Oxford University has the lowest proportion of working-class students, with 11.5%. London Metropolitan University has the greatest proportion, with 57.2%. The first building, designed by Charles Bell, was opened in 1896.
    met_london_university62-02-11-2010.jpg
  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. De Botton is in the Maldives researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' about the world of Work, published in April 2009. Here he accompanies a fishing boat crew who use hand and line methods to land yellow fin tuna for export to the EU and in particular, Sainsbury's supermarket. Barefoot on the roof of the wheelhouse and with the top of his pen in mouth, he looks thoughfully into the distance to think of more great ideas for his best-selling book. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
    maldives232-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Arabic writing is above the famous brand name showing the cultures that the US company's presence reaches.
    egypt28-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Arabic writing is above the famous brand name showing the cultures that the US company's presence reaches.
    egypt26-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A young man concentrates on writing in a notebook in the window of a City of London cafe, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-04-04-06-2018.jpg
  • Afghanistan. Mazar-e-Sharif high school. Middle-aged teacher writing on blackboard in Dari.
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  • A obscured businessman leans his A4 paper on a cafe window to write some notes, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_writing-04-05-10-2017.jpg
  • A obscured businessman leans his A4 paper on a cafe window to write some notes, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_writing-06-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Young boy looks up at teacher in his nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-4964...jpg
  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • A child in a village school, Ajajia, Ethiopia ready to write on the blackboard.
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  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Luthur teaches children in K3, (5 – 6 years old) that attend the kindergarten school learn to read and write English during lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya. Wema is a NGO organisation in Kenya that provides rehabilitation programs for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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  • Young girl writes in her exercise book at Kendrig camp for Internally Displaced People. Kubri school - 1st grade. El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan.
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  • A female Italian cyclist pedals along a graffiti-lined street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. With the words 'I Love Weed' that refers to the popularity and merits of cannabis, the graffiti of other tags and assorted writings can be seen stretching into the distance where a family have passed-by and are continuing their journey towards their home to the east of the city.
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  • Kendrig camp for Internally Displaced People, El Geneina, West Darfur. Um Dowein school for girls. A girl writes in the sand - there are few exercise books and most lessons take place outdoors under a very hot sun.
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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.
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  • In a Punjabi rural school, a young girl  writes on school blackboard whilst other children look on in an open  courtyard, India.
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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.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8421.jpg
  • Young boy looks up at teacher in his nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority ‘Can’t evict our ideas’. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat – a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
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  • As each child arrives a number is written on their arm to determine their place in the queue. To begin with the volunteer health worker takes their temperature and writes it on the child’s forearm.  The children are at a mobile health clinic in the Gagan Gauda, Kaski District Pokhara, Nepal, that is run by the Child Welfare Scheme, Nepal (CWSN).
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  • Phonekham (15) and Chom (15) studying at the lower secondary school in the Tai Lue village of Ban Hathin, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The remote and roadless village of Ban Hathin is situated along the Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) and will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 7. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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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 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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  • Children from Kibera slum attend the local school where they learn English.  The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an NGO who run various programmes help the school and pupils with books and other materials.
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  • Covid anti-vaxx conspiracy graffiti is chalked on the sea wall in the seaside town of Margate, on 26th July, in Margate, Kent, England. COVID rates continue to dramatically increase across Kent as infections double in Dartford, Thanet, and Medway, with infections doubling in many parts of the county. In the seven day period between July 12 and July 19 2021, there were 7,824 new COVID cases in Kent alone - up from 4,438 one week before.
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  • Isabel Snowden, 18, models period costume at the Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire, UK<br />
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and best-loved writers in British literature.<br />
Around early 1809, Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life—the use of a large "cottage" in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate, Chawton House. The house is now a museum devoted to Austen and her work
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  • English lesson at a shelter for victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in Vientiane, Lao PDR. In addition to providing holistic care and recovery for those rescued, AFESIP (Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire / Acting for Women in Distressing Situations) offers social enterprise-based vocational training to support sustainable community reintegration.
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  • Hmong girl doing her school homework outside the dormitory where she lives during term time to go to lower secondary school in the Tai Lue village of Ban Hathin, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The remote and roadless village of Ban Hathin is situated along the Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) and  will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 7. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • Road safety sign which reads: SLOW! Free Range Children in front of a tree in Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK.
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  • Sanjog Thakuri leads a training session in life skills in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
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  • A detail of red graffiti written by an anti-vax Covid activist, on the surface of a tree trunk in north London, on 30th December 2021, in London, England. Referring to the dystopian George Orwell novel, 1984 which describes a totalitarian state that controls its population by propaganda and misinformation.
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  • Local residents gathered with flowers next to ‘Safe Passage Now’ written in the sand on Sunny Sands Beach on 28th November 2021 in Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. This vigil was organised in response to the 27 people who were tragically killed while crossing the channel in a small boat.
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  • Local residents lay flowers on the sand on Sunny Sands Beach on 28th November 2021 in Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. This vigil was organised in response to the 27 people who were tragically killed while crossing the channel in a small boat.
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  • A tent amongst tents with a message; Bankers are the real looters. The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th.
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  • Local residents and members of an Kent’s Anti-Racism Network peacefully stand behind ‘Refugees Welcome’ written in the sand on Sunny Sands Beach, Folkestone, Kent, UK.  This demonstrations was organised in response to reports that members of the far-right group, Britain First, have started patrolling beaches around Dover and Folkestone to try to catch migrants crossing the channel in small boats.
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  • During the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Ministers special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, three women walk past the message Tory Scum Out! which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • Calais August 2015 The Jungle, camp of migrants, most of whom are trying to get to England. Three young people set off to walk to the Channel Tunnel terminal under the motorway. The words 'jungle' and 'Calais' are written on the concrete;
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  • Balkh province Afghanistan. Children's centre. Girls studying.
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  • As protests continue across the capital by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion, graffiti remains on the outside of Shells London headquarters on the southbank, on 18th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Commuters and visitors walk across the closed Waterloo Bridge on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • During the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Ministers special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message Tory Scum Out! has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A man walks past a shadow of a tree on a wall with the Chinese character "Yue" in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.
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  • Blue portaloos and a sign saying; ' Planet 4 sale. Population 6bl. Resistnace expected.' outside St Paul's Cathedral. The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th.
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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.
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  • A woman walks past a window ad for the forthcoming London Fashion Week. A model is seen on a TV screen as it scrolls through a loop of film, telling us how stylish and modern the annual event will soon be in the capital. The words London and Fashion have been written across the window of a sunglasses retailer on Long Acre in the capital's Covent Garden. Both model and passer-by are holding possessions in the same way and others are in the background on this busy junction in the West End.
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  • During the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Ministers special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, an elderly man walks past the message Tory Scum Out! which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-12-26-05-2020.jpg
  • Mohammed Ghalib, a katib - traditional calligrapher - in Urdu Bazaar, Old Delhi, India. Ghalib is now the last traditional calligrapher still practising his art. Urdu fonts are now largely computerised and work is almost non-existant comprising of the odd wedding invitation and re-drawing old legal documents.
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  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London. With blue sky and clouds above, we see an urban street message sprayed on the former warehouse near Waterloo. “Good as gold” or “as good as gold” are common English expressions meaning something is genuine or reliable. Referring to people, particularly children, they usually mean well behaved. “Good as gold” is one of numerous figures of speech involving gold as a desirable standard of some kind. The expression is a simile, an analogy used to describe something by comparing it to something else. The word “gold” itself is one of the oldest words in the English language.
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  • Anti-police graffiti and abandoned panelled door on the wall of an apartment block in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin.
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  • Above Dhading, Pasupati School. A sign at the entrance of the school spells out what a Good Student is.
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  • The words 'Last Day' are painted in white emulsion on a window Camden North London, England. A Jesus figure, dolls  and various bric a brac are seen in the window behind the large lettering. 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'.
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  • An old Lao manuscript and an orange monk's robe at the 480 year old temple in Ban Mouanghoun, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Although there are several villages with temples along the Nam Ou river, the remote and roadless Ban Mouanghoun is the only village in this area with its own resident monks who are also required to perform ceremonies at all the local villages. The village will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower project Dam 5.
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  • An elderly Buddhist monk wearing an orange robe holds an old Lao manuscript before a ceremony at the 480 year old temple in Ban Mouanghoun, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Although there are several villages with temples along the Nam Ou river, the remote and roadless Ban Mouanghoun is the only village in this area with its own resident monks who are also required to perform ceremonies at all the local villages. The village will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower project Dam 5.
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  • A street shrine and graffiti in a back street of mediaeval Genoa, Italy.
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  • Gerrard Street retailer in London's Chinatown. On the corner of Gerrard Street in London's Soho, we see a shopper walking past a store selling Chinese foods and products, two dispensers for sweets standing outside. Chinatown is part of the City of Westminster, occupying the area in and around Gerrard Street. It contains a number of Chinese restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, souvenir shops, and other Chinese-run businesses. The area boasts over 80 restaurants showcasing some of London's finest and most authentic Asian cuisine. It's also the centre of London's Chinese community and where Chinese new year is celebrated annually.
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  • Gerrard Street retailer in London's Chinatown. On the corner of Gerrard Street in London's Soho, we see a shop selling Chinese foods and products, two dispensers for sweets standing outside. Chinatown is part of the City of Westminster, occupying the area in and around Gerrard Street. It contains a number of Chinese restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, souvenir shops, and other Chinese-run businesses. The area boasts over 80 restaurants showcasing some of London's finest and most authentic Asian cuisine. It's also the centre of London's Chinese community and where Chinese new year is celebrated annually.
    london_chinatown02-24-02-2015_1.jpg
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