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Victorian decency notice, Borough, London, 2010
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The Empowerment Centre, Croydon, 2010
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Ghost sign and new street art, Dalston, 2010
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Graffiti on a bridge over the River Lea, Hackney Wick, London 2014
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Painted doorway in Lower Marsh, Waterlo, 2002
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Orthodox Jewish mothers in a playground adjacent to dilapidated garages, Stamford Hill, north London, 2014.
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Millennium Mills, east London, 2013
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Nightclub off New Oxford Street, London, 2009.
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17th century undercroft of the chapel of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 1985
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Muslim girls crossing a snowy Sidney Street in London's east end, 2010.
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A man in a red jumper on the balcony of Erno Goldfinger's Balfron Tower, Poplar, east London, 2014.
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Art by Irony and Boe on the side of council flats in Poplar, east London, 2014
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Evening sun through the east window of St.Mary le Strand, Strand, London, 2010
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Lincoln's Inn Field, 2014
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Notice in window of art college, Back Hill, Holborn, London, 2010
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Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, awaiting demolition, 2012
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Houses near Jamaica Rd., 2004
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Vandalised memorial (Rayne Monument) in the churchyard of Hawksmoor's St George's in the East, Wapping, London, 1985
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Rayne Monument, St George in the East, Wapping, London, 1985
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