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Selected Work — 35 photographs

Street Life

Markets, squares and passers-by — cities caught in the act of being ordinary.

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Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background — Pompeii, Italy The road that outlived its city

A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford — Oxford, England The dog leads, Oxford follows

Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence — Florence, Italy The hour the light turns honey

Vendor pushing a postcard cart through a busy Oxford shopping street — Oxford, England The city, four for five pounds

Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through — Pompeii, Italy Where the city gathered

A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford — Oxford, England Single file past Brewer Street

Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry — Naples, Italy San Gennaro keeping watch over Forcella

Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables — Budapest, Hungary Afternoon in a ruin bar

Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus — Florence, Italy Everyone moving but the girl with the phone

Hanging bundles of dried oranges and pomanders at a Budapest market stall — Budapest, Hungary Dried oranges, keeping their colour

Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu — Tamil Nadu, India Chariots in their modern translation

Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland — Kraków, Poland Dusk over the Rynek

Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December — Warsaw, Poland Christmas at Castle Square

An old yellow bicycle painted with a bike shop's hand-lettered advertisement, chained to a green railing in Paris — Paris, France Gepetto's signboard

London, England Sphinx and the Eye

Oxford, England Passing the wall

A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal — Venice, Italy Narrow water

A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window — Venice, Italy The driftwood elder

People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice — Venice, Italy Giudecca in winter

Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice — Venice, Italy Rush hour

A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice — Venice, Italy The canal's errands

The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome — Venice, Italy Arrivals

Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows — London, England The shadow net

A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London — London, England The quieter plot

A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London — London, England Keeping pace

A vast bicycle parking lot with thousands of bikes in rows outside Amsterdam's station — Amsterdam, Netherlands The bicycle sea

A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni — Anagni, Italy At walking pace

An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy — Anagni, Italy In step

A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London — London, England Holding the pose

A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica — Ostia Antica, Italy The audience of masks

A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond — Rome, Italy Downhill to the basilica

Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo — Palermo, Italy Lion on duty

Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo — Palermo, Italy Applied evenly

Thousands of parked bicycles filling a station square at sunset with office buildings behind, Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands Ten thousand, lit

Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany Römerberg, last light

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