The Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in Europe handling around 190 million passengers per year. It handles trains to Northern France, as well as to various international destinations such as Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The station complex was designed by French architect Jacques Hittorff and built between 1861 and 1864. It is situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Taken in Trafalgar Square during a demo/protest. The police were keeping a watchful eye on proceedings but who is it in the background watching the watchers? Maybe they were watching the photographer…
This is Stewartby Brickworks, the last brickworks in the Marston Vale, taken on a misty morning in February 2008 shortly before the works closed down. The mist, the smoking chimneys and the 1920s buildings sum up an industrial scene from a byegone age.
Much of the Stewartby Brickworks process required manual labour. The sorting and re-stacking of cooled bricks onto palettes was one such activity. This is a Sikh brick stacker. The brickworks had a strong multicultural workforce that started during WWII when prisoners of war were used to replace the men that had left to serve in the forces. After the war, the huge demand for bricks to rebuild the cities meant that it was difficult to employ enough people from Bedfordshire and so immigrant workers from across Europe were brought in. In the 1950s, Italians formed the biggest number of recruits and later, Indian and Pakistani nationals joined to make an international workforce.
This fellow was known within Stewartby Brickworks as Three Hat Solomon because he always wore three hats. His job was to load and unload the kilns so I have recorded him in front of some of the kilns that he worked with.
John is one of the volunteers who helps to restore and maintain the exhibits at the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
These trees may be found along the Kingsbridge Estuary close to East Prawle. I like the shapes but the original image was a little flat and uninteresting and so a little Photoshopping and a gentle sepia tone was used to give the image a lift. I’m still debating as to whether it has worked or not…
Two lovers outside a café on a cold winter’s night seen through the café window. Shot in monochrome on medium format (Yashicamat 124G) to create the mood of the Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson film of the same name. Taken in 1999 but the date doesn’t matter – this image has a timeless feel. I knew what I wanted before I took it and sketched it out before enrolling two friends to be my models. It could have been taken in Paris but it was actually taken in Cambridge.
Staring out of the window as she idly stirs her coffee wondering whether her lover has missed the train or…
So many thoughts cross her mind.