29-11-2020 - Detroit, USA. Pylon by Isamu Noguchi, Detroit Civic Center Plaza. 120 feet tall twisted stainless steel monolith in Philip Hart Plaza. Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904•1988) is well know... © Jim West

29-11-2020 - USA. Transcending monument, Hart Plaza, Detroit. Dedicated to the labor movement in Michigan it was erected by the Michigan Labor History Society. Two steel arcs (which weigh 30 tons) almost form a ci... © Jim West

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

03-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

02-10-2019 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

31-07-2019 - Detroit, Michigan USA: SEIU Security guards rally at the Labor Legacy Monument for union recognition at downtown buildings owned by businessman Dan Gilbert © Jim West

31-07-2019 - Detroit, Michigan USA: SEIU Security guards rally at the Labor Legacy Monument for union recognition at downtown buildings owned by businessman Dan Gilbert © Jim West

31-07-2019 - Detroit, Michigan USA Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttiegieg speaking, SEIU Security guards rally at the Labor Legacy Monument for union recognition at downtown buildings owned by businessm... © Jim West

04-06-2019 - Young, gay and angry, Together Against Trump, stop the state visit protest against Donald Trump, London © Jess Hurd

25-05-2019 - Knife Angel sculpture, a National Monument against Violence and Aggression. Made from confiscated and surrendered knives and weapons from all 43 UK police forces by British Ironwork Centre and artist... © Jess Hurd

25-05-2019 - Knife Angel sculpture, a National Monument against Violence and Aggression. Made from confiscated and surrendered knives and weapons from all 43 UK police forces by British Ironwork Centre and artist... © Jess Hurd

25-05-2019 - Knife Angel sculpture, a National Monument against Violence and Aggression. Made from confiscated and surrendered knives and weapons from all 43 UK police forces by British Ironwork Centre and artist... © Jess Hurd

25-05-2019 - Knife Angel sculpture, a National Monument against Violence and Aggression. Made from confiscated and surrendered knives and weapons from all 43 UK police forces by British Ironwork Centre and artist... © Jess Hurd

21-11-2018 - Building Worker statue by sculptor Alan Wilson, Tower Hill, London. The UCATT bronze statue is in memory the lives of workers killed on building sites © Jess Hurd

21-11-2018 - Building Worker statue by sculptor Alan Wilson, Tower Hill, London. The UCATT bronze statue is in memory the lives of workers killed on building sites © Jess Hurd

21-11-2018 - Building Worker statue by sculptor Alan Wilson, Tower Hill, London. The UCATT bronze statue is in memory the lives of workers killed on building sites © Jess Hurd

08-11-2018 - Air pollution in India, The Taj Mahal in thick smog, Agra. Air pollution in India is a serious issue with the major sources being fuelwood and biomass burning, fuel adulteration, vehicle emission and... © Martin Mayer

08-11-2018 - Air pollution in India, The Taj Mahal in thick smog, Agra. Air pollution in India is a serious issue with the major sources being fuelwood and biomass burning, fuel adulteration, vehicle emission and... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Soldiers shooting topiary, Amritsar massacre site, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had ga... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Bullet holes from the Amritsar massacre still visible, Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Bullet marks from the Amritsar massacre; still visible in wall. Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Regin... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Martyrs' well, Amritsar massacre; hundreds of children who tried to escape the shooting suffocated here. Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British India... © Martin Mayer

31-10-2018 - Statue of Shaheed Udham Singh at the Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into... © Martin Mayer

02-10-2018 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

02-10-2018 - Fons Americanus fountain by Kara Walker, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Installation by black American artist Kara Walker is loosely based on the Victoria monument outside Buckinham Palace. It is a powefu... © Martin Mayer

25-04-2018 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA: I Am A Man Plaza commemorating the 1968 sanitation strike and the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. It is next to the Clayborn Temple where civil rights leaders were base... © Jim West

25-04-2018 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA: I Am A Man Plaza commemorating the 1968 sanitation strike and the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. It is next to the Clayborn Temple where civil rights leaders were base... © Jim West

25-04-2018 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA: I Am A Man Plaza commemorating the 1968 sanitation strike and the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. It is next to the Clayborn Temple where civil rights leaders were base... © Jim West

13-03-2018 - Memorial statue To those who lost their lives in supporting their Union in times of struggle, Barnsley NUM headquaters © John Harris

13-03-2018 - Replica of a memorial to the Oaks Colliery disaster in Barnsley which claimed 383 lives, including 89 boys by sculptor Graham Ibbeson, Barnsley NUM headquarters © John Harris

13-03-2018 - Replica of a memorial to the Oaks Colliery disaster in Barnsley which claimed 383 lives, including 89 boys by sculptor Graham Ibbeson, Barnsley NUM headquarters © John Harris

04-08-2017 - Oregon, USA Rock formation in the Oregon Caves, Siskiyou Mountains. These extensive caves became the first National Monument in 1909. The stalactites, stalagmites and other formations are formed over... © David Bacon

04-08-2017 - Oregon, USA Rock formation in the Oregon Caves, Siskiyou Mountains. These extensive caves became the first National Monument in 1909. The stalactites, stalagmites and other formations are formed over... © David Bacon

08-07-2017 - Pride 2017. Man "mooning" amongst crowd gathered on Eros in Piccadilly Circus as Gay Pride celebration and march passes by © Stefano Cagnoni

21-01-2017 - USA, Women's March on Washington DC. Over a million protest against Donald Trump on his first day as President. Protestors with narcissist placards by the Washington Monument © Jess Hurd

23-11-2016 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania: Visitor center complex, Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial remembers those killed on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed on September 11, 2001 after being taken o... © Jim West

23-11-2016 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania: Visitor center complex, Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial remembers those killed on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed on September 11, 2001 after being taken o... © Jim West

23-11-2016 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania: Visitor center complex, Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial remembers those killed on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed on September 11, 2001 after being taken o... © Jim West

23-11-2016 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania: Visitor center complex and the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial remembers those killed on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed on September... © Jim West

23-11-2016 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania Wooden ceremonial gate at the Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial remembers those killed on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed on September 11, 2001 after being ta... © Jim West

04-09-2016 - Detroit, Michigan, Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi and the headquarters of General Motors, Renaissance Center, Philip A. Hart Plaza © Jim West

28-08-2016 - Monument to dead of The Amritsar massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians who had gathered i... © Martin Mayer

28-08-2016 - Amritsar massacre site, the spot where soldiers shot at unarmed demonstrators, Jallianwala Bagh, India. Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a... © Martin Mayer

18-08-2016 - Duke of Wellington statue & Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, City of London © Philip Wolmuth

18-08-2016 - Duke of Wellington statue & Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, City of London © Philip Wolmuth

24-06-2016 - Keene, California, Cesar E. Chavez National Monument honouring the founder of the United Farm Workers of America © Jim West

24-06-2016 - Keene, California, Grave of United Farm Workers leader Cesar E. Chavez © Jim West

24-06-2016 - Keene, California, Cesar E. Chavez National Monument honouring the founder of the United Farm Workers of America. The altar is similar to one at the Forty Acres headquarters in 1968 © Jim West

12-12-2015 - Police and Arc de Triomphe, climate change protests COP21 Climate Summit. Paris. © Jess Hurd

12-12-2015 - Red Lines climate change protests COP21 Climate Summit. Paris. © Jess Hurd

12-12-2015 - Red Lines climate change protests COP21 Climate Summit. Paris. © Jess Hurd

04-12-2015 - Memorial statue To those who lost their lives in supporting their Union in times of struggle, Barnsley NUM headquarters © John Harris

16-10-2015 - Boundary marker on the Mexican side of the fence that separates the USA and Mexico, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico © Jim West

27-09-2015 - The Peace Statue Brighton. The statue depicts an Angel of Peace holding an orb and an olive branch, it is a memorial to King Edward VII The Peacemaker © Jess Hurd

05-09-2015 - Monument to the Peoples Liberation Army, Communist statues, Peoples Square, Shanghai, China. © Connor Matheson

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. A bronze sculpture by Rod Moorhead in the plantations Field of Angels s... © Jim West

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. Sculptures of slave children are displayed as a memorial to the thousan... © Jim West

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. Sculptured heads on poles remind visitors of an 1811 slave revolt. Part... © Jim West

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. Sculptures of slave children are displayed as a memorial to the thousan... © Jim West

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. Sculptures of slave children are displayed as a memorial to the thousan... © Jim West

16-05-2015 - Wallace, Louisiana, USA - The Whitney Plantation, a sugar plantation that has been turned into a museum to tell the story of slavery. The Wall of Honour is a memorial dedicated to all the people who w... © Jim West

29-01-2015 - A memorial statue: To those who lost their lives in supporting their union in times of struggle. The Unite Community support centre Barnsley, Barnsley. At the headquaters of the NUM. © Connor Matheson

11-01-2015 - Je suis Charlie Hebdo unity march after the shooting of cartoonists in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices, Paris. © Jess Hurd

11-01-2015 - Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ Gen Sec and Seamus Dooley, NUJ Irish Sec in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, after the shooting of cartoonists in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices. Place de la... © Jess Hurd

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormons' Handcart Pioneer Monument in Temple Square. Mormon pioneers used such carts travelling to Utah in the 1850s. Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

29-09-2014 - Preaching the Gospel beneith the The gilded bronze statue of the industralists Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch by William Bloye and Raymond Forbes-Kings, nicknamed 'The Golden Boys' Co... © John Harris

10-01-2014 - Pourquoi? - Why? Je suis Charlie Hebdo: A solidarity memorial in the Place de la Republique, after the shooting of cartoonists in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices, Paris. © Jess Hurd

10-01-2014 - Je suis Charlie Hebdo: A solidarity memorial in the Place de la Republique, after the shooting of cartoonists in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices, Paris. © Jess Hurd

02-01-2014 - Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 - Visitor taking photographs of Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 - Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 - Visitor looking at disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 - Disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 - Disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

07-11-2013 - Monument to the Gurkha Soldier outside the MOD. British Army veterans from Nepal and India stage a hunger strike for equal pensions. Whitehall, London. © Jess Hurd

15-10-2013 - Portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, first built during the Ming Dynasty. Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China. © Jess Hurd

15-10-2013 - Portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, first built during the Ming Dynasty. Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China. © Jess Hurd

15-10-2013 - CCTV cameras. Portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, first built during the Ming Dynasty. Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China. © Jess Hurd

15-10-2013 - Portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, first built during the Ming Dynasty. Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China. © Jess Hurd

15-08-2013 - Lava Beds National Monument, California- Petroglyphs carved into the rockface of Petroglyph Point by the ancestors of the Modoc people, Paleoindians. They were carved at a time when the rock was an is... © David Bacon