16-03-2022 - Caldwell, Kansas, USA-Ghost Riders of the Chisholm Trail Silhouettes, life sized iron cattle drive silhouette cutouts marking the spot where the Chisholm Trail crossed from Oklahoma into Kansas. The t... © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. Nests of cliff swallows © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. Nests of cliff swallows © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. Nests of cliff swallows © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Cliff swallow nests, Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

26-12-2021 - Oakley, Kansas, USA-Monument Rocks the Chalk Pyramids, a Niobrara chalk formation on the plains of western Kansas. © Jim West

30-06-2021 - Diamond, Missouri: The Boy Carver statue by Robert Amendola, George Washington Carver National Monument. The monument preserves the Moses and Susan Carver farm where Carver was born as a slave in abou... © Jim West

28-06-2021 - Brownfield, Texas: Highway 380 Cross and Tomb, Christian roadside shrine. The tomb is open, with an inscription reading: He Is Risen. A large white cross stands next to a stone replica of the tomb of... © Jim West

28-06-2021 - Brownfield, Texas: Highway 380 Cross and Tomb, Christian roadside shrine. The tomb is open, with an inscription reading: He Is Risen, stone replica of the tomb of Jesus, along with a rolled away round... © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon unit © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon unit © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon. It is uncertain whether the image of grazing sheep was carved by native puebloans or by Spanish settlers. © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Hiker, Rinconada Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument. © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Hiker, Rinconada Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument. © Jim West

26-06-2021 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument, Rinconada Canyon © Jim West

24-06-2021 - New Mexico: The Three Cultures Monument at El Santuario de Chimayo, a statue dipicting the meeting of a Native American, a white cowboy and a Hispanic vaquero under a benevolent figure of the Virgin M... © Jim West

24-06-2021 - Watrous, New Mexico, Fort Union National Monument. Tents and a pioneer covered wagon. From 1851-1891 Fort Union defended the Santa Fe Trail, protecting settlers against Natives upset that their land w... © Jim West

16-06-2021 - Menlo, Iowa, USA: The Freedom Rock painted by Ray Bubba Sorensen II to honor American military veterans. The artist is a Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives. © Jim West

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 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

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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

14-09-2017 - Dulce, New Mexico: Project Gasbuggy, an underground nuclear detonation in 1967 designed to fracture rock to extract natural gas. The project was part of Operation Plowshare, a government program aimed... © Jim West

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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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

16-11-2014 - Athens, Greece, Athens Polytechnic uprising commemoration - People of all ages standing in front of the monument inside the Athens Polytechnic, where wreaths are laid by students, unions and political... © Socrates Baltagiannis

16-11-2014 - Athens, Greece, Athens Polytechnic uprising commemoration- People of all ages standing in front of the monument inside the Athens Polytechnic, where wreaths are laid by students, unions and political... © Socrates Baltagiannis

16-11-2014 - Greece, Athens Polytechnic uprising commemoration - People of all ages standing in front of the monument inside the Athens Polytechnic, where wreaths are laid by students, unions and political parties... © Socrates Baltagiannis