City

Tall tenements on a North Point side street.

A church spire above lit windows in central Reykjavík at night.

Browsing outside Watkins Books on Cecil Court.

Scooters and signboards at a busy crossing.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A corn stall at Cusco's market

Yau Ma Tei, in the mosaic tiles of the MTR station.

A side street climbing between the towers to the green hill.

A corrugated-iron house under a Reykjavík street lamp.

The curve of Regent Street at Piccadilly Circus.

Old railway carriages turned into shops on the old Taichung line.

Peaches stacked at the Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market after the rain.

Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre beneath a wall of windows.

Skólavörðustígur’s rainbow street and Christmas lights, Hallgrímskirkja at its end.

A red bus to Victoria nosing through the crowd.

A footbridge leading to a school near Yuanshan.

A fruit seller on the wet floor of the Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market.

The Chinese Goods Centre on King’s Road, North Point.

A Reykjavík pedestrian signal counting down in the dark.

A red telephone box off Carnaby Street.

The door of Witch House (女巫店) near Shida — the tiny live house where 張懸, 蘇打綠 and 陳綺貞 played their early shows.

A tide of scooters at dusk in front of an old colonial building.

Fruit stalls under striped awnings, the lane still wet.

The Sunbeam Theatre sign over King’s Road.

A Union Jack over a Soho street.

A breakfast shop lit before dawn — the only thing open on a Taipei morning.

The fruit market’s low roofs beneath a school and the towers.

A tram passing the Sunbeam Theatre, home of Cantonese opera.

Another red telephone box, bicycles parked behind it.

Trams and buses down King’s Road under the Sunbeam sign.

Tong Shui Road, North Point.

The entrance to an independent bookshop off a Taipei lane.

Plaza de Armas at night

The old Yau Ma Tei Police Station on Canton Road.

A street market at the foot of the towers.

Harry Potter on his broomstick in Leicester Square.

Ding Fu Fa (鼎富發), famous for its pork-lard rice.

Cusco's historic center, seen from above

A tram in Samsonite livery.

A small bookshop sign in a Taichung lane.

Mong Kok from a footbridge: double-deckers, taxis and towers.

Chun Yeung Street market, where the tram runs between the stalls.

The pale-blue record shop from the Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day (想見你), in the Blueprint Culture & Creative Park.

Market stalls under umbrellas, seen from above.

A stall under red lamps on Chun Yeung Street.

Red minibuses lined up beneath a shop sign.

Yen Dack Building, between the market stalls.

Skólavörðustígur’s rainbow road leading to Hallgrímskirkja.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Tung Choi Street, home of the Ladies’ Market.

Market awnings at the bottom of a canyon of towers.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

A San Blas street, looking down over Cusco

Upstairs on a ding-ding.

Lanterns over Shennong Street at night.

A pause among Madrid’s art, parks and bookstalls.

Rain on the tram window.

A fried-chicken stall at Shida night market.

Red lanterns down a Shennong Street lane.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A curved corner tenement above a wallpaper shop.

The upper deck in the rain.

Harrods lighting up as the traffic thickens.

Neon signs over Shilin night market.

A lantern-hung old street in daylight.

The old town along the water, the Salève behind.

A curved wall of flats along King’s Road, Quarry Bay, with the hill behind.

A pause among Madrid’s art, parks and bookstalls.

A crossing on Boundary Street.

A tram rounding the curve.

A red double-decker between red-brick mansion blocks.

Boundary Street, once the border between British Kowloon and the land leased in 1898.

A bus and a tram beneath the curve of windows.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Boundary Street, signs and scaffolding.

Thousands of windows over King’s Road.

A fruit stall piled with guava, wax apple and papaya.

Ki Lung Street, Sham Shui Po.

Traffic waiting at the foot of the building.

A red timber house on a snowy downtown street.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

Nga Tsin Wai Road, Kowloon City.

A lone tram at the foot of the façade.

The Reykjavík Fish sign glowing at dusk.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

A bakery, a stationery sign and a red light in the rain.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

A pause among Madrid’s art, parks and bookstalls.

The courtyard of the Monster Building, Quarry Bay.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Victoria Harbour at night, the island’s skyline across the water.

A street running down to the bay, Mount Esja across the water.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Painted houses on a slope above Faxaflói.

Crowds and road signs in Tsim Sha Tsui at night.

Reykjavík’s coloured roofs from the tower of Hallgrímskirkja.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Chungking Mansions, where Chungking Express begins.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Nathan Road at night, double-deckers in the neon.

Snow on the rooftops of the old town.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Reykjavík to the sea, from the church tower.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

Red, yellow and green roofs under snow.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

A storm front over the city’s coloured houses.

A rainbow painted on a white wall in the old town.

Skólavörðustígur straight down to the harbour.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Flags of the cantons down a narrow old-town street.

Christmas bells hung from a street lamp.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

The rainbow street to Hallgrímskirkja in winter.

A white house trimmed in blue.

The Sherlock Holmes statue outside Baker Street station.

A red house with a steep white roof.

Baker Street station.

Hôtel Les Armures, its flags out for winter.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

The Sherlock Holmes shop on Baker Street.

Snow on the old town's slate roofs.

The rainbow crossing in Ximending at night.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

A half-timbered house squeezed into an old-town alley.

Through the gate into Noël au Jardin, snow on the ground.

A blue market chalet beside the bandstand.

The window of Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street.

The market crowd gathering under the trees at dusk.

The Notting Hill Bookshop, a blue Mini parked outside.

Pastel terraces in Notting Hill.

A Portobello Road Books tote at the market.

Browsing the market chalets in the last daylight.

South Kensington, SW7.

The Houses of Parliament from across the Thames.

Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster.

Signposts on the South Bank: National Theatre, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall.

The second-hand book market under Waterloo Bridge.

Welcome to the BFI London Film Festival 2025.

Parliament and a barge on the Thames.

Big Ben and the river traffic.

A Westminster Bridge lamp and Big Ben.

The Gherkin among the towers of the City.

Old glassware and curios at a market stall.

Old façades on a narrow street, looking up into the blue.

Tower Bridge from the river.

Old-town roofs and towers above the autumn trees.

The Jet d'Eau seen over the rooftops of the Rues Basses.

Union Jacks strung over a Covent Garden street.

A carousel turning in the Place du Bourg-de-Four, autumn overhead.

Under the glass roof of Covent Garden Market.

Paddington Bear waiting at Paddington Station, before the train to Oxford.

Old rooftops below, the Gate of the Orient far on the horizon.

A cyclist resting on the quay at dusk, the flag still flying.

Xueshi Street in the rain.

The Gate of the Orient across Jinji Lake, after dark.

Terracotta Cusco, rooftop to rooftop.

The old capital under passing cloud.