Street

The Suzhou Museum, held in a Polaroid.

Ink calligraphy peeling off a concrete wall.

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.

A lightbulb painted on a corner house in the Creative Quarter.

Scooters and signboards at a busy crossing.

A garden entrance and parked scooters in Canggu.

A lane of lanterns at Shengjiaxu, and one small red smile in the dark.

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.

George & Danver ice cream on Pembroke Street.

Folkestone’s harbour front.

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

Two paper lanterns against a white wall, one warm, one pale.

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.

Benches along the old rails for passers-by to rest.

Rainbow fish lanterns swimming through the dark.

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.

A school of silk goldfish swimming between the lanterns.

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.

Three paper lanterns at three heights of warm light.

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.

A red palace lantern carried high above the Shangyuan crowd.

A community gathering in Chinchero

A poster for Kore-eda’s Monster on a pillar.

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

Autumn bouquets at a flower stand.

MOON, painted with an arrow on the side of a building.

The pagoda lit in gold, standing over its own reflection.

A Semana Grande moment in Donostia.

Tong Shui Road, North Point.

The entrance to an independent bookshop off a Taipei lane.

Rainbow carp leaping across a sky of paper moons.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

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.

Two rows of lanterns lighting the stone steps up to the bridge.

Cusco's historic center, seen from above

A bronze sculpture on a plaza off Argyle Street, Mong Kok.

A tram in Samsonite livery.

A lane between college walls.

A small bookshop sign in a Taichung lane.

Lantern colours dissolving into the canal.

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.

Lantern light doubled in the canal under a bridge at Shengjiaxu.

Market stalls under umbrellas, seen from above.

A stall under red lamps on Chun Yeung Street.

Round lanterns above a silk carp.

Red minibuses lined up beneath a shop sign.

Yen Dack Building, between the market stalls.

Skólavörðustígur’s rainbow road leading to Hallgrímskirkja.

A sign warning of the Royal Parks Half Marathon, under yellowing chestnuts.

A restaurant glowing behind the leaves.

Lanterns painted with 囍, glowing above the crowd.

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.

“Everything happens to everyone,” painted on a shopfront.

Double-happiness lanterns, close enough to touch.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

A parade crosses Pisac's market square

A San Blas street, looking down over Cusco

Goldfish Street: aquarium shops spilling onto the pavement.

Upstairs on a ding-ding.

Lanterns over Shennong Street at night.

A golden dome of lanterns, and its twin in the water.

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

A Basque summer scene between rain and celebration.

Goldfish in plastic bags, hung up like a wall of lanterns.

Rain on the tram window.

A fried-chicken stall at Shida night market.

Red lanterns down a Shennong Street lane.

A pavilion made of light, sparks drifting around it.

A Semana Grande moment in Donostia.

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.

Lanterns climbing the lane, one step of light at a time.

Paper lanterns climbing a narrow lane, orange and pale blue, into the dark.

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.

Painted tiles and a black cat on a brick wall.

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

A bus and a tram beneath the curve of windows.

Tile paintings with a cat, hung on a grid wall.

Lanterns hung at odd heights, like notes on a stave.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Boundary Street, signs and scaffolding.

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

A blue lantern dragon floating on the canal.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Ki Lung Street, Sham Shui Po.

Traffic waiting at the foot of the building.

A red timber house on a snowy downtown street.

A blue dragon lantern asleep on the dark water.

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.

Magnolia over a white wall, held up in a Polaroid against the real thing.

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

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

The street to Changmen, kept in a Polaroid on a grey spring day.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

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

An old rainbow sign in spring light.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

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

苏州, brushed onto a white wall at Algebra Café.

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.

苏州 written on a white wall, a red scooter parked beneath.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Crowds and road signs in Tsim Sha Tsui at night.

“We love this city so much” — a sign for Gusu.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Chungking Mansions, where Chungking Express begins.

The seafood market hall at Donggang harbour.

“We love this city so much” — Gusu, on a pale sign.

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.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

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

Skólavörðustígur straight down to the harbour.

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

A painted hopscotch winding along the pavement.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

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.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Hôtel Les Armures, its flags out for winter.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

The Sherlock Holmes shop on Baker Street.

The rainbow crossing in Ximending at night.

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.

An autumn tree on a quiet corner in west London.

The Notting Hill Bookshop, a blue Mini parked outside.

Pastel terraces in Notting Hill.

A Portobello Road Books tote at the market.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Buckets of flowers at a Portobello Road stall.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Browsing the market chalets in the last daylight.

South Kensington, SW7.

A street photographer and his old wooden camera in Santillana del Mar.

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

The second-hand book market under Waterloo Bridge.

A green figure standing in the rain on the South Bank.

A figure half-hidden in a falling curtain of water.

Welcome to the BFI London Film Festival 2025.

A Westminster Bridge lamp and Big Ben.

Old glassware and curios at a market stall.

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

A white horse-drawn carriage in the traffic.

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.

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

Xueshi Street in the rain.

Two cats napping on a terrazzo step.

Two fluffy cats exploring the terrazzo at Lindu Nuancun.

The cats again, one keeping watch, one turning to look.

An old wall of stacked tiles and jars.

A poem painted on a whitewashed wall at Lindu Nuancun.

An old wall built from stacked tiles and clay jars.

Market day in Pisac.