Peter Dench

the tale of the tape

Seemingly overnight, around the third week of April during lockdown in London, red and white striped tape became ubiquitous across the English capital. At the time, a city-wide stay-at-home order meant Londoners could leave the house only for essential reasons. The caution tape was meant to discourage the use of public facilities. 

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  • intro
  • advertising & commercial
  • mourning queen elizabeth II
  • boardmasters festival
  • queen's platinum jubilee
  • sun, sea & covid-19
  • lockdown fanatical football fans
  • the tale of the tape
  • the great british bed + breakfast
  • trans-siberian world cup
  • a1: britain on the verge
  • the english summer season
  • dench does dallas
  • football's hidden story
  • the british abroad
  • england uncensored
  • alcohol & england
  • films
  • portraits
  • singles
  • tearsheets
  • the world according to dench
  • written articles
  • shop
  • ***additional galleries
    • dench does lockdown
    • fashion faces
    • whitby goth festival
    • miami
    • heatwave uk
    • female fitness uk
    • italy in decline
    • the zabaleen of garbage city
    • trawlermen
    • leicester city
    • liverpool fc training at melwood
    • fashionUK
    • royalUK I: william & kate
    • royalUK II: harry & meghan
    • a day off in the lives of europe
    • the last resort revisited
    • sport in osire refugee camp
    • laiba & robyn
    • 50 years of match of the day
    • schooldisco.com
    • household cavalry
    • the abu dhabi corniche
    • arab london
  • private galleries
  • biography
  • contact