Shoe repairs and key cutting, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England

A small shop offering useful services on the corner of New Street in Stony Stratford. 10th April 2010.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

The Shoe Store, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England

This is the way that shopping used to be done so maybe in the light of online shopping and binge consumerism it may no longer be there. A place where the staff were local people and local people would shop there bringing money into the local community rather than helping some very rich tax avoiding corporation launch its head man into space with a climate change causing rocket. The choice is ours but it appears that many perhaps most are making the wrong choice when it comes to shopping. Consume less and consume local if you want a thriving community. Stony Stratford is a very pretty town with many independent retailers. 10th April 2010.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

A sole or two, Cordonnerie d’Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland

A small shoe repair business in Lausanne. There’s one here somewhere just right for your shoes. 31st December 2013.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of some of my books cover artwork, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Keys cut here, Cordonnerie d’Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland

A small shoe repair business in Lausanne. Need a key cut? Maybe you will find what you need here. 31st December 2013.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of some of my books cover artwork, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Inside the Cordonnerie d’Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland

A small shoe repair business in Lausanne. By now all those shoes, even if repaired several times, have worn out. Their remains are where? 31st December 2013.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of some of my books cover artwork, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Cordonnerie d’Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland

A small shoe repair business in Lausanne. 31st December 2013.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of some of my books cover artwork, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Abandoned shoes – the haves and the have nots

This is a supposedly festive season that in English refers to the period leading up to Christmas and the end of the year. Somehow a Christian festival has and is being increasingly mixed with a capitalist binge fest when gifts must be exchanged with no thought as to the human and environmental exploitation that takes place in their construction. Yet at this time of year there will be many going without basic standards of an equitable life while the products of their labour and their environment fill the shops and internet with glossy packaging, marketing and advertising that those in the first world must have no matter what the cost. “No matter what the cost” because few of those consuming know the real cost of their actions. Here’s an example, dumped shoes outside of a London charity shop. If we could trace their origin back to where they were produced we would probably find many workers being exploited and perhaps not even having shoes as good as the ones here that have been so carelessly thrown out by those that have no inkling of where they came from. A world that is truly one of the haves and the have nots.