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One helluva place to make your money

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What would be the ultimate photographic vision of hell? Something out of Chungking Mansions? Apparently not. Some arty types have put together an exhibition in London to depict the world's 'no zones'.

The centrepiece of the art-fest is - wait for it - a huge photograph of the floor of the Hong Kong stock exchange, by renowned German photographer Andreas Gursky.

Hundreds of brokers are shown in customary pose, lined up at their terminals and no doubt making megabucks for their clients - a comforting image for many.

But the organisers of the exhibition at a hip gallery owned by the advertising gurus, the Saatchi brothers, see the vision in a rather different light.

They view it as a comment on 'global uniformity'.

Tom Bonham Carter may be local head of one of the world's biggest funds management operations, but that doesn't mean he is immune to some down-to-earth problems.

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