Attention Please: A Manifesto Club Photo Album

'Attention Please' is a photobook of unnecessary, absurd and patronising safety warnings in public space, submitted to [Manifesto Club] by members of the public over 2008–09.

The collection contains submissions from all over the world, and also from individuals including the Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.

Images include: a sign outside a Sussex beach reading 'Caution - uneven surfaces'; an official smoking area in a Walsall supermarket carpark; a Krakow tram's ban on music and ice-cream; a warning outside a Tooting cemetery that 'all memorials have the potential to harm'.

The Manifesto Club published Attention Please in an attempt to expose, and ([they] hope) shame the officials who put up these signs. At present, it seems that there is never a good reason for officials to not put up a safety sign. [They’re] calling for a reversal of the burden of proof: it is the person unrolling the safety tape who should have to prove why a particular sign is necessary or helpful. If it isn’t, it shouldn’t be in public.