A small cluster of floral tributes, propped against the glass, add a flash of colour to an otherwise grim and hopeless scene.
Ringing its cities are grim tower blocks, crowded with languages, colours and faiths.
The high big suns and hot big colours of Nigeria are replaced by a grim wash of grey clouds, a sky as cheerful as the inside of an eggbox and the greasily unlovely streets of Peckham.
It is, in many ways, a wilfully grim and unrelenting book, unredeemed by the kind of beautiful colour tones and glimpses of redemption that the great confessional photographer, Nan Goldin, one of Day's influences, brings to her work.
Buy now 5. John Lewis Yellow Raincoat: £30, John Lewis Yellow is an underused colour on kids, yet it cheers up the grimmest of days.
Full of colour pictures and To Do lists, it is also a grim warning of everything that can go wrong for the pregnant body, from the supposed risks of ingesting mayonnaise to amniocentesis.
With the help of local students, the grim communist era apartment blocks have been decked out in blazing colours, giving them a bizarre, playful effect.
Hynes shows that whether gobby, restrained, grim or flighty, these plays belong together and she does so without ladling on the colour.
The colour is the first to go – the reddish gold of a good marmalade, say, turns a grim brown – and the flavour extinguishes to little more than sweetness.
Grid Iron's new play, Fierce (Assembly Rooms), taps into the rat-tat rhythms of rap and the blaring colours of graffiti art to tell the story of geeky teenager Finlay, who lives in a grim housing scheme.
