Sign Language is a marvellously zany yet haunting collection of photographs from a young photographer who has an instinctive eye for the unusual and the eccentric in the world around her.

Travelling from the West Country to Northumberland, Caroline Fitton has recorded an array of funny, enigmatic and wonderfully decorative signs, shop fronts and façades, recalling a past where the pawn shop and the friendly society helped keep the bailiff from the door, or a present where President Reagan's hearing aid might bring customers flocking. Her photographs capture the decline in the inner cities and a variety of architectural styles, from the solid respectability of the Victorian era through the flamboyant art deco of the thirties to the puristic high tech of the present day.