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This week, passers-by on London’s South Bank—one of the city’s busiest areas stretching along the River Thames—can stroll through an installation of 50 large-scale portraits of people smiling. The men and women pictured are celebrating birthdays, finishing races or hanging out with friends and family. They appear carefree, relaxed and happy.

But behind these façades is a sobering truth.

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