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  • Red Arrows book cover

  • White smoke left in summer skies by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.

  • French language edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of Boeing 747 airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world?s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .

  • UK edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in an early morning flight-path over South London

  • Dutch edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • British Airways jetty operator carefully manoeuvres towards arrived BA aircraft door at Heathrow's Terminal 5. .

  • Brazilian edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • Part of a sequence of 4 consecutive images, a blurred jet airliner passes overhead, nearing its final airport descent.

  • Korean language edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • US edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • An wide exterior view of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building in West London. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners). As the last light of the day fades, the brightness of terminal lights shine through massive panes of window glass. At a cost of £4.3 billion, the 400m long T5 is the largest free-standing building in the UK with the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. The Terminal 5 public inquiry was the longest in UK history, lasting four years from 1995 to 1999. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...

  • Taiwanese (simplified Chinese) edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • Heathrow writer-in-residence, Alain de Botton writes his airport novel near 747 in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.

  • Taiwanese (Traditional Chinese) edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" containing photography by Richard Baker.

  • Separated by four floors, two employees of the auditing company Ernst & Young, make their way along walkways in the main atrium of E & Y's European headquarter offices at More London, London England. Striding confidently between offices, the two people are unaware of each other's presence but make their way from right to left of this tall, upright scene of modernity. The senior person on top may have an advantage from better opportunities, the low-ranking worker below may be needing to rise up the ranks. Morning sunlight floods through the green tinted glass that overlooks Tower Bridge on the River Thames. The term atrium comes from Latin: a large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective. .

  • Alan Milburn MP cover, for Guardian Weekend Magazine, London

  • The British Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn, MP for Darlington is seen in a studio setting in an official Government room loacted in the Cabinet Office, Whitehall, London, England. In shirtsleeves he holds his jacket over his shoulder and wears a blue patterned tie. Milburn was a supporter of Tony Blair (and therefore called a Blairite) and held numerous governmental posts, including: Minister of State for Health (1997-1998); Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1998-1999); Secretary of State for Health (1999-2003) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2004 to 2005). Source: www.alanmilburn.co.uk.

  • Status Quo cover, for Guardian Weekend Magazine, London

  • Francis Rossi (left) and Rick Parfitt (right) of Status Quo face an auditorium, with their backs to the viewer while sitting on the edge of their stage after a sound check in l'Aeronef in Lille, France during their 2007 European Tour. Rossi adjusts his thin pony tail that he has sported since his early days in rock and roll. Parfitt and Rossi are the two original members of the band, having met as school boys in the early 60s. Their distinctive three-chord guitar riff has made them a household name with hits like: Rockin' All Over the World and Sweet Caroline; selling 118 million albums. Over their 40 years of performing, QUO have played over 6000 live shows to an audience of 25 million people and travelling four million miles and spent 23 years away from home..

  • Virgin Galactic astronaut cover, for Guardian Weekend Magazine, London

  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces. ....

  • Poll Tax riot, Independent Magazine, London

  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.

Various magazine spreads and covers of English and foreign edition books by Alain de Botton, featuring the photography of Richard Baker.

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