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  • Richard Baker's photography from the book project The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science on Broad Street, Oxford from April - September 2010.



  • Richard Baker's photography from the book project The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science on Broad Street, Oxford from April - September 2010.

  • Richard Baker's photography from the book project The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science on Broad Street, Oxford from April - September 2010.

  • Richard Baker's photography from the book project The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science on Broad Street, Oxford from April - September 2010.

  • Thorny twig in the foreground near an electricity pylon behind one foggy morning on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent

  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex

  • Refracted and broken lines of a dock crane shimmering on the waters of the River Thames at Industrial Northfleet, Kent

  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial warehousing architecture and poorly-made road at Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill

  • Weeds have grown over a bus stop sign near a business selling stacked pallets on an industrial roadside West Thurrock, Essex

  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sits the gutted remains of a Lockheed Tri-Star airliner 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 the sleek curves. Elsewhere, Jumbo jets, Airbuses and assorted Boeings sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. 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. .

  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.

  • Rows of freshly-made chocolate Moments biscuits on conveyor belt at the Delacre production factory in Lambermont, Belgium

  • Technicians and managers taste new biscuit product in the experimental kitchen of the Delacre production factory in Lambermont

  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.

  • A VT Merlin satellite tracking dish appears to blow clouds across a blue sky at the Diane Tracking station, French Guiana

  • Electrical cable cabinets in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency's Kourou space center..

  • Pointing towards the viewer and the bottom of the picture near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow directs traffic flow at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse walls shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.

  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot

  • The Protor & Gamble detergents factory complex dominates the pre-Norman but restored St Clement's church at West Thurrock

  • Writer Alain de Botton stands by a mural of a launching Roskosmos Soyuz rocket while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton, UK 2009) at ESA's Kourou Spaceport

Richard Baker's exhibition draws from his work with writer Alain de Botton's book project The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Penguin 2009).

The 16 images are captioned by selected text from de Botton's writing from the book's chapters and provided courtesy of the writer. They are paired by subject and offer a rather different context from the book although many did not make it into print.

The venue is the Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford and...
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