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  • A baker presses his hands deep into a mixture of  dough, to become Italian Ciabatta bread...Ciabatta (literally "carpet slipper") is an Italian white bread made with wheat flour and yeast. The loaf is somewhat elongated, broad and flattish. Its name is the Italian word for slipper. There are many variations of ciabatta. Ciabatta in its modern form was developed in 1982. Since the late 1990s it has been popular across Europe and in the United States, and is widely used as a sandwich bread.
    baker_dough01-16-03-1989.jpg
  • Home Secretary and Conservative MP, Kenneth Baker at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1991 in Blackpool, England.
    kenneth_baker-11-10-1991.jpg
  • The veteran BBC broadcaster Richard Baker (same name as the photographer of this picture) is seen in a Radio 3 studio in Langham Place, in central London. With glasses at hand and programme notes on his console with microphones pointing to his face, Baker is looking to camera with a pair of old-fashioned earphones around his neck. Richard Baker OBE (born 1925) started at the BBC as an announcer and presented many classical music programmes on both television  and radio, including for many years the annual live broadcast from the Last Night of the Proms but he's best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982 and the long-running Your Hundred Best Tunes for BBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights.
    richard_baker-17-02-1986.jpg
  • A portrait of a baker holding yet to be baked dough for Ciabatta bread. Standing by trays of ready to bake loaves, the man is of African or afro-Caribbean origin, clearly made out in the white of his uniform and mix, his white baker’s uniform’s sleeves also spattered with flour. Ciabatta (literally "carpet slipper") is an Italian white bread made with wheat flour and yeast. The loaf is somewhat elongated, broad and flattish. Its name is the Italian word for slipper. There are many variations of ciabatta. Ciabatta in its modern form was developed in 1982. Since the late 1990s it has been popular across Europe and in the United States, and is widely used as sandwich bread.
    baker_portrait-16-03-1989.jpg
  • A 75-page introduction of corporate images by the English photographer Richard Baker. This is a Corporate A3 print and PDF folio. The following pictures are from 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work', a book published in April 2009 by the writer Alain de Botton. His essays and Richard Baker's photography explore occupations, industry and landscape. It covers subjects such as the world of logistics warehouses; career counselling; the landscapes of electricity transmission; the business of river shipping; accountancy; tuna fishing; English couture; biscuit manufacturing; the science of launching rockets and a cross-section of 35mm more editorial thumbnails on pages 72/73 with About Me and Contact details on page 74 of this booklet.
    RichardBaker_corporate_folio.pdf
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-40-18-06-2016.jpg
  • An image of the Belem Tower in Lisbon and the window of a cake and pastry business in which a baker washes a heavy pan , on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    covent_garden-06-22-05-2019.jpg
  • Sam Baker looks at the landscape photography of Don McCullin at Tate Britain, on 10th March 2019, in London, England.
    sam_tate-01-10-03-2019.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition01-21-10-2010.jpg
  • Yellow sunflowers brighten up drab offices of an auditing company at their London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (3 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition05-09-08-2007.jpg
  • As the UK's Coronavirus death toll during the government's social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, two women walk past clothing mannequins in the window of a closed branch of Ted Baker, are covered in polythene plastic, in the City of London, the capital's now empty financial district, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-24-15-05-2020.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition07-21-10-2010.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition05-21-10-2010.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition09-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Sam Baker on Cannon Street, 1st May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    sam_city-01-01-05-2017.jpg
  • A screen shot of reportage photographer Richard Baker's iPad folio front page.
    ipad_front_page.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition04-21-10-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    oxford_exhibition05-13-04-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    oxford_exhibition04-13-04-2010.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-33-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-16-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-15-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-12-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Traditional Chinese from Taiwan edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_taiwan.jpg
  • An image of the Belem Tower in Lisbon and the window of a cake and pastry business in which a baker rinses a heavy pan, on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    covent_garden-07-22-05-2019.jpg
  • Sam Baker looks at the landscape photography of Don McCullin at Tate Britain, on 10th March 2019, in London, England.
    sam_tate-03-10-03-2019.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-34-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Sam Baker looks at the landscape photography of Don McCullin at Tate Britain, on 10th March 2019, in London, England.
    sam_tate-02-10-03-2019.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-37-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Dutch edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_NL.jpg
  • A 62-page introduction of editorial images by the English photographer Richard Baker. It contains projects and assignments that are biased towards medium format<br />
colour negative film with a selection of 35mm transparency-sourced work found on pages 60/61 with About Me and Contact details on page 62. Subjects include: Olympiad, Journeys in ancient Greece on Marathon Road, Athens, Sacred Precinct of Zeus in ancient Olympia and the Acropolis; Monica Ali's Bangladeshi Brick Lane; Inside the BBC; the rally driver Richard Burns; 100 years of aviation; One week after 9/11; solo images from Ireland, Lithuania, England and Florida. This folio is directed towards picture editors and art directors.
    RichardBaker_editorial_folio.pdf
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-32-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-17-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-14-17-06-2016.jpg
  • UK edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_uk.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages traveling into central London. <br />
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A limited edition (1 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition03-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Office worker's cluttered desk with trophy, shield and company statement at an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
<br />
A limited edition (4 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition01-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition08-24-10-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    oxford_exhibition03-13-04-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    oxford_exhibition02-13-04-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    oxford_exhibition01-13-04-2010.jpg
  • Arriving for work beneath atrium of an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (5 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition11-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Trunk of an Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, London.<br />
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A limited edition (6 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition07-09-02-2008.jpg
  • As the UK's Coronavirus death toll during the government's social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, clothing mannequins in the window of a closed branch of Ted Baker, are covered in polythene plastic, in a deserted City of London, the capital's financial district, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-26-15-05-2020.jpg
  • Filmmaker and photographer Sam Baker, aged 18 on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
    sam_barbican-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition06-21-10-2010.jpg
  • As the UK's Coronavirus death toll during the government's social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, clothing mannequins in the window of a closed branch of Ted Baker, are covered in polythene plastic, in a deserted City of London, the capital's financial district, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-25-15-05-2020.jpg
  • Richard Baker's photography exhibition from the Alain de Botton book 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), on show at Pisa Airport, Italy as part of the Festival della Creativita, 2010.
    pisa_exhibition03-21-10-2010.jpg
  • As the UK's Coronavirus death toll during the government's social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, a woman walks past clothing mannequins in the window of a closed branch of Ted Baker, are covered in polythene plastic, in the City of London, the capital's now empty financial district, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-27-15-05-2020.jpg
  • A businessman has a hot towel massage<br />
 a barber's chair in the grooming room at the rear of clothing retailer, Ted Baker London, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_barber-05-14-09-2017.jpg
  • A businessman has a hot towel treatment a barber's chair in the grooming room at the rear of clothing retailer, Ted Baker London, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_barber-03-14-09-2017.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-39-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-38-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-20-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Taiwanese (Traditional Chinese) edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    work_taiwan.jpg
  • A businessman has a shave a barber's chair in the grooming room at the rear of clothing retailer, Ted Baker London, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_barber-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at Montpellier airport, south of France.
    montpellier-36-18-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-19-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-13-17-06-2016.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-11-17-06-2016.jpg
  • French language edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    work_france.jpg
  • Documentary photography by Richard Baker from the airport-theme exhibition entitled 'Terminal P', at La Panacee, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-10-17-06-2016.jpg
  • A businessman has a hot towel treatment a barber's chair in the grooming room at the rear of clothing retailer, Ted Baker London, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_barber-06-14-09-2017.jpg
  • A businessman has a hot towel treatment a barber's chair in the grooming room at the rear of clothing retailer, Ted Baker London, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_barber-02-14-09-2017.jpg
  • US edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_usa.jpg
  • Korean language edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_korea.jpg
  • Brazilian edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" containing photography by Richard Baker.
    heathrow_brasil.jpg
  • A group of red uniformed meat market traders manhandling joints of pork from the back of a meat wagon at Macau's main meat market, on the Rua Sul do Mercado de Sao Domingos, just off the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, in Central Macau. The men have on hooded red tunics that hide the bloodstains of dead animal carcasses, a very practical choice of colour. One man has half a pig on his shoulders while another holds a leg in his left hand. The animal carcasses look heavy and they are both struggling under their weight. There is much more meat to be offloaded from the truck and the men queue up to take their turn and remove them for sale inside the market building. Besides historical Chinese and Portuguese world-heritage relics, Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas.  Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this temple dedicated to the seafarers' goddess dates from the early 16th century.
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  • Empty chairs and open Bibles, all bathed in yellow artificial light make this airport chapel in Frankfurt am Main, Germany a European modernist haven from the chaos of global air travel; an escape from delays, terrorism and overall fears of flying. Predominately Christian with small corners for Muslim believers, the new modernism at Frankfurt/Main reflects a strong European tradition of functional design ? far removed from the drab, dourness of many similar American facilities. 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. .
    aviation_corbis32-19-10-2000.jpg
  • A trusting owner has left their bicycle leaning, unlocked, against a railing near a barge on left-bank of  Seine, Paris.
    paris02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Leaping fearlessly across the gaps of high walls, teenage boys practice free-jumping over a stairwell in London's South Bank
    free_jumping01-17-02-2008 .jpg
  • An Evening Standard newspaper headline announces the fury of London commuters' at a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we also see a stressed and exasperated-looking commuter walking past this kiosk with a Starbucks coffee container in hand, needing to get into work rather than take public transport. As a result of the industrial action, the busses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk.
    tube_strike_commuters02-04-09-2007.jpg
  • Faceless Russian delegates are in deep discussion in a hall at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. With the flag of the Russian Federation strategically placed to the right of the stand, the three anonymous are secretively talking business in a group meeting, their crumpled suits show they have been working on this project for many hours or days. Two of the men have exchanged business cards to make new contacts. 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.
    paris_air_show53-20-06-2007.jpg
  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007.jpg
  • Two toilet rolls are ready for use in a Paris hotel room toilet. Folded into triangular, pointed ends that point down to the bathroom floor in a famliar manner known to businessmen and and tourists during overnight stays in these anonymous and generic rest-stops frequented by travellers. Mounted onto a brown wall, the twin toilet roll holders are fixed side by side and have a shiny chrome finish.
    esa_guiana00412-08-2007.jpg
  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Film students on location on 30th April 2017, at Winchelsea, England
    sam_winchelsea-07-30-04-2017.jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. 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. .
    aviation_corbis11-25-05-1997.jpg
  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
    misc_poland08-06-09-2007.jpg
  • The last person to leave the office is a conscientious lady employee of the biscuit and snack manufacturer United Biscuits at their UK headquarters at Hayes Park North near London England. Seen in a window surrounded bright ceiling lights, the female sits at her desk tying up loose ends before leaving for the day. As darkness falls outside, the red lights from tail lights streak across the picture and the green grass on a landscaped bank is lit by light posts. None of her work colleages have stayed on, preferring to depart to see their families at home on this winter night. Perhaps this career woman is single and an ambitious member of the team who can dedicate more time to her job..
    united_biscuits_294.jpg
  • A view in late afternoon of light illuminating a section of La Seu Cathedral while a shadow falls across a tilting cross, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. La Seu is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located on one of the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean, and was built on the site of an existing Arab mosque. The Cathedral, designed in the French Gothic style, was finished in 1601. Palma is the major city and port in the island of Mallorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma.
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  • A female passenger leans forward with head in hands amid the busy terminal at Chicago O'Hare Airport, Illinois, USA. Fellow-travellers in the background appear unworried, waiting for their respective flights in a calm manner. The lady in the foreground's body language however, suggests fatigue and distress and perhaps a fear of flying. 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. .
    aviation_corbis52-10-11-2000.jpg
  • In mid-flight between Hamburg in Germany and London Heathrow, we see a passenger?s view of a climbing airliner's port wing and the hazy German landscape below at a high altitude. The sky above reflects its soft blue hue on the upper surface of the left wing but the air below is a soft pink, a rural patchwork of fields and villages. As an example of aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. 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. .
    aviation_corbis34-21-05-2002.jpg
  • Ten jets of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over the Victoria Memorial opposite Buckingham Palace in London, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday. Tourists watch as the ten aircraft leave a trail of patriotic red, white and blue smoke in honour of the monarch's elderly mother whose centenary was celebrated  in lavish style with cultural events and church services. The memorial to Queen Victoria was built by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock, in 1911. The surround was constructed by the architect Sir Aston Webb, from 2,300 tons of white marble and is a Grade I listed building. 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. .
    aviation_corbis17-19-07-2000.jpg
  • Seen through a junk shop window in north London, the large letters Last Day have been painted in white emulsion paint on the pane of glass. Between the letters are figures and bric-a-brac on sale in this budget store. A tiger model; a Jesus figure; a doll in a green dress. 'Last Day' is also ironic in a Biblical context as it was taken a few days after the Day of Resurrection and Easter.
    window_lastday_03002-17-04-2007.jpg
  • Office lights illuminate the 800 foot tower at 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf in London Docklands, one of the tallest buildings in Europe.  Designed by the Argentine architect César Pelli, construction was completed in 1991. Identifiable from a great distance as an obelisk-shaped tower with its aircraft warning light flashing on top, this building is a monument to 1980s-style capitalism...From the 'Windows' series. ..Since Microsoft brought about the name Windows to brand the PC computing user interface, I have taken it upon myself to collect and henceforth, add to - a group of pictures about the original window, long after the original word was hijacked by a man called Gates.  More will be added during 2007...Windows have been around for a long time - the Romans invaders even had a glass substance that sealed the chilly British air - and stench - from their sensitive Roman noses. ..Nowadays, I'm attracted to the labelling and messaging that becomes attached to the inside or outside of panes of glass, as if they are urban, public post-it notes for anything an individual wishes to share or advertise.  Sometimes the message can be a warning, a cry for help or just an accidental freak of mis-spelling that somehow creates a different meaning altogether to that intended. ..
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  • In the heat and dust of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of a Boeing 747 cockpit at the storage facility at Mojave, California. The wiring of the now-extinct flight engineer's console is a jumble of old technology. Either by age or cooling economy airliners are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent 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..
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  • Exercise Dogfish 2001, will take place in the Ionian Sea to the east of Sicily. Eight NATO surface ships from Standing Naval Force Mediterranean will join the exercise...P-3 Orion..Seven submarines from Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the United States are also scheduled to take part...Over 130 air missions are planned, and on average this will result in a crew briefing every two hours, day and night, throughout the 14-day exercise. ..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. .
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  • In the terminal at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport, Paris France, the peace of the airport chapel looks like a Star Trek-style place of worship, typical of the new airport experience pushed upon in the late '60s and early '70s. Short stools and padded benches line the intimate space in the satellite building. Designed by Paul Andreu, Charles de Gaulle became a symbol for airport modernity becoming an 'Aérogare' where trains and planes whisk the new world traveller of the late '60s, away beyond an ever-extending horizon. From here, the Air France Concorde crashed on the aviation employment town of Gonesse on July 25th 2000. 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.
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  • A Rolls-Royce turbofan has been fixed to the exterior of the company?s sales stand at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. The British-owned company have been making aircraft engines since 1914 at the start of the First World War, in response to the nation's needs, Royce designed his first aero engine ? the Eagle. Modern airliners have the Trent engine's technology embedded in its power plants and Farnborough is a major showcase for its many designs. Here, their chalet has a mocked-up garden feature complete railings and the turbine blades attached to the wall above. 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. .
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  • A window in Redchurch Street, East London England, proclaims the opening soon of a business. Using emulsion paint and water to obscure the interior, we see the optimistic sign and the swirls of the window pane. The patterns and shapes inadvertantly traced are confusing and neurotic.
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  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert, a complete set of main landing gear undercarriage stands upright amid a field of similar items from airliners at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or cooling economy. Cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium is worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their 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.
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  • Looking down from above, we see one lone queuing traveller at Charles de Gaulle, gazes up towards the large Departures board. Fellow-passengers wait by baggage trolleys in a civilised line beneath the information. Charles de Gaulle/Roissy is a hub airport for Air France north of the French capital. The departures information has schedule times, destinations, flight, satellite and gate numbers plus   remarks. Air travellers experience such misery every day and shows of how global air travel has become a routine, mundane and stressful for the everyday airline passenger - a far cry from when commercial flight was purely for the elite. 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. .
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event stands on the pier floor boards at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ?wearing? their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform ? a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire pilot sponsored by a milk company eventually dropped vertically. 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. .
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. 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.
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  • Taking notes from an air band receiving radio, plane spotters log aircraft serial numbers and other details in notebooks near their perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport. A large man has a pair of binoculars and an old SLR film camera and leans against his Peugeot car's bonnet (hood) to record the obsessive facts about airliners that pass overhead as they approach the runways of West London. His fellow-aviation enthusiast checks the radio that transmits the voices of pilots and air traffic controllers. In Britain, plane spotters are regarded as eccentric and sad but not trespassers. Some have been accused of spying near foreign military airfields. 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.
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  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. 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.
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  • The tattooed hermit, Tom Leppard (1935-2016) at his secret island hideaway on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 2007. <br />
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(See main gallery caption).
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  • Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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