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  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
    acrobatic_scaffolders01.jpg
  • Single telephone that is now only contact with local officers at closed East Dulwich police station, Lordship Lane.
    dulwich_police01-02-01-2015.jpg
  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-14-17-03-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-12-17-03-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-13-17-03-2020.jpg
  • "Eye Contact." A mother peers over the bath to keep watch over her five month-old baby daughter who is lying on a matt, holding a towel to her face. The infant has had her own time in the water and the mum has taken the opportunity to bathe too. They both look into each other's eyes in a picture of love, trust and joy. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella12-20-04-1995.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
  • 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
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-23-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-22-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-21-10-09-2018.jpg
  • As the flames of a fire strted deliberately burns in the background, police officer listens to his radio during disturbances about the Poll Tax, the controversial property tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government and which ultimately brought about her downfall weeks later, on 20th October 1990, in London, England.
    riot_police-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Two young women high-five each other at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    high_five-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a Lambeth council notice attached to an abandoned bike in a south London residential street, on 13th February 2019, in London, England.
    abandoned_bike-04-13-02-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a Lambeth council notice attached to an abandoned bike in a south London residential street, on 13th February 2019, in London, England.
    abandoned_bike-03-13-02-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a Lambeth council notice attached to an abandoned bike in a south London residential street, on 13th February 2019, in London, England.
    abandoned_bike-02-13-02-2019.jpg
  • A visitor to Budapest zoo reaches out with food scraps to a captive elephant, whose enclosure has sharp spikes around its moat, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    budapest_elephant-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-26-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-25-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-24-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-20-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-19-10-09-2018.jpg
  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
    phones_girls07-13-04-2015.jpg
  • A To Let sign attached to the wall of a vacant building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
    2012_stratford18-08-03-2012.jpg
  • A screen shot of reportage photographer Richard Baker's iPad folio front page.
    ipad_front_page.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-02-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Man uses laptop under trees in a summer park in south London.
    park_laptop01-15-04-2015.jpg
  • Casually-dressed businessman beneath pillars and columns of Royal Exchange, Cornhill, City of London
    city_people02-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Casually-dressed businessman beneath pillars and columns of Royal Exchange, Cornhill, City of London
    city_people03-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
    phones_girls06-13-04-2015.jpg
  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
    phones_girls05-13-04-2015.jpg
  • Three teenage girls obsessed with social media, apps and messaging, in Trafalgar Square, London.
    phones_girls01-13-04-2015.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc143-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc138-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc363-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc364-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc338-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc319-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc308-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc329-03-06-2014.jpg
  • BT workmen attend to repairs or maintenance on a street pavement while a jogger nearby stretches his hamstrings on a railing.
    workmen_jogger03-15-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum19-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum13-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum34-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum21-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Ground commentator pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team broadcasts the 30-min display during airshow.
    Red_Arrows166_RBA.jpg
  • A London bus in the aftermath of striking a kerb stone in a King's Cross street corner.
    bus_accident02-31-05-2012.jpg
  • A London bus in the aftermath of striking a kerb stone in a King's Cross street corner.
    bus_accident01-31-05-2012.jpg
  • A To Let sign attached to the wall of a vacant building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
    2012_stratford17-08-03-2012.jpg
  • Young boy in a field plays with a ewe and chickens at Drusillas Park Zoo.
    sheep_farm_boy03-12-02-1991.jpg
  • Young boy in a field plays with a ewe at Drusillas Park Zoo.
    sheep_farm_boy02-12-02-1991.jpg
  • Young boy in a field plays with a lamb at Drusillas Park Zoo.
    sheep_farm_boy01-12-02-1991.jpg
  • Detail of a Hawk aircraft of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows765_RBA.jpg
  • A classic, K-series red British Telecom (BT) pay phone box that is still in use sits surrounded by undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Amid a mass of green foliage, the freshly-painted red kiosk stands as an iconic piece of architecture that has graced Britain's towns and villages for 70-odd years. These K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer. In rural regions however, the British red phone box is still a delight to see and use.
    wales_pembrokeshire21-03-08-2007.jpg
  • Mothers sit with their babies in pushchairs on park benches in the Silesian industrial town of Zabrze. A mining town known formerly as Hindenburg until 1945, under Stalinist thought, miners were considered a "working class elite" and were rewarded with higher wages and better social benefits but after communism, Zabrze has a high rate among mother of Ovarian Cancer because of the pollution, caused by the large concentration of industry, the triangle of land between Zabrze, Chorzów, and Bytom has locally been known as 'death triangle'. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, the environmental situation has steadily been improving due the restructuring of the Silesian industry although more than 250,000 jobs have been lost in coal mining since the reintroduction of capitalism. At the same time, enterprises are enjoying enormous profits.
    misc_poland10-06-09-2007.jpg
  • A detail of an ornate Victorian brass letter box plate. Seen in close-up, the single and plural word 'Letters' is printed in upper-case capitals on the flap that one must lift to insert postal mail from the outside of this heavy, glossy black doors in the seaside town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. The brass plate sits in its fitted slot and has been carefully polished these last decades to ensure it still looks as handsome as it might have some time in the Victorian era when brass door knockers and other elaborate fittings were fixed to houses, showing true quality craftsmanship - a factor largely ignored in the mass-produced products of today.
    letter_box06-12-1992_1.jpg
  • An unidentified father in the act of pouring coffee from a cafetiere into two metallic silver mugs in while holding his sleeping baby son in his London kitchen. The unconscious child is a few months old and the parent stands expertly holding both hot liquid and infant as if juggling pleasure and parenthood simultaneously. The sleeping child is limp in the father's arm and is dressed in the same scarlet red as the vibrant colour on the wall behind. We only see the man's upper-legs and torso but the baby is tiny against his body making the scale of both young and old. otherwise, the generic room is bare of decoration or possessions - only a drying cloth and chopping board is seen on the draining board, near plain white tiles.
    children20-30-08-2007.jpg
  • A young brother and sister look on in awe while a British Airways check-in lady asks security questions of the pair's parents who are taking her children on a long-haul flight from London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The family baggage has been tagged and is about to disappear down the belt to join up to 70,000 other items in this average day at T5. The siblings stare as the young woman checks the travel details of the mother and father who have booked Business Class seats for them all. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1396-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Club Class passengers enjoying luxurious facilities at the British Airways Galleries Club lounge at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport926-10-08-2009.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1486-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1485-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's leg for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1466-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1464-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Young girl and her father check-in for a British Airways flight at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1399-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Mature lady employee shows passenger where departures gate is at British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1394-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Mature lady employee at British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1392-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1489-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a lady passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1462-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Mature humour during British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1393-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Humour during British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1391-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport505-14-07-2009.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at. Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. While embracing her young man, she gazes off into the distance amid the otherwise busy airport terminal where the emotions of parting as well as the joys of reunited loved-ones are played out in various parts of aviation hubs around the world. They are both in their own worlds, removed from the noise and confusion of other passengers. Her departure is brief and yet their sadness of being separated is plainly too much to bear. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1483-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1467-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fish and chip shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
    closed_businesses05-27-12_2008.jpg
  • A United Airlines ramp agent stands in the terminal building of Chicago O'Hare airport before continuing his airside shift, dispatching and communicating with his operational airline colleagues. The man stands with hands in pockets wearing his company issue fluorescent safety jacket with reflective materials important on the ramp, in the company of dangerous vehicles and running aircraft engines. Ensuring the smooth arrival and departures of flights across America and the rest of the world, he is a key member of the airline at its O'Hare hub. 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_corbis55-10-11-2000.jpg
  • A gentleman Sky Cap stands in front of the terminal building at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, California, USA. Wearing his red waste-coat, ID badge and cap he holds the handle of the baggage trolley with which he assists passengers to offload their belongings and guides them to the check-in counters inside. The man has a greying beard and sunglasses against the glare and is an eager helper to those struggling with heavy travel possessions. On the ground are stencilled the words 'Passenger Loading Only' referring to where departing travellers might seek help with baggage. There are armies of workers across the world keeping airlines and airports running 24/7. 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_corbis47-10-11-2000.jpg
  • A Bahrani aircraft mechanic stands beneath the giant nose wheel assembly of a Being airliner at Bahrain International Airport. Wearing a red headset, he can communicate by cable with the pilots high up in the aircraft's cockpit as a vehicle pushes-back the flying machine onto the taxi-way before starting its engines and departure. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. 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_corbis06-21-04-2001.jpg
  • A detail of a Northumberland emergency (and non-emergency) phone, outside a rural police station, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
    rothbury-01-25-09-2017.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-01-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Passers-by and a fluffy pooch on a Camper shoes shop window in Bond Street, central London.
    dog_poster01-15-09-2015.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc353-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc321-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc373-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc366-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Architectural detail inside a lower-ground control bunker at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use.
    greenham_common12-19-03-2003.jpg
  • The poster of an Asian-looking model advertisies a telecoms company services in an internet store window.in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin.
    berlin_phone_ad01-06-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum14-07-04-2013.jpg
  • A London bus in the aftermath of striking a kerb stone in a King's Cross street corner.
    bus_accident04-31-05-2012.jpg
  • A London bus in the aftermath of striking a kerb stone in a King's Cross street corner.
    bus_accident03-31-05-2012.jpg
  • A To Let sign attached to the gate of a building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
    olympic_stratford01-22-05-2012.jpg
  • An young infant girl paints her own hand red as she plays with water paints in her back garden, London.
    ella_baby18-30-08-2007.jpg
  • Mothers and sons hug emotionally in the international arrivals hall of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 airport. Three families have gathered to meet their respective sons who have been travelling around the world during their university gap year sabbatical trip of a lifetime. With balloons and banners amid the hectic concourse where other relatives greet their loved-ones after months away from home on their adventures. This is a tradition practised across the world's airports where families are separated by the need to travel or work in other countries and the emotion of meeting again after long absences is always hard. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport83-13-07-2009.jpg
  • A No Sharp objects warning is plain to see as a British Airways check-in employee attaches a luggage tag to the suitcase of a Business Class passenger about to take a long-haul flight from London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The bag is about to disappear down the conveyor belt to join up to 70,000 other items during this average day at T5. With a bar code to identify both the bag and its owner's destination as well as the three letter IATA code, the bag enters 11 miles of underground conveyor belts beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1414-18-08-2009.jpg
  • An anonymous Immigration Officer (IMO) with the UK Border Agency sits in a detention interview room Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • Amid the hectic arrivals concourse of Heathrow airport's T5, a young couple kiss and embrace after a few weeks separation.
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  • Greeting dad and son in International Arrivals concourse at Heathrow's terminal 5.
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  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fish and chip shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
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  • Sheryl is an Airport Ambassador Volunteer at Dallas Fort Worth, Texas and stands for a portrait at the foot of some escalators in the main terminal. She sports a straw hat saying 'Ask Me' in red and a name badge with her job title although she comes to the airport to assist strangers at her city's airport, hoping her good nature and charitable efforts will help uncertain travellers find their way. Also on her jacket is a the phrase 'Proud to be Drug Free .. Airport Narcotics Task Force.' 'Fort Worth is the sixth busiest airport in the world transporting 59,064,360 passengers in 2005. 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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  • Processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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