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  • Having just disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship at the port of Miami, Florida, two tourists carry and pull their baggage along to a waiting coaches that will transport them for onward journeys. Comically they also wear wide sombrero hats bought in Cancun during their vacation around the Gulf of Mexico, the destination of this popular cruise line whose base is Miami. Stitched with garish colours the souvenirs provide shelter from the overhead tropical sun though the woman of this couple chooses to hang hers over a shoulder and keeps her original hat on her head. This may be the couples' honeymoon or just a special annual holiday away from the kids or a humdrum lifestyle where the weather is far from the intensity of Florida, a favourite resort for Americans not liking foreign travel.
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  • An out of focus post with a light bulb attached, shines in the bright daylight with the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Cocoa beach is on Florida's so-called Space Coast, a resort of beaches, clubs, seafood restaurants and motels that came to life during the 1960s due to America's space program. NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located approximately 15 miles away. The Atlantic Ocean is flat calm in settled weather and the horizon is clear and well-defined with a ship just visible on the right side. Focus is on the sea rather than the post and the light bulb which look like a surreal addition to the landscape. Cocoa Beach served as a playground for many of the astronauts and NASA space industry workers and contractors during the heyday of the space race. After manned space flights, the town held astronaut parades. Before there was a "Silicon Valley," Cocoa Beach and other surrounding towns were full of the best and brightest technical minds around.
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  • As a couple inspect the menu on the sidewalk, a waiter attends to customers at an outdoor restaurant and bar on Ocean Drive,  on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
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  • A young man holds his pet python in Miami Beach, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Young men stretch for the ball while playing Beach Volleyball beneath a palm tree, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • Young people enjoy a drive in an open-top car along Ocean Drive, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A couple on a first floor bar's balcony enjoy good views overlooking Miami Beach, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A Christian homeless man and veteran holds a sign and a coffee cup asks for donations on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A wealthy Latino couple enjoy the beach as a man carrying possessions walks past, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • Children playing inside the Miami post office with safety deposit boxes, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • Aerial view of a adult and child playing in a Miami Beach hotel pool, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • This is an unretouched scan made in August 2016 from a negative created in March 2000 on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. The picture shows a NASA space capsule once belonging to NASA space engineer Charles Bell whose collection of old space industry were auctioned after his death earlier that year. The capsule is seen here with other items to be sold, a day before the public auction. The copyright of this photograph belongs to Richard Baker (bakerpictures.com) who recorded the picture in person, on or around March, 3rd 2000. The scan was requested and paid for by Mark Calhoun in August 2016. It was ordered on the understanding that it is FOR PERSONAL USE AND INTERNAL REPRODUCTION ONLY. NO FURTHER REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR.
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  • This is an unretouched scan made in August 2016 from a negative created in March 2000 on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. The picture shows a NASA space capsule once belonging to NASA space engineer Charles Bell whose collection of old space industry were auctioned after his death earlier that year. The capsule is seen here with other items to be sold, a day before the public auction. The copyright of this photograph belongs to Richard Baker (bakerpictures.com) who recorded the picture in person, on or around March, 3rd 2000. The scan was requested and paid for by Mark Calhoun in August 2016. It was ordered on the understanding that it is FOR PERSONAL USE AND INTERNAL REPRODUCTION ONLY. NO FURTHER REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR.
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  • Lying on her back with eyes closed, a young girl stretches her arms out allowing her father to support her weight in an empty swimming pool in Miami Florida. With complete trust, she lets herself go and yields to her own natural  buoyancy as she floats amid this seemingly wide ocean of chlorinated water belonging to a hotel on Ocean Drive. We see her bright red costume clearly against the  complimentary prime colour green in a vibrant display from the spectrum. It is a scene of love and confidence, of youth and health.
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  • An athletic man poses against a wall on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida. This fine specimen of a man wears roller-blades and trousers tucked into his skates with a yellow t-shirt with the word Frequency across his pectoral muscles. His shdow appears across the wall and because of the angle, his shape has been greatly exaggerated, his body becoming a much wider, stockier proportion than the reality. He stands with an arm resting high on the wall and the other on his hip, almost in a feminine manner. He is nonetheless the epitome of maleness, of virility with the healthy physique that women adore and other men are jealous of! The sdidewalk pavement arcs around a corner and the wall with its long shadow is a strong diagonal line across the picture, disappearing to the far right.
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  • Crowds of visitors and locals gather on the terrace of an Ocean Drive cafe in Miami Beach. It is early evening and we see the blurred people moving about over the picture during a time-exposure of a few seconds. The colours of ambient neon lights that these streets are well-known for have become very vivid with bright pinks and reds a main feature of this scene. A menu board listing cocktail drinks prices stands on the sidewalk. Candles have been lit in glass jars on table tops. Ghostly, blurred Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze against the fading sky of early evening. This is a vibrant district of tropical Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed. Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality.
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  • A young girl stretches out her arms and her father supports her weight in an empty swimming pool in Miami Florida.
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  • A portrait of an exiled Cuban couple sitting on the hood, or bonnet of their car in Miami Beach, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Sixties NASA rocket technology from the Saturn V and Apollo-era is suspecded from the roof of the Kennedy Spce Center, on 10th March 2003, in Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA. An Apollo rocket stage for the Saturn V rocket and a Lunar Module in the Apollo/Saturn V Center which is only accessible to visitors by bus tours from the Visitors Complex. The Space cenbter features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia. It also encompasses the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center and United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Local Latinos and a pink balcony of Art Deco architecture, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A street signpost and Art Deco architecture on Ocean Drive, Miami, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A happy logo for Miami and the Sunshine State with Palm trees in the background, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • Vacation tourists interact with holiday resort cut-outs, on 15th May 1996, on Key West, Florida, USA.
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  • This is an unretouched scan made in August 2016 from a negative created in March 2000 on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. The picture shows a NASA space capsule once belonging to NASA space engineer Charles Bell whose collection of old space industry were auctioned after his death earlier that year. The capsule is seen here with other items to be sold, a day before the public auction. The copyright of this photograph belongs to Richard Baker (bakerpictures.com) who recorded the picture in person, on or around March, 3rd 2000. The scan was requested and paid for by Mark Calhoun in August 2016. It was ordered on the understanding that it is FOR PERSONAL USE AND INTERNAL REPRODUCTION ONLY. NO FURTHER REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR.
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  • This is an unretouched scan made in August 2016 from a negative created in March 2000 on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. The picture shows a NASA space capsule once belonging to NASA space engineer Charles Bell whose collection of old space industry were auctioned after his death earlier that year. The capsule is seen here with other items to be sold, a day before the public auction. The copyright of this photograph belongs to Richard Baker (bakerpictures.com) who recorded the picture in person, on or around March, 3rd 2000. The scan was requested and paid for by Mark Calhoun in August 2016. It was ordered on the understanding that it is FOR PERSONAL USE AND INTERNAL REPRODUCTION ONLY. NO FURTHER REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR.
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  • Two friends of Hispanic-descent have stopped on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida to talk with associates while sitting in their SUV 4x4 pick-up-style truck. Each have hold of two Dogo Argentino mastiff puppies, one of which is hanging his chin over through the open window of the vehicle, its long claws also very clearly seen and its freckly nose pointing towards the viewer. The other young animal is being propped up by the car's driver, its belly visible to anyone leaning inside the car. Both dogs are albino-coloured with floppy ears and pink eyes while the two healthy men are dark-skinned and in good-humour, one wearing a singlet vest and prominent silver necklace and the other topless so warm is this summer day.
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  • During a time-exposure of a few seconds, the ambient neon and natural evening light of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive are mixed together to give an atmospheric mood of vitality, bustle and excitement in this tropical city. The vertical-aligned name of the famous Colony Hotel is seen through the darkened window of an SUV (4x4). Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality. Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze, blurring during the exposure and making them ghostly against the fading sky of early evening. This is vibrant district of Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed.
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  • A moon-walking NASA astronaut model stands in the middle of two terminal escalators - as an airline pilot glides past at Miami International airport. As the state from where all the Apollo moonshots were launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida is proud of its space race heritage. Like US astronauts of that era, the airline pilot may be an ex-military aviator too now flying commercial aircraft from hubs like Miami and across the US.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Cape Canaveral sign post, Merritt Island.The entry sign to the City of Capa Canaveral, once known as Cape Kennedy, the home to NASA and America's manned-space race. The sign declaring Capa Canaveral on Merritt Island, Florida. Here for 40 years the US space programme has been sending men, chimps and missiles into space. Merritt Island is also home to the space junk auction, alot of the NASA workforce and also the Kennedy Space Center. This is known as the Space Coast.
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  • A lady and her pet green Iguanas stop walking along the surf in Miami Beach's coast for a moment to stand on the sand and kiss on the lips. Away from its proper habitat, this reptile looks comfortable in the hands of its affectionate mothering owner and in this warm climate. These exotic  lizards' live in tropical rainforests, in lower altitudes near water sources, such as rivers or streams. They spend most of their time high in the forest canopy, about 40-50 feet above the ground. Iguanas are diurnal, awake during the day. They are also cold-blooded, so they do not produce their own body heat, so need warm temperatures to thrive. Many people in the United States and elsewhere want a green iguana for a pet, so there is a big demand for their capture.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Oscilloscopes bought for scrap.One of Charles Bell's items for auction, Oscilloscopes and other electronics were bought for scrap. Assorted oscilloscopes and electronic gadgetry that Charles Bell amassed over the years. Items like these were partly responsible for many innovative technology that NASA wanted developing for the space programme including fibre optics that Charles Bell invented. Rather than preserving it for technology museums where it truly belonged, it has been bought as scrap, never to be seen again and other electronics were bought for scrap.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Nasa Jumble Sale.An unidentified rocket and its engine assembly lies in the wasteland of Charles Bell's yard. An eccentric rocket scientist, he was part of the NASA space programme since the 1950's collected treasures and redundent equipment from the earliest days of space travel.
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  • Suspended above the heads of space tourists are an Apollo rocket stage for the Saturn V rocket and a Lunar Module.
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  • A small group of men are together on the beach just opposite to Ocean Drive on Miami Beach. Two of them are in the foreground and each wear sun glasses, each holding cigars that may be Cuban in origin, a popular source of tobacco leaf in this region of America. They have recently been immersed in the sea and water drips down their rather flabby bodies with the gentleman on the left sucking on his cigar with a belly that expands around his tanned midriff. It is intensely bright, sunny day on the sand, seen behind. Flash has emphasized the water drips and the male sweat and we also see a very clear blue tropical sky.
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  • NASA technology.Boy admires an Apollo moon suit.A boy visitor looks at an Apollo moon suit at the Kennedy Space Center museum dedicated to NASA's achievements. It is over 30 years since man last set foot on the moon but, for many Americans, the romance of space travel is more powerful than ever.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Shuttle model moulds lie in the dirt. They were probably used for displays at NASA PR events.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction. John Glenn's capsule model. This full size mock up of his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule alongside miscellaneous space collectables. This piece alone fetched $35,000 at the previous auction and went to California for restoration and exhibition.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Apollo astronaut walkway structure..Charles Bell's collection of cumbersome rockets, gantries, fuel tanks and browsers lay overgrown in what had become a snake-infested wilderness. One of the Apollo gantries or walkways that the astronauts would have ambled along with their oxygen packs towards the waiting capsule. They now sit rusting awaiting scrap dealers.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Chemical suits. NASA chemical suits hang on their rack at the space junk auction. Hanging Scape Suits before the auction. Confusingly, these are not space suits as worn by astronauts but chemical protection suits for those working with chemicals and liquid oxygen on the giant gantries that stood alongside the rockets. They were sold for $60 each and now appear on e-bay.com.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.The collapsed wafer-thin skin of a 90ft long Atlas rocket which space scientist Charles Bell bought from NASA for £10. It probably cost approximately £10m to build..The side of a 90ft long Atlas rocket that Charles Bell bought for $10 from NASA. It had been standing at Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral until a storm blew a tree into it. It is estimated these rockets cost around $10m to build at the time though they were bought at auction for $10,000.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Atlas rocket.A 90ft US Air Force Atlas rocket lies on its transporter, its wafer-thin skin still intact after years of storage. Rocket scientist Charles Bell, paid $10 for it though it is estimated that it cost $10m to build. It had been standing at Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral until a storm blew a tree into it. It is estimated these rockets cost around $10m to build at the time though they were bought at auction for $10,000.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Gantries and tracking equipment in the wasteland..Rocket gantries and tracking equipment left to rust in the back yard of NASA scientist Charles Bell. Assorted rocket paraphenalia. At the very back of the auction site, a whole jungle of Apollo and Shuttle junk was buried in the undergrowth having been forgotten there for decades. Here we see gantries and tracking (communications) structures.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Rusted generator frontage..When David Manor, Auctioneer and friend of Charles Bell, came to catologue the 'collection', he found that much of the material was of little interest: it was either too big to move or had rotted away unprotected in the open air.
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  • The rusting remains of a NASA Mercury Project-era spacecraft instrument panel awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An old 'Dumb Terminal' or desktop video display terminal (VDT) awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. This was common design theme from the 1970s: a rounded plastic shell that housed a monochrome CRT screen and integrated keyboard. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young man stops to show off his exotic pet python comfortably wrapped aroud his shoulder in Miami, Florida.
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  • Passengers enjoy the night entertainment of disco dancing, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • A lady wearing a bikini sunbathes on her vacation ship's upper deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Young women at the poolside are watched by older men, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Comic entertainer with glitzy backdrop performs a stand-up routine on stage during cruise ship voyage.
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  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Passengers enjoy the sea view from their vacation ship's deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Passengers order cocktails from a black waiter on a vacation ship's upper deck, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • A couple cuddle at the Neon Bar on the cruise ship Ecstasy, en-route from Miami to Cancun in Mexico, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida, USA. The Neon Bar features an enormous circular piano which doubles as a bar for those who like to sing along and neon artwork is lit behind the females, one the shape of another cocktail glass. Carnival’s ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
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  • 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
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