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  • Young Nepali boys watch how to perform sit-ups in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas02-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A trio of elder ladies dressed in whites watch a younger club member demonstate how to play bowls on a perfect London lawn
    bowls_ladies01-20-07-1993.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
    lifeguard_exercise-19-07-1993.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. A Social Distance Ambassador's arm and gloved hands lean on a railing of a tent that demonstrates hand washing hygiene advice, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-50-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. A Social Distance Ambassador's arm and gloved hands lean on a railing of a tent that demonstrates hand washing hygiene advice, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-47-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. A Social Distance Ambassador's arm and gloved hands lean on a railing of a tent that demonstrates hand washing hygiene advice, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-49-02-07-2020.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise recover position and resuscitation to volunteer victim on beach.
    lifeguard_rescue01-19-07-1993.jpg
  • While crowds wave Union Jack flags a re-enactment soldier shows a youngster wearing a WW2 costume how to use a Thompson sub-machine gun - remembering the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being...
    VE_day_anniversary07-06-05-1995.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. A Social Distance Ambassador's arm and gloved hands lean on a railing of a tent that demonstrates hand washing hygiene advice, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-48-02-07-2020.jpg
  • A close-up detail of one of the British Airways' self-check-in kiosks in international check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. A welcome message reads 'Hello, please check in here' and to the right is a guide for cabin baggage size allowance. The self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport1260-16-08-2009.jpg
  • Book covers and spines on shelf at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
    buddhist_retreat51-27-06-2010.jpg
  • A young magician performs a levitation trick using a lady assistant, in front of a crowd in Covent Garden's Piazza, London. Saying abracadabra or a similar explanation to wow his surrounding audience, the man stands beneath the raised woman, lying horizontally in mid-air. Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact.
    street_magician-08-10-1998.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-01-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-04-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Two film location technicians struggle to fold away a background\reflector screen in front of St. Paul's cathedral, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-53-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-05-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-03-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-02-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Looking skyward is a USAF pilot learning how to vector in a potential helicopter rescue as part of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man has been taught to use a special escape and evasion (E &E) techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the crewman has let off a red smoke canister to mark his location for the friendly aircraft to see.
    usaf_survival002-06-08-1995.jpg
  • Members of the campaign to save nearby Carnegie Library in Herne Hill and closed by Lambeth council, organise a pop-up library and party in Ruskin Park, SE24 on 21st June 2016, in south London, United Kingdom. Shut since 31st March, children, the elderly and other adult groups have been prevented from using the building uphill from this location as Lambeth decide how to use the public space, bequeathed to the community by philanthropist, Andrew carnegie in 1911. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    carnegie_popup-03-21-06-2016.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-18-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-03-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-01-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, and EU flag catches the face of a passer-by outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-13-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-05-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-04-28-03-2019.jpg
  • Employees learn how to connect at a corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel, Docklands.
    Ernst+Young_Academy67-21-09-2007.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer's Union Jack tie and badge outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-19-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-06-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-02-28-03-2019.jpg
  • With a blindfolded trainer, a young Labrador dog learns how to negotiate obstructions and hazards as part of its training as a guide dog. There are around 5,000 working guide dogs in the UK today, though the Guide Dogs charity care for around 8,000 dogs, including breeding stock, puppies, dogs in training and retired dogs.
    guide_dog01-09-06-1997.jpg
  • A group of American interior design students sketch buildings adjacent while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. The small class is made up mostly of young women and there is a young man who is apparently teaching one woman how to capture the finer points of the architecture opposite. They all have sketchpads on their laps and are either looking into the distance, memorising the landscapes - or using pencils to reproduce these features on to paper. Florence and other Italian cities are full of young Americans studying music and painting, art and design, completing and complimenting US-based courses often as foreign exchange students or as residential terms.
    florence_italy39-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Squadron Leader John Green the executive officer of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, instructs a group of RAF fighter pilots in the art of manual close-formation aerobatic flying. Explaining how to line up their aircraft with their nearest neighbour using a system called 'referencing', he shows them with his fingers the margin of error that is tolerated when only 12ft (3-4m) apart and flying at 400mph (650kph).  The recruits all hope to be selected for next year's team and have travelled to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus where the Red Arrows complete their pre-season training. Seen from beneath the Hawk jet aircraft's nose on the 'line' Squadron Leader Green kneels by the trailing wing edge to demonstrate what he will expect from their upcoming flying test.
    Red_Arrows305_RBA.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-08-28-03-2019.jpg
  • Members of the campaign to save nearby Carnegie Library in Herne Hill and closed by Lambeth council, organise a pop-up library and party in Ruskin Park, SE24 on 21st June 2016, in south London, United Kingdom. Local players improvise folk tunes in summer sunshine after their library was shut since 31st March. Children, the elderly and other adult groups have been prevented from using the building uphill from this location as Lambeth decide how to use the public space, bequeathed to the community by philanthropist, Andrew carnegie in 1911. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    carnegie_popup-05-21-06-2016.jpg
  • Looking down into a steep-sided valley, Distant streets and working-class terraced homes are beyond smoking chimneys from a Furnacite coking plant at Abercwmboi. Once known as the worst polluter in Britain it was owned by the National Coal Board (NCB) and sold to the Welsh Development Asoociation (WDA) for £1 Pound though arguments are still raging about how to clear it up and cleanup estimates range from £15-£20 million. The pollution had cruel effects on the local population. It made smokeless coal and locals joked that the plant took the smoke out and dumped it on the Cynon Valley but there was concern about toxic waste dumped in the village after the plant's closure and some suffered birth defects. Ironically, the plant was closed because of environmental considerations.
    abercwmboi_furnacite001-26-05-1989.jpg
  • "One candle." A family are gathered to celebrate the first birthday of a young child, the back garden of her parent's south London home. The birthday girl reaches out to touch the single lit candle on a chocolate log cake while her grandmother and mother both show her how to blow and extinguish the flame instead. Friends and relatives are sat around the garden on a perfect late-summer afternoon, drinking and laughing on this joyous occasion, a milestone in the first year of any young life. 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_ella24-20-04-1995.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer's Union Jack tie and badge outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-21-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-16-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-15-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, and EU flag catches the face of a passer-by outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-14-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-12-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, EU and Union Jack flags fly outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-07-28-03-2019.jpg
  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    brexit_protest-17-28-03-2019.jpg
  • A long-distance lorry is parked at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. With round wheels echoing the circles of oranges, long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. Transporting refrigerated perishable foodstuffs, these lorries are ever-present on the nation's motorways and A-roads, plying back and forth to re-supply the supermarkets. Food orders are conveyed with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked..
    sainsburys_depot123-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Two fishermen return to their home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Isle of Mull. Looking towards the quay that will receive their boat called Prospector and where they are to unload their catch of shrimp, one man is the skipper and he steers the vessel from the wheelhouse while his partner at sea, wears chest-high waders and matching rubber gloves that can handle fish and sea creatures they drag up from the Atlantic waters. The boat has its identifying letters and number on its hull TT25 as well as on the life-ring it carries by law. The men probably support their families and so are the breadwinners - their livelihoods dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week. But they are safe after a period at sea and appear happy to have returned with a catch to sell.
    fishermen01-18-07-1993.jpg
  • Two fishermen return to their home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre. Looking towards the quay that will receive their boat called Prospector and where they are to unload their catch of shrimp, one man is the skipper and he steers the vessel from the wheelhouse while his partner at sea, wears chest-high waders and matching rubber gloves that can handle fish and sea creatures they drag up from the Atlantic waters. The boat has its identifying letters and number on its hull TT25 as well as on the life-ring it carries by law. The men probably support their families and so are the breadwinners - their livelihoods dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week. But they are safe after a period at sea and appear happy to have returned with a catch to sell.
    fishing_community02-18-07-1993.jpg
  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan14-21-03-2012.jpg
  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan12-21-03-2012.jpg
  • A contractor hangs from the roof to position a banner for a new exhibition of the artist Kader Attia, of the Hayward Gallery on the Southbank, on 7th May 2019, in London, England. Kadar Attia works, "In sculptures, installations, collages, videos and photographs that move ‘back and forth between politics and poetry’, Attia inventively explores the ways in which colonialism continues to shape how Western societies."
    bus_journey-05-07-05-2019.jpg
  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, demonstrates the Corkscrew manoeuvre to his group of pilots and visitors in the briefing room at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Using two scaled model Hawk jet aircraft he shows how their formation is to be flown on their next training flight. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
    Red_Arrows354_RBA.jpg
  • Crew room classroom of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Using two scaled model Hawk jet aircraft he shows how their formation is to be flown on their next training flight. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
    Red_Arrows767_RBA.jpg
  • A contractor hangs from the roof to position a banner for a new exhibition of the artist Kader Attia, of the Hayward Gallery on the Southbank, on 7th May 2019, in London, England. Kadar Attia works, "In sculptures, installations, collages, videos and photographs that move ‘back and forth between politics and poetry’, Attia inventively explores the ways in which colonialism continues to shape how Western societies."
    bus_journey-07-07-05-2019.jpg
  • We see four office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Several figures who are also reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, carrying a bag or briefcase but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous becase we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. This is due to telephoto lens forshortening. Some therefore look giants and some appear tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..
    four_silhouettes01-18-05-1995.jpg
  • Seen from a high viewpoint, we overlook loading of roll cages at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. This is the largest of 10 distribution centres using an automated ordering system for receiving food direct from suppliers by truck through 170 dock doors. Long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. The temperature is just above freezing point in a series of chill, ambient and frozen chambers. Real-time ordering means that stores can obtain requested stock within hours. Food orders are conveyed (at 2 meters a second) with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked....
    sainsburys_depot054-09-05-2007.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
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, a museum employee positions a poster for the annual LGBT Pride event at the Pace gallery in the Royal Academy. Pride 2020 has been cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions are expected to ease for art galleries like the RA, with plans to re-open on 4th July. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-03-26-06-2020.jpg
  • We see four office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Several figures who are also reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, carrying a bag or briefcase but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous becase we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. This is due to telephoto lens forshortening. Some therefore look giants and some appear tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
    two_silhouettes01-18-05-1995.jpg
  • Two young women walk past the entrance of London's Bank underground station whose steps go downwards from street level. As they pass the exit, a bus also drives through the gap of what we see on the road. The words 'How She Does It' refers to the Hollywood film titled "I Don't Know How She Does It" adapted from Allison Pearson's 2002 novel about a woman who "has it all". The steps of the underground station come downwards towards us with brass polished rails. Bank station, named after the Bank of England, opened in 1900 and is served by the Central, Northern and Waterloo and City lines, and the Docklands Light Railway.
    city_doorway3-23-09-2011.jpg
  • Boxes of Scottish shrimp lies on the ground in at Tarbert, Mull of Kintyre, Argyll & Bute, Scotland UK. The boxful of freshly-caught shrimp has been landed on the quayside of this quiet community in the western Isles. The trawlermen fish around the Scottish western isles on the edge of the Atlantic in a well-maintained boat that helps him make his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community07-18-07-1993.jpg
  • Firefighter from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to give a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo20-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo16-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo14-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo15-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Safety and rescue equipment belonging to the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team who gave a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo36-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A violinist and cellist play opposite the UK parliament to protest against Brexit and how musicians will be hampered as they travel around the EU for concerts and performances, on 10th January 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_musicians-02-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The character known as Pandemonia is part-parody, a living sculpture and fine artist who is leaving a London Fashion show at Somerset House during London Fashion Week. Writing about herself at www.pandemonia99.com she writes that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."bike.
    pandemonia1-21-09-2011.jpg
  • The character known as Pandemonia is part-parody, a living sculpture and fine artist who is leaving a London Fashion show at Somerset House during London Fashion Week. Writing about herself at www.pandemonia99.com she writes that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."bike.
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  • The character known as Pandemonia, part-parody, living sculpture and fine artist leaves a London fashion show in a London taxi cab during Fashion Week. Writing about herself at www.pandemonia99.com she writes that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."
    pandemonia5-21-09-2011.jpg
  • The character known as Pandemonia, part-parody, living sculpture and fine artist leaves a London fashion show in a London taxi cab during Fashion Week. Writing about herself at www.pandemonia99.com she writes that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."
    pandemonia8-21-09-2011.jpg
  • A detail of a 1930s house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Well-painted white woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 90 years old. The property is shown as Essex House with the date of its construction as 1936. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
    essex_house02-12-06-1992.jpg
  • In mid-flight over Greater London, we see a passenger?s view of a turning airliner's wing and the capital's dusk landscape below at a low altitude. As the starboard (right) wing dips, the Virgin Atlantic Airbus banks and a long exposure blurs the city lights below. A small curved portion of the passenger window, red engines and the Union Jack colours are seen. As 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. .
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  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends ignore lockdown rules when greeting each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-06-26-06-2020.jpg
  • On a dark evening in the Welsh countryside eight ventilated hemispherical glasshouses called Solardomes have been 'painted' with gels and with coloured flash strobes while a torch has streaked whiter light in this scientific facility. Replicating climate change and its effects on plant-life, this experiment run by the University of Aberystwyth has run for 20 years, its research being invaluable to our understanding how rising levels of greenhouse gases (CO2) will affect photosynthesis and therefore plant food growth. By increasing the levels of such gasseous pollutants are we now more sure of how the biology in seminatural grasslands alters. Glowing red, the Solardomes sit like futuristic houses on another planet. Surrounding hills are dark on this evening but there is still detail in the fast-fading sky. ..
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  • A two and half year-old girl watches her mother bath her baby brother in the bathroom of her South London home. She looks down at the correct technique that her mum uses by supporting his head with a hand, ensuring the child does not slip further into the warm bath water, the way that many babies drown in even shallow water. Such maternal instincts is how even young children learn to mother and care for their own children in later life, From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, demonstrates the Corkscrew manoeuvre to his group of pilots and visitors in the briefing room at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Using two scaled model Hawk jet aircraft he shows how their formation is to be flown on their next training flight. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
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  • We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall  of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag  but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because  we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a  giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..
    RB_078-18-05-1995.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends ignore lockdown rules when greeting each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-08-26-06-2020.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends greet each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-07-26-06-2020.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, a museum employee positions a poster for the annual LGBT Pride event at the Pace gallery in the Royal Academy. Pride 2020 has been cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions are expected to ease for art galleries like the RA, with plans to re-open on 4th July. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-04-26-06-2020.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolitan police officer helps an Asian lady citizen outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other communities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society. Pointing out direction to help the lady find her way, the officer proudly wears his turban of his religion.
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  • A local delivery van full of gas cylinders struggles to round an uphill corner in central Lisbon, Portugal. The narrow streets, not designed for heavy traffic, still do not accommodate smaller vehicles. A tram waits for the obstructing truck to clear the tracks and rails and onlookers stop to see how the driver manages to get round without spilling its dangerous cargo.
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  • A fisherman returns to his home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre, a quiet community in the western Isles. Looking towards the quay that will receive his boat called Prospector and where he is to unload their catch of shrimp. The man is probably the breadwinner who supports the family - his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much fishermen are allowed to catch per day/per week. But he is safe after a period at sea and appear happy to have returned with a catch to sell.
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  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
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  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
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  • A long-distance lorry is parked at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. With round wheels echoing the circles of oranges, long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. Transporting refrigerated perishable foodstuffs, these lorries are ever-present on the nation's motorways and A roads, plying back and forth to re-supply the supermarkets. Food orders are conveyed with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked..
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  • 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
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, a man walks with his dog outsie the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions are expected to ease for art galleries like the RA, with plans to re-open on 4th July. Venues reopening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-05-26-06-2020.jpg
  • The fine art character known as Pandemonia (part parody and living) is handed a free magazine featuring a model's eye on the cover on the first day of London Fashion Week, in the Strand, on 16th february 2018, in London, England. Pandemonia states  that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."
    london_fashion-16-16-02-2018.jpg
  • Two women holding the Iraqi flag shout their disapproval for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the day that the Chilcott Enquiry into how Britain went to war with the US in Iraq, was published.
    chilcot_protest-01-06-07-2016.jpg
  • A detail of a Victorian house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Ornate blue painted woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 100 years old. The name of the property reads as Essex House and the date of its construction as 1896. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
    essex_house01-12-06-1992.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo21-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo18-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to demonstrate how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo13-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Firefighter from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team using a using a Holmatro dedicated cutter to give a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo08-14-05-2013.jpg
  • With his home village seen in the background across the bay, a fishermen unloads his catch of Scottish shrimp watched by an elderly gent in at Tarbert, Mull of Kintyre, Argyll & Bute, Scotland UK.. The boxful of freshly-caught shrimp is being landed on the quayside of this quiet community in the western Isles. The trawlerman fishes around the Scottish western isles on the edge of the Atlantic in a well-maintained boat that helps him make his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community06-18-07-1993.jpg
  • With his boat in the background, a fishermen repairs his nets on the quayside after a night at sea in Tarbert, Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, a quiet community in the western Isles. The trawlerman fishes around the Scottish western isles on the edge of the Atlantic in a well-maintained boat that helps him make his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community05-18-07-1993.jpg
  • A fishermen looks at rope, nets and tackle in his home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre, a quiet community in the western Isles. Inhaling on his pipe, the middle-aged man is surrounded by the equipment that keeps his fishing business at sea to prive him with a livelihood. The boat is rusty, having seen many miles on inland seas around the western isles, the edge of the Atlantic, dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community04-18-07-1993.jpg
  • We see four office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Several figures who are also reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, carrying a bag or briefcase but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous becase we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. This is due to telephoto lens forshortening. Some therefore look giants and some appear tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
    two_silhouettes02-18-05-1995.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolital police officer stands outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other commnities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society
    RB_119-21-04-1989.jpg
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