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  • A broken and peeling sign warning in both the English and Welsh languages, of no parking  on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
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  • A warning sign in four languages telling sea swimmers of the dangers on this Portuguese beach that only one side is guarded by lifesavers, on 18th July 2016, Costa Nova, near Aveira, Portugal. The Portuguese, French, English and German writing should inform most of those thinking of entering the rough waters, especially with mist rolling in. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_costanova-19-18-07-2016.jpg
  • A Muslim gentleman stands outside the Met Police's Aliens Registration Office in Holborn where the languages of six foreign nations are written on its board, on 13th February 1987, in London, England.
    immigration_centre-13-02-1987.jpg
  • A mermaid in the window of a seaside business warns in both the English and Welsh languages, of the dangers of litter on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_mermaid-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Bi-lingual languages of English and Flemish in a menswear suits shop window, on 24th March 2017, in Leuven, Belgium.
    flemish_sign-02-24-03-2017.jpg
  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of non-English-speaking young people who have just arrived off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the man hold up a name board to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. With the help of a chaperone, the man points to a young girl in the hope she might be on his list. Neither speak each other's mother tongue and the language barrier is difficult to overcome. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport424-13-07-2009.jpg
  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of Chinese-speaking language students
    heathrow_airport413-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Greeting drivers await their passengers to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the men hold up name boards to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport403-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Drivers await their fares to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's T5
    heathrow_airport411-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Drivers await their fares to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's T5
    heathrow_airport407-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Pixar movie Finding Nemo Clownfishes printed on to tourist towels in a shop side street window in Male, Maldives.
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  • A local Polish building project for sale, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles.
    poland-50-16-09-2019.jpg
  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-89-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Visitors sit overlooking (Lake) Tal-Y-Llin and in the distance, the 2,928ft mountain Cader Idris, on 12th September 2018, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    tal_y_llyn-02-12-09-2018.jpg
  • A landscape from the car park overlooking (Lake) Tal-Y-Llin and in the distance, the 2,928ft mountain Cader Idris, on 12th September 2018, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    tal_y_llyn-01-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Signposts and the clocktower in Machynlleth, on 12th September 2018, in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. To celebrate the 21st birthday of Viscount Castlereagh, the townspeople subscribed to the erection (at the town's main road intersection) of the clock tower, which has become widely known as the symbol of Machynlleth. The tower, which stands on the site of the old town hall, is the first thing many visitors will notice. The foundation stone was laid on 15 July 1874.
    machynlleth-05-12-09-2018.jpg
  • The Chinese and British flags side-by-side on an exhibition stand at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    farnborough_airshow-108-16-07-2018.jpg
  • The international menu for snacks in a Slovenian herders' mountain huts in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
    slovenia-452-26-06-2018.jpg
  • Reserved parking cones are stacked outside the Intercontinental Hotel in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    slovenia-378-25-06-2018.jpg
  • Classical literature on bookshelves in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-40-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-05-17-07-2017.jpg
  • Brick Lane street sign written in English and Bangladeshi.
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  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
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  • Alongside the official portrait of a member of the Bahraini royal family, the smiling face of a blonde Dutch KLM airline girl adorns a poster in the airline's office in Bahrain airport. This European airline is showing the greatest of respect to the ruling classes in this Gulf State. Similar portraits of kings and princes are seen throughout the arab world, especially where business is being conducted and contracts being sought. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), known by its initials KLM, is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM's headquarters is in Amstelveen near its hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. KLM operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 90 destinations. It is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name.
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  • A young model's smiling face on a Total petrol advert welcomes visitors to a truck stop wall in southern Belgium
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  • Landscape on the perimeter of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-90-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Visitors sit overlooking (Lake) Tal-Y-Llin and in the distance, the 2,928ft mountain Cader Idris, on 12th September 2018, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    tal_y_llyn-04-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Visitors sit overlooking (Lake) Tal-Y-Llin and in the distance, the 2,928ft mountain Cader Idris, on 12th September 2018, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    tal_y_llyn-03-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Signposts and the clocktower in Machynlleth, on 12th September 2018, in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. To celebrate the 21st birthday of Viscount Castlereagh, the townspeople subscribed to the erection (at the town's main road intersection) of the clock tower, which has become widely known as the symbol of Machynlleth. The tower, which stands on the site of the old town hall, is the first thing many visitors will notice. The foundation stone was laid on 15 July 1874.
    machynlleth-04-12-09-2018.jpg
  • The menu below Chinese characters in the window of Wonder House, a local Chinese takeaway, its on 11th September 2018, in Ludlow, Shropshire, England UK.
    ludlow_chinese-01-11-09-2018.jpg
  • Signpost pointing down towards Barmouth's pedestrian and rail bridge on the Mawddach Estuary, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_walkway-03-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Signpost pointing down towards Barmouth's pedestrian and rail bridge on the Mawddach Estuary, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_walkway-02-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Detail of multi-language toilet signage in a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-40-18-07-2018.jpg
  • The international menu for snacks in a Slovenian herders' mountain huts in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
    slovenia-453-26-06-2018.jpg
  • A signpost forbidding entry to Slovenian military areas and a bridge near Lake Bled, on 18th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-59-18-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a faded sign alerting those who have landed in a North Sea town harbour, of the laws for bringing in animals from abroad, on 26th September 2017, in Craster, Northumberland, England.
    craster-01-26-09-2017.jpg
  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-04-17-07-2017.jpg
  • A multilingual Welcome sign at Estoril near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_estoril-04-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Hotel and hiking route signposts in rural South Tyrol, south-west of Bolzano, northern Italy.
    appiano_italy41-12-07-2015.jpg
  • South Tyrolean road sign in bi-lingual province, in a south-west Bolzano valley region.
    appiano_italy03-11-07-2015.jpg
  • A warning sign on alpine mountain top for skiers, telling them of a closed piste and of no marked and controled trail.
    closed_piste_sign01-27-01-2011.jpg
  • A lone male figure makes his way along a corridor of power in the newly-opened European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. As the new head-quarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), it is a contemporary architectural symbol of infuence and modernity. We see the man walking towards an open atrium. The viewer can see three floors though there are many more out of sight and on two of the levels there are TV screens with the stars denoting the number of member states at that time. The interior is grid-like with warm and inviting lighting, making for a productive environment in which office workers can feel comfortable when dealing with European political business.
    european_parliament01.jpg
  • A recuperating Muslim community Imam prays at the bedside of a patient who is staying on the Phyllis Friend surgical ward, Royal London Hospital, on 23rd June 1993, in Whitechapel, London England. The Royal London is one of London's oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away. Because of the cultural profile of East London, patients tend to be from many faiths, speaking many languages. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A Muslim community Imam prays at the bedside of a patient who is staying on the Phyllis Friend surgical ward, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London. They both hold out their hands in prayer and the patient puts them to his face. It is daylight behind the bed but the two men are lit by artificial light from a bulb. The Royal London is one of London's oldest, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away. Because of the cultural profile of East London, patients tend to be from many faiths, speaking many languages.
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  • A group of Jehovah's Witnesses with Spanish language pamphlets and a person stopping to tie a shoelace at Elephant & Castle, Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
    bus_views-01-26-03-2019.jpg
  • A Latino ad for a Spanish language newspaper and local fashion business at Elephant & Castle, where massive regeneration is due.
    elephant_gentrification09-27-04-2015.jpg
  • With a giant Volkswagen (VW) poster of their Lupo car in the foreground, we are viewing an aerial view of Via dei Condotti, the pedestrian street that runs west from the Spanish steps in the Italian capital, Rome. Written in the Italian language, the banner says the word Astemia which in English translates teetotaller, implying the vehicle is clean and non-polluting - in other words, zero emissions. This high viewpoint is taken from the top of the famous landmark where the height and perspective allows us to see down the street where shoppers to and fro amid the occasional vehicle crosses or is parked to make deliveries. On the corner of the poster building are balconies, terraces and the shuttered windows of apartments.
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  • Elders from the Lepcha community look at written documents during a gathering during which they celebrate their culture and language while discusing their loss of identity, on 18th June 1995, in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India. The Lepcha are also called the Rongkup meaning the children of God and the Rong, Mutunci Rongkup Rumkup "beloved children of the Rong and of God"), and Rongpa are among the indigenous peoples of Sikkim, India and number between 30,000 and 50,000. Many Lepcha are also found in western and southwestern Bhutan, Tibet, Darjeeling, the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal, and in the hills of West Bengal.
    lepcha_men-18-06-1995.jpg
  • A group of Jehovah's Witnesses with Spanish language pamphlets and a person stopping to tie a shoelace at Elephant & Castle, Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
    bus_views-02-26-03-2019.jpg
  • A Latino ad for a Spanish language newspaper and local fashion business at Elephant & Castle, where massive regeneration is due.
    elephant_gentrification10-27-04-2015.jpg
  • A Latino ad for a Spanish language newspaper and local bike business at Elephant & Castle, where massive regeneration is due.
    elephant_gentrification08-27-04-2015.jpg
  • A Latino ad for a Spanish language newspaper and local bike business at Elephant & Castle, where massive regeneration is due.
    elephant_gentrification07-27-04-2015.jpg
  • French language edition book cover of Alain de Botton's "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" containing photography by Richard Baker.
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  • Two party girls are dancing with a male friend who is apparently flirting with the girl holding a packet of cigarettes and an unlit cigarette on the far left. Their body language suggests they know each other. The lady in the middle has red hair and lips and has her eyes closed and is holding a bottle of Hooch, an alcoholic drink. The party venue is dark and chaotic and the atmosphere is energetic and lively at a club venue called Adrenaline Village in Battersea, South London.
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  • A model from the Alion Couture fashion house takes part in a street parade with horses for the benefit of the media in Kensington, central London UK. We see the lower section of a horse ramp and another horse is in the background. Seen from a low angle, both the horses hoof and her foot in red high heel shoes appear to be askew in a postural echo, when two mannerisms or body language are similar.  The light is blue because of the shadow both subjects are in but her shoes and matching short red dress appear vibrant in saturation and hue.
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  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    happy_birthday-04-06-08-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    happy_birthday-01-06-08-2018.jpg
  • Stop Trump’s Muslim ban demonstration on 4th February 2017 in London, United Kingdom. The protest was called on by Stop the War Coalition, Stand Up to Racism, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development, the Muslim Council of Britain, CND and Friends of Al-Aqsa. Thousands of demonstrators gathered to demonstrate against Trump's ban on Muslims, saying it must be opposed by all who are against racism and support basic human rights, and for Theresa May not to collude with him.
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  • Detail of a Happy Birthday message stretched across the branches of a fallen oak tree, the remnants of a birthday party in Brockwell Park, on 6th August 2018, in London, England.
    happy_birthday-03-06-08-2018.jpg
  • In an otherwise empty City of London financial district, whose workforce are largely still working from home during the second (Autumn) spike Coronavirus pandemic, the menu of a City pub is slowly being erased on a chalkboard on Fleet Street, on 5th October 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_menu01-05-10-2020.jpg
  • A man stands next to a bright yellow beach hut and waits patiently for his family to come along on the seafront promenade at Whitstable, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
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  • A man stands next to a bright yellow beach hut and waits patiently for his family to come along on the seafront promenade at Whitstable, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_beach12-18-07-2020.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Cicero's ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto." The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A London bus carrying banner advertising written in Chinese characters for the worldwide online property rental and listings site website UHOMES, and passes the columns of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in the heart of the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 11th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the Rosetta Stone in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • With the brightness of overhead lighting, a bus passenger reads a book on the top deck of a Routemaster bus in central London, on 4th December 2017, in London England.
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  • A scooter rider gets close to a traffic policeman during an altercation in the Italian capital, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy.
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  • A doubtful-looking miitary officer from an unknown foreign state (possibly Kuwait) listens to an explanation from a western genleman at the BAE Systems corporate exhibition chalet during the Farnborough Air Show, on 20th June 2002, at Farnborough, Hampshire, England.
    farnborough_officers-20-07-2002.jpg
  • Antiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles edited by Sir James Murray, line shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
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  • Antiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles edited by Sir James Murray, line shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
    british_academy-06-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Flemish First World War village memorial to local men, on 25th March, at Saint Martin of Tours Church, in Everberg, Brabant, Belgium.
    everberg_memorial-01-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Old wrought iron gates and no entry sign at the entrance of the privately-owned de Merode Castle, out of bounds for locals, on 25th March, in Everberg, Brabant, Belgium. de Merode castle was built in the 16th century and contains three separate buildings: the residence, a building for the animals, a building for employees and the stabling of carriages. Everberg is a town in the Belgian province Flemish-Brabant and is part of the municipality of Kortenberg.
    everberg_landscape-04-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Makeshift sign in Flemish warning of private property at the gates of an old estate, on 25th March, in Everberg, Brabant, Belgium.
    belgium_land-01-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Makeshift sign in Flemish warning of private property at the gates of an old estate, on 25th March, in Everberg, Brabant, Belgium.
    belgium_land-02-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Rusting wrought iron gates of private property at the entrance of an old estate, on 25th March, in Everberg, Brabant, Belgium.
    belgium_land-03-25-03-2017.jpg
  • A local politician's regional elections poster in Arabic featuring a nuclear ballistic missile, seen on a lamp post in the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Detail of a poster for Marlboro at a business selling tobacco and smoking paraphernalia in the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Workmen repair the facade of a restaurant in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • n Egyptian tourist take photos under sunlit hieroglyphs in the dark recesses of the ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple, Nile Valley, Egypt. The temple was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
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  • Egyptian women under sunlit hieroglyphs in the dark recesses of the ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple, Nile Valley, Egypt. The temple was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great  and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
    egypt185-03-03-2016.jpg
  • Hieroglyphs on columns at the ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • Hieroglyphs on the first pylon at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt48-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Hieroglyphs on the first pylon at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt47-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Hieroglyphs on the first pylon at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
    egypt46-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Portrait of a local youth on his motorbike in Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • A cock struts under the detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt28-01-03-2016.jpg
  • A cock struts under the detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt27-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Gerrard Street retailer and local shopper in London's Chinatown.
    london_chinatown04-24-02-2015.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh157-04-06-2014.jpg
  • A view in late afternoon of light illuminating a section of La Seu Cathedral while a shadow falls across a tilting cross, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. La Seu is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located on one of the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean, and was built on the site of an existing Arab mosque. The Cathedral, designed in the French Gothic style, was finished in 1601. Palma is the major city and port in the island of Mallorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma.
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  • The Parnell Monument to Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, O'Connell Street, Dublin. With an inscription written in English above his head and next to an Irish harp, we see the statue of this great Irish statesman with an arm raised. Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 – 1891) was an Irish landlord, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was one of the most important figures in 19th century Great Britain and Ireland, and was described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met.
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  • A  Chinese lady walks past the Bank of China in the City of London, Great Britain Uk
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  • The national flag hangs outside the Ecuadorian embassy in Hans Crescent, London SW1.
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  • The stencilled letters A-K sprayed on to a brick wall of a modern development in the north London of Kings Cross.
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  • Part-time employee sells loaves and cakes outside Ye Olde Bakery in Herne Hill's Railton Road, south London.
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  • The shadow of a passing pedestrian is cast over Arabic newspapers headlines on sale in a London shop.
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  • The Jewish faith Sternberg Centre, Finchley north London.
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  • Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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