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  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world's population. 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_corbis14-17-08-1997.jpg
  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world?s population. 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_corbis14-17-08-1997.jpg
  • A discarded ironing board with a grinning face leans awaiting refuse collection
    ironing_board01-16-12-2014.jpg
  • Sisters sit in identical poses on sea wall benches on Blackpool's Promenade.
    promenade_sisters01-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Two male smokers stand chatting outside their University building, seen from top deck of a London bus.
    bus_view04-16-02-2011.jpg
  • Two men smoke cigarettes in a London restaurant in the era of public, indoor smoking.
    smoking_men01-16-07-2002.jpg
  • Dropped or discarded passport portrait of an Italian man lies on the ground next to a smoked cigarette butt.
    florence_italy119-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Pedestrian and cyclist on rental Boris Bike in a Soho side-street, pattened with purple.
    purple_street04-06-10-2010.jpg
  • England World Cup football fans watch their team's opening match on TV in Soho.
    england_fans01-12-06-2010.jpg
  • The fishing fleet of Tarbert on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre lies moored at the dock of this pretty coastal village in the Western Isles. Their colourful hulls shine in late afternoon sunshine as they are tied up awaiting another outing at sea to provide for this small fishing community a living and a livelihood for its families. But in the foreground sit a young couple whose prospects are not so positive: they rest on a bench in silhouette, one smoking a cigarette while turned to the friend who stares out to distant rolling hills. It is a scene of hopelessness that reflects modern life for the youth in remote communities where jobs are scarce and their futures far from secure. In an otherwise idyllic Scottish landscape, we guess at the disintegration of society up here - the scourge of economic downturn and future social problems.
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  • Four office workers are outside their place of employment in central London for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on their fags that have sought a dark place on the pavement beneath some shelter although it is warm enough for two of the men to wear only shirts and ties while the only lady present is in a jumper. One member of the group draws heavily on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A recent report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their  workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
    smokers02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A young office worker wearing a dark suit stands outside his place of work in a sunny Trinity Square in the City of London, for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on his fag n the pavement outside beneath the huge supporting pillars of this financial institution. He draws on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
    RB_082-18-06-2005.jpg
  • Having just unearthed more bodies from layers of volcanic ash and pumice, an archaeologist's assistant pauses for a cigarette, kneeling beside a victim of the AD79 eruption of Mount Versuvius over the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Buried beneath huge amounts of toxic material this person was suffocated and crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be removed from this site on top of a villa roof where, it is calculated, this citizen was one of the last to die, having climbed 4 metres above ground level to await its fate. The Italian man ears a red t-shirt and holds a pick that has scraped and brushed away the soil to reveal the human form which also shows another body beneath. Others litter the rooftop too proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
    pompeii03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • 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 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.
    miami_beach06-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • As a Virgin jet takes off overhead, airline employees stop for a cigarette break near the smoking shelter at Heathrow's T5.
    heathrow_airport748-22-07-2009.jpg
  • The legs of anonymous airline employees are seen from below a smoking screen that obscures their faces outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building. In afternoon sunshine, the women wear their airline uniforms and are sharing an off-duty puff on their cigarettes as part of their working shift at this international aviation hub. Without seeing their upper-bodies, we imagine their conversation and gossip. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1058-11-08-2009.jpg
  • A Maldivian crew rest before a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives262-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Holding her doll, a young white child wearing a pink dress explores the Délice Restaurant in old Kourou, French Guiana, South America. The daughter of French parents who are in this French-administered colony in connection with the nearby European Space Agency (ESA). The girl is confident enough to leave her parents' side and appear in an open doorway. On the other side of the wall is a giant brightly-painted mural depicting a more traditional side of life in this tropical country. The word Guyane is the French name for Guiana. A female in national costume stands near a palm tree, local produce and vegetation. Meanwhile a dark-skinned Creole man sits on a stool smoking a cigarette chatting to unseen friends - a barfly occupying his usual lunchtime seat. It is a scene of internationalism, cross-culture and youth versus old age. .
    esa_guiana20415-08-2007.jpg
  • Still in the era of being able to smoke inside public places, an elderly gentleman extinguishes his match by waving it in the air to blow out the flame, exhaling and listening to a fellow-drinker in a Newport pub in south Wales. Clouds of smoke can be seen as they waft against the back light that filters through the windows of this smoky bar in the town centre. Pints of bitter are on the table in front of them and ash trays with used butts. The scene is of an industrial town's pub for working men where language is sharp and there is talk of realities of hard lives.
    pub_smokers-25-01-1986.jpg
  • A gentleman dressed in a pin-stripe suit favoured by older workers in England, exhales the smoke from a fat cigar during a lunch-hour in Trinity Square in the City of London. The man is overweight and leads an unhealthy lifestyle, his chin overlapping his striped shirt. The cigar is held at the tips of two fingers and we can see in profile the billowing of a smoky cloud  from the man's lips. Government statistics suggest that in 2001, 27% of adults aged 16 and over smoked cigarettes in England; 28% of men and 25% of women. 66% of smokers in England wanted to give up smoking but more than 120,000 deaths were caused by smoking in the UK in 1995; that is, one in five of all deaths.
    smokers06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Whilst one spectator cranes her neck skyward, another is oblivious to an air show spectacle above their heads. One looks up into the sun, shielding her eyes with a hand and outstretched fingers but the other concentrates on lighting her cigarette with a match. Unseen in this picture, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are performing high in the blue skies above the public on West Greensward, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. In front of the seaside town's brightly coloured red and yellow Lifeguard Station, the two ladies have different interests in the aerobatic manoeuvres. The Red Arrows' 25-minute display either captivates some or bores others although they can be seen upwards of 90-plus shows and fly-pasts each year in front of several millions live or on TV. They have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows618_RBA.jpg
  • On a rainy night, a young female smokes under a heated, sheltered smokers' zone outside a bar in London
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  • Seen from slightly behind, a young woman stands taking shelter from early evening rain in Goodge Street, London England. Holding a lit cigarette in her left hand and with an unused ashtray to her right, she is chatting with friends who are also enjoying a relaxing hour after work. Under the UK Government's recent laws on smoking in public places, the work mates are forced outside the pub to smoke on the street in a special area away from the anti-smoking people indoors. Lit by glowing red lights that also provide warmth on this chilly January night, the friends are comfortable in their own company.
    electricity113-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • Using a tabloid newspaper, a father seeks shelter from sunshine while sitting in a council deck chair. On the front page of the paper is a headline saying "Butchered' showing a picture of an unfortunate young 3 year-old boy murdered by a maniac axeman. Close-by is the man's own son who is digging a hole furiously in the sand. He looks uncannily like a slightly older version of the murdered boy. This coincidence is heightened because of the body-language of the digging lad, seemingly about to chop an unseen object with his red spade. Both man and boy are on holiday at the northern English seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire and they are otherwise having a great time on South Beach, near the Grand Hotel building, high up on the cliff.
    england_beach03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Looking down on office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market. In the foreground a man in a dark suit has taken off his jacket and is lying down to complete his Financial Times (FT) crossword. Nearby, a lady and man are sitting eating a packed lunch. The City, is the historic financial core of London from which the modern conurbation grew and its one square mile (2.6 km) boundary has remained constant since the Middle Ages.
    finsbury_sheep_people-08-03-2007.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', a man wearing a surgical mask passes-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-14-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', a man wearing a surgical mask passes-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-15-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-21-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-19-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-18-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-09-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-02-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', a woman wearing a surgical mask passes-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-16-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-20-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines outside Embankment Underground station, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-17-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Charing Cross in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-13-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Charing Cross in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-12-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Charing Cross in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-11-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', A London bus drives past Evening Standard headlines at Charing Cross in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-10-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-07-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-08-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-05-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', a pile of Evening Standard newspapers await readers at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-06-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-04-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-03-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with health authorities reporting cases rising from 25 to 87 in a single day, and resulting in the UK's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty announcing that an epidemic in the UK was 'highly likely', elderly Londoners pass-by Evening Standard headlines at Victoria in central London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus-01-04-03-2020.jpg
  • A family wedding party stands for a historical photo at the bottom of the steps on 24th April 1962 , in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK.
    wedding_group-24-04-1962.jpg
  • A woman checks herself after sitting beneath the statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, with a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-08-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, of a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-06-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, of a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-05-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-26-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-20-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump is carried to the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-19-12-01-2018.jpg
  • Outgoing US President George W Bush and wife Laura wave farewell from the steps of Air Force one over the empty tables of an expatriate US citizens and 'Democrats Abroad' party before  party-goers arrive to celebrate the inaugurations of Barack Obama as the United States' 44th President, after his Nov 08 election victory as America's first African American Commander in Chief. The location is The Royal Lancaster Hotel in central London, England. Similar events were held by Democrats Abroad around the world but in England, Obama's election to the White House excited Britain's political and cultural landscape during a deep economic recession. .
    obama_inauguration13-20-01_2009.jpg
  • Standing with a mother and child and in a recreation of the Oval Office, the waxwork figure of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama stands in London's Madame Tussauds waxwork museum on the day of his inauguration. Long before the actual election took place, models of both Obama and political opponent, John McCain were researched from thousands of photographs and 500 body measurements and prepared from clay, taking 20 dedicated sculptors 4 months to prepare. Only the eventual victor was completed using wax and real organic hair. On Obama's inauguration day, US citizens were allowed free entry to the museum which is now Britain's most visited tourist attraction.
    obama_inauguration04-20-01_2009.jpg
  • Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States sits on his throne watching over this nation's capital as a tourist is dwarfed in scale beneath. Strong but low orange light pours through the East-facing entrance. The Lincoln Memorial stands at the west end of the National Mall as a neoclassical monument to the 16th President. Designed by Henry Bacon, it stands almost 100 feet high, surrounded by 36 massive fluted columns, each 37 feet (10 m) high. The actual statue of Lincoln is 19 feet high and weighs 175 tons.
    lincoln_memorial01.jpg
  • A woman checks herself after sitting beneath the statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, with a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-07-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, of a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-03-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, of a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-04-10-01-2019.jpg
  • A couple and the statue of British Victorian philosopher John Locke (by William Theed) and a modern sculpture by Renzo Piano, of a full-size fibreglass reproduction of a 'gerberette', one of the die-cast rocker beams that cantilever from Paris' Georges Pompidou building, on 10th January 2019, in London, England. British philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) whose effigies are by William Theed, also known as William Theed, the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891) an English sculptor whose services were extensively used by the Royal Family.
    new_art-02-10-01-2019.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump is carried to the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-38-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-35-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-36-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-34-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
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  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
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  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-29-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-27-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-24-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-23-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-22-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-21-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump is carried to the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-18-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump is carried to the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-17-12-01-2018.jpg
  • The waxwork of Donald Trump is carried to the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
    US_embassy-16-12-01-2018.jpg
  • Giant model of artist Yakoi Kusama whose collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Selfridges whose red campaign theme accompanies a life size model of the artist in the department store windows and Oxford Street entrance.
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  • Giant model of artist Yakoi Kusama whose collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Selfridges whose red campaign theme accompanies a life size model of the artist in the department store windows and Oxford Street entrance.
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  • Elderly members of expatriate US citizens and 'Democrats Abroad' party supporters talk in an empty ballroom before others arrive to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the United States' 44th President, after his Nov 08 election victory as America's first African American Commander in Chief. The location is The Royal Lancaster Hotel in central London, England. Similar events were held by Democrats Abroad around the world but in England, Obama's election to the White House excited Britain's political and cultural landscape during a deep economic recession. .
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  • Standing in a recreation of the Oval Office, the waxwork figure of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama stands in London's Madame Tussauds waxwork museum on the day of his inauguration. Long before the actual election took place, models of both Obama and political opponent, John McCain were researched from thousands of photographs and 500 body measurements and prepared from clay, taking 20 dedicated sculptors 4 months to prepare. On the eventual victor was completed using wax and real organic hair. Only Obama's inauguration day, US citizens were allowed free entry to the museum which is now Britain's most visited tourist attraction.
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  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
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  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Waxwork figure of the US President Barack Obama stands with a mother and child in London?s Madame Tussauds museum.
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  • The waxwork of Donald Trump stands outside the US Embassy at Nine Elms in south London on the day when the President announced on Twitter, his refusal to visit London and open the new state premises after its historic move from Grosvenor Square, on 12th January 2018, in London, England. The waxwork is the property of Madame Tussauds and took a team of 20 artists 4 months to create, going on display on the day of his inauguration in 2017. It is valued at £150,000.
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  • A four year-old girl plays some sort of religious role-play game - perhaps an angel or the Virgin Mary - but what do see is her age of innocence as she wears an NHS blanket like a shawl over her head and draped over her arms like a Christian icon. Next to her is her 18 month-old baby brother who has learned to drink his warm milk from a plastic bottle, recently coming to like both breast and formula milk. Together they look at something that is interesting out of frame. The viewer looks up at the two siblings from a low angle to see them tall against the corniced ceiling of their South London home. 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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  • With his face reflected in the musical instrument's bell, a trombonist plays on stage with a jazz orchestra...The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. The trombone is usually characterised by a telescopic slide with which the player varies the length of the tube to change pitches, although the valve trombone uses three valves like those on a trumpet. The word trombone derives from Italian tromba
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  • A Weightwatchers club of ladies all hoping to lose a few Pounds line up at the scales during one of their weekly sessions in London. With her hands on generous hips, a woman wearing a red dress stands as a leader of the evening makes her calculations. Much depends on the womens' success to reach their individual targets - the ethos in Weightwatchers being to reward the good. As they say of their ProPoints plan: ".. it is a fantastic counting system that allows you to eat what you like, when you like, until you reach your daily total. It guides you to make healthier food choices, eating more of the things that are good for you and for weight loss, and less of the things that aren't."
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  • As his mother washes clothes in a communal spring below, a young boy of about 9 years of age stands on a track in the Himalayan foothills near the town of Gorkha. Here, the British army traditionally recruits young men for the Gurkha regiment (as they have done since 1857). The lad is wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt and like many in this region - even is sub-zero temperatures - flip-flops. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. The prospects for this child may mean they will in future, if the army has no place for him, he may try to seek work in cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture, as can be seen in the valley below. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from these tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • The beautiful landscape of Loch Garry (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Garadhin) Glengarry is seen as a late sun sinks below the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, near Invergarry. In  the foreground we see the foliage of trees of Glengarry Forest that hug the Loch (Lake) and the Western hills in the far distance are near Loch Quoich. Glinting off the near-still fresh water's surface, the pools of shadow and highlights of the sun reflect like a mirror while approaching rain clouds lie across the top on the image like a blanket of bad weather coming soon to this peaceful and unspoilt place. Glengarry is one of Scotland's famous landmarks.
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • Three teenage boys bait their lines in the calm of the River Wandle, one of London's lost rivers that still meanders through inner-city London on its course from Carshalton Pond to the Thames. The three lads are reflected in the ripples of this once-polluted water which was once flushed with the toxins of industry such as tanning factories and breweries. After expensive clean-ups by local authorities, kids like these are once again able to catch trout in the way boys like them would do hundreds of years before the industrial revolutiion fouled many a water course. It is a perfect later-summer afternoon and the sun is shining on waterside reeds and grasses making this a scene of idyllic boyhood and undusturbed lazy dreams.
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  • Wearing a large green helmet with the number 26 painted on the front, a worried-looking black soldier recruit gazes into the distance in front of a white army  instructor at the large Garrison at Catterick, England. Here, the Parachute Regiment (The Paras) - hold part of their famous basic training programme called Pegasus (P) Company. The most notorious selection procedure in the British Army. After initial recruitment, each student is sent to either pass or fail a set of 9 events from which a total score of 90 points is possible. 58% or more passes, less fails. Events like the 18 mile Forced March followed by a further 5 miles can earn 10 points though this will inevitably prove too much for many young man, desperate to pass P Company and earn his prestigious beret (Like the Foreign Legion).
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  • The shadows of two passing locals approach the tiny Cameron-run post office hut at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We see in the foreground the freshly painted Royal Mail post box which is lit by early morning sunshine telling us that the next collection is at 2.45pm despite it being 8.50am. This branch serves the local community of this Skye town, close to the Skye Bridge and is not only a place to post letters and packages but to buy miscellaneous supplies like newspapers and food at a time when rural sub-post offices are threatened with closure by a financially-troubled Royal Mail. Small villages like this often say that the post office is the ties its folk together, acting as a nucleus for information about village life. Their closure would therefore mean that the fabric of such remote communities are in jeopardy.
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  • Joined by two pigeons to separate them, a group of Segway tourists stop to hear their guide describe the medieval and Moorish Alfama district's history, ironically next to a crowd of like-minded pedestrians, on 11th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Segway tours have become controversial additions to the European city sightseeing scene, already being banned in Barcelona and Prague. But in Portuguese cities like Lisbon and Porto, Segway travellers still share narrow and busy streets and often, pavements, with locals on foot. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • From inside a large cube, we see Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto's "Metrocubo d'Infinito" mirror installation at Palazzo Strozzi in the Medici Renaissance city of Florence. While the exterior of the cube looks like a gigantic rusty rubix-cube, inside is really a kind of infinity of self-reflection, covered entirely, floor to ceiling, in mirrors. And in the centre of the cube is another smaller cube made of grey stone. Young female visitors engage with the artwork and peer down to the floor where, just like all four walls and the ceiling, the repeating image stretches as far as the eye can focus.
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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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  • On a TV screen in Bar Italia, the famous Italian cafe in Soho, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the the UK on live TV to announce a second nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. Businesses like Bar Italia will again have to close except for takeaways, from midnight on Thursday for a period of one month.
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  • On a TV screen in Bar Italia, the famous Italian cafe in Soho, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the the UK on live TV to announce a second nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. Businesses like Bar Italia will again have to close except for takeaways, from midnight on Thursday for a period of one month.
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