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  • Faded poster showing Caucasian French adults and children in Pons, Charente-Maritime, France.
    french_family01-04-07-2014.jpg
  • By the shadows of nearby lavender, home-grown apples ripen In sunshine on a garden table, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test02-29-07-2020.jpg
  • By the shadows of nearby lavender, home-grown apples ripen In sunshine on a garden table, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test01-29-07-2020.jpg
  • By the shadows of nearby lavender, home-grown apples ripen In sunshine on a garden table, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test04-29-07-2020.jpg
  • By the shadows of nearby lavender, home-grown apples ripen In sunshine on a garden table, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test03-29-07-2020.jpg
  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997.jpg
  • Mature couple walk on London's Southbank in late afternoon.
    southbank_people07-16-09-2014.jpg
  • Mature couple walk on London's Southbank in late afternoon.
    southbank_people05-16-09-2014.jpg
  • Mature student studies in isolation in the Daniel Libeskind designed Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university49-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Mature student studies in isolation in the Daniel Libeskind designed Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university48-02-11-2010.jpg
  • A mature romantic couple kiss and cuddle in a London street.
    lovers_kiss01-03-03-2011.jpg
  • Mature student studies in isolation in the Daniel Libeskind designed Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university53-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Mature student studies in isolation in the Daniel Libeskind designed Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university51-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Mature student studies in isolation in the Daniel Libeskind designed Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university50-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Mature lady employee at British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1392-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Mature humour during British Airways check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1393-18-08-2009.jpg
  • An older businessman walks with others below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-15-10-05-2017.jpg
  • Two men walk past a fashion poster showing a fashion boy and girl and St Paul's Cathedral.
    city_people13-08-10-2013.jpg
  • 18th birthday cards mark the rite of passage, from childhood to adulthood, on a living room mantlepiece.
    18th_birthday_cards03-30-09-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot52-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot51-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot49-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot48-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot44-19-06-2013.jpg
  • Covered in flour and water, a student celebrates the end of Finals (exams)  at Oxford University
    oxford_student05-08-06-2010.jpg
  • Covered in flour and water, a student celebrates the end of Finals (exams)  at Oxford University
    oxford_student03-08-06-2010-2.jpg
  • Student from Singapore celebrates her end of Chemistry Finals (exams)  at Oxford University.
    oxford_student02-08-06-2010.jpg
  • Covered in flour and water, a student celebrates the end of Finals (exams)  at Oxford University
    oxford_student02-08-06-2010-2.jpg
  • Oxford University student lovers walk through cobbled Radcliffe Square with All Souls College right and Radcliffe Camera left.
    oxford_university18-13-04-2010.jpg
  • A baby girl is crawling on all-fours along her parents' pavement, in a suburban London back garden. Her body weight is spread on two legs and one arm while she moves along confidently, placing her other hand on the warm surface, one summer day. The infant is a approximately 10 months and is gaining strength from her legs which will soon be strong enough to stand and eventually walk. The summer sun is on her back and the shadow of garden chair furniture is on the path alongside her. She has a contented expression on her face as if her little adventure in a big outside, wider world is for her to explore.
    ella_baby10-30-08-2007.jpg
  • An older businessman walks with another wearing a flat cap below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-29-10-05-2017.jpg
  • A couple climb steps next to the shadows of other anonymous people on a wall in Southwark, on the south side of London Bridge.
    steps_shadows02-17-10-2013.jpg
  • A couple walk past a fashion poster showing a fashion boy and girl and St Paul's Cathedral.
    city_people12-08-10-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot50-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot47-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A womens' daytrip group from Wales enjoy a summer's morning, hours before horse racing starts during the annual Royal Ascot festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot46-19-06-2013.jpg
  • An young infant girl paints her own hand red as she plays with water paints in her back garden, London.
    ella_baby18-30-08-2007.jpg
  • Covered in flour and water, a student celebrates the end of Finals (exams)  at Oxford University
    oxford_student04-08-06-2010.jpg
  • Student from Singapore celebrates her end of Chemistry Finals (exams)  at Oxford University.
    oxford_student03-08-06-2010.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled "The World Turned Upside Down', new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics (LSE), on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. 'The World Turned Upside Down' is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-01-22-07-2019.jpg
  • The friends of a young 13 year-old Jewish boy help celebrate his coming-of-age at his bar bar mitzvah party, on 12th February 2001, in London, England.
    barmitzvah_boy-12-02-2001_1.jpg
  • Following the attack on a group of Muslim men outside the Finsbury Park mosque which killed one person and seriously injured another ten, schoolgirls holding anti-racism and anti-terrorism messages are interviewed by the media, on 19th June 2017, in the borough of Islington, north London, England.
    finsbury_park_islamophobia-20-19-06-...jpg
  • City workers walk past Evening Standards with Prime Minister Theresa May on the front page, asking the nation to trust her and yesterday's snap election announcement, outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capital's financial district, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-32-19-04-2017.jpg
  • Spring growth on ash trees in Ruskin Park, a south London public space in Lambeth and Southwark.
    ruskin_park03-12-04-2012.jpg
  • Young man in his early-fifties street portrait with moustache.
    moustache_men22-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • An elderly lady makes her way from her community village Memorial Hall which she has been volunteering this winter morning as part of a charity funds raising event. The lady might be old and frail but her spirit is such that she still finds the time to integrate into community life and remains active despite her years. Walking beneath the wrought-iron sign in Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire, she edges under tentatively to make her way home wearing a quilted coat and her wedding ring on her gnarled hands. A chilly late-morning sun shines across the architecture of the building and this is the look of a lady happy with her morning's activities with fellow parishioners.
    village_hall11-18-1995.jpg
  • Awaiting the visit from his local country doctor to pay him a visit to his remote French farmhouse, an elderly gentleman sits alone in his favourite armchair. Uncertain what the future may hold, the man is old and frail and he looks down to the floor of this front room with worry across his face. He is suffering from cancer and may not live long but the presence of another human being, especially a doctor, is a small comfort from. Someone to share his concerns with and to seek advice from this terminal condition. It is a bright summer morning but even with the sun, it's a gloomy part of the house in which he lives alone.
    french_elderly10-16-1997.jpg
  • "First shoes in Wales." An eleven month-old infant tries to walk in her first pair of proper rigid shoes whilst on holiday in Snowdonia, North Wales UK. Tentatively taking a few unconfident steps the young girl  cries out in surprise, almost falling over. Her mother instinctively grabs her coat hood before she topples into into the pebbles and soft mud of a river bed which would soil her clean clothes. We see a mother preventing her daughter from getting dirty and from hurting herself, a fast reaction to stop injury on a small child. 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_ella22-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "On all fours." An eleven month-old infant crawls up some back garden steps and into her parents' house. Her head and shoulders are already hidden as she disappears inside. She is exploring a familiar world, being bold, gaining strength and confidence to move independently to eventually stand upright and walk unaided. Someone has taped a short stick to the upper step to help her position herself downwards when exiting the house backwards.  Wearing only a nappy (diaper) it is clearly a warm summer's day. 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_ella20-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Puddle in Oxleas Wood." A six month-old infant looks out from a baby back carrier frame whilst out on a muddy winter jaunt in Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill, South London. The girl peers out with a fascination for the outdoors from a warm coat wearing a tiny hat and loose-fitting gloves to view the world while perched high-up on her mother's back who carries her child on the chilly walk. The bare trees and forested landscape can be imagined from the waterlogged puddle that is out of focus to the right. 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_ella15-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "7lbs 13oz." On a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a new-born baby girl has been temporarily separated from her mother and placed uncomfortably in a small weighing dish, minutes after taking her first breaths, to record her birth-weight, recording in old imperial pounds and ounces rather than modern metric grams and kilo units. The midwife has clamped a plastic seal on the child's umbilical cord wound which eventually dries and falls off. The crying girl has a mass of black hair but whose ethnicity is caucasian. 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_ella02-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Young boys between the ages of 8 and 13 gather in the streets outside the compound of the Govenor of the war-torn region of north Darfur, Sudan. Dressed in white gowns and wearing red bandanas, they will soon celebrate a Sudanese rite of passage, the male circumcision. When they have recited the entire Qur'an [Koran] once through will they generally endure this traditional practice
    sudan128-23-05-2009.jpg
  • Young boys between the ages of 8 and 13 gather in the streets outside the compound of the Govenor of the war-torn region of north Darfur, Sudan. Dressed in white gowns and wearing red bandanas, they will soon celebrate a Sudanese rite of passage, the male circumcision. When they have recited the entire Qur'an [Koran] once through will they generally endure this traditional practice
    sudan127-23-05-2009.jpg
  • 13 year-old Adam leader dances with a girl at his Bar Mitzvah, a lavish party in Borehamwood, on 14th October 2001, in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and Adam can be seen with the arms of a young lady while a pair of hands reach around the back of his mother (left).
    jewish_party-14-10-2001.jpg
  • Next to a life buoy, a father waits for his child to finish exploring the pavement on the riverside beneath Kingston Bridge, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England
    kingston_journey-38-07-11-2019.jpg
  • The mother of a young 13 year-old Jewish boy helps celebrate his coming-of-age at his bar mitzvah party, on 12th February 2001, in London, England.
    barmitzvah_boy-12-02-2001.jpg
  • Following the attack on a group of Muslim men outside the Finsbury Park mosque which killed one person and seriously injured another ten, schoolgirls holding anti-racism and anti-terrorism messages are interviewed by the media, on 19th June 2017, in the borough of Islington, north London, England.
    finsbury_park_islamophobia-19-19-06-...jpg
  • Schoolgirls wait for their buses as a Routemaster bus featuring an ad of sexuality pulls away towards Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Lambeth.
    bus_ad01-27-04-2016.jpg
  • A young Egyptian boy peers from behind a tree in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt198-03-03-2016.jpg
  • A 2 year-old girl reads a book about being a big sister, coming to terms with role-play, the idea of having a newborn baby brother in his basket at home in south London.
    big_sister-02-04-1998.jpg
  • With Westminster in the distance, a male jogger runs through his local park in the London Borough of Lambeth.
    park_jogger03-25-11-2012.jpg
  • With Westminster in the distance, a male jogger runs through his local park in the London Borough of Lambeth.
    park_jogger02-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Spring growth on ash trees in Ruskin Park, a south London public space in Lambeth and Southwark.
    ruskin_park04-12-04-2012.jpg
  • Spring growth on ash trees in Ruskin Park, a south London public space in Lambeth and Southwark.
    ruskin_park01-12-04-2012.jpg
  • Spring growth on ash trees in Ruskin Park, a south London public space in Lambeth and Southwark.
    ruskin_park02-12-04-2012.jpg
  • The British art historian John Gage (June 1938-Feb 2012) known for his books on Turner and the art of the Industrial revolution. John Gage, who has died aged 73, was an art historian whose incisive intelligence and deep commitment to exploring the significance of colour in painting made him one of the most original and important figures working in the field. His magisterial book on understandings of colour in western art, Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993), has become a standard work of reference. The fruit of the better part of a lifetime's work, it has found a wide audience well outside the field of art history, and has been translated into five languages. John also wrote groundbreaking studies on Turner that transformed our understanding of this artist's approach to painting, showing how its vivid visual qualities do not speak just to the eye, but address both eye and mind in a way that is rich with symbolic and cultural meaning.
    moustache_men94-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • Young man in his late-fifties street portrait with moustache.
    moustache_men32-28-May-2011.jpg
  • The British art historian John Gage (June 1938-Feb 2012) known for his books on Turner and the art of the Industrial revolution. John Gage, who has died aged 73, was an art historian whose incisive intelligence and deep commitment to exploring the significance of colour in painting made him one of the most original and important figures working in the field. His magisterial book on understandings of colour in western art, Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993), has become a standard work of reference. The fruit of the better part of a lifetime's work, it has found a wide audience well outside the field of art history, and has been translated into five languages. John also wrote groundbreaking studies on Turner that transformed our understanding of this artist's approach to painting, showing how its vivid visual qualities do not speak just to the eye, but address both eye and mind in a way that is rich with symbolic and cultural meaning.
    moustache_men108-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • Young man in late-fifties street portrait with moustache.
    moustache_men32-28-May-2011.jpg
  • Couple walk below British Union Jack flags strung together across a London alleyway, near Bond Street.
    flag_alleyway2-06-May-2011.jpg
  • Couple walk below British Union Jack flags strung together across a London alleyway, near Bond Street.
    flag_alleyway1-06-May-2011.jpg
  • Children sit on street map of Europe, Africa and Asia laid across the pavement beneath Monument of Discoveries, Lisbon.
    european_children01-21-03-1994.jpg
  • Young female student sign petitiion during protest against government education cuts in Trafalgar Square
    student_protests04-24-11-2010.jpg
  • Young female student sign petitiion during protest against government education cuts in Trafalgar Square
    student_protests02-24-11-2010.jpg
  • Young female student sign petitiion during protest against government education cuts in Trafalgar Square
    student_protests01-24-11-2010.jpg
  • Late afternoon sun illuminates woodland to make an inspiring view.
    forest01-29-08-2010.jpg
  • In a Brussels Flea Market, two curly-haired twin sisters wander about the cobbled square to play with a an empty push-chair at the Marché du Jeu de Balle, in the Marolles district of Belgium's capital city. In harsh sunlight the girls role-play at mothering, a gender conditioning that all children discover and these females are finding it natural to act as parents at such a young age. An antique doll sits looking in our direction, dressed in frilly clothes and all around is Chinese laquered furniture and other kids' toys like a hobby horse and a trike. At Place du Jeu de Balle Flea Market, you can find an extraordinary mix of household items, vintage clothes, crockery and furniture. This market is open daily from 6am to 2pm and is in the heart of the "Marolles" district, a working-class neighbourhood that was built in the 17th century...
    flea_market06-24-1992.jpg
  • In the privacy of her own country home, an elderly French lady is about to have eye-drops administered by her local doctor in the Vosges town of Ban de Laveline. Holding her eyelids up with a thumb in preparation of giving the woman the necessary medicine, the young health professional reaches for his equipment and the lady is left looking rather startled and uncomfortable for a few moments as her eye stares wildly. We are in her small cottage on the outskirts of town and the doctor is making his rounds to various patients unable to attend his daily surgery. The lady wears a colourful apron, typical of French working people, and is possibly in her seventies, living alone with only kind neighbours to ensure her safety. ....http://www.france-voyage.com/en/
    elderly_doctor10-16-1997.jpg
  • An unidentified father in the act of pouring coffee from a cafetiere into two metallic silver mugs in while holding his sleeping baby son in his London kitchen. The unconscious child is a few months old and the parent stands expertly holding both hot liquid and infant as if juggling pleasure and parenthood simultaneously. The sleeping child is limp in the father's arm and is dressed in the same scarlet red as the vibrant colour on the wall behind. We only see the man's upper-legs and torso but the baby is tiny against his body making the scale of both young and old. otherwise, the generic room is bare of decoration or possessions - only a drying cloth and chopping board is seen on the draining board, near plain white tiles.
    children20-30-08-2007.jpg
  • A young boy sits between Europe and Asia on a map laid across the pavement beneath Monument of Discoveries, Lisbon
    european_child01-21-03-1994.jpg
  • Cabin crew are briefed before a flight in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1033-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Cabin crew are briefed before a flight in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1031-11-08-2009.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
  • "Crooked Lady." A twelve month-old girl who has recently learned to walk proudly strides past an elderly lady with balancing arms outstretched while at the Dulwich Show in South London. There is a marked difference between the youthful, upright posture of the young girl to the hunched and bent stance of the old woman who stands supporting herself on a brolley. It is a picture that compares youth with old age, the delight that a person of later years shows to a child whose life reaches far ahead. 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_ella23-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Homo erectus." At the exact moment that a young human being walks for the first time, an eleven month-old girl infant conquers her fear and takes her first tentative upright unaided steps. After months of building lower leg strength by pushing and leaning against household objects, she now leaves the protective hands of a delighted but nervous mother who relishes the joyous moment of her offspring's great achievement. The girl's legs and hips help propel her forward motion, naturally making her an upright bi-pedal species. 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_ella21-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Flight to Portugal." An eleven month-old child stands on a restaurant  table and is held by her mother whilst holidaying on the Algarve, southern Portugal. Caught with side-lit flash and ambient Mediterranean evening light, her with arms and fingers are outstretched and the balancing infant girl who is learning to stand on her own before attempting to walk, pretends to fly in mid-air, relishing a sense of space and freedom. We see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. 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_ella19-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Garden ballet." With hands outstretched, a ten month-old infant supports her weight on some garden chairs as she learns to stand on her own two feet. Without the strength in her legs, she loses her balance and her mother stands behind holding her daughter by the waist preventing her from falling over. It is a warm summer afternoon with both mother and child barefoot on the back garden patio and we see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. 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_ella18-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "More than you can chew." A ten month-old infant uses new teeth to bite her mother's nose in the back garden of their Victorian south London terrace home. The mum winces in pain as the child sinks her new milk teeth into her skin but they enjoy a warm summer afternoon, playfully interacting with each other in a moment of parental love and harmony. The girl wears a short-sleeved t-shirt and has plump arms of baby fat, a healthy sign of a contented infant. 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_ella17-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. 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...
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  • "First ladies." A six month-old infant girl has a shocked look on her face as she plays with a copy of the broadsheet Guardian newspaper whose front page headline photograph is of Hilary Clinton, then First Lady of the United States. Clinton is also looking aghast at something she is experiencing. Coincidentally, the President's wife and the first-born of this family are both first ladies. The child has sunk down into her high-chair, reacting to something her mother has said. 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.
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  • "Losing the hair I was born with." We look over the darkened shoulder of a mother as she cuts her baby daughter's hair, at home, for the first time. Sitting in her high-chair, the child watches with fascination as the scissors snip away at the tufts of thick, dark hair the girl has had from birth. The experience is clearly enchanting her and she looks with her mouth open, captivated by this strange instrument that she feels trimming her head. 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.
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  • "Eye Contact." A mother peers over the bath to keep watch over her five month-old baby daughter who is lying on a matt, holding a towel to her face. The infant has had her own time in the water and the mum has taken the opportunity to bathe too. They both look into each other's eyes in a picture of love, trust and joy. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • "Then raindrops fell on my head." Looking over the shoulder as a mother pours bath water from a toy seive on to the head of her five month-old baby daughter. The infant looks unsure but otherwise spellbound as the droplets fall, watching them leaving the pot to feel them trickling down. We see the child's trust for her mother and imagine her fascination with tumbling liquid, the feel of it touching her skin. This water is shallow, a child can drown in an inch of water so the mum is supporting the baby's head around the neck in the correct manner. 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.
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  • 'Christmas Comes but once a Year ..'  A grandfather holds his tired granddaughter at arms-length while watching a television prgramme at Christmas time. The baby girl is 5 months-old and yawns with a wide, open mouth while the elder relative pouts, looking grumpy. Both are seated on an armchair in the family home's living room. A decorated Christmas tree is seen in the far corner and the curtains behind are drawn. 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.
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  • "Diptheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis."  A four month-old baby screams with the sharp prick of an innoculation needle administered by a health visitor at a doctor's surgery, London. The post-natal clinic is a health check for the baby and for new mothers to discuss parenting problems with a NHS-qualified midwife and paediatric specialist. She attends to mother and child since they arrived back home from hospital, days after birth and therefore knows all their details and the baby's growth statistics and development curves. 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.
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  • "Anywhere between 3-5am." A mother has brought her three and a half month-old infant into bed and comforts her new baby back to sleep in bed by holding her hand at dawn, after a broken night's rest. We see large adult's fingers encircling the tiny digits of the baby girl who is mercifully sound asleep again, instinctively aware of love and trust. It is a picture of protective parenthood, of a close bond between mother and child in a safe, cosy, warm and idyllic place within the loving family home. 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.
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  • On the living room floor at home, a young mother grabs a few minutes to herself to exercises her pelvic floor muscles three weeks after giving birth to a baby girl who lies asleep in a Moses basket carry cot on the carpet. She rotates her hips to her right, twisting her body to regain strength in her lower torso, still sore from labour. 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.
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  • "A Day Away from Choosing a Name." A baby girl of only two weeks old cranes her neck around to see where her mother's soothing voice is coming from. Wrapped up in a checked blanket to keep her snug and warm, she is learning to recognise familiar sounds, focus on close objects and learn about her own small world. She has a round face with a squashed, button nose and has opened her mouth to bend round in her mum's direction. Her name has yet to be recorded with the local register office, a legal requirement that needs completeting within six weeks after a birth. 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.
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  • "No Distance Covered." The leathery soles of a new-born 3 day-old baby girl's feet are seen in detail. Her skin is wrinkled and cracked despite applying foot lotion to keep them soft. The tiny toes have yet to support her upright body and walk anywhere because she has been at home from hospital for only a few days. 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.
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  • "Brave New World." On a maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a tiny new-born baby girl sleeps in her cot at the foot of her mother's bed. We see the mum's legs and feet pointing towards some curtains against which her infant is wrapped in an NHS shawl to keep her snug and warm. But it's Summer and the bedding is ruffled at the bottom to keep the heat down for an exhausted mother comfortable in an otherwise airless room. It is a scene of serenity and safety, at a time when mother and baby are bonding. 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.
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