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  • From the famous speech by US civil rights politician Martin Luther King is his inspirational quote 'I Have a Dream' written in neon at the entrance of a youth centre on the Ayeslbury Estate, on 7th December 2017, in Southwark, south London England.
    Ihad_a_dream-04-07-12-2017.jpg
  • From the famous speech by US civil rights politician Martin Luther King is his inspirational quote 'I Have a Dream' written in neon at the entrance of a youth centre on the Ayeslbury Estate, on 7th December 2017, in Southwark, south London England.
    Ihad_a_dream-01-07-12-2017.jpg
  • From the famous speech by US civil rights politician Martin Luther King is his inspirational quote 'I Have a Dream' written in neon at the entrance of a youth centre on the Ayeslbury Estate, on 7th December 2017, in Southwark, south London England.
    Ihad_a_dream-03-07-12-2017.jpg
  • A create a life, not just for living slogan outside offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 1st April, 2019, in London England.
    city_life-02-01-04-2019.jpg
  • A create a life, not just for living slogan outside offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 1st April, 2019, in London England.
    city_life-01-01-04-2019.jpg
  • The 'Monument to the Unknown Artist' by Greyworld outside the Blue Fin Building, on London's Southbank, on 13th November 2017, in London, England. The Latin inscription below it (not shown) reads,  “Non Plaudite, Modo Pecuniam Jacite,” which translates as, “Do not applaud, just throw money.”
    offices_sculpture-02-13-11-2017.jpg
  • The 'Monument to the Unknown Artist' by Greyworld outside the Blue Fin Building, on London's Southbank, on 13th November 2017, in London, England. The Latin inscription below it (not shown) reads,  “Non Plaudite, Modo Pecuniam Jacite,” which translates as, “Do not applaud, just throw money.”
    offices_sculpture-01-13-11-2017.jpg
  • Real construction workers in the background and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    construction_men03-02-04-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen19-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Man checks his watch near a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen18-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen17-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction workers and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen14-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen10-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
    roadworks_workmen07-30-03-2012.jpg
  • City of London police officers not the license numbers of black London cabs while they protest about their being banned from City road junctions, on 18th January 2017, in Parliament Square, London England.
    london_taxis-03-18-01-2017.jpg
  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, traditional thatcher lays straw on a barn roof in Suffolk, England. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
    thatching01-16-08-1993.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
  • A broken warning construction work figure - one of many up and down both sides of the Tottenham Court Road, warns pedestrians of a change of road layout, from one-way to two-way traffic, on 7th May 2019, in London, England.
    both_ways-10-07-05-2019.jpg
  • A broken warning construction work figure - one of many up and down both sides of the Tottenham Court Road, warns pedestrians of a change of road layout, from one-way to two-way traffic, on 7th May 2019, in London, England.
    both_ways-09-07-05-2019.jpg
  • Construction workmen with a 'Stop Go' sign to help traffic flow plus a coincidental 'no lights' sign at a closed crossing.
    no_lights03-16-05-2013.jpg
  • Construction workmen with a 'Stop Go' sign to help traffic flow plus a coincidental 'no lights' sign at a closed crossing.
    no_lights02-16-05-2013.jpg
  • A chamber maid's trolley with cleaning supplies and equipment stands idle in the corridor of a Paris hotel.
    lambermont-biscuits01.jpg
  • Using a mop and bucket, a chamber maid bends over in a bathroom to service a Paris hotel room.
    Lambermont_biscuits_03.jpg
  • The artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) sits on the steps of her best-known sculpture called 'House'. 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). It won Whiteread the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' at a close distance with graffiti painted on the walls stating the words "Wot for ..why not!" before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
    rachel_whiteread02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A special effects model maker artist works on a clay head of actor Pierce Brosnan in his role as James Bond in the 1996 film GoldenEye, filmed at an old Rolls-Royce factory at the Leavesden Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. Using publicity and studio head shots of Brosnan, the woman refers to the glossy prints to sculpt the contours and shape for a scene requiring a miniature version of 007. GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming.
    bond_modeller-12-03-1995.jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    england_beach04-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An NHS surgeon performs an operation in a London hospital using endoscopy. Endoscopy (pronounced means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope, an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ. Endoscopy can also refer to using a borescope in technical situations where direct line-of-sight observation is not feasible.
    hospital_surgery03-20-05-1994.jpg
  • A hunched, homeless elderly man walks along Fenchurch Street in the City of London while younger and affluent office workers saunter past, smiling and with a care in the world. It is a scene of social class division, the contrasts between wealth and poverty, have and have nots, prospects and no hope for the future and of old age and youth. The old man carries a plastic bag with all his belongings and the workers carry their lunch in a paper bag. They are not only smart and he dishevelled but they stand tall and he is stooped, further proof of the hard, demanding life he leads on the capital's streets.
    misc-london02-30-08-2007.jpg
  • A New York City policeman (NYPD) mans a do not cross barrier, good-naturedly stopping in the week after 9/11 in Manhattan.
    9:11_america011-19-09-2001.jpg
  • After an internal meeting, a male employee is ready to leave a small conference room at the British Airways' corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport. Themed rooms like this are titled after BA's destinations - in this case, the southern French Cote d'Azur town of Nice. The man is reaching out to shake a colleague's hand before they all exit and re-convene elsewhere. Focus is on the room's name and not on the man, who remains anonymous. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1609-20-08-2009.jpg
  • A tree protector encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    holland_park-12-13-03-2018.jpg
  • A tree protector encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    holland_park-10-13-03-2018.jpg
  • A tree protector encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    holland_park-11-13-03-2018.jpg
  • Tree protectors encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    holland_park-08-13-03-2018.jpg
  • A tree protector encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    holland_park-09-13-03-2018.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans film ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen20-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans movie ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen12-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans film ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
    roadworks_workmen11-30-03-2012.jpg
  • Good-looking trendy young people spill out of a pub one sunny afternoon in fashionable Notting Hill in West London. Their confidence and sense of fun and living for the moment is seen in their clothes and style. But out-of-sight around the corner on this street stands a rather nervous-looking poor woman, an elderly lady perhaps in her sixties who is holding some shopping bags with her coat buttoned up, despite being warm outside. Her demeanour is that of tiredness and hardship - the opposite of the young generation. There is a wide generation gap here: The division of wealth, health and outlook between these two demographic groups which also symbolises a modern Britain, used to the class system that is alive and well.
    elderly_pub10-27-1997.jpg
  • An elderly homeless man walks slowly past a Barclays Bank cash dispenser at which business people are either queueing or typing in their PIN numbers from cash accounts, or simply passing-by. One middle-aged gent stands eyeing the poor man suspiciously while other men of wealth, prospects and prosperity are tall and stand erect in smart suits and polished shoes, the homeless man is hunched and dishevelled, carrying a supermarket bag - perhaps containing all of his worldly goods. It is a tragic scene of extremes between the haves and the have-nots; the rich and poor; between people with hope and those in despair. This is the City of London, near Fenchurch Street Station where the UK's insurance companies are based and it is impossible to know if any of these men in smart clothes are the same age as the poor man.
    city_london14-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An unfortunate and hunched, elderly woman sells flowers to uncaring young passers-by on a Krakow street corner, Poland.
    begging_poland01-19-06-1990.jpg
  • 135 metres (443 ft) above central London, passengers enjoy panoramic views of the capital aboard a London Eye flight.
    london_time16-03-09-2008.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
  • 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
  • A man has chosen a free surface to spread himself out on during a lunchtime break in the City of London. Having removed his shirt and tie, he sunbathes topless with only his trousers and shoes, the clue as to his day-job in a London office. There is a heat wave in the capital and others are soaking up rays during a working week. Bronzed and asleep, the young man is carefree enough not to worry about his eccentric behaviour in a public place.
    city_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
    olympic_park02-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
    olympic_park03-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Graffiti has been sprayed in red with aerosol on the wall of an estate agent in Herne Hill, South London England. "Homes for the Homeless, not Yuppies" it reads along with the Anarchists' Circle-A symbol, meaning that housing should be made available for families needing a roof over their heads, rather than overpricing properties for the middle-classes buying for profit and investment. We see the writing on the wall beneath pictures in windows of houses and flats in the SE24 area where prices are posted along with details of the buildings. The house-buying market climbs according to demand in areas of the city such as this, forcing up values which are out of reach to ordinary, working people unable to climb the property ladder.
    RB_040-30-04-2008.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Chemical suits. NASA chemical suits hang on their rack at the space junk auction. Hanging Scape Suits before the auction. Confusingly, these are not space suits as worn by astronauts but chemical protection suits for those working with chemicals and liquid oxygen on the giant gantries that stood alongside the rockets. They were sold for $60 each and now appear on e-bay.com.
    Nasa08 RBA.jpg
  • Glass windows (not stained glass) in the Great Hall of 2 Temple Place, on 17th September 2017, in London, England. As an example of a late Victorian mansion, it was built for William Waldorf Astor primarily as his state office by one of the foremost neo-Gothic architects of the late nineteenth-century, John Loughborough Pearson. Astor had emigrated to England in 1891 as arguably, the richest man in the world and no expense was spared when work began on Two Temple Place in 1892. Today, the building is owned by the Bulldog Trust and supports the charitable activities of the Trust through exhibitions and events hosted in the building.
    temple_place-04-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Glass windows (not stained glass) in the Great Hall of 2 Temple Place, on 17th September 2017, in London, England. As an example of a late Victorian mansion, it was built for William Waldorf Astor primarily as his state office by one of the foremost neo-Gothic architects of the late nineteenth-century, John Loughborough Pearson. Astor had emigrated to England in 1891 as arguably, the richest man in the world and no expense was spared when work began on Two Temple Place in 1892. Today, the building is owned by the Bulldog Trust and supports the charitable activities of the Trust through exhibitions and events hosted in the building.
    temple_place-03-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Glass windows (not stained glass) in the Great Hall of 2 Temple Place, on 17th September 2017, in London, England. As an example of a late Victorian mansion, it was built for William Waldorf Astor primarily as his state office by one of the foremost neo-Gothic architects of the late nineteenth-century, John Loughborough Pearson. Astor had emigrated to England in 1891 as arguably, the richest man in the world and no expense was spared when work began on Two Temple Place in 1892. Today, the building is owned by the Bulldog Trust and supports the charitable activities of the Trust through exhibitions and events hosted in the building.
    temple_place-02-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Glass windows (not stained glass) in the Great Hall of 2 Temple Place, on 17th September 2017, in London, England. As an example of a late Victorian mansion, it was built for William Waldorf Astor primarily as his state office by one of the foremost neo-Gothic architects of the late nineteenth-century, John Loughborough Pearson. Astor had emigrated to England in 1891 as arguably, the richest man in the world and no expense was spared when work began on Two Temple Place in 1892. Today, the building is owned by the Bulldog Trust and supports the charitable activities of the Trust through exhibitions and events hosted in the building.
    temple_place-01-17-09-2017.jpg
  • A man sleeps in mid-afternoon sunshine on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, taking a nap in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
    london_bus02-21-04-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers01-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    male_admirer02-12-07-1993.jpg
  • A family relax in late-afternoon sunshine and wood smoke in a quiet field at Woodland Tipi and Yurt Holidays near Little Dewchurch, Herefordshire. We see the sun shining through pine trees and long shadows stretching through the fresh grass where camping seats and a camp-fire is billowing clouds of smoke, just like in the days of cowboys and indians. The holidaymakers are staying in 17 acres of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, experiencing the peace and tranquillity of tipi and yurt camping in their own private, secluded valley - an ever-increasingly popular holiday adventure that is both green and carbon neutral since they are not using electricity for heating or cars to travel. It is also a stress-free lifestyle, away from the pressures of work and urban life, where travellers can unwind safe in the knowledge they are helping the environment.
    wales_pembrokeshire14-30-07-2007.jpg
  • man is lying down on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, to take a nap under a mid-day sun in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
    city_bus_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • As blue dawn light brightens to become another wintry day in south London  a commuter awaits the arrival of a distant red bus to climb a slippery hill. Standing by the timetable of the bus stop on Red Post Hill  in the borough of Southwark  traffic approaches slowly on a road that controversially  appears not to have been gritted properly for vehicles to maintain a proper grip on this snowy surface. Headlights point uphill and the freshly-fallen snow has started to freeze so wheel and tyre traction will prove ever-difficult for those trying to journey to work.
    london_snows06-13-01-2010 copy.jpg
  • As blue dawn light becomes another wintry day in south London, the glow of a car's brake lights shines through a covering of fresh snow. The driver has only swept the vehicle's back window with a rear wiper but with her foot on the brake pedal, she is about to set off on a drive to work this morning on roads that have controversially, not been gritted or salted by council highway workers. The surface is therefore still snowy in this residential area of Herne Hill, SE24, London and is a treacherous surface on which to maintain wheel and tyre (tire) traction and many accidents will result, including the heavy lorry (truck) which is about to climb this hill and which will soon prevent him from going much further.
    london_snows05-13-01-2010 copy.jpg
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