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  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-17-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-10-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-12-02-06-2020.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
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-14-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-13-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-11-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-15-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-07-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Passers-by ignore destitute bag-lady in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui street on the Kowloon side.
    street_beggar01-20-01-1995.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
  • Beneath a mural depicting the depair of the Great Fire of London, two tourists stop to photograph a landmark. 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities were lost in the high fanned winds. It is estimated that it destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants. 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.
    london_tourists01-16-06-1993.jpg
  • As normal life continues a man under the influence of alcohol lies unconscious in Hollywood near a poster of Charlie Chaplin.
    chaplin_drunk01-20-08-1998.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-16-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-09-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-08-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-06-02-06-2020.jpg
  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
    coronavirus_city-05-02-06-2020.jpg
  • At the base of the Monument which commemorates the Great Fire of London, a courier driver from the United States Postal Service (UPS), stands with his head in his hands as if in reaction to the conflagration behind. Above him is a giant mural, whose huge figures depict the panic and evacuation during the disaster that struck London between 2nd of  September and Wednesday, 5th September 1666. The modern man in company uniform is wearing the same brown colours as that of King Charles II and his courtier who are also reacting to the news of the city's burning timber buildings. 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities were lost in the high fanned winds. It is estimated that it destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants. 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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  • A female member of the Territorial Army hangs on to ropes before falling in pond water during weekend initiative manoeuvres
    territorial01-12-06-1988.jpg
  • Rotting in the undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, North-east Wales, lies an old rowing boat. The timbers are succumbing to the weather and tidal waters of the River Nevern and the boat is barely afloat in the waterlogged terrain. Weeds and other vegetation is gradually overtaking its integrity and its wooden frame is host to an abundance of plant and wildlife. It can no longer serve as a vessel of the river as it is a wreck that nature is reclaiming and soon to hide completely from view.
    wales_pembrokeshire23-03-08-2007.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, scales a giant boulder in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy has the stamina to get to the top and continue his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday37-02082008.jpg
  • Walking friends cross river boulders single file in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest.
    germany_holiday35-02082008.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, clambers over rocks in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy stumbles over the terrain and continues his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday36-02082008.jpg
  • Villagers try to push a stranded car through flood water on the outskirts of Chichester. Heaving on the front bonnet, the people try to rescue the vehicle from rising waters on the outskirts of town. The car has been overcome in a metre of flood water and unable to start on its own. Lavant is a village just north of the city of Chichester. It is made up of two parts, Mid Lavant and East Lavant, and takes its name from the River Lavant which flows from East Dean. This area has been prone to flooding for several years and houses around the rising rivers can be blighted with insurance companies refusing future cover.
    village_flooding02-15-04-1994.jpg
  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
    RB_090-21-04-1991.jpg
  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of non-English-speaking young people who have just arrived off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the man hold up a name board to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. With the help of a chaperone, the man points to a young girl in the hope she might be on his list. Neither speak each other's mother tongue and the language barrier is difficult to overcome. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport424-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
    esa_guiana09114-08-2007.jpg
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