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  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • Detail of an air pressure pump mounted to a wall in the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    hosing_pavement-02-05-03-2018.jpg
  • After a week of snow and ice, an employee uses a pressure hose to wash down a dirty pavement at the side entrance of the Wolseley Brasserie opposite the Ritz in Arlington Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    hosing_pavement-06-05-03-2018.jpg
  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    sandhurst_cadet04-12-1996.jpg
  • A conservator with City of London contractor Rupert Harris Conservation, uses a pressure jet spray to hose off the statue of Victorian philanthropist, entrepreneur and banker George Peabody (1795 to 1869). As part of a rolling programme of maintenance and cleaning by the Square Mile's governing Corporation, historic items - from statues and plaques to other pieces of historic value are regularly attended to.
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  • A conservator with City of London contractor Rupert Harris Conservation, uses a pressure jet spray to hose off the statue of Victorian philanthropist, entrepreneur and banker George Peabody (1795 to 1869). As part of a rolling programme of maintenance and cleaning by the Square Mile's governing Corporation, historic items - from statues and plaques to other pieces of historic value are regularly attended to.
    statue_cleaning05-09-02-2015.jpg
  • A detail of a computerized weather chart showing atmospheric pressure isobars across western Europe on 16/9/91 at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, based in England, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom. Its role is "to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System." Source: http://www.ecmwf.int/.
    weather_chart02-16-09-1991.jpg
  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    army02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
    atlanta_traffic11-10-1995.jpg
  • A copy of an ECG (Electrocardiogram) readout from a 60 year-old British male experiencing from Type 2 Hypertension (high blood pressure), on 22nd October 2019, in London, England. Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG[a]), a recording – a graph of voltage versus time – of the electrical activity of the heart using electrodes placed on the skin.
    ECG03-22-10-2019.jpg
  • A copy of an ECG (Electrocardiogram) readout from a 60 year-old British male experiencing from Type 2 Hypertension (high blood pressure), on 22nd October 2019, in London, England. Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG[a]), a recording – a graph of voltage versus time – of the electrical activity of the heart using electrodes placed on the skin.
    ECG04-22-10-2019.jpg
  • A masseuse pushes the sore back of a street patient during the demonstration of an Anma acupressure treatment in a central London street. Anma is Japanese for 'press and rub'. Matching the stance of the practitioner wearing a blue tunic who puts his weight forward into the pressure point of the lumbar area, a young mother holds on to the pushchair of her young child. There are many different methods in Anma, including massage, acupressure, stretching But it is important to note that there are many different versions of anma. Many massage therapists in the west have adapted this old technique to work with their more modern methods. Most common is the stretching, pulling, and pulling of affected areas. This is done to try and achieve the release of muscle tension that in return will help to encourage the proper blood flow and lymph flow.
    street_massage1-30-09-2011.jpg
  • Quality control workers sort through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • A London Fire fighter dampens down with a high-pressure hose after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire10-26-11-2009.jpg
  • A London Fire fighter dampens down with a high-pressure hose after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire11-26-11-2009.jpg
  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young253-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young244-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • An environmental activist is arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-11-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is lies on the ground after being arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-08-16-10-2019.jpg
  • A environmental activist is arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-05-16-10-2019.jpg
  • Environmental activists are arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-02-16-10-2019.jpg
  • 1990s traders look stressful on a city trading floor, on 29th March 1996, in London, England.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996_4.jpg
  • An upside down man remains balanced on his head in a public park - one in a sequence of four - on 19th July 2017, in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England.
    handstand_man-02-19-07-2017.jpg
  • A local fisherman using a jetwash hoses down the seawater off shellfish pots overlooking the harbour, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-02-14-07-2017.jpg
  • The solitary figure of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team. The man may be a security guard, keeping watch over the streets below as crowds gather to honour the Atlanta Braves Baseball team, after their 1995 World Series win. The figure is in his manmade environment and the high walls and windows of the buildings that make up this metropolis dwarf this tiny human who in the scale and perspective of a modern city looks incongruous, isolated and insignificant.
    roof_man01-10-11-1995.jpg
  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand pointing to flight IDs on screen in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc133-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand and radio trigger in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc143-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Support struts of Heathrow airport's control tower, London.
    adie_dolan_atc412-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Support struts of Heathrow airport's control tower, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc364-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc319-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Detail of the catapult that propels F-A/18 fighters from the deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. The cable drives $38 million F/A-18s fighters off the ship's deck and into the air from a standing position. The angled flight decks of the carriers use a CATOBAR arrangement to operate aircraft, with steam catapults and arrestor wires for launch and recovery. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.
    US_navy_carrier02-07-01-2003.jpg
  • A British army Parachute Regiment recruit is suffering from exhaustion on a rigorous assault course conducted over rough terrain and into water. He emerges dripping from the water jump and back into the forest accompanied by instructors who shout encouragement and abuse to get the candidate to a successful stage of this test. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_course-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A boy soldier has collapsed on the ground suffering from fatigue and dehydration on a rigorous march conducted as a squad of soldier recruits, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. Two senior trainers haul the buy up who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company02-30-07-1996 copy.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998.jpg
  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
    army06-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall  of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag  but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because  we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a  giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..
    RB_078-18-05-1995.jpg
  • 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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  • Businessman checks his watch while dashing to the next meeting in London.
    city_gent_shadow-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Two Spanish gentlemen exercise on the beach near Port Olympic in Barcelona, Spain.
    barcelona_exercise01-16-06-2003.jpg
  • London Fire fighters dampen down smouldering remains from a Simon Snorkel platform after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire23-26-11-2009.jpg
  • London Fire fighters dampen down smouldering remains from a Simon Snorkel platform after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire22-26-11-2009.jpg
  • London Fire fighters dampen down smouldering remains from a Simon Snorkel platform after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire21-26-11-2009.jpg
  • A female passenger leans forward with head in hands amid the busy terminal at Chicago O'Hare Airport, Illinois, USA. Fellow-travellers in the background appear unworried, waiting for their respective flights in a calm manner. The lady in the foreground's body language however, suggests fatigue and distress and perhaps a fear of flying. 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_corbis52-10-11-2000.jpg
  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Female employee boxes finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • Female employees package finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
    lambermont-biscuits236.jpg
  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
    Lambermont_biscuits_296.jpg
  • An employee works diligently in an open plan office at an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • Two environmental activists protest about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-14-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-12-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-09-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-10-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is dragged and arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-07-16-10-2019.jpg
  • An environmental activist is dragged and arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-06-16-10-2019.jpg
  • Environmental activists are arrested while protesting about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-04-16-10-2019.jpg
  • A Quaker environmental activist from Exeter is arrested while protest about Climate Change during the blockade of Whitehall in central London, part of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 16th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-01-16-10-2019.jpg
  • 1990s traders look stressful on a city trading floor, on 29th March 1996, in London, England.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996_5.jpg
  • An upside down man remains balanced on his head in a public park - one in a sequence of four - on 19th July 2017, in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England.
    handstand_man-04-19-07-2017.jpg
  • An upside down man remains balanced on his head in a public park - one in a sequence of four - on 19th July 2017, in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England.
    handstand_man-01-19-07-2017.jpg
  • An upside down man remains balanced on his head in a public park - one in a sequence of four - on 19th July 2017, in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, England.
    handstand_man-03-19-07-2017.jpg
  • Elderly couple feeling the heat during a hot summer in central London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc366-03-06-2014.jpg
  • An employee with 1990s weather chart technology at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF is an international organisation supported by 31 States, its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.”
    meteorology_90s3-16-09-1991.jpg
  • A lone man sits in the sunshine, beneath a conbstruction site hoarding in central London.
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  • Blurred people walk towards bright sunlight through a subway tunnel beneath the Embankment in central London.
    tunnel_crowd02-27-01-2013.jpg
  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_p_company-30-07-1996.jpg
  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
    Red_Arrows362_RBA.jpg
  • The solitary of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team.
    roof_man02-10-11-1995.jpg
  • Foire Gras and dairy farming family's women experience hardships together during breakfast at their home in Alsace. ..The Kesslers live on the farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is daughter Mireille wearing a blood-stained apron. She is about to cut the throat of a duck, draining the body and especially the liver of blood. After tapping the head with a knife to render the animal unconscious, she stands in a pool of  blood from other birds which stains the courtyard floor. On the left, her parents and grandmother are plucking the feathers from newly-killed carcasses which are strung up on a special rack for this purpose. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quatities of corn mash down the esophagus two weeks before slaughter.
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  • Green hydraulic crane stretches up to top floor of building in centralLondon.
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  • Pilot's shadow of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team walking out to aircraft for training flight.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team pace out to aircraft before Cyprus training flight.
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  • Sqn Ldr Spike Jepson, leader of 'Red Arrows', Royal Air Force aerobatic team strides to his waiting aircraft for training sortie
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  • Beneath the giant, solid pillars of the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district - the ancient Square Mile - a man dressed in a traditional pinstripe suit has stopped to make a phone call or check for messages. Halting his journey along this street he has opted to stand in line with a traffic no waiting cone and also near double-yellow lines that restrict parking or stopping. Without the cone or lines this scene would otherwise be without colour - the columns of this financial institution and the pavement (sidewalk) are drab - so the welcome yellow gives this picture more interest. We only see the man from the rear view and so he remains anonymous, a small person set against the scale of a large-scale financial landscape..
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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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  • Four members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles are on tactical manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough airfield, England. These Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves. The nearest to the camera points his weapon past the viewer with a yellow blank cover attached. .
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  • Three soldier recruits wearing shorts and black army boots, one with blood trickling down from the knees to the shins, stand at ease, lined up for inspection after the rigorous steeple-chase endurance race, an individual test with candidates running against the clock over a 1.8 mile cross country course. The course features a number of 'water obstacles' and having completed the cross country element, candidates must negotiate and 'Assault Course' to complete the test. This forms part of  the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. 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. A plastic bottle of water stands between recruit number three (3) and six (6).
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  • A boy soldier collapses on the ground suffering fatigue and dehydration on the rigorous 10-mile march conducted as a squad, over undulatiing terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds.(plus water) and a weapon. Three senior trainers help revive the lad with smelling salts who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. 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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  • A confrontation during a water polo match at the Brockwell (Brixton) Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill,  London. ..Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. It is now a Grade II listed building
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  • Young Paratroop Regiment squad run with 35lb loads during rigorous 10-mile march near sheep through Yorkskhire countryside
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  • London Fire fighters dampen down smouldering remains from a Simon Snorkel platform after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
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  • A close-up detail of a Boeing 747 tyre and main nosewheel during the aircraft's turnaround at Heathrow Airport.
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  • 2008 Formula 1 world champion driver Lewis Hamilton attends corporate event at Farnborough air show with Bombardier Learjet aircraft nose
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  • Media and guests queue for entry at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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