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  • An Iranian stand for entrepreneurs demonstrating fun ideas at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • A new futuristic car concept is awaitng investment by a female Iranian entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair53-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A new crisp packet concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair30-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Taking notes on a stand at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair37-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • receiving advice from a CV clinic at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair22-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young job-seekers get advice at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair44-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young job-seekers get advice at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair06-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Detail of a hand holding a job magazine at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair02-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Straightening one's tie at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair46-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young man's striped suit at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair14-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • A patient Malaysian entrepreneur awaits investment for his concept at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair44-19-10-2007.jpg
  • The Walkodile for better child safety is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair36-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A new toothbrush twist concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair27-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A patient Iranian entrepreneur awaits investment for his concept at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair43-19-10-2007.jpg
  • The Walkodile for better child safety is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair39-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Flirting with the opposite sex at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair28-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief - that invention is the vital spark that drives the world's technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
    inventors_fair02-19-10-2007.jpg
  • An Iranian motorcycle safety concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair08-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A new hockey concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair03-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Entrance to a vacant British Inventors Society (BIS) at their stand at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace
    inventors_fair01-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Making life-changing calls at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair30-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • A new bathroom stowage concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair23-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A new hospital equipment concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's model at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair55-19-10-2007.jpg
  • The 1-2-3 stop-fire changes a tap into a fire hose demonstrated by entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace
    inventors_fair48-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Audiience listening to seminar at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair40-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • The fishing fleet of Tarbert on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre lies moored at the dock of this pretty coastal village in the Western Isles. Their colourful hulls shine in late afternoon sunshine as they are tied up awaiting another outing at sea to provide for this small fishing community a living and a livelihood for its families. But in the foreground sit a young couple whose prospects are not so positive: they rest on a bench in silhouette, one smoking a cigarette while turned to the friend who stares out to distant rolling hills. It is a scene of hopelessness that reflects modern life for the youth in remote communities where jobs are scarce and their futures far from secure. In an otherwise idyllic Scottish landscape, we guess at the disintegration of society up here - the scourge of economic downturn and future social problems.
    tarbet07-18-1993.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
  • 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
  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
    homeless_ladders03-16-1993.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.
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  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
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  • As his mother washes clothes in a communal spring below, a young boy of about 9 years of age stands on a track in the Himalayan foothills near the town of Gorkha. Here, the British army traditionally recruits young men for the Gurkha regiment (as they have done since 1857). The lad is wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt and like many in this region - even is sub-zero temperatures - flip-flops. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. The prospects for this child may mean they will in future, if the army has no place for him, he may try to seek work in cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture, as can be seen in the valley below. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from these tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
    gorkha05-16-01-1997.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 hand-drawn map shows You Are Here in Nunhead Cemetery, especially designed for visitors to stalls of various societies and organisations displaying in this Victorian burial place during its annual open day.
    nunhead_cemetery01-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A map of the Gloucestershire village of Cricklade showing where visitors reading this map are situated in the High Street of this village on the narrows River Thames that eventually flows to London. Cricklade is a small town in north Wiltshire in England on the Thames, situated midway between Swindon and Cirencester and near the river's source at Lechlade.
    you_are_here04-16-04-2009.jpg
  • Trunk of a  100 year-old mature Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
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  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map of Bradford's University, showing the campus streets, roads, buildings and landmarks of this Yorkshire college.
    you_are_here08-08-05-2009.jpg
  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors66-09-02-2008...jpg
  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map  of Baildon Green near Shipley and Bradford, showing the streets, roads and landmarks of this Yorkshire village.
    you_are_here09-09-05-2009.jpg
  • Looking up towards majestically tall 100 year-old mature Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
    ernst+young_counsillors64-09-02-2008...jpg
  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map of Bradford city centre, showing the streets, roads and landmarks of this Yorkshire town.
    you_are_here07-08-05-2009.jpg
  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees and Westminster and city behind, SE24
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  • Trunk of an Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, London.<br />
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A limited edition (6 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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  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees Westminster and city behind, SE24
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  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors67-09-02-2008...jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man09-26-04-2012.jpg
  • RAF fighter pilot in Harrier ground attack aircraft at RAF Wittering.
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  • The last person to leave the office is a conscientious lady employee of the biscuit and snack manufacturer United Biscuits at their UK headquarters at Hayes Park North near London England. Seen in a window surrounded bright ceiling lights, the female sits at her desk tying up loose ends before leaving for the day. As darkness falls outside, the red lights from tail lights streak across the picture and the green grass on a landscaped bank is lit by light posts. None of her work colleages have stayed on, preferring to depart to see their families at home on this winter night. Perhaps this career woman is single and an ambitious member of the team who can dedicate more time to her job..
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  • Young Nepali boys do a leadership initiative test in Pokhara  camp, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas03-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys watch how to perform sit-ups in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas02-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Commuters stream over London Bridge at the outer marker of the City of London, and along a walkway.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
    canary_wharf_drinkers07-18-1991.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
  • Quality control workers sort through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • An Evening Standard newspaper headline announces the fury of London commuters' at a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we also see a stressed and exasperated-looking commuter walking past this kiosk with a Starbucks coffee container in hand, needing to get into work rather than take public transport. As a result of the industrial action, the busses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk.
    tube_strike_commuters02-04-09-2007.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Setting off at dawn from a jetty to fish for Yellow Fin Tuna aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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  • As passers-by walk by, a homeless man sits with all his worldly possessions on Piccadilly in central London.
    homeless_wealth09-06-03-2014.jpg
  • A young woman begs on London Bridge, and sits on the pavement to read her newspaper as a contractor sucks up litter around her.
    beggar_cleaner01-24-10-2013.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment of peace with a cigarette in a former medieval narrow City of London called Fye Foot Lane which sources suggest was called Five Foot Lane (or Fyve" Foot) as being "five foote in breadth" at the west end. It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1666.
    city_people14-23-02-2012.jpg
  • A young Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP helps launch a 1992 General Election campaign referring to Prime Minister John Major' failing policies, at Millbank, the notorious Labour Party headquarters in central London. Then, Blair had the shadow employment brief, five years before he went on to beat John Major in the '97 election as Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister. We see him here as a still ambitious, young-looking front-bench Labour politician with a fresh face and very dark hair. He wears a Labour rose in his suit's lapel.
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  • In the shade of mid-day heat near a mural, Maldivian youths sit about on a park bench in the Maldives capital Male.
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  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives286-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Upper-deck chair and wheel with navigator's carpet board a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives.
    maldives229-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Silhouetted commuters wait on benches for arriving train on covered platform at London Bridge mainline station.
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  • Silo feeding hoses for delivered flour by truck at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
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  • Flour delivery and football club shelter and bench in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits38.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young042-09-08-2007.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man28-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man04-26-04-2012.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997.jpg
  • 13 year-old Adam leader celebrates his Bar Mitzvah by holding a lavish party in Borehamwood in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and here Adam can be seen surrounded like a celebrity by a gaggle of teenage girl friends, one of whom is dressed in a thin-strapped dress and pendant, giggling at a joke and all enjoying the occasion. Adam looks dashing in a rented dinner jacket complete with bow-tie. He is fresh-faced and clean-cut, cutting a handsome figure much-admired by his female friends. .
    bar_mitvah01.jpg
  • Female employee boxes finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
    lambermont-biscuits292.jpg
  • A professional-looking businesswoman walks through sunlight in a City of London street.
    city_people10-27-09-2013.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man23-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man05-26-04-2012.jpg
  • Construction worker and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford.
    westfield_stratford17-08-03-2012.jpg
  • Resting workmen and businessman in a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_people19-24-02-2012.jpg
  • As a Dior employee oversees her company's PR event, an outdoor set is constructed for the Christian Dior fashion house in London's Bond Street during Vogue's Fashion's Night Out festival in the streets of the West End. A contracted workman wearing high-vis tabard vests put the finishing touches to a raised ramp that a Dior-sponsored taxi cab will be placed upon, complete with fake double-yellow lines. The fake road surface has been laid out after other workmen prepared a Dior street sign and staple parts of the ramp together.
    dior_show10-08-September-2011.jpg
  • A lady waitress awaits lunchtime business, seen through the frosted window of Sweetings seafood restaurant, City of London.
    city_waitress01-26-05-2010.jpg
  • A businessman wearing a light summer suit and carrying a briefcase walks away in the opposite direction to Canary Wharf tower which is seen over his shoulder from across a tree-lined Brockwell Park in South London, approximately 7.5 miles away. The flattened-perspective is because of an extremely long telephoto lens making it seem closer than it is in reality. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • A male commuter disappears underground after a rail journey terminated at the London Bridge mainline station. Travelling downwards into the London Underground tube system, the man seen as a generic silhouette is seen only from the upper legs and moves against the orange light from the escalator well wall. The polished machinery is in the foreground and the floor is spotlessley clean. London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
    london_bridge_commuters039-12-09-200...jpg
  • Red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file through a dry valley near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0216-01_1997.jpg
  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.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
  • Two businessmen - one younger than the other, who may be his superior - pace through the Broadgate Estate during a break in the working day in the City of London, the capital's financial centre - otherwise called the Square Mile. Seen as they walk fast under a covered alleyway, the warm sun strikes their faces while they are deep in conversation - perhaps discussing a strategy while fetching a local coffee. Deep shadow allows us to focus in on their dark suits, their pink skin and the similarly orange colour of the strong vertical columns that form this urban architecture completed in the Bishopsgate development of the mid-1980s. Broadgate is a large, 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates.
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  • Officers watch new recruits swear allegiance to the Queen in British Royal Gurkha Regiment Pokhara camp, Nepal..
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  • Clubbing to death an adult yellow fin tuna on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives
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  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives315-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A Maldivian fisherman shows a hook and mesh glove used to line catch yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni boat, Indian Ocean
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  • A lookout scans the horizon for tuna fish aboard a traditional Maldivian dhoni fishing boat on calm waters of the Indian Ocean
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  • A Maldivian crew rest before a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives235-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
    lambermont-biscuits249.jpg
  • A black gentleman walks past an empty seat in a sunlit corner of a City of London lane.
    city_people15-27-09-2013.jpg
  • Two young boys walk downhill, passing the Rameshwar Mahdev temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Holding hands, the friends make their way back towards the city from this quieter suburb. The road is swept and there is no litter or mess surrounding the temple located in the Himalayan foothills.
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  • A Hand Car Wash business local to the new 2012 Olympic Park zone on the A12 road through Stratford, East London.
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  • A young Nepali boys look at family photos during a lull in Gurkha recruiting selection in barracks room, Pokhara army camp. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A smart suited businessman walks past an unfortunate homeless man holding his worldly possessions.
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  • A sleeping Big Issue magazine seller sits alone without passing business in London's Trafalgar Square.
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  • Woman text user outside London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road buildings.
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