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  • A remote desert railway now missing its iron rails, stolen in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is now patrolled by armed police convoys.
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  • A remote desert railway now missing its iron rails, stolen in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is now patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt514-09-03-2016.jpg
  • The ever-turning London Eye is seen over the River Thames with the Palace of Westminster and Parliament beyond. The wheel is blurred after a minute's exposure and the blue sky behind renders evening as a romantic cityscape backdrop. We see Big Ben in the Tower of Westminster and Parliament just as they have become floodlit and the stand out set against the other buildings, very easily recognised as the iconic London landmarks known around the world. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
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  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag12-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag06-27-04-2013.jpg
  • Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688-1737) in the the King's Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d'Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room
    versaille_palace12-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688-1737) in the the King's Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d'Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room
    versaille_palace10-18-08-2012.jpg
  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace08-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Tourists queue to gain entrance below the golden gates of  the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace01-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Peacock and old horse-drawn reaper lies on grass at Strathcoil, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull57-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Old horse-drawn reaper lying in field at Gribun, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull202-20-11-2011.jpg
  • Reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, a young Libyan child whose grandfather was killed by the Gaddafi regime in 1979, celebrates by waving the revolutionary flag with her father outside their London embassy in Knightbridge, central London.
    libyan_celebrations8-20-10-2011.jpg
  • Reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, a young Libyan child whose grandfather was killed by the Gaddafi regime in 1979, celebrates by waving the revolutionary flag with her father outside their London embassy in Knightbridge, central London.
    libyan_celebrations6-20-10-2011.jpg
  • Met police riot officers with revolutionary graffiti on Nelson's Column during student protests in Trafalgar Square.
    student_protest23-30-11-2010.jpg
  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority 'Can't evict our ideas'. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat - a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
    derelict_bradford05-08-05-2009.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood02-25-10-2020.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood01-25-10-2020.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag11-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag07-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag04-27-04-2013.jpg
  • The 73 metre long Hall of the Mirrors in the King's Grand Apartment, Versaille, Paris. The Hall of Mirrors (Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces) is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles and is renowned as being one of the most famous rooms in the world.
    versaille_palace14-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688-1737) in the the King's Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d'Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room
    versaille_palace11-18-08-2012.jpg
  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace07-18-08-2012.jpg
  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace05-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Tourists pose for photos beneath the golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace02-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, a young Libyan child whose grandfather was killed by the Gaddafi regime in 1979, celebrates by waving the revolutionary flag with her father outside their London embassy in Knightbridge, central London.
    libyan_celebrations9-20-10-2011.jpg
  • Young students and small fire during protest against government education cuts in Trafalgar Square. Holding a variety of splinter marches that denounce the coalition government's policy of charging extra higher-education tuition fees. There were isolated incidents of violence and skirmishes with police, mostly in central London.
    student_protest19-30-11-2010.jpg
  • Young students and small fire during protest against government education cuts in Trafalgar Square. Holding a variety of splinter marches that denounce the coalition government's policy of charging extra higher-education tuition fees. There were isolated incidents of violence and skirmishes with police, mostly in central London.
    student_protest18-30-11-2010.jpg
  • Three Parisians gain an advantage by climbing higher than pavement level to watch the patriotic Bastille Day Procession from a doorway on the Avenue Champs-Élysées, Paris. The young men have lodged themselves awkwardly a metre above the ground, resting their feet on various door catches and ledges, as if floating in mid-air. On a street traffic sign the French words 'Defense de Stationner' are written which in English translates as 'No Stopping', referring to vehicles not pedestrians. There is graffiti tagging sprayed on the walls and a brown stain at the bottom of a drainpipe
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  • Spinning turbine blades of the Wind farm near the Cornish town of Delabole in England are blurred against fast-fading light. We barely see the three blades as they revolve to produce electricity for the national grid. First operational in mid December 1991 they were a very controversial project with locals who saw them as a blot on their familiar c though it’s permission went ahead nonetheless. The 10 turbines operated by Windelectric are carefully positioned in existing hedge lines about 270 m apart and have an annual output of about 12 million Kw hours, which equals 1 years consumption by 2700 average homes (a small town). To produce the same amount of electricity by conventional means, about 2000 tonnes of oil or 5000 tonnes of coal would have to be burnt each year, this has a Co2 offset of 4,475 tonnes.
    tehachapi_windmills01-20-08-2000.jpg
  • Starting the motor of a paraglider for its pilot during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
    oshkosh_airshow03-07-01-2000.jpg
  • Windfarm turbine blades on hilltop of Sierra Nevada foothills.
    spain_windfarm-1-15-April-2011.jpg
  • Terraced mill workers' homes at New Lanark, the industrial revolution community village managed by social pioneer Robert Owen.
    new_lanark18-29-07-2010-1.jpg
  • Terraced mill workers' homes at New Lanark, the industrial revolution community village managed by social pioneer Robert Owen.
    new_lanark16-29-07-2010-1.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter in the 1990s blocks the waterways of a canal, on 10th September 1994, in Stratford, east London, England. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future 2012 Olympic Park would eventually be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    river_pollution-10-09-1994.jpg
  • A street protest by General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses or CGTP). This is the largest trade union federation in Portugal, founded informally in 1970, emerged publicly after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and was legalised the following year by the National Salvation Junta. It is traditionally influenced by the Portuguese Communist Party, and its present coordinator, Arménio Carlos, is a member of the Party.
    lisbon_protest-21-03-1994.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange meets an associate in the street during a weekday lunchtime on a bench in the City of London. Talking over paperwork with an opened attache briefacse and wearing the colourful jacket of this once thriving financial institution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    trader_meeting-16-03-1993.jpg
  • High up on the buttresses of Westminster Abbey in central London during the mid-90s, new white Portland and Caen stone replaces the blackened materials of old - discoloured after a hundred years of pollution from the capital's industrial revolution and traffic fumes. Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. The abbey is a Royal Peculiar and briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1540 to 1550.
    new_stonework01-12-06-1985.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange takes a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime. Alongside him on another bench is a homeless man in the City of London in a scene of wealth with prosperity versus the fate of poverty and loss. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_2.jpg
  • A courier in blue and two traders from the LIFFE futures exchange take a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime in the City of London. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_1.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a section of the River Neckinger that once flowed from south London into the Thames at Bermindsey but during the redevelopment of the warves into expensive riverside apartments, the waters were once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution02-11-09-1993.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in Stratford, east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future Olympic Park would be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution01-11-09-1993.jpg
  • Three young women tourists admire The Coronation of Napoleon (Le Sacre de Napoléon), a painting of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution.
    louvre_paris15-17-08-2012.jpg
  • London resident Libyan exiles protest opposite their London embassy against the long-term dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi whose violence has led to a nationwide uprising. Reacting to an interview by an Arabic TV interviewer, a man shows the old Libyan flag now being paraded as an anti Gaddafi symbol. The flag of the independent kingdom was red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the centre. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the centre and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted...
    libyan_protests15-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Young girl holds the flag of the independent kingdom as Libyan exiles protest outside their London embassy...The flag of the independent kingdom was red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the center. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the center and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted.
    libyan_protests09-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Young girl holds the flag of the independent kingdom as Libyan exiles protest outside their London embassy...The flag of the independent kingdom was red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the center. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the center and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted.
    libyan_protests06-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Young girl holds the flag of the independent kingdom as Libyan exiles protest outside their London embassy...The flag of the independent kingdom was red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the center. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the center and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted.
    libyan_protests05-24-02-2011.jpg
  • A rather eccentric-looking man is seated on a bench on Blackpool's North Pier. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. The pier has intricate cast ironwork seat backs dating from 1863 and the man sits with ankles crossed, wearing a suit and trilby hat on a warm summer's day. In the background we see families - parents and children - playing and walking on the beach at low-tide - the golden sands a much-visited aspect of Blackpool, the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    seaside_pensioner-30-07-1993.jpg
  • Holidaymakers are seated in deckchairs on the North Pier at Blackpool, England. As a man in the back row drinks deeply from a can and a lady next to him looks intently at life to the right, a more eccentric woman sleeps with a lacy handkerchief stretched across her face, pinned inside her sunglasses. Looking very English with embroidered or printed pattern of flowers. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    blackpool02-30-07-1993.jpg
  • It is night-time on Blackpool's Golden Mile, the seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Like an English Las Vegas the neon lights glow to entice the holidaymaker inside where slot machines, games and rides await visitors to lose their vacation money. The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Promenade between the North and South piers. It emerged in the late 19th Century, when small-time fairground operators, fortune-tellers, phrenologists and oyster bars set up in the front gardens of boarding houses, This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    blackpool01-30-07-1993.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the 'Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government', the Workers' Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary's transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A French Dassault-Breguet Mirage military jet interceptor/fighter stands on a pedestal in the Place de la Concorde, Paris during an aviation display weekend along the Champs Elysées. Passers-by seem oblivious to this celebration of French aviation as they walk through the Parisian square, the scene of public executions during the revolution. The Mirage seems to be climbing off its platform and up into the cloudless summer afternoon sky as a young child sits on top of his father's shoulders and passengers in a city bus seem trapped behind the windows. Its is a scene of incongruous moments, a surreal appearance of frightening military technology amid the calm of a public place. 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_corbis28-15-09-1998.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange takes a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime, beneath the statue of George Peabody in the City of London. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. Peabody was a philathropist, banker and entrepreneur ( 1795 - 1869).
    city_trader-16-03-1993.jpg
  • Young girl holds the flag of the independent kingdom as Libyan exiles protest outside their London embassy...The flag of the independent kingdom was red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the center. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the center and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted.
    libyan_protests07-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Public phone box at New Lanark, the industrial revolution community village managed by social pioneer Robert Owen.
    new_lanark31-29-07-2010-1.jpg
  • Floodlit river Clyde falls at New Lanark, the industrial revolution community village managed by social pioneer Robert Owen.
    new_lanark27-29-07-2010-1.jpg
  • A detail of a young exiled Libyan woman who has painted her face in the colours of the pre-revolutionary flag that Libyans have adopted as their new flag after Gaddafi's downfall, During the protests opposite her London embassy, the woman shows us the flag of the independent kingdom: Red, black, and green with a crescent and star in the centre. After the Libyan revolution of 1969, the flag was changed to the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands. In 1971 Libya joined the Federation of Arab Republics with Egypt and Syria, which used a similar flag with a hawk emblem in the center and the name of the country beneath it. When Libya left the Federation in 1977, the new plain green flag was adopted. But during the 2011 uprising, the old flag was once again adopted.
    libyan_protests25-25-02-2011.jpg
  • The British art historian John Gage (June 1938-Feb 2012) known for his books on Turner and the art of the Industrial revolution. John Gage, who has died aged 73, was an art historian whose incisive intelligence and deep commitment to exploring the significance of colour in painting made him one of the most original and important figures working in the field. His magisterial book on understandings of colour in western art, Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993), has become a standard work of reference. The fruit of the better part of a lifetime's work, it has found a wide audience well outside the field of art history, and has been translated into five languages. John also wrote groundbreaking studies on Turner that transformed our understanding of this artist's approach to painting, showing how its vivid visual qualities do not speak just to the eye, but address both eye and mind in a way that is rich with symbolic and cultural meaning.
    moustache_men94-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • The British art historian John Gage (June 1938-Feb 2012) known for his books on Turner and the art of the Industrial revolution. John Gage, who has died aged 73, was an art historian whose incisive intelligence and deep commitment to exploring the significance of colour in painting made him one of the most original and important figures working in the field. His magisterial book on understandings of colour in western art, Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993), has become a standard work of reference. The fruit of the better part of a lifetime's work, it has found a wide audience well outside the field of art history, and has been translated into five languages. John also wrote groundbreaking studies on Turner that transformed our understanding of this artist's approach to painting, showing how its vivid visual qualities do not speak just to the eye, but address both eye and mind in a way that is rich with symbolic and cultural meaning.
    moustache_men108-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • The tombs of François Berlioz (1760-1828) and his family, once the pre-revolution owner of nearby Lagrasse Abbey, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.  Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Mexican Papantla Flyers perform a pre-Hispanic ritual dedicated to their sun god, a leap from a 90 foot pole, on 15th May 1996, the Tulum ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. Dressed in their native costumes these men lash themselves to this towering pole with a leather bindings and soar off into space backwards and upside down in the ultimate leap of faith. The Papantla Flyers are Totonac Indians performing an ancient fertility ceremony. As they slowly descend to earth, the 13 revolutions made by the four flyers equal the 52-year span of the Aztec century. They represent earth, water, fire and air and the interweaving of these four elements symbolizes the creation of new life. A fifth man is left on top, dancing on this tiny nine-inch platform while simultaneously playing both a pre-Columbian flute and drum.
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