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  • 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 gentleman client has a fitting for a new made-to-measure suit, seen through a City taylor's window.
    suit_fitting03-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A gentleman client has a fitting for a new made-to-measure suit, seen through a City taylor's window.
    suit_fitting01-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A tailor cuts red material for flying suits of of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. The man is a bespoke tailor at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire. Every Winter, the Red Arrows place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits. Tricia adjusts her thread while the suit is complete on her work bench. The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches. All suits are made from Nomex by the Du Pont corporation, containing 5% Kevlar. Flame-retardant, they fit exactly each team member. Fouteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist.
    Red_Arrows455_RBA.jpg
  • NASA technology.Boy admires an Apollo moon suit.A boy visitor looks at an Apollo moon suit at the Kennedy Space Center museum dedicated to NASA's achievements. It is over 30 years since man last set foot on the moon but, for many Americans, the romance of space travel is more powerful than ever.
    Nasa13 RBA.jpg
  • Mannequins displaying casual stylish menswear in window of City of London branch of Suit Supply.
    male_mannequins03-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Mannequins displaying casual stylish menswear in window of City of London branch of Suit Supply.
    male_mannequins01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Mannequins displaying casual stylish menswear in window of City of London branch of Suit Supply.
    male_mannequins02-27-04-2012.jpg
  • As families with children play on the sandy beach in the distance, a red wet suit dries on the sea wall, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992.jpg
  • A businessman pauses next to a closed shop poster featuring a similar man also wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-10-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A tall man wearing a blue suit strides past a parked taxi in the same blue, in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-29-04-06-2018.jpg
  • Male suit mannequin and overhead power wiring  in Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-09-17-06-2016.jpg
  • A man wearing a gret suit stands with his back to a shop window in central London.
    grey_man01-23-09-2015.jpg
  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • A man wearing a blue suit walks down Whitehall during seasonal rain showers, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-01-09-05-2019.jpg
  • A businessman pauses next to a closed shop poster featuring a similar man also wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-11-29-08-2018.jpg
  • Anonymous man wearing shiny grey suit stands in narrow sunlit lane in the City of London.
    city_suit07-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Anonymous man wearing shiny grey suit stands in narrow sunlit lane in the City of London.
    city_suit03-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Anonymous man wearing shiny grey suit stands in narrow sunlit lane in the City of London.
    city_suit01-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Wearing yellow winter clothing, a tourist couple look in the window of London West End branch of Suit Supply.
    clothing_window02-02-02-2012.jpg
  • Wearing yellow winter clothing, a tourist couple look in the window of London West End branch of Suit Supply.
    clothing_window01-02-02-2012.jpg
  • A bukser wearing a union jack suit made by Lonsdale hugs a lady tourists for souvenir picture in Trafalgar Sq.
    union_jack_man03-02-07-2010.jpg
  • London busker wearing union jack suit stands waiting donations as tourist parents attend to baby in Trafalgar Sq.
    union_jack_man01-02-07-2010.jpg
  • Women walk past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-14-29-08-2018.jpg
  • Londoners walk past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-05-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A stylish businessman wearing a 3-piece suit strides below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-13-10-05-2017.jpg
  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
    pigeon_droppings07-16-1992.jpg
  • After a rain shower in central London - the six-month point of the Coronaviruus pandemic lockdown - a businessman wearing a suit and face covering (over his mouth but not nose), strides through Piccadilly Circus carrying a brolly, on 24th September, in London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'. And after being encouraged back to the office to help local economies, workers are again being advised to work from home if possible.
    picccadilly_man02-23-09-2020.jpg
  • After a rain shower in central London - the six-month point of the Coronaviruus pandemic lockdown - a businessman wearing a suit and face covering (over his mouth but not nose), strides through Piccadilly Circus carrying a brolly, on 24th September, in London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'. And after being encouraged back to the office to help local economies, workers are again being advised to work from home if possible.
    picccadilly_man01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • A man wearing a patriotic Union Jack suit waits for the next bus along with other commuters at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, south London, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-02-10-05-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a patriotic Union Jack suit waits for the next bus along with other commuters at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, south London, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-03-10-05-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a striped suit descends the steps of Westminster Underground Station, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    striped_man-01-16-10-2018.jpg
  • A man wearing a suit makes a hamstring stretch on the Southbank, on 21st September 2018, in London England
    southbank_stretch-01-21-09-2018.jpg
  • A lady pauses to take a picture of the nearby Lloyds Building next to a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-09-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A lady pauses to take a picture of the nearby Lloyds Building next to a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-08-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A Londoner walk past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-07-29-08-2018.jpg
  • Londoners walk past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-06-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A Londoner walks past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-04-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A Londoner walks past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-03-29-08-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a patriotic man wearing a Union Jack suit and carrying a flag walks down the Mall, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-14-10-07-2018.jpg
  • The legs of a workman wearing hi-vis and a City businessman in a suit walking down Lombard Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 15th May 2018, in London, UK.
    workman_businessman-01-15-05-2018.jpg
  • A stylish businessman in a shiny blue suit strides below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-14-10-05-2017.jpg
  • A stylish businessman wearing a 3-piece suit strides below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-12-10-05-2017.jpg
  • Suit of medieval armour and sign for the Tower of London's Welcome Centre.
    uk_tourism03-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Pinstriped suit businessman checks messages during a cigar break, beneath tall of columns at Cornhill, City of London.
    city_smoker01-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Red flying suit belonging the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, hanging near another Squadron's cock emblem
    Red_Arrows332_RBA.jpg
  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop.
    sex_shop04-06-10-2010.jpg
  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop.
    sex_shop02-06-10-2010.jpg
  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop as unsighted man passes-by.
    sex_shop01-06-10-2010.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
  • A gentleman dressed in a pin-stripe suit favoured by older workers in England, exhales the smoke from a fat cigar during a lunch-hour in Trinity Square in the City of London. The man is overweight and leads an unhealthy lifestyle, his chin overlapping his striped shirt. The cigar is held at the tips of two fingers and we can see in profile the billowing of a smoky cloud  from the man's lips. Government statistics suggest that in 2001, 27% of adults aged 16 and over smoked cigarettes in England; 28% of men and 25% of women. 66% of smokers in England wanted to give up smoking but more than 120,000 deaths were caused by smoking in the UK in 1995; that is, one in five of all deaths.
    smokers06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Looking down on office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market. In the foreground a man in a dark suit has taken off his jacket and is lying down to complete his Financial Times (FT) crossword. Nearby, a lady and man are sitting eating a packed lunch. The City, is the historic financial core of London from which the modern conurbation grew and its one square mile (2.6 km) boundary has remained constant since the Middle Ages.
    finsbury_sheep_people-08-03-2007.jpg
  • 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..
    city_gent_bank-29-06-1993.jpg
  • A middle-aged man dressed in a smart dark suit is about to descend underground to Bank tube (subway) station beneath the converging columns of the famous Bank of England and Cornhill Exchange at Bank Triangle in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. The gentleman is on his way home in the afternoon, his commuting exodus to be shared by its daily working population of 311,000. This perspective of suggests a bank and its architecture looking powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The pillars give a sense of establishment, a scene of classic stability and strength.
    bank_triangle02-04-20-1997.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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  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
    paignton_diver01-21-07-993.jpg
  • A US Navy airman stands holding a recently-bought hot dog from a food dispenser at the Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily Italy. Wearing a green flying suit, the snack is wrapped in a napkin and its chemically-enhanced yellow mustard echoes the stripes and badge of his squadron. Home to over 5,000 military and civilian personnel including family members, Sigonella is an outpost for American nationals who have the luxuries from home freighted out to their remote mission, a hub of naval air operations in the Mediterranean Sea and home comforts keep up morale. 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_corbis35-22-02-2001.jpg
  • A man wearing a striped suit descends the steps of Westminster Underground Station, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    striped_man-02-16-10-2018.jpg
  • A man wearing a suit makes a hamstring stretch on the Southbank, on 21st September 2018, in London England
    southbank_stretch-02-21-09-2018.jpg
  • a Londoner carrying a brolly walks past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-13-29-08-2018.jpg
  • Women walk past a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-12-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A menswear shop window with fashion mannequins and the words Suit-up Britain, on the Strand on 1st September 2017, in London, England.
    savoy_suits-01-01-09-2017.jpg
  • An eccentric looking woman passes-by Suitsupply, a fashion shop on Vigo Street in London's West End. Wearing large, owl-like glasses and a bright red scarf, the woman walks past a line-up of three mannequins dressed in stylish suits for the London gentleman. In their shop window, we can see a reflection of the Union Jack flag of other couture fashion houses in Saville Row, where Vigo Street forms a junction near Regent Street.
    fashion_window1-08-September-2011.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. 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-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993.jpg
  • Menswear suits on sale in a retailer's window, with reflections of everyday City life on Cannon Street in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-13-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Menswear suits on sale in a retailer's window, with reflections of everyday City life and red London bus on Cannon Street in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-09-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Menswear suits on sale in a retailer's window, with reflections of everyday City life on Cannon Street in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-10-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Menswear suits on sale in a retailer's window, with reflections of everyday City life on Cannon Street in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-11-24-08-2016.jpg
  • A smart suited businessman walks past an unfortunate homeless man holding his worldly possessions.
    homeless_man3-18-10-2011.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.
    city-men06-20-1997.jpg
  • The Financial Times in the arm of a central London menswear shop mannequin
    ft_mannequin01-10-06-2015.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
  • 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
  • 13 year-old Adam leader dances with a girl at his Bar Mitzvah, a lavish party in Borehamwood, on 14th October 2001, in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and Adam can be seen with the arms of a young lady while a pair of hands reach around the back of his mother (left).
    jewish_party-14-10-2001.jpg
  • A train passenger waits for the doors to open at City Thameslink station, on 15th October 2019, in London, England.
    elstree_journey-02-15-10-2019.jpg
  • A council contractor uses a strimmer on weeds along the railings of Ruskin Park, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
    park_strimmer-02-04-07-2018.jpg
  • A council contractor uses a strimmer on weeds along the railings of Ruskin Park, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
    park_strimmer-01-04-07-2018.jpg
  • A menswear shop window featuring the idea of summer holidays and escapism, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-03-04-06-2018.jpg
  • A young City worker waits for a friend on Bank Triangle in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people31-09-10-2015.jpg
  • A young City worker waits for a friend on Bank Triangle in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people30-09-10-2015.jpg
  • Passer-by and a City cafe in sunlight on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people28-09-10-2015.jpg
  • A young man strides past the wall and name of the London Stock Exchange in the City of London. Walking fast past this financial institution, we see the young man's shadow on the wall beneath the name on the exterior wall. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange01-02-05-1989.jpg
  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
    ukip_members01-20-09-2013.jpg
  • An anonymous US Navy P-3 surveillance pilot walks out of a hangar into the dark and towards his aircraft before his night patrol over the Mediterranean, simulating the search for enemy submarines during a NATO exercise. Holding his flight bag containing secret details of his flight and equipment needed for politing the plane, he also wears survival clothing for operations over hostile seas.
    US_navy_pilot01-10-01-2003.jpg
  • Formally-dressed racegoers wait for colleagues or friends during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot17-19-06-2013.jpg
  • At Cornhill in the City of London, a businessman descends the steps into the London Underground, at Bank station, below the Bank of England.
    city_cornhill02-23-04-2013.jpg
  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    shoeshiner-15-04-1993.jpg
  • A man wearing a bright Adidas tracksuit-type of sports clothing walks and talks passing the pillars of the Bank of England.
    bank_triangle03-20-03-2012.jpg
  • Student from Singapore celebrates her end of Chemistry Finals (exams)  at Oxford University.
    oxford_student02-08-06-2010.jpg
  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    city_london12-15-12-2007 .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
  • In the kitchen on a Sunday morning, space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts reads the Sunday newspaper while his wife empties the dishwasher in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters facility near Las Cruces.  .
    baker_virgin03.jpg
  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • Poster men hang a covering over a window at the Savoy Taylors Guild in The Strand, London UK. Taylors Guild is a high-profile clothing shop next to the famous Savoy Hotel. Part of the Moss Bros Group. Savoy Taylors Guild was pioneering the concept of Gentlemens' taylor a century ago. Its vision in 1903, was ?to supply high grade outfitting for men, in commodious surroundings, giving honest value for cash, and to exercise unceasing efforts in satisfying the wishes of its customers.? The Savoy Taylors Guild shop ? right next to the Savoy Hotel in London?s Strand ? was in itself an immaculate example of the craftsmanship of the times, with elegant brass-fronted windows shining out on the changing and developing world of the Edwardian era.
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  • Straightening one's tie at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
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  • A few pedestrians and a homeless person on the junction at Bank Triangle, in front of Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the 'City of London', the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A rear view of a man eating his lunch with his orange tie laying over his shoulder and down his back, at the Strand West End branch of Sushi restaurant, ITSU, on 28th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Two businessmen walk past the Alpheus Building on Blomfield Street, a property being refurbished near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England. The address at 31–35 Blomfield Street is a modern retail space behind a historic Edwardian facade.
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  • A lady wearing a distinctive blue dress walks past a board showing a man wearing a similar colour shade at the Alpheus Building on Blomfield Street, a property being refurbished near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England. The address at 31–35 Blomfield Street is a modern retail space behind a historic Edwardian facade.
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  • A lady wearing a distinctive blue dress walks past a board showing a man wearing a similar colour shade at the Alpheus Building on Blomfield Street, a property being refurbished near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England. The address at 31–35 Blomfield Street is a modern retail space behind a historic Edwardian facade.
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