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  • A holy Sadhu man attracts a crowd on the Maidan in central Calcutta, India. Near some ballustrades built by the British during the last years of the Raj, the man is leaning forward on his knees and his head is buried in gravel. Practicing Tapas or Niyamas, is one form of Austerity that holy men like this perform to cleanse themselves of bad thoughts. It is a conservation of energy; an increase of power in the system by sense control; a process of positive-thought, self-imposed  hardships and inner-strength - all to gain a higher being for oneself. They might stand in cold water in winter, stand on or bury their heads in earth. Niyamas also breeds non-violence, truthfullness, non-stealing, moderation, non-possessiveness, purity, contentment, discipline, study and surrender.
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  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
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  • Father Peter Geldard sits in his former Anglican Church near Faversham, England. He sits in a pew clasping his hands together and looking away as if lost in thought, the Christian cross and altar in the distance. Geldard is known for his stance against the Church of England's vote allowing the ordination of women priests in 1992, causing a huge row with Anglican church worshippers. Clergy, including five bishops, eventually left to join the Catholic Church including Father Geldard, who led the opposition and became a notorious debater, campaigner, and general nuisance to the church. He eventually resigned from his Anglican orders, moved out of his vicarage house and along with thirty-five members of his former parish (including the churchwardens and all the members of the parish council), now attends Mass at the Catholic church in Faversham. .
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  • A female darts player is in deep thought as she prepares for her next game during ladies darts tournament
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  • Buddhists share spiritual thoughts during retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
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  • Buddhists share spiritual thoughts during retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
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  • Buddhists share spiritual thoughts during retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
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  • Buddhists share spiritual thoughts during retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
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  • Buddhists share spiritual thoughts during retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
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  • A lonely-looking woman appears isolated in the company of tourists and visitors to London's Trafalgar Square.
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  • A lone, hooded figure stands looking vulnerable while hunched over railings towards the Seine on the Pont des Arts, Paris
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  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
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  • Woman sits alone working on writing on a city bench beneath spring blossom and roadworks barriers.
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  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape near a kissing couple in London.
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  • Woman sits alone working on writing on a city bench beneath spring blossom and roadworks barriers.
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  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape near a kissing couple in London.
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  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape in central London's riverside.
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  • Lunchtime diners in a sunlight window of a London Pret a Manger restaurant.
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  • An eleven year-old girl swings with head thrown backwards in a field in Herefordshire, England. It is an image of care-free youth, of a free-spirit and without a care in the world. The young lady gazes skyward as the swing takes her on an upward trajectory, the sun sinking behind distant trees, a scene of splendid inner-peace and tranquillity, disturbed only by the creaking of the rope on the tree above that supports her as she rides. She is staying at this small camp site where tipis and yurts is the theme of this eco-friendly and carbon-neutral holiday.
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  • It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. A man has waded out into waist-deep water and stands in the polluted river saying his prayers and offering thanks to his Hindu Gods. He has found inner-peace, a tranquillity surrounded by the chaotic pace of Indian life in this city. The engineering of the bridge stretches across the water as the humanity cross to their businesses and markets. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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  • Ninety year-old Mrs Irene Spurling sits with fingers crossed looking to camera with a mild look of mild bemusement. She is actually familiar with celebrity, having been the secretary to the Australian operatic singer Dame Nellie Melba between 1919-1921. She travelled with the diva in the latter years of her singing career, and in 1993 lived in a nursing home in Winchester, Hampshire England. Irene has clear blue eyes, brushed silver hair and seemingly gnarled, arthritic hands and still wears her wedding ring. Despite her years, she is still active and interested in her surroundings.
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  • A lone man sits in the sunshine, beneath a conbstruction site hoarding in central London.
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  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
    bible_quote01-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Elderly man walks along modern walkway, past a youthful office worker enjoying a thoughful moment in City of London.
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  • Elderly man walks along modern walkway, past a youthful office worker enjoying a thoughful moment in City of London.
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  • A lonely-looking man spends his lunchtime in an empty urban landscape in central London's riverside.
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  • A conspiratorial message written on a construction hoarding lets us know They are sticking transmitters in people.
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  • A dawn landscape of a mountain hostel at Ghorepani in the Annapurna Sanctuary, a preservation area of Nepal, high in the Himalayan foothills, on 16th January 1997, in Ghorepani, Nepal. Villages like this partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • 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.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Passers-by ignore destitute bag-lady in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui street on the Kowloon side.
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  • Ex-Anglican now Catholic priest Father Chris Viper at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London.
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  • A lone walker passes by a partially-collapsed broken sign announcing the summit of Rannoch Moor, Scotland UK, 1,350 feet above sea level. He is hunched against a driving wind at this altitude and the country he is walking over is bleak and boggy, a wetland high up in the Scottish Highlands. Thick tufts of grass and moss lie about in this tough terrain, held in great affection for long-distance hikers. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
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  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning at Poon Hill. Trekkers have gathered at this spot to take in the wonder of this spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. A sherpa has written his name in ice on a rail and western travellers continue their journey higher into the Annapurna range to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning. A traveller has emerged from his rudimentary room on the left of this lodge in Nepal to stand outside staring at the spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. The wind is whipping snow and ice from the peaks of the Annapurna range and trekkers come from all over the world to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
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  • With fresh flowers on her bedside table and get-well cards from well-wishers, an elderly lady patient lies on her hospital bed during her recovery at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, the leading centre for complementary medicine at 60 Great Ormond Street, central London. The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital provides complementary medicine treatment to outpatient and inpatients from virtually anywhere in the UK: From allergy & nutritional medicine; a children's clinic; complementary cancer care; podiatry & chiropody; musculoskeletal medicine; pharmacy services; rheumatology; skin services; stress & mood disorders and here, a women's clinic. There are other female patients also lying in bed, chatting or knitting.
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  • Awaiting the visit from his local country doctor to pay him a visit to his remote French farmhouse, an elderly gentleman sits alone in his favourite armchair. Uncertain what the future may hold, the man is old and frail and he looks down to the floor of this front room with worry across his face. He is suffering from cancer and may not live long but the presence of another human being, especially a doctor, is a small comfort from. Someone to share his concerns with and to seek advice from this terminal condition. It is a bright summer morning but even with the sun, it's a gloomy part of the house in which he lives alone.
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  • Feminist theologian, writer and Anglican priest Jan Fortune-Wood outside her St Barnabas Church in Kingshurst.
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  • Feminist theologian, writer and pioneering woman Anglican priest Jan Fortune-Wood at the altar of her Birmingham church St Barnabas Church in Kingshurst, Solihull.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
    nick_leeson14-01-09-2008.jpg
  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • Young lady sits at the desk of aerospace alloys manufacturer Kumz during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • A child's lost toy has been left on railway railings during wintry snow at Herne Hill, south London.
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  • A child's lost toy has been left on railway railings during wintry snow at Herne Hill, south London.
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  • Nick Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is now CEO of Galway United Football Club (http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/) whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Galway are presently (Oct 2008) bottom of the Irish Premier Division but Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world. Accompanying text is available from Peter Culshaw, peterculshaw@ukonline.co.uk.
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  • With litter on the ground nearby and with handwriting proclaiming the far-right BNP (British National Party) saving England, a businessman smokes on a bench while lost in thought , on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
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  • Young man of Chinese descent deep in thought on walkway with the new Olympic kinetic artwork called the Shoal at Stratford. 'The Shoal' at the Stratford Centre, east London, is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology.
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  • Young man of Chinese descent deep in thought on walkway with the new Olympic kinetic artwork called the Shoal at Stratford. 'The Shoal' at the Stratford Centre, east London, is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology.
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  • 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.
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  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
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  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt337-05-03-2016.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
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  • An elderly lady watches the world go by from her street doorway in Lisbon's Bica district of the Portuguese capital. Looking out from her cosy small home that open out on to the narrow street, the old woman looks thoughtful, reflecting on her life perhaps spent in the same quarter of the Portguese capital. Lisbon's Bica district is a steep gradient area of narrow streets more peaceful and atmospheric than other busier locations where cars and trams make wider roads noisier. Flights of steps dissect the quarter which remains largely unspoilt.
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  • Striding across the picture in different directions, two office workers: A lady in a red coat whose head and identity is lost in shadow, and a man wearing a dark suit whose stride is purposeful and confident. A third person, another man, leans against a wall looking thoughtfully into the distance. There is more shadow than highlight in this scene taken at Broadgate, a private estate of financial institutions and global businesses in the heart of the City of London. There are no spring leaves on the trees whose shadows are falling on an opposite wall. The headless lady looks sinister minus her face and there is tension in this image of linear and diagonal space. 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 stands on his own on a grassy bank to cut a lonely figure in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but lights still picks out the man against the darkening skyline. He stands with arms folded looking thoughtfully at the ground as if depressed or considering his isolation in the world. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
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  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
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  • Dawn bather covers his face with red cloth as sun rises over the Hooghly River, KolIkata. It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. Six bathers are either drying themselves after washing in the river, or are undressing to do so. It is a scene of inner-peace, a tranquillity surrounded by the chaotic pace of Indian life in this city. The engineering of the bridge stretches across the water towards the city beyond. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
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  • Seen from a hillside opposite, with the clear blue backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks, a Nepalese family crouch on the hilltop to rest during a family walk from their community village near Gorkha, Central Nepal. In the middle of the picture, a young girl twirls and dances across the clearing as her parents and siblings watch, drawfed by the powerfully- dominant range of natural features that form part of the highest altitudes on earth although Gorkha is only 3281 feet (about 1000 meters) above sea level. These peoples' homes cling to the sides of impressive mountains that draw tens of thousands of travellers to this region to trek the paths and conservation sanctuaries of this fast-developing Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom.
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  • The artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) sits on the steps of her best-known sculpture called 'House'. 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). It won Whiteread the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' at a close distance with graffiti painted on the walls stating the words "Wot for ..why not!" before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
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  • As traffic zooms past, the art installation called 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). Created by the artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) this is her best-known sculpture. It won her the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' next to a lamp post which throws down it's light on a winter evening, before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
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  • It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. Six bathers are either drying themselves after washing in the river, or are undressing to do so. It is a scene of inner-peace, a tranquillity surrounded by the chaotic pace of Indian life in this city. The engineering of the bridge stretches across the water towards the city beyond. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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  • A solitary person walks alone on a wet pavement during seasonal showers on Piccadilly in the capital's West End during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 22 February 2021, in London, England.
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  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A obscured businessman leans his A4 paper on a cafe window to write some notes, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A BBC London 94.9 radio reporter, on location in Trafalgar Square after the unveiling of the Fourth Plinth artwork.
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  • Blackboard workings belonging to mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
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  • A woman and man stand outside a modern office building for a cigarette break.
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  • Tranquil moment for a lone south London park dweller with a hazy cityscape in the distance.
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  • 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.
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  • A detail of post-it notes left on the looted Poundland shop (store) in Rye Lane, Peckham after the London riots of August 2011. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. ..Reproduced for Alain de Botton's 'Religion for Atheists' 2010. .Photograph copyright Richard Baker, London.richard@bakerpictures.com.Tel 0044 207836 287080.
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  • Employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending a counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
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  • Looked upon by the large eyes from a Specsavers opticians ad, a train passenger leans against the carriage window of a train stopped at Denmark Hill in south London, on 31st October 2020, in London, England.
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  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-28-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-27-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-26-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-25-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • Seen from the southern bank of the river Thames is the architecture of Kingston Bridge where a pedestrian climbs its steps, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England. A crossing has existed at Kingston since ancient times and this version of Kingston Bridge was constructed by Herbert for £26,800 and opened by the Duchess of Clarence (the future Queen Adelaide) on 17 July 1828. Constructed from Portland stone, it comprises of five elliptical arches.
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  • Seen from the southern bank of the river Thames is the architecture of Kingston Bridge where a pedestrian stops to take a selfie photo, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England. A crossing has existed at Kingston since ancient times and this version of Kingston Bridge was constructed by Herbert for £26,800 and opened by the Duchess of Clarence (the future Queen Adelaide) on 17 July 1828. Constructed from Portland stone, it comprises of five elliptical arches.
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  • A man smokes beneath Renaissance arches of the Cloth Hall and one of the towers of the Church of St Mary on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A man smokes beneath Renaissance arches of the Cloth Hall and one of the towers of the Church of St Mary on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A man smokes beneath Renaissance arches of the Cloth Hall and one of the towers of the Church of St Mary on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • From the viewpoint of the hillside chairlift, a grass meadow landscape, a Polish visitor looks down on the Polish village of Jaworki, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Wmokers enjoy summer sunshine in a quiet corner off Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Wmokers enjoy summer sunshine in a quiet corner off Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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