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  • For sale sign for Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood outside property in Fawnbrake Road, London SE24.
    for_sale01-15-11-2010.jpg
  • Four estate agent's property boards advertise their names and numbers in a London housing estate, each representing vendors selling their houses and flats for a set commission in the housing market. Above the signs is the pink blossom from a cherry tree whose branches hang over the temporary information boards. The term originally referred to a person responsible for managing a landed estate, while those engaged in the buying and selling of homes were "House Agents", and those selling land were "Land Agents". However, in the 20th century, "Estate Agent" started to be used as a generic term, perhaps because it was thought to sound more impressive. Estate agent is roughly synonymous in the United States with the term real estate broker.
    for_sale-25-01-1991.jpg
  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS (National Health Service) care workers, outside a 'Homes For Heroes' (for WW1 veterans) at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-27-23-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS (National Health Service) care workers, outside a 'Homes For Heroes' (for WW1 veterans) at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-30-23-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS (National Health Service) care workers, outside a 'Homes For Heroes' (for WW1 veterans) at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-29-23-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS (National Health Service) care workers, outside a 'Homes For Heroes' (for WW1 veterans) at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-26-23-04-2020.jpg
  • On a TV screen in Bar Italia, the famous Italian cafe in Soho, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the the UK on live TV to announce a second nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. Businesses like Bar Italia will again have to close except for takeaways, from midnight on Thursday for a period of one month.
    coronavirus_bar_italia02-31-10-2020.jpg
  • US NBC TV reporter Natalie Morales with technicians reports live for Today from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait11-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Bikes and pedestrians plus architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag18-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Cycling access light and structures of 2012 Olympic Park site showing The Orbit art tower at Stratford. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain. The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is the newest addition to the Olympic Park and provides an attraction to rival those visited the world over. The Orbit tower gives views over the Park and the rest of London, it also caters for events and conferences offering delegates and organisers alike a unique setting and location for their event.
    olympic_stratford30-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Writer Polly Morland with Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, for the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    david_spiegelhalter01-28-05-2014.jpg
  • A Kratos BQM-177i drone target at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Based upon the U.S. Navy’s BQM-177A, the BQM-177i meets the international community’s need for highly dynamic, high-subsonic, sea-skimming, anti-ship cruise missile threat emulation. Capable of speeds in excess of Mach 1 and altitudes above 35,000 feet, the BQM-177i is ideally suited for missions that include testing surface-to-air weapon systems, such as those on naval vessels.
    farnborough_air_show71-14-07-2014.jpg
  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag07-08-04-2013.jpg
  • London lady stands for a souvenir photo on the Olympic rings that stand at the entrance of King Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
    olympic_cycling52-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for the 'Werk Nu' (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium from de Botton's 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition10-13-10-2009.jpg
  • The People’s Vote March For The Future on 20th October 2018 in London, United Kingdom. 650,000 people marched on Parliament to demand their democratic voice to be heard in a landmark demonstration billed as the most important protest of a generation. As the date of the UK’s Brexit from the European Union is ever closer, the protesters gathered in their tens of thousands to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
    peoples_vote_march-24-20-10-2018.jpg
  • The People’s Vote March For The Future on 20th October 2018 in London, United Kingdom. 650,000 people marched on Parliament to demand their democratic voice to be heard in a landmark demonstration billed as the most important protest of a generation. As the date of the UK’s Brexit from the European Union is ever closer, the protesters gathered in their tens of thousands to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
    peoples_vote_march-10-20-10-2018.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house27-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house10-24-11-2013.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown05-10-10-2013.jpg
  • A supporting pillar that forms the outer wall of the Bank of England and a City of London sign for Threadneedle Street EC2 at Bank Underground station in the heart of the capital's financial district. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 acted as the English Government's banker, and to this day it still acts as the banker for HM Government. The Bank was privately owned and operated from its foundation in 1694. It was subordinated to the Treasury after 1931 in making policy and was nationalised in 1946. In 1997 it became an independent public organisation, wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.
    city_architecture16-04-03-2013.jpg
  • Young girls enjoy their latest purchase of foam hands as they exit the official London 2012 merchandise shop - hours before another successful gold medal win, this time by Team GB triathlete Alistair Brownlee in the men's Triathlon during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The mid-week event surprisingly drew huge crowds into the capital's largest public (royal) park for an event, not usually attracting families with children who all enjoyed the fine weather and easy temperatures. A London 2012 merchandise shop was set up on the southern side and parents and kids used the exterior hoarding featuring iconic London landmarks such as Nelson's Column, St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge, to relax against after an early start from homes around the country
    olympic_triathlon02-07-08-2012.jpg
  • Structures of 2012 Olympic Park site showing The Orbit art tower and the main stadium at Stratford. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain. The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is the newest addition to the Olympic Park and provides an attraction to rival those visited the world over. The Orbit tower gives views over the Park and the rest of London, it also caters for events and conferences offering delegates and organisers alike a unique setting and location for their event.
    olympic_stratford27-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Structures of 2012 Olympic Park site showing The Orbit art tower and the main stadium at Stratford. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain. The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is the newest addition to the Olympic Park and provides an attraction to rival those visited the world over. The Orbit tower gives views over the Park and the rest of London, it also caters for events and conferences offering delegates and organisers alike a unique setting and location for their event.
    olympic_stratford12-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
    RB_074-16-02-1992.jpg
  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag09-08-04-2013.jpg
  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag11-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park35-10-08-2012.jpg
  • A young boy eats an ice cream below portraits of the BMX athlete Shanaze Reade and celebrated diver Tom Daley, both funded by the National Lottery, an exhibition featured in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. As the tally for gold medals climbed, so the argument over government funding for the young gathered pace. In times of austerity, schools and sports clubs had their budgets for sport reduced and Team GB's success raised more concerns for the future of British youth as potential medal winners.
    olympic_park14-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Two manual labourers walk beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters at Liverpool Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster05-14-03-2013.jpg
  • HMS Ocean (L12) of the Royal Navy edges upstream on the River Thames towards Greenwich ahead of a major security exercise in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games. Ocean is an amphibious assault ship (or landing platform helicopter), the sole member of her class and the Royal Navy's largest ship. She then berthed at Greenwich in east London, close to the main Olympic venue where it will act as a launch pad for eight army Lynx helicopters from 661 Squadron and a base for Royal Marine snipers, able to shoot at the engines of fast-moving targets. It is the final phase of the exercise named Olympic Guardian, which began earlier this week in Weymouth, England and in the airspace over the capital. During the actual Olympics in July, Ocean will be moored in Greenwich to provide logistics support, accommodation to 9 Assault Squadron Royal Marines and a helicopter landing site. HMS (Her Majestys Ship) Ocean was constructed in the mid 90s at a cost of £234 million, the 203.4m (667 ft) long, 21,500 tonnes. .
    hmsOcean_greenwich01-04-05-2012.jpg
  • Coldstream guardsman and Union Jack flag appear on a poster outside a tourist shop in central London. Located on a street corner near the British Museum in central London, we see these iconic symbols for Britishness, for the tourism industry and for Britian's Uk identity.
    tourism_britain02-22-04-2015.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline04-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_men01-25-08-1995.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown06-10-10-2013.jpg
  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag16-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag17-08-04-2013.jpg
  • A portrait of Britain's first lady deacon, Christine Farrington at Salisbury Cathedral. Standing outside the grand architecture of this fine English structure. Deacon is a ministry in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many traditions the "diaconate", the term for a deacon's office, is a clerical office; in others it is for laity. The word "deacon" is derived from the Greek word diakonos, standard ancient Greek for "servant", "waiting-man", "minister" or "messenger". Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
    woman_deacon01-12-03-1994.jpg
  • A map and exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park40-10-08-2012.jpg
  • A sleeping spectator and English garden flowers during the London 2012 Olympics. London's Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park93-02-08-2012.jpg
  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS (National Health Service) care workers, outside a 'Homes For Heroes' (for WW1 veterans) at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-28-23-04-2020.jpg
  • Calvin Klein male model and Coldstream guardsman appear on a poster outside a tourist shop in central London. Located on a street corner near the British Museum in central London, we see these iconic symbols for Britishness, for the tourism industry and for Britian's UK identity.
    tourism_britain05-22-04-2015.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline15-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline07-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Fruit and buyers in the narrow streets of the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. A local woman across the narrow, high-sided street, yawns while an orange and apple seller looks for her next customer on the cobbled lane. <br />
Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a different personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.
    lisbon_market02-22-03-1994.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown03-10-10-2013.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown04-10-10-2013.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base03-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky and wreck of a Rolls-Royce at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag13-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Joggers pass the restaurant of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag20-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Exterior of 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum04-07-04-2013.jpg
  • ID papers for an anonymous secret agent from Cottbus, Germany, an exhibit in the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. The Stasi Museum is a 22-hectare complex of research  and memorial centre concerning the political system of the former East Germany. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum07-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
    toshiba_buyers-03-03-1990.jpg
  • A solitary person walks over wasteland in Liverpool, England, left after housing was demolished decades ago - its impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere. the sign tells us the name of this road but paint has been daubed over it in an attempt perhaps, to erase its identity now that the community has gone too. Billboards for consumer goods are on show for  non-existent shoppers.
    liverpool_dereliction04-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Military jet fighter engines awaiting recycling for scrap value in arid desert at Davis Monthan facility, Tucson, Arizona.  A landscape of old technology, the relics of former wars and air supremacy now reduced to aluminium and sprayed IDs. Jet pipes and power plants, the energy to get multi-million aircraft into the air to attack or defend territory and culture. These retired aircraft engines whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft.
    jet_engines-15-08-1998.jpg
  • A Concorde supersonic airliner registration G-BOAB flies overhead during its service for British Airways - en-route for a foreign destination. The delta-winged jet was first flown in 1969, entering commercial service in 1976 for 27 years until the disastrous in Paris ended its viability. Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). With a program cost of £1.3 billion and a unit cost of £23 million in 1977.
    concorde-11-07-1988.jpg
  • The SE corner of Connaught Square W2 (on the junction with Seymour Street), the location now said by historians to be the site of the medieval Tyburn gallows. Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames. For many centuries, the name was synonymous with capital punishment, its having been the principal place for execution of London criminals and convicted traitors and martyrs.
    connaught_sq01-02-10-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park37-10-08-2012.jpg
  • An image of a butterfly is attached to a young tree trunk surrounded by wild flowers in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. London's Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park23-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park22-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Families and spectators sing the British national anthem during a medal ceremony for shooting gold medallist Peter Robinson in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park124-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators admire the Ribbon of Gold, 7 annual species of English garden flowers created by 100 staff with the main Olympic stadium in the background during the London 2012 Olympics. London's Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park85-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park43-02-08-2012.jpg
  • A Transport for London (TFL) poster at a Westminster bus stop shows an oversized cyclist, promoting cycling as alternative mode of transport in London. Reflected in a glass panel is a lady cyclist many times more her actual size than the car next to her in the road and pedestrians waling on pavements. The trick of scale is seen in this TFL campaign for more, safer cycling in the capital which has traditionally been a city for the driver, rathern than for those eager to beat the jams on two wheels.
    TFL_cycling02-08-04-2010.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
<br />
A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition09-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-26-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A young man with a Welcome Home balloon, meets his partner after a long absence, in the airport terminal at Chicago-O'Hare airport, Illinois, USA. Waiting for his partner for some hours in the darkened terminal, a late arrival oon this day, the young man has been patient after a slight delay but finally, the girl comes through the arrivals gate to greet her close friend - loving the balloon gesture and pleased to be safely in his arms. Travelling down the escalator into a cross-terminal tunnel they leave the airport for home, 12 months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    airport_welcome04-23-11-2000.jpg
  • A young man with a Welcome Home balloon, meets his partner after a long absence, in the airport terminal at Chicago-O'Hare airport, Illinois, USA. Waiting for his partner for some hours in the darkened terminal, a late arrival oon this day, the young man has been patient after a slight delay but finally, the girl comes through the arrivals gate to greet her close friend - loving the balloon gesture and pleased to be safely in his arms. Hugging tightly they embrace in front of other passengers before leaving the airport for home, 12 months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    airport_welcome03-23-11-2000.jpg
  • Draped in the Union flag, ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along St Margaret's Street towards the Palace of Westminster in London for the last time. Her body is due to spend the night beneath Parliament in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft after a service held later for around 100 MPs, peers and parliamentary and Downing Street staff. Tomorrow, her funeral at St Paul's Cathedral will accommodate 2,000 invited VIP guests from around the world. Lady Thatcher died from a stroke at the age of 87 on 8 April.
    thatcher_hearse01-16-04-2013.jpg
  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster03-14-03-2013.jpg
  • A For Sale sign stands outside the main door of River House, a building in the wool town of Kersey, being sold by the Savills and Winkworth estate agents (both seen on reverse sides of the placard)  that opens on to the street in on 9th July 2020, in Kersey, Suffolk, England. River House is a 15th century Elizabethan town house, on the market for £1.2m though is currently in a derelict state.  The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
    suffolk-18-10-07-2020.jpg
  • Exterior of the Smack Boys home at Ramsgate's Harbour, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Sailors’ Church and Harbour Mission, was built for the spiritual guidance and physical help for the men and boys who made up the crews of the sailing smacks who fished out of Ramsgate in the nineteenth century. The young apprentices were called Smack Boys and when ashore, were provided with some comfort in the rooms above the church and later, in the Smack Boys Home. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-144-08-01-2019.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-20-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A crate of chopped logs for sale by a man called George for £130 on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-19-10-09-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a cleaning crew with the contractor Conroy wash down surfaces on the Millennium Bridge for the first time in its 15 year history. A cleaning crew with the contractor Conway wash down surfaces on the Millennium Bridge for the first time in its 15 year history. With the Shard in the background, a cleaning crew with the contractor Conway wash down surfaces on the Millennium Bridge for the first time in its 15 year history.
    conways_millenium14-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert readies for her class in her dressing room at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert241-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Surf and coastal rocks near St Michael's Isle Round Fort, near Castletown on the Isle of Man, UK. This wild landscape of white surf of coastal waters crashing on to rocks and rockpools is known as St Michael's Isle is referred to as Fort Island, an island of the Isle of Man in Malew parish, noted for its attractive ruins. It covers an area of 5.14 hectares (12.7 acres), is about 400 metres (440 yd) long. There is evidence for human activity on the island from the Mesolithic period onwards.
    sea_rocks-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of a young lady vet, Diana Stapleton with cows at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Diana has just delivered twin calves and checks on other members of the herd before leaving for another appointment. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
    woman_vet02-09-08-1995.jpg
  • Tessa Jowell MP chats to a Lord Lieutenant before the arrival of the Queen who made a brief visit to the Ebony Horse Club at Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London. Dame Tessa Jane Jowell DBE (born 17 September 1947) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until 11 September 2012, resigning two days after the end of London 2012.
    queen_brixton01-29-10-2013.jpg
  • Boating crew at Gay's Staithe on Barton Broad, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve. Gay's Staithe lies along the western arm of Barton Broad known as Limekiln Dyke, once a calling point for wherriy boats carrying corn, coal and reeds for the thatching industry and named after Billy Gay whose trading wherry business operated from here.
    norfolk_boating05-01-08-2013.jpg
  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait18-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Draped in the Union flag, ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along St Margaret's Street towards the Palace of Westminster in London for the last time. Her body is due to spend the night beneath Parliament in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft after a service held later for around 100 MPs, peers and parliamentary and Downing Street staff. Tomorrow, her funeral at St Paul's Cathedral will accommodate 2,000 invited VIP guests from around the world. Lady Thatcher died from a stroke at the age of 87 on 8 April.
    thatcher_hearse03-16-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum17-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum34-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship whose focus is on the 17th century Spanish Baroque painter's relationship with his patron and friend, Don Justino de Neve, a canon of Seville Cathedral, bringing together nearly all of the paintings Murillo made for Neve. Some artworks have never before been seen in public, taken down from its high position in Seville Cathedral for the first time since it was installed by Neve in 1667.
    murillo_dulwich10-05-02-2013.jpg
  • Dr. Xavier Bray, chief curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery conducts a guided tour during the Gallery's exhibition Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship whose focus is on the 17th century Spanish Baroque painter's relationship with his patron and friend, Don Justino de Neve, a canon of Seville Cathedral, bringing together nearly all of the paintings Murillo made for Neve. Some artworks have never before been seen in public, taken down from their high position in Seville Cathedral for the first time since they were installed by Neve in 1667.
    murillo_dulwich08-05-02-2013.jpg
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship whose focus is on the 17th century Spanish Baroque painter's relationship with his patron and friend, Don Justino de Neve, a canon of Seville Cathedral, bringing together nearly all of the paintings Murillo made for Neve. Some artworks have never before been seen in public, taken down from its high position in Seville Cathedral for the first time since it was installed by Neve in 1667.
    murillo_dulwich04-05-02-2013.jpg
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship whose focus is on the 17th century Spanish Baroque painter's relationship with his patron and friend, Don Justino de Neve, a canon of Seville Cathedral, bringing together nearly all of the paintings Murillo made for Neve. Some artworks have never before been seen in public, taken down from its high position in Seville Cathedral for the first time since it was installed by Neve in 1667.
    murillo_dulwich03-05-02-2013.jpg
  • Two sexy girls pose for a photoshoot - a PR stunt for a womens' underwear company - employing their body services to promote their bras. A young boy looks on with a look of wonder and suspicion and workmen in the background look on with interest too.
    pr_photocall-02-07-1998.jpg
  • In the weeks before Christmas day in December, the Lord Mayor of London makes a speech in front of invited guests and VIPs, hosting his annual party in the Great Hall at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia.
    lord_mayor01-16-11-1993.jpg
  • An aerial view of a west London Porsche car salesman in his salesroom. We look down from a high vantage point to see three of his sports cars looking highly-polished in this expensive and exclusive market for elite cars. Two 911 (964) Carrera models from their 1992 range are seen in red and black - one an open top and the other a saloon. The Porsche 964 is the company's internal name for the version of the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1994, designed by Benjamin Dimson in 1986 and built in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
    car_salesman-12-08-1992.jpg
  • A woman stands beneath the inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis which adorns the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage/Crown' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city08-08-08-2012.jpg
  • A worker sorts change for two spectators buying bottles of officially-sponsored iced bottles of Carlsberg beer for £4.30 (Pounds) in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. In the background is the Orbit artwork tower and surrounded by trees and green grass. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park122-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators cheer on their favourite athletes surrounded by green grass and trees n the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. In the background are giant IOC Olympic rings on a hill. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park108-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Seen through the hole where a person's head might appear for a family photo, a smoker enjoys a cigarette with the foreground of a bodybuilder, the epitome of health and beauty. The Greenwich Festival is a Summer Long Spectacular for 2012 - Live At The Old Royal Naval College. The man is watching an Equestrian event on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic games.
    greenwich_olympics20-30-07-2012.jpg
  • American lady stands for a souvenir photo on the Olympic rings that stand at the entrance of King Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
    olympic_cycling55-28-07-2012.jpg
  • A life-size cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth stands in a print business window in central London, ahead of a weekend of nationwide celebrations for the monarch's Diamond Jubilee. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    queens_jubilee11-01-06-2012.jpg
  • Kimberly-Clark paper warehouse, Thames Gateway, Northfleet.<br />
<br />
Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    pleasures_sorrows_framed28-28-11-201...jpg
  • Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    pleasures_sorrows_framed11-28-11-201...jpg
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