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20 images Created 15 Oct 2021

A gallery of images collated for a project about Age that has yet to be commissioned.

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  • A father and child in a buggy and a daughter with her aged mother in a wheelchair admire a Lego representation of Queen Elizabeth 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.
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  • A contestant for the next Torbay Carnival Princess and Queen is interviewed by a man as the competition thrones await their newest occupants during the seaside town's fair in Devon, England. A crown, hat and two bouquets of flowers are for the young girls too. The theme of the stage is blue, with matching colours on both cushions and the backing curtain (drapes). We get a sense of the tacky and the old-fashioned nature of the carnival and of its princess competition.
    carnival_princess03-22-10-2012.jpg
  • A 15 year-old boy blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset. The old but sprightly and active gentleman keeps his legs straight to avoid scraping them along the woodland floor and stopping him before the end of the short ride. In the background are members of his family of varying ages, encouraging and laughing as he sweeps past on this bright summer afternoon.
    zip_wire04-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Elderly environmental activists protest about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
    extincttion_rebellion-52-09-10-2019.jpg
  • An elderly pensioner gentleman stands surrounded by a summer crop of tomatoes growing in his greenhouse.
    granddad_greenhouse02-28-08-2010.jpg
  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons, in their kitchen in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesuvius which last erupted in 1945. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius311-29-05-2014.jpg
  • 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.
    french_elderly10-16-1997.jpg
  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius469-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache.
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  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
    fishmonger_portrait02-19-07-1993.jpg
  • The mother of a young 13 year-old Jewish boy helps celebrate his coming-of-age at his bar mitzvah party, on 12th February 2001, in London, England.
    barmitzvah_boy-12-02-2001.jpg
  • An unidentified father in the act of pouring coffee from a cafetiere into two metallic silver mugs in while holding his sleeping baby son in his London kitchen. The unconscious child is a few months old and the parent stands expertly holding both hot liquid and infant as if juggling pleasure and parenthood simultaneously. The sleeping child is limp in the father's arm and is dressed in the same scarlet red as the vibrant colour on the wall behind. We only see the man's upper-legs and torso but the baby is tiny against his body making the scale of both young and old. otherwise, the generic room is bare of decoration or possessions - only a drying cloth and chopping board is seen on the draining board, near plain white tiles.
    children20-30-08-2007.jpg
  • "Crooked Lady." A twelve month-old girl who has recently learned to walk proudly strides past an elderly lady with balancing arms outstretched while at the Dulwich Show in South London. There is a marked difference between the youthful, upright posture of the young girl to the hunched and bent stance of the old woman who stands supporting herself on a brolley. It is a picture that compares youth with old age, the delight that a person of later years shows to a child whose life reaches far ahead. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella23-20-04-1995.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman prunes his precious crop of fresh red roses from his front garden that sits astride the small River Wandle at Carshalton, south London. trimming off their heads, he s dressed in a straw hat and white apron. He is a very active gardener, the nurturing of plants and flowers being his passion now that he is of retirement age after a lifetime of work. Now he enjoys the rewards of his labours from mother earth in this lush plot of his that looks every bit the perfect English cottage garden despite it being in an urban inner-city.
    elderly_roses09-15-1993.jpg
  • Warm, orange light from a late, flaring sunset shines through condensation in a window that overlooks a residential street and tall trees in south London, on 12th February 2021, in London, Ebngland.
    window_sunlight07-12-02-2021.jpg
  • An elderly lady seated on a chair featuring Hollywood movie stars Audrey Hepburn, James Dean and Marylin Monroe, waits her turn in a local hairdressers, on 2nd October 2019, in Sutton, London, England
    sutton_journey-10-02-10-2019.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. A local lady resident shares home-made cake to neighbours, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-32-08-05-2020.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman has just emerged from a swim in the cold waters off Paignton, the seaside town in Devon, south-west England. Still to towel himself down, he looks chilled to the bone but stands talking to friends out of view. The man wears dark trunks (costume) and has a large belly but otherwise looks fit and healthy, a true picture of health for a man of his age, after swimming in these seas for many years and enjoying the endorphins that are stimulated after wild, outdoor swims.
    paignton_sea_swimmer-19-07-1993.jpg
  • An elderly couple walk down a country lane in Burrington Combe, North Somerset.
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  • A single fluffy cloud in blue sky passes over Wonderland, a former nightclub in Sutton south London, on 2nd October 2019, in Sutton, London, England
    sutton_journey-07-02-10-2019.jpg
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