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  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • The grim architecture of the London College of Communications (LCC) at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    LCC_exterior-02-03-05-2018.jpg
  • The grim architecture of the London College of Communications (LCC) at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in south London, UK.
    LCC_exterior-01-03-05-2018.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. A train guard watches for a green signal as Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station02-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters01-09-03-1992.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters02-09-03-1992.jpg
  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen st the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area. .
    misc_poland06-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Beneath an ugly breeze block concrete wall, a couple are enjoying their holiday in the English seaside town of Paignton, Devon. Sitting in striped deckchairs they are both curiously touching their own genital areas between their legs, perhaps both scratching an itch. The lady in sunglasses wearing a floral dress on the left looks guilty while her topless male partner appears more amused by the interruption. In this depressing corner of Paignton, also called the English Riviera, the grey construction behind them is a grim reminder of what it is often like to holiday in one's own home country where few exotic luxuries are found. Such squalor is unfortunately common around the UK and a reason why people take their vacations abroad. Even the grass below them is bare with weeds growing and soil at the foot of the wall.
    england_beach01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An elderly lady resident of a tower block, watches the outside world from her high-rise window, overlooking the Middlesex Estate in the City of London. A window box with geraniums is by the glass and she peeers down to a bleak urban estate, empty of human contact or friendly neighbours. She lives alone in this grim place but she is looking after herself showing brushed hair , a lace top and lipstick. The world outside is a depressingly empty landscape of concrete walkways and garage doors, an inner-city environment devoid of human interaction or friendliness..
    city_london11-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Before its redevelopment in 2000, a lady shopper walks through the grim underpass of the Midland's infamous Bullring shopping centre, on 12th October 1997, in Birmingham, England.
    birmingham_bullring-12-10-1997.jpg
  • A cash dispenser and landline phone are covered in posters and graffiti under the Hammersmith flyover, on 6th April 2022, in London, England.
    ATM_hammersmith-01-07-04-2022.jpg
  • A cash dispenser and landline phone are covered in posters and graffiti under the Hammersmith flyover, on 6th April 2022, in London, England.
    ATM_hammersmith-02-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Ageing and ramshackle architecture at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-12-29-03-2018.jpg
  • On a rainy day, a pedestrian hurries past during a shower outside where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing.
    umbrellas_rain10-15-05-2012.jpg
  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
    RB_116-08-05-1989.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young049-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Dated technology of the desolate electricity substation at South Bromley is seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity150-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • An exterior of Margate's Brutalist Arlington House, on 26th July, in Margate, Kent, England. Arlington House is a 58-metre high eighteen-storey residential apartment block. Built in 1964, it has 142 fkat properties which was initially advertised as "Britain's first ‘park and buy’ shopping centre with luxury flats", incorporating a theatre, restaurant and rooftop swimming pool.
    margate_high-rise02-26-07-2021.jpg
  • A Londoner holds a bag containing a takeway snack outside Waterloo Station where a small McDonalds is located, on 11th March 2021, in London, England.
    waterloo_takeaway01-11-03-2021.jpg
  • 1990s passengers on board a London Underground train at Bank Station beneath the streets of the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    london_tube-18-02-1992.jpg
  • Locals await the next bus in a public transport bus shelter, St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
    bus_shelter02-14-03-2014.jpg
  • Two elderly men carefully descend steps into an inner-city underpass at Elephant & Castle, in central London.
    city_people01-09-07-2013.jpg
  • A sign for the green environment in a housing estate located in the former Eastern Bloc Communist East Germany known as the GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the cold war. This was once a restricted zone due to its proximity to the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison before the fall of the Berlin wall in Nov 1989.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison02-05-0...jpg
  • A sign for the green environment in a housing estate located in the former Eastern Bloc Communist East Germany known as the GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the cold war. This was once a restricted zone due to its proximity to the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison before the fall of the Berlin wall in Nov 1989.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison01-05-0...jpg
  • '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
  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are disrupted at Victoria station in central London, on their way to their inner-city destinations. The buses have a maximum capacity and too few seats for the commuters waiting patiently in line.
    strike_commuters02-21-06-1989.jpg
  • On a rainy day, pedestrians hurry past during a shower outside where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing.
    umbrellas_rain08-15-05-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of red bus below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window09-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Argos branch and Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window07-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window03-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window01-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Mothers swing a child across a filthy puddle in the town of Nova Huta, an industrial Stalinist steel town oin southern Poland..In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    poland_children01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Bright window box of pink carnations amid drab, neglected house in central London. .
    peeling_walls01-12-07-2010.jpg
  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Making their way across a snow-swept road in Norwood, south London, an elderly couple tread warily as the snow turns to slush. It's a bleak, raw morning as the new snowfall has settled on this suburban street where cars are parked on icy kerbs. Wearing sensible hats and coats and non-slip boots the pensioners are vulnerable to icy black spots which may endanger their stability because old people are susceptible to falls and injury at these hazardous times. A very monochrome landscape, we see little colour. Instead it is a scene of jeopardy and of an uncaring society for its older generations.
    elderly_snow02-18-1991.jpg
  • A new Trabant car shell is lifted by forklift from a truck at the East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.  A worker carefully manoeuvres the unfinished bodywork into a crate where other vehicles await completion on the production line. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time.
    DDR_travel03-06_1990.jpg
  • A chilling sign warning of death next to barbed wire in Auschwitz I (O?õwi?ôcim) concentration camp, Poland.
    auschwitz01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • With a hand raised to the driver, a station employee waves the departure of a train at London Bridge mainline station.
    london_bridge_commuters012-12-09-200...jpg
  • Flour delivery and football club shelter and bench in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits38.jpg
  • Bright lights illuminate a French ADA car rental kiosk in an empty car park alongside the N186 motorway in southern Paris.
    esa_guiana01312-08-2007.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young051-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young042-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations, London.
    ernst+young030-09-08-2007.jpg
  • An Evening Standard newspaper headline announces the fury of London commuters' at a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we also see a stressed and exasperated-looking commuter walking past this kiosk with a Starbucks coffee container in hand, needing to get into work rather than take public transport. As a result of the industrial action, the busses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk.
    tube_strike_commuters02-04-09-2007.jpg
  • Commuters to-and-fro in the heat of a city summer during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we see masses of pedestrians and buses reflected in the glass of a bush shelter window. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. An official points out directions, someone shields his eyes from the sun, a lady walks with her hands in pockets, the 239 bus to Victoria approaches and sightseeing tours sign advertises tickets. People are seen in differing scales and sizes.
    tube_strike_commuters10-04-09-2007.jpg
  • An exterior of Margate's Brutalist Arlington House, on 26th July, in Margate, Kent, England. Arlington House is a 58-metre high eighteen-storey residential apartment block. Built in 1964, it has 142 fkat properties which was initially advertised as "Britain's first ‘park and buy’ shopping centre with luxury flats", incorporating a theatre, restaurant and rooftop swimming pool.
    margate_high-rise01-26-07-2021.jpg
  • 1990s passengers sit and stand in an overcrowded train carriage in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_commuters-16-02-1992.jpg
  • Ageing and ramshackle architecture at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-13-29-03-2018.jpg
  • Damp walls, a doorway and new striped poles protruding from underneath a railway bridge, on 2nd March 2017, in Waterloo, London borough of Southwark, England.
    waterloo_doorway-02-02-03-2017.jpg
  • Dystopian landscape of north London stairwell and fantasy of Indian travel poster picture.
    hampstead_dystopia02-31-12-2014.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate05-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Street mural landscape and local man on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. The man carries a young girl in his arms, its face unseen to the viewer. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate04-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate02-27-03-2013.jpg
  • '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_quote02-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are disrupted at Victoria station in central London, on their way to their inner-city destinations. The buses have a maximum capacity and too few seats for the commuters waiting patiently in line.
    strike_commuters03-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are disrupted at Victoria station in central London, on their way to their inner-city destinations. The buses have a maximum capacity and too few seats for the commuters waiting patiently in line.
    strike_commuters01-21-06-1989.jpg
  • On a rainy day, pedestrians hurry past during a shower outside where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing.
    umbrellas_rain11-15-05-2012.jpg
  • On a rainy day, pedestrians hurry past during a shower outside where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing.
    umbrellas_rain04-15-05-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of London mother's drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window11-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of McDonalds restaurant and Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window10-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of traffic bollard during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window05-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window06-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window02-19-04-2012.jpg
  • A holiday couple sleep on portable beds in a particularly shabby corner of Bournemouth, a seaside resort in southern England.
    seaside_posters01-20-10-1990.jpg
  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages traveling into central London. <br />
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A limited edition (1 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 />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition03-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Nazi swastika and BNP graffiti scrawled on a grubby lorry drivers' toilet wall in Grays, Thames Gateway
    river_business190-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters descend by escalator into Underground at London Bridge mainline Station, en-route to tube sevices
    london_bridge_commuters035-12-09-200...jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters check messages on-board carriages travelling into city mainline stations in south London.
    london_bridge_commuters008-12-09-200...jpg
  • Rush hour train commuter checks messages on-board carriages travelling into city mainline stations in south London.
    london_bridge_commuters006-12-09-200...jpg
  • Opening security gate asking visitors to stop and ring here at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits54.jpg
  • On a misty morning, a single pony grazes in a field in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    Lambermont_biscuits_39.jpg
  • An exterior of Margate's Brutalist Arlington House, on 26th July, in Margate, Kent, England. Arlington House is a 58-metre high eighteen-storey residential apartment block. Built in 1964, it has 142 fkat properties which was initially advertised as "Britain's first ‘park and buy’ shopping centre with luxury flats", incorporating a theatre, restaurant and rooftop swimming pool.
    margate_high-rise03-26-07-2021.jpg
  • Damp walls, a doorway and new striped poles protruding from underneath a railway bridge, on 2nd March 2017, in Waterloo, London borough of Southwark, England.
    waterloo_doorway-01-02-03-2017.jpg
  • Junior doctors protest outside King's College Hospital in Camberwell, south London, about the working contract imposed upon them by their employer, the NHS, London 26th April 2016. On the first of a two-day strike, the doctors are this time stopping even emergency cases, a controversial action to highlight the 7-day working week that the workers say is unsafe for patient safety.
    junior_doctors_strike09-26-04-2016.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers stand guarding a closed underground tube entrance at London's Victoria station. There is a tube strike and capacity is vastly reduced so numbers are being strictly restricted while the tube unions ask drivers and staff not to report for duty. Passengers queue patiently behind the barriers, their faces seen with resigned expressions, as Londoners are typically want to do.
    rail_strike01-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Tourists pose a picture in a red phone box outside the Palace Theatre where the musical Singing in the Rain is playing.
    umbrellas_rain01-15-05-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of red buses below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window08-19-04-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
    rain_window04-19-04-2012.jpg
  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
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  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
    misc_poland01-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
    england_beach06-15-12-2007.jpg
  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
    RB_122-28-08-2000.jpg
  • Seen from an office block high vantage point, thousands of commuters pour northwards over London Bridge against the direction of queueing buses and cars. It is a scene about the transient business community and mass transport. The working population arrives early for work over the bridge in the City of London's historic financial district. We see the sunlit faces of those walking towards the viewer which echo the red tail lights of the stationary vehicles. So gridlocked is the traffic on the southbound carriageway, there is a lone cyclist stuck and squeezed between the curb and a double-decker bus. On the other side of the road, the street is almost empty of motors adding to the drama and chaos. 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. ...
    RB-0139.jpg
  • Silhouetted commuters wait on benches for arriving train on covered platform at London Bridge mainline station.
    london_bridge_commuters016-12-09-200...jpg
  • Commuters and no smoking sign on a carriage travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations
    london_bridge_commuters003-12-09-200...jpg
  • An urban cityscape an night, near the French capital's Orly airport, the N186 motorway in southern Paris.
    esa_guiana00912-08-2007.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations, London.
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  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
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  • As a departing train disappears round the corner at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, a lone woman waits for the next service. This is the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform on the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a National Health Service (NHS) ad urges patients to seek virtual appointments with GP doctors, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England. The banners are for the current art exihibition of Italian Baroque artist, Artemisia Gentileschi.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, Arts institutions such as the National Gallery inTrafalgar Square, remain closed to the public, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, passengers walk through the concourse of Westminster station where social distance sign urge transport users to stay distanced as the country experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, empty escalators lead up to deserted corporate offices in Leadenhall, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a couple explore the capital's financial district and walk beneath deserted corporate offices in Leadenhall, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown3_55-05-01-2021.jpg
  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a couple explore the capital's financial district and walk beneath deserted corporate offices in Leadenhall, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown3_54-05-01-2021.jpg
  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a masked woman walks beneath a West End theatre poster for the Agatha Christie murder mystery, 'Deathdrop', as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, Chinatown's Gerrard Street remain quiet as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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