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  • A construction site contractor carries heavy chains along the street in front of a hoarding featuring many faces.
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  • A construction site contractor carries heavy chains along the street in front of a hoarding featuring many faces.
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  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • A long-distance lorry is parked at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. With round wheels echoing the circles of oranges, long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. Transporting refrigerated perishable foodstuffs, these lorries are ever-present on the nation's motorways and A-roads, plying back and forth to re-supply the supermarkets. Food orders are conveyed with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked..
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  • A businesswoman stands seductively over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. Her black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look see a sexually-dominant situation where the wealthy-looking lady is standing over the man with her strong leg showing in a provocative manner. Wearing a red uniform and ID, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the zig-zag-shape stripes of escalators, beyond which we see the desks of insurance underwriters at the Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located in Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. 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. looking across
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  • With orange sparks falling away below, a shipbuilder welds while standing on a scaffolding gantry on the hull of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the worker wears a protective hood on his head. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Seen from St Catherine's Church in the old city of Gdansk, Poland, the famously sprawling shipyard is seen from across the city's old housing and trees. Once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London engineering officials examine the huge crater left by the terrorist device. We see debris around the hole with drainage and road material. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
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  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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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 />
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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
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  • Long-after dark, a lady employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
    united_biscuits_138-05-02-2007.jpg
  • A creative biscuit-making team exchange ideas in a private conference pod at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • A creative biscuit-making team exchange new marketing ideas in a private room at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Working alone behind a closed door in a private workspace at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
    united_biscuits129-05-02-2007.jpg
  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • An HGV driver is ready to leave Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Poiint
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  • Monitoring logistics by PC at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution warehouse depot at Waltham Point, London
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  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • An HGV driver awaits his lorry to be loaded at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot129-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Yellow painted lanes on the floor of Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Point
    sainsburys_depot113-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot100-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot086-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • Office table and bucket chairs furniture on empty wasteland in an industrial estate, Northfleet, Thames Gateway
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  • Personalised insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots are worn during a shift at importers New England Seafoods
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  • An employee of fish importers New England Seafoods, stacks a completed supermarket order of fresh Maldives tuna
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  • Portrait of an employee in apron  of fish product importers New England Seafoods, standing in the processing room
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  • An employee of fish product importers New England Seafoods, pulls a heavy pallet of polystyrene cases of fresh Maldives tuna
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  • Wearing a high-vis tabard and peaked cap, a young driver sits at the wheel of his HGV lorry on the A3 trunk road in London
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  • Wearing a high-vis tabard and peaked cap, a young driver sits at the wheel of his HGV lorry on the A3 trunk road in London
    new_england24-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Luvvies hug after the British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Girl model starts her catwalk at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Media and guests queue for entry at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Girl model rehearses with bottled water at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in design studio
    margaret_howell_show106-17-09-2007.jpg
  • Male model rehearses British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Model shows clothes to staff before couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Clothes and model running order at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Polaroid print for fashion model Flavia de Oliveira on a rack of her clothes to wear at designer Margaret Howell's Autumn show
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  • A customer tries on shirts in a dressing room at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • A customer tries on summer shirts at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • A simple white cotton shirt set on a dressmaker's tailoring dummy in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop
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  • Portrait of a seamstress with her sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Detail of a seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A garment tailor works with mannequins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Detail showing the fine stiching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Young cashier wearing the hejab awaits customers at the state-run MIFCO exporting 100% Maldivian seafoods to Europe and Asia .
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  • Garment production order form and pins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A tailor uses an Eastman Bluestreak II cloth cutting machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A glazier carries new glass panes from his van outside British couturier Margaret Howell's Wigmore Street studio
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  • British couturier Margaret Howell holds a meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at her studio
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  • A meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at British couturier Margaret Howell's Wigmore Street studio
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  • Ex-Tsunami fishermen processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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  • Masked manager for yellow fin tuna processing at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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  • A clerk completes paperwork from a PC in the freight forwarding office of male International Airport, Maldives.
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  • A Maldivian fisherman shows a hook and mesh glove used to line catch yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni boat, Indian Ocean
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  • A lookout scans the horizon for tuna fish aboard a traditional Maldivian dhoni fishing boat on calm waters of the Indian Ocean
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  • Processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory island of Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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  • Ex-Tsunami fishermen processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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  • Discarding carcass of yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
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  • Young cashier wearing the hejab awaits customers at the state-run MIFCO exporting 100% Maldivian seafoods to Europe and Asia .
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  • Under portrait of President Gayoom, employees of the state-run MIFCO exporting 100% Maldivian seafoods to Europe and Asia .
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  • Mixed gender office with men working alongside ladies wearing the hejab at Fisheries Ministry of the Maldives government
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  • Female employee of Cyprea Marine Foods works beneath portrait of Maldives president Gayoom in capital Male.
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  • Female employee boxes finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Female employees package finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control workers sort through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Pouring experimental biscuit chocolate in the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
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  • Flour delivery and football club shelter and bench in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
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  • A chamber maid's trolley with cleaning supplies and equipment stands idle in the corridor of a Paris hotel.
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Technician manager with Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency..
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • European Space Agency technicians at Ariane launch control monitor rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • An informal meeting taking place by outer windows of an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • An employee works diligently in an open plan office at an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • Corporate values statement written onto transparent screens at an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young244-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young243-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young240-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Working separately and alone in private cubicle of an auditing company at their London headquarters
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  • The last person to leave the office is a conscientious lady employee of the biscuit and snack manufacturer United Biscuits at their UK headquarters at Hayes Park North near London England. Seen in a window surrounded bright ceiling lights, the female sits at her desk tying up loose ends before leaving for the day. As darkness falls outside, the red lights from tail lights streak across the picture and the green grass on a landscaped bank is lit by light posts. None of her work colleages have stayed on, preferring to depart to see their families at home on this winter night. Perhaps this career woman is single and an ambitious member of the team who can dedicate more time to her job..
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  • An employee of British couturier Margaret Howell models a simple white top in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. In a back rooom studio workshop, the group of 5 staff with Margaret Howell in the middle, they dicsuss the positives of the garment that is considered for a forthcoming collection. Racks of clothes are in the background and they sit around a trestle table. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A beautifully simple white cotton shirt by couturier Margaret Howell is displayed in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. Ironed without creases, the garment has been set on a dress making tailor's dummy made by Kennett and Lindsell of Romford Essex. The pure white shirt is seen against a similarly-toned white wall and lit by daylight. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
    margaret_howell20223-05-2007 .jpg
  • A Japanese buyer watches a male model walk the catwalk of couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show rehearsal in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. Making notes on his clipboard as he looks at the striding man, the audience has yet to arrive so we see a largely empty scene that usually  serves as a shop. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A male model starts his walk on the catwalk of couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show rehearsal in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. With a duster and spray cleaning agent in the foreground, the young man walks, as if having emerged through the wall. Bottles of bottled mineral water await their users but the fashion show's audience have yet to arrive. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • Fishermen from the Maldives haul aboard a yellow fin tuna to the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. The tuna has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth but after being dragged up with hooks, the 50kg fish will be clubbed to death by smashing its skull with repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives298-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A detailed close-up of a trader in the central fish market of Malé, Republic of the Maldives. It is located to the west of Republic Square. This area is the main hub of trade and is a hive of activity through out the day. The waterfront and the by-lanes in the area are crowded with shops stocked with a variety of good. Grasping tight a handful of slippery skipjack tuna tails, the unseen man is carrying the fishes over to a stall table for a customer who wants them gutted and filleted, a scene that is familiar in similar markets across the world. The skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), represents 50-75% of all fish caught. The main method is pole and line in the Indian Ocean and fishery is the main occupation and major livelihood of the Maldivian people.
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