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  • A fisherman returns to his home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre, a quiet community in the western Isles. Looking towards the quay that will receive his boat called Prospector and where he is to unload their catch of shrimp. The man is probably the breadwinner who supports the family - his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much fishermen are allowed to catch per day/per week. But he is safe after a period at sea and appear happy to have returned with a catch to sell.
    fishing_community03-18-07-1993.jpg
  • With his boat in the background, a fishermen repairs his nets on the quayside after a night at sea in Tarbert, Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, a quiet community in the western Isles. The trawlerman fishes around the Scottish western isles on the edge of the Atlantic in a well-maintained boat that helps him make his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community05-18-07-1993.jpg
  • The fishing fleet of Tarbert on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre lies moored at the dock of this pretty coastal village in the Western Isles. Their colourful hulls shine in late afternoon sunshine as they are tied up awaiting another outing at sea to provide for this small fishing community a living and a livelihood for its families. But in the foreground sit a young couple whose prospects are not so positive: they rest on a bench in silhouette, one smoking a cigarette while turned to the friend who stares out to distant rolling hills. It is a scene of hopelessness that reflects modern life for the youth in remote communities where jobs are scarce and their futures far from secure. In an otherwise idyllic Scottish landscape, we guess at the disintegration of society up here - the scourge of economic downturn and future social problems.
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  • A fishermen looks at rope, nets and tackle in his home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre, a quiet community in the western Isles. Inhaling on his pipe, the middle-aged man is surrounded by the equipment that keeps his fishing business at sea to prive him with a livelihood. The boat is rusty, having seen many miles on inland seas around the western isles, the edge of the Atlantic, dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community04-18-07-1993.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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  • With his home village seen in the background across the bay, a fishermen unloads his catch of Scottish shrimp watched by an elderly gent in at Tarbert, Mull of Kintyre, Argyll & Bute, Scotland UK.. The boxful of freshly-caught shrimp is being landed on the quayside of this quiet community in the western Isles. The trawlerman fishes around the Scottish western isles on the edge of the Atlantic in a well-maintained boat that helps him make his livelihood dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week.
    fishing_community06-18-07-1993.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997.jpg
  • A smart suited businessman walks past an unfortunate homeless man holding his worldly possessions.
    homeless_man3-18-10-2011.jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a tourist souvenir retailer adds more stock to his stall which is selling royal merchandise in Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-04-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a tourist souvenir retailer adds more stock to his stall which is selling royal merchandise in Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-01-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a tourist souvenir retailer adds more stock to his stall which is selling royal merchandise in Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-02-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a tourist souvenir retailer adds more stock to his stall which is selling royal merchandise in Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-03-05-05-202...jpg
  • While still a British colony, a 1990s market shallholder drags a load of vegetable items in baskets in the New Territories, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    hong_kong_market-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-61-18-06-2018.jpg
  • Aerial view of a gondolier and tourists in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_79-22-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondola ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_61-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Sacks of supplies ready for unloading from a boat on the Grand Canal, Venice.
    venice_11-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Young boy manhandles haymaking machine on the Siusi plateau, above the South Tyrolean town of Ortisei-Sankt Ulrich in the Dolomites, Italy.
    siusi_dolomites26-15-07-2015.jpg
  • A local man carries tourism industry supplies downhill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With the heavy load on his back, supported in the traditional Himalayan manner of a head strap that steadies the pack, the man makes his steady way down the foothill using a long pole for extra balance. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    himalayas_porter01-12-12-1997.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
    commuters-16-07-1990.jpg
  • The Broadgate Venus by Fernando Botero in Exchange Square, Broadgate, City of London.
    botero_venus01-21-06-1993.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man10-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man09-26-04-2012.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys adjust their spacing during a camp parade after recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas07-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys in army red march though a Pokhara street after being recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the Btitish army. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • French farmers work the land with a combine harvester on a gloomy autumn day in the fields of Alsace, near the German border.
    alsace_farming2-13-10-1997.jpg
  • Lone fishing boat makes its way through Loch Na Keal, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The main fishing on the Ross of Mull, Ulva Ferry and Tobermory is now is commercial shell fishing with baited traps(creels) for lobsters (homarus gamarus), edible brown crabs( cancer pagurus), Prawn (Norwegian Lobster) and velvet swimming crab (necora puber). Scallop dredgers and Prawn trawlers also operate from both ends of the island, dragging the seabed for their catch. Before the late 1960s shell fishing with creels was generally carried out on a seasonal or part time basis allied to crofting, farming or another shore based job. Small boats today still operate this way. Loch na Keal National Scenic Area (NSA) embraces the coastline on the West of Mull, from Gribun cliffs to Ulva and Loch Tuath and also includes Inchkenneth, Staffa and the Treshnish Isles. NSAs are designated by Scottish Natural Heritage as areas of outstanding natural beauty. There's a road around the entire shore of Loch na Keal, so you can easily see it all. Visit Staffa and Lunga (one of the Treshnish Isles) by boat from Ulva Ferry or Fionnphort...http://www.holidaymull.co.uk/index.php?pages=landscape&a
    isle_of_mull301-21-11-2011.jpg
  • Locals pass-by the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store5-12-Aug...jpg
  • Cleaning up the remnants of the Clarence Road Convenience Store. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store23-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store23-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store20-11-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store2-11-Aug...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store18-12-Au...jpg
  • Damage to the Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah after the riots of London and other UK cities.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store18-11-Au...jpg
  • A sleeping Big Issue magazine seller sits alone without passing business in London's Trafalgar Square.
    big_issue_seller01-07-03-2011.jpg
  • With a dark, weathered face, an elderly man carries a harvest of straw on his back - a traditional way of bringing in the harvested - in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. The man is close to the viewer, looking directly at us while other members of his community appear around a bend. Agriculture accounts for about 40% of Nepal's GDP, services comprise 41% and industry 22%. Agriculture employs 76% of the workforce, services 18% and manufacturing/craft-based industry 6%. Agricultural produce -- mostly grown in the Terai region bordering India -- includes tea, rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops, milk, and water buffalo meat. Industry mainly involves the processing of agricultural produce, including jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and grain.
    gorkha04-16-01-1997.jpg
  • At night we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, 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 Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0207-16-1993.jpg
  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
    homeless_ladders03-16-1993.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993.jpg
  • Portrait of an employee in apron  of fish product importers New England Seafoods, standing in the processing room
    new_england75-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Employees of fish product importers New England Seafoods, carefully transfer fresh tuna steaks ready for processing
    new_england71-27-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of fish product importers New England Seafoods, pulls a heavy pallet of polystyrene cases of fresh Maldives tuna
    new_england68-27-11-2007.jpg
  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell14923-05-2007 .jpg
  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell13623-05-2007 .jpg
  • Ex-Tsunami fishermen processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
    maldives91-12-11-2007.jpg
  • In the shade of mid-day heat near a mural, Maldivian youths sit about on a park bench in the Maldives capital Male.
    maldives402-15-11-2007.jpg
  • A Maldivian crew rest after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives334-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Writer Alain de Botton rests with resting crew after a day's tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives332-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A Maldivian crew rest before a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives329-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Tuna fishermen drag a thrashing sailfish on to the deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives.
    maldives295-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives286-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives280-14-11-2007.jpg
  • 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
  • on 29th August 2022, in Worthing, England.
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  • A man walks past a beached fishing boat on the shingle beach at Worthing, on 29th August 2022, in Worthing, England.
    shingle_beach-01-29-08-2022.jpg
  • Wrapped in a sleeping bag, a homeless person lies in the doorway of Waterstones bookshop which is displaying copies of both Michelle and Barack Obama's bestselling books ('Becoming' and 'A Promised Land' respectively), on Piccadilly, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_night03-02-02-2021.jpg
  • A market trader takes a mid-day sleep in the middle of the road, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people05-10-08-1994.jpg
  • A middle-aged woman florist sells flowers at her stall in Alfama, on 21st March 1994, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    lisbon_florist-21-03-1994.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-71-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-70-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-68-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-69-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-67-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-66-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-65-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-64-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-62-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A local fisherman using a jetwash hoses down the seawater off shellfish pots overlooking the harbour, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-02-14-07-2017.jpg
  • A gondolier kicks against a wall to straighten his gondola during a ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_66-21-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondola ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_65-21-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondolier kicks against a wall to straighten his gondola during a ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_64-21-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondolier kicks against a wall to straighten his gondola during a ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_63-21-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondola ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_60-21-07-2015.jpg
  • A gondoliers helps an insteady tourist from his boat, after ride on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_23-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Sacks of supplies being unloaded from a boat on the Grand Canal, Venice.
    venice_14-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Sacks of supplies ready for unloading from a boat on the Grand Canal, Venice.
    venice_13-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Young boy manhandles haymaking machine on the Siusi plateau, above the South Tyrolean town of Ortisei-Sankt Ulrich in the Dolomites, Italy.
    siusi_dolomites28-15-07-2015.jpg
  • Young boy manhandles haymaking machine on the Siusi plateau, above the South Tyrolean town of Ortisei-Sankt Ulrich in the Dolomites, Italy.
    siusi_dolomites27-15-07-2015.jpg
  • Old colleagues greet each other in the City of London as an outsider looks on.
    city_people03-13-08-2014.jpg
  • A guest house sign near Ulleri on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. Locals meet at a table for morning tea and the sign advertises Laligurans Guest House, a well-built house on the popular route for travellers from around the world. <br />
Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers and great food is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    himalayas_guesthouse01-16-11-1995.jpg
  • A detail of freshly-picked English oysters opened using a 'shucker' knife. English Falmouth Estuary oysters have become highly sought-after around European restaurants and we see a freshly-caught specimen still in its shell after being landed from a traditional Falmouth antique working sail boat (fishing without mechanical power is a rule on this local fishery) that still dredge harvested oysters from the river bed using traditional methods unchanged since Victorian times. The fisherman's muddy fingers can be seen lifting (or shuck) the crustacean slightly from the shell with an old oyster knife to display this wild, native Fal oyster which is known for its distinctive sweet, fresh and delicate flavour.
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  • A local man carries electric cabling uphill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With few roads that can transport supplies and raw materials up to remote foothill communities, the only way is often to carry what one needs on the back or by yak. The paths are even but often very steep in places so stamina and endurance are needed to get even modest weights uphill. Nepalis up here often want newer technology and basic electricity to power lights and showers although solar power is another answer.
    himalayas_porter02-12-12-1997.jpg
  • A young woman begs on London Bridge, and sits on the pavement to read her newspaper as a contractor sucks up litter around her.
    beggar_cleaner01-24-10-2013.jpg
  • Snatching a well-earned lunchtime snooze, a young office worker in Broadgate in the City of London. The young man sits with legs wide apart, oblivious to his posture..The bench which is owned by the Corporation of London, provided in this public space for those emerging from their offices to enjoy mid-day sunshine, a chance to steal a few precious minutes sleep before re-entering their office buildings and returning to desks.
    sleeping_man01-15-07-1993.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his breaking sign for a menswear shop's closure sale.
    sign_man30-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man28-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man26-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man23-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man05-26-04-2012.jpg
  • During a windy afternoon, a sandwich board man holds on to his sign for a menswear shop's closure sale in central London
    sign_man04-26-04-2012.jpg
  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
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  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
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  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
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  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
    tractor_shed04-08-04-2012.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys stride past poor elderly man in Kathmandu street after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857..
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  • Young Nepali boys pose for a group photo beneath Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857...
    gurkhas08-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys admire a young girl on an army walk along Himalayan path during recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas06-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boys look at family photos during a lull in Gurkha recruiting selection in barracks room, Pokhara army camp. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas04-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys do a leadership initiative test in Pokhara  camp, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas03-16-01-1997.jpg
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