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  • Clubbing to death an adult yellow fin tuna on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives
    maldives316-14-11-2007.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
  • 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.
    maldives279-14-11-2007.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.
    maldives281-14-11-2007.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
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs and missiles to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier07-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier06-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare and fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier05-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men organise the busy deck of F/A-18C fighter jets on aircraft carrier on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier02-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs and missiles to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier08-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Brown-shirted plane captains, responsible for cleanliness and operating readiness of aircraft on deck, wash an F/A-18..On the deck of USS Harry S Truman, the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier04-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising10-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Up on the top deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier, parked F/A-18C Hornets and S-3 Vikings on the USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. Stacked together in tight formation to fit them all together during a daytime break in operations, the man bends into his task during the hottest time of day. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the
    carrier_deck01-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan Police officers patrol the tidal waters River Thames beneath the bow HMS Belfast warship in London, England. In their small boat used to police and often make searches of the river in central London, their searchlight watches for people in the water - especially on Fridays and around New year. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames).
    thames_police-18-05-1993.jpg
  • A red shirted ordnance man prepares to fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier09-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police4-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police3-19-July-2011.jpg
  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy140-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Homeless man beneath the statue of philathropist, banker and entrepreneur George Peabody ( 1795 - 1869)
    peabody_statue01-03-04-1993.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
  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
    city_resting02-16-1993.jpg
  • Long-term shoe-shine franchise owner Dudley masters awaits more business at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport491-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Safe pair of pilot's hands holds flight documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1027-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Ladies darts champion Anastasia Dobromyslova  checks to see when her next game is due during tournament
    anastasia_dobromyslova14-12-04-2008.jpg
  • Anastasia Dobromyslova and fellow Russian-born friend Irena Armstrong check text messages during the ladies darts tournament.
    anastasia_dobromyslova07-12-04-2008.jpg
  • An employee of fish importers New England Seafoods, monitors the labelling of a supermarket order of fresh Maldives tuna
    new_england97-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Employees of fish product importers New England Seafoods, carefully transfer fresh tuna steaks ready for processing
    new_england71-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Pairs of insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots await users a cold room of New England seafood importers
    new_england56-27-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of New England Seafoods, importers of fish products, leaves by the main entrance under a model sailfish
    new_england52-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
    margaret_howell_show096-17-09-2007.jpg
  • A garment tailor works with mannequins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell07623-05-2007 .jpg
  • A tailor uses an Eastman Bluestreak II cloth cutting machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell00723-05-2007 .jpg
  • Company logo at the main entrance as evening nears at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
    United_biscuits_04-05-02-2007.jpg
  • Processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives.
    maldives94-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Ex-Tsunami fishermen processing yellow fin tuna at Cyprea Marine Foods EU-standard factory at Himmafushi, Republic of Maldives
    maldives86-12-11-2007.jpg
  • The captain of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus prepares his aircraft for departure to Colombo.
    maldives460-15-11-2007.jpg
  • The crew aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat prepare for another day's fishing for tuna on the Indian Ocean, Maldives.
    maldives220-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Under portrait of President Gayoom, employees of the state-run MIFCO exporting 100% Maldivian seafoods to Europe and Asia .
    maldives41-12-11-2007.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
  • Checking the consistency of experimental biscuit dough in the kitchens of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
    lambermont-biscuits99.jpg
  • Writer Alain de Botton given a guided tour of the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
    lambermont-biscuits80.jpg
  • Audiience listening to seminar at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair40-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Taking notes on a stand at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair37-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • receiving advice from a CV clinic at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair22-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29316-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana28316-08-2007.jpg
  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control oversees the flow of procedures hours before a rocket launch
    esa_guiana07714-08-2007.jpg
  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young240-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Role-play and positive thinking at a counselling workshop held for company staff in Borough, Southwark.
    ernst+young_counsillors24-18-09-2007.jpg
  • Warm evening sunshine casts shadow of painter and decorator on hilltop cottage wall in hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, Skye
    9999-RPB59-alan_squires70-28-09-2007.jpg
  • A Weapons Engineering Officer works in his cabin quarters aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine.
    5105-RPB59-faslane118-26-09-2007.jpg
  • Able-bodied sailor relaxes in his Junior Rating bunk aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
    5105-RPB59-faslane054-26-09-2007.jpg
  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have 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.
    maldives288-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Using the Ball Mat Flooring System, below the flooring of economy class, a cargo handler manhandles a container of air freight into position in the hold of a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 that is about to depart from Male, the capital of the Republic of the Maldives  to Colombo. Inside the aluminium box is fresh tuna fish, freshly caught in the Indian Ocean and bound for the supermarkets of the EU and in particular, the UK whose insatiable appetite for fresh, perishable and sustainable foodstuffs make this fast and efficient form of transport important to speedy delivery. Every square inch is accounted for but as well as passengers' baggage, the cramped spaces beneath this modern airliner store loaded revenue-rich cargo though specially-pressurised and heated compartments accommodate live animals.
    maldives436-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    DIRFT135-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
    electricity122-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising09-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising06-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising07-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising03-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising02-24-07-2020.jpg
  • On the day that covid pandemic guidelines for shoppers in England mean that the wearing of face coverings in shops is mandatory, workmen carry construction plasterboard past social distancing  guidelines in Knightbridge, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shoppers02-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Resting road and leaf sweeper reads magazine on his cart during brief break of his morning shift in Dulwich, London.
    street_sweeper-08-11-2003.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan Police officers patrol the tidal waters River Thames near Tower Bridge in London, England. In their small boat used to police and often make searches of the river in central London, their searchlight watches for people in the water - especially on Fridays and around New year. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames).
    thames_police01-18-05-1993.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
  • A woman farmer taps dripping resin from a rubber tree in a plantation on Pulau Langkawi Island, Malaysia. We see the lady surrounded by even rows of trees, all carefully spaced when planted. Each cool evening the tapper removes a thin layer of bark along a downward half spiral on the tree trunk. She makes an incision in the bark of the tree and fluid then drains into a collecting vessel. If done carefully and with skill, this tapping panel will yield latex for up to 5 years. Malaysia is one of the top exporters of natural rubber. Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia.
    rubber_plantation-16-05-1981.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment parade before taking official oaths on the Union Jack flag at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 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. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_inspection-16-01-1997.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
  • A lone deck hand sailor repairs a grubby F/A-18C Hornets fighter jet on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier03-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police2-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police1-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers01-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Up on the top deck, we see a lone sailor brushing off the grubby surfaces of parked F/A-18C Hornets and S-3 Vikings on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. Stacked together in tight formation to fit them all together during a daytime break in operations, the man bends into his task during the hottest time of day. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the .
    uss_truman_deck-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolital police officer stands outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other commnities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society
    RB_119-21-04-1989.jpg
  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
    RB_042-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A married couple ready themselves for a formal Buckingham Palace garden party in after sunshine. The lady and man have been invited to take tea with and meet the Queen along with many hundreds more in London England. They are Mr and Mrs Johnson and he is a Flag officer junior rating serving in Britain's Royal Navy. His wife adjusts his Navy cap (denoting his ship's name) to make sure it's straightened and presentable for Her Majesty. It is a proud day for her husband and his spouse, when the achievements of his military career are recognized by his Sovereign. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
    RB_036-13-07-1995.jpg
  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
    pigeon_droppings07-16-1992.jpg
  • Many pairs of anti-slip Acifort Wellington boots are awaiting users at the New England seafood suppliers in Chessington, London England. Made by British company Dunlop, these boots are designed as protection against the cold , insulating wearers in refrigerated workplaces such as this facility where fresh fish is processed ready for supplying UK supermarkets. Either showing their soles or standing on the floor alongside the wearers' outdoor footwear, they are coloured various shades of clean off-white or soiled cream. New England Seafood is a major supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and one of the largest importers of fresh tuna. The Wellington boot -or wellie - was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century.
    new_england55-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Striding urgently are a group of rail commuters emerging from London Bridge main line station in central London along a station concourse. Marching in step, the strangers are on their way to work in the City of London or Southwark on the south bank of the Thames. They are all passing-by a mobile smoothie drink kiosk that has the slogan "Guaranteed to keep you going till lunch." London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
    london_bridge_commuters051-12-09-200...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
  • New recruits of the Royal Gurkha Regiment swear allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen's portrait during their passing-out parade at their camp at Pokhara, Nepal. After being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, the lucky 160 fly to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those more educated 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. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857
    gurkha_recruitment05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Wearing numbered bibs, four Nepali boys warm-up before an army exercise trial known as the British Fitness Test (BFT) at the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara, Nepal. These boys are among those trying for a highly-valued place in the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 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. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment01-16-01-1997.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.
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  • 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
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
    canary_wharf_drinkers07-18-1991.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun
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  • A welder joins wire cages with an oxy-acetylene torch for precast concrete pipework at Hanson construction factory, Dallas.
    texas_welder01-03-11-1998.jpg
  • A cleaning contractor sweeps the chequered floor of St. Paul's Cathedral at night in the City of London.
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  • Officers watch new recruits swear allegiance to the Queen in British Royal Gurkha Regiment Pokhara camp, Nepal..
    gurkha_recruitment06-16-01-1997.jpg
  • 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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  • A smiling female member of staff at the British Airways information desk in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1472-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A pilot logs-on to access flight documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1041-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Two female BAA security instructors stand in front of a Powerpoint image showing the Glasgow airport terrorist attack.
    heathrow_airport1684-24-08-2009.jpg
  • Safe pair of pilot's hands in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1043-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Unhappily, ladies darts champion Anastasia Dobromyslova collects third place certificate from tournament organisers
    anastasia_dobromyslova27-12-04-2008.jpg
  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
    london_time31-03-09-2008.jpg
  • An aircraft cleaner from Kathmandu, Nepal, stands in white overalls with his bucket and mop on the tarmac at Bahrain International airport. It is another hot day in this key hub airport in this Gulf region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Gulf states also rely on the workforces from south-Asia such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh whose wages are often low and harsh living conditions compared to local nationals and tourists who enjoy superior accommodation. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.  .
    aviation_corbis04-21-04-2001.jpg
  • An HGV driver is ready to leave Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Poiint
    sainsburys_depot215-09-05-2007.jpg
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