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  • Construction hoarding showing apartment interior and shovel with sand for making concrete.
    sand_hoarding02-27-04-2015.jpg
  • Construction hoarding showing apartment interior and shovel with sand for making concrete.
    sand_hoarding01-27-04-2015.jpg
  • A family walk along the surf with their reflections in wet sand at the Welsh seaside town of Llandudno. Holding a very tired toddler, the mother walks alongside the father and a small girl who splashes in shallow water. Their figures are seen in the reflected wet sand at low tide.
    beach_family-18-07-1993.jpg
  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
    scarborough_beach08-21-1992_1.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of a drinks can and footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt482-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of a drinks can and footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt481-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of a drinks can and footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt480-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of 4x4 tyre tracks left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt466-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of 4x4 tyre tracks and footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt445-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt444-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt435-08-03-2016.jpg
  • The blurred lights of Blackpool's south pier register as a circle in this time exposure. Reflected on the puddles in beach sand, we see the colours of this iron structure on England's north west coast. Work began to build the pier in 1892. It was constructed, at a total cost of £50,000. .South Pier (originally known as Victoria Pier) is one of three piers in Blackpool, England. Located on South Promenade on the South Shore, the pier contains a number of amusement and adrenalin rides. It opens each year from March to November and is owned by Six Piers Limited.
    blackpool_pier-08-08-1992.jpg
  • Onlookers take interest in a street artist as he puts the finishing touches to a dog made from sand in central London.
    oxfordSt_artist03-23-09-2015.jpg
  • A detail of two cigarette butts which have been stubbed into sand outside a hotel in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 27th July 2022, in London, England.
    cigarette_stubs-03-27-07-2022.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt337-05-03-2016.jpg
  • A digger rests with its bucket in construction sand mix next to a illustration of a Leadenhall building in the City of London.
    city_construction06-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A middle-aged couple sleep on a blanket as a young boy digs a hole on the sandy beach at Scarborough. The generation gap is shown here with the older people unconscious after a day in sea air while the lad with the energy of youth puts much effort into shovelling sand from the growing hole. If they are related, they are oblivious as to the dangers of excavating holes on tidal beaches.
    sleeping_bathers-12-07-1992.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
    lifeguard_exercise-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    male_admirer02-12-07-1993.jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    england_beach04-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Using a tabloid newspaper, a father seeks shelter from sunshine while sitting in a council deck chair. On the front page of the paper is a headline saying "Butchered' showing a picture of an unfortunate young 3 year-old boy murdered by a maniac axeman. Close-by is the man's own son who is digging a hole furiously in the sand. He looks uncannily like a slightly older version of the murdered boy. This coincidence is heightened because of the body-language of the digging lad, seemingly about to chop an unseen object with his red spade. Both man and boy are on holiday at the northern English seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire and they are otherwise having a great time on South Beach, near the Grand Hotel building, high up on the cliff.
    england_beach03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • On a wooden boardwalk that stretches across a sandy beach landscape, a young girl runs at full speed away from her mother and younger brother who walk along this walkway on the beach at Calais, France. It is low-tide, hazy winter sunshine makes soft shadows on the sand but there are few people out in the cold beyond except for a family in the surf approximately 200 yards away in the distance. Half-way back to the shore is a lone lifebelt attached to its pole in case of emergency. This near-deserted beach is an idyllic and tranquil place, allowing children to let off steam. Ffrom a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
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  • A member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, sells Rolls-Royce-sponsored charity posters of their workhorse Hawk jet aircraft for £5 (?10) each on the beach at Clacton-on-Sea after the Air Show on West Greensward on the sea front. It is a hot summer's afternoon but wearing black heavy-duty RAF regulation boots and the distinctive, specially-tailored  blue overalls, is a member of the team's support ground-crew (known as the Blues). Their jobs might include engineering, operations or administration work. Secondary duties are asked of them too and here we see the lower body of photographer Senior Aircraftman (SAC) Matt Reid who holds a hardened folder containing the scaled artwork while standing on the soft sand. The crowd mingles in the background and a lady dressed in only a bikini returns to her possessions. .
    Red_Arrows623_RBA.jpg
  • A mound of sand and gravel seen through wire mesh fencing at Hanson Aggregate company, Greenhithe, Thames Gateway
    river_business302-10-09-2007.jpg
  • A fisherman walks on a white coral sand beach past a palm tree trunk and dhoni fishing boat being repaired on Meedu Island
    maldives208-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka..
    maldives170-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka..
    maldives172-13-11-2007.jpg
  • A group of young boys play in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean on Meedu Island, in the Republic of the Maldives. The shallows are a safe playground for these kids who swim and splash about in the clear shallows next to two small dhoni boats often used to fish using traditional hand and line, an important source of income for remote communities in this island nation. The sea is perfectly clear blue and the sand coral-white, in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives207-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of a beach volleyball game, played by young, fit people on the sand at a seaside, on 12th July 2016, at Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal. A young woman leaps prematurely to block an oncoming serve by her opposition team. Cascais is a coastal town and a municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Lisbon. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists and located on the Estoril Coast also known as the Portuguese Riviera. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_cascais-06-12-07-2016.jpg
  • leaving footprints, a Bedouin walks away into desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt487-08-03-2016.jpg
  • A Bedouin inspects rubbish left in desert sand dunes near the Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt486-08-03-2016.jpg
  • A Bedouin inspects rubbish left in desert sand dunes near the Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt485-08-03-2016.jpg
  • leaving footprints, a Bedouin walks away into desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt433-08-03-2016.jpg
  • leaving footprints, a Bedouin walks away into desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt432-08-03-2016.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt338-05-03-2016.jpg
  • Looking down on an elderly couple as they sit on soft sand at a beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Full-clothed, even on this warm day, they look out to see and watch something of interest towards the water's edge. They may be daytrippers to this east coast seaside resort and will only spend a short time under the sun, keeping thei sandals on. The husband points and the wife funbles for her sstraw hat that matches his.
    beach_couple-12-06-1992.jpg
  • Aviation enthusiasts and beachcombers watch the aerobatics overhead during the annual Southend airshow on the seafront on the Thames estuary in Essex. WHile some children dig in the sand to make sandcastles or ditches, others watch a turning vintage fighter plane as it passes overhead in the distance.
    southend_airshow02-29-07-2002.jpg
  • A landscape of Bleriot Plage near Calais on the northern French coast, where the first-ever international flight between France and the southern English coast took place by the French aviator Louis Bleriot on 25th July 1909. He flew from the beach at Sangatte, to the cliffs at Dover to claim the prize offered by the Daily Mail. Nowadays, French families use the sand and dunes as a holiday beach destination using inflatable dinghies to paddle in the surf. The Bleriot crossing took 37 minutes in his aeroplane, Blériot XI, built in collaboration with Raymond Saulnier. It was powered by a 3 cylinder 25 horsepower (19 kW) engine.
    bleriot_plage01-02-08-2000.jpg
  • A pre-pubescent voyeur peers over a clump of vegetation to spy on four beautiful women lying face-down in a sandy dune near the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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  • Pedalos and sea at low-tide in late evening on Bournemouth beach, seen from the town's pier.
    pedalo_beach01-20-10-1990.jpg
  • A desolate landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt507-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A remote police roadblock landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt505-09-03-2016.jpg
  • View through a car windscreen of a desert highway road sign for the New Valley, near Luxor, Western Desert, Egypt.
    egypt407-07-03-2016.jpg
  • A local woman walks through evening sunlight in a local cemetery in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt400-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Muslim graves and cactus in a local cemetery in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The grave should be aligned perpendicular to the Qibla (i.e. Mecca). The body is placed in the grave without a casket, lying on its right side, and facing the Qibla. Grave markers should be raised only up to a maximum of 30 centimetres (12 in) above the ground. Thus Grave markers are simple, because outwardly lavish displays are discouraged in Islam. Many times graves may even be unmarked, or marked only with a simple wreath. However, it is becoming more common for family members to erect grave monuments.
    egypt398-06-03-2016.jpg
  • An abandoned Mercedes W110 car under a palm tree in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt214-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding and construction materials
    blackfriars_property11-18-02-2015.jpg
  • Three bathers lie on the shingle in the lee of a groyne, a wooden screen from the fresh breeze that has been written on by unknown people having scrawled their names and a noughts and crosses puzzle written in chalk. One person wears his socks in true English style and the lady in the middle has her bag containing possessions near her head. Above them sits a lifeguard on a pair of high steps, peering along the beach with a pair of binoculars. Meanwhile, a lone seagull wheels around the coastal thermals and is caught between the wooden slats of the groyne.
    brighton_bathers01-16-06-993.jpg
  • Hours after the tragic drowning of a young woman in the water on the Norfolk coast, beach visitors stare out to sea, on 9th August 2020, in Sea Palling, Norfolk, England.
    sea_palling01-09-08-2020.jpg
  • A family enjoy a hot day in their beach hut on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    seaside_people-29-07-2002_1.jpg
  • A dad holds his son over their sandcastle, for the boy to plant his Union Jack and Welsh Dragon flags at the top, during their holiday at Bournemouth, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
    seaside_people-20-10-1990.jpg
  • A baby enjoys the sandy beach with his parents at Minehead, on 12th August 1993, in Minehead, England.
    seaside_people-12-08-1993.jpg
  • Four young women sunbathe in their bikinis in coastal dunes, on 25th May 1992, in Great Yarmouth, Suffolk, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    sunbathing_girls-25-05-1992.jpg
  • Litter and graffiti on the beach of Lisbon's Praca do Commercio.
    portugal_lisbon-16-11-07-2016.jpg
  • An aerial dawn landscape, looking down from a hot air balloon on to the road to the Valley of the Kings o the West Bank of the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. n
    egypt520-10-03-2016.jpg
  • A remote desert railway now missing its iron rails, stolen in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is now patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt515-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A remote desert railway now missing its iron rails, stolen in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is now patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt514-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A remote police roadblock landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt511-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A remote police roadblock landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt508-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A desolate landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt506-09-03-2016.jpg
  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
    egypt411-07-03-2016.jpg
  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
    egypt410-07-03-2016.jpg
  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
    egypt409-07-03-2016.jpg
  • Muslim graves and cactus in a local cemetery in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The grave should be aligned perpendicular to the Qibla (i.e. Mecca). The body is placed in the grave without a casket, lying on its right side, and facing the Qibla. Grave markers should be raised only up to a maximum of 30 centimetres (12 in) above the ground. Thus Grave markers are simple, because outwardly lavish displays are discouraged in Islam. Many times graves may even be unmarked, or marked only with a simple wreath. However, it is becoming more common for family members to erect grave monuments.
    egypt397-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Muslim graves and cactus in a local cemetery in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The grave should be aligned perpendicular to the Qibla (i.e. Mecca). The body is placed in the grave without a casket, lying on its right side, and facing the Qibla. Grave markers should be raised only up to a maximum of 30 centimetres (12 in) above the ground. Thus Grave markers are simple, because outwardly lavish displays are discouraged in Islam. Many times graves may even be unmarked, or marked only with a simple wreath. However, it is becoming more common for family members to erect grave monuments.
    egypt396-06-03-2016.jpg
  • An abandoned Mercedes W110 car under a palm tree in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt215-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Blackfriars property development marketing suite hoarding and construction materials
    blackfriars_property10-18-02-2015.jpg
  • City workers walk past roadworks and pavement construction disruption in the City of London.
    roadworks_disruption01-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
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  • Beachcombers explore pools at low-tide on the estuary at Wells-next-the-Sea in Nofolk.
    norfolk_estuary01-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Beach family enjoy late sun in early evening at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    seaside_family02-25-07-2012-2.jpg
  • Beach family enjoy late sun in early evening at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    seaside_family01-25-07-2012-2.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise recover position and resuscitation to volunteer victim on beach.
    lifeguard_rescue01-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Next to a beach bather, water pours from an outlet pipe on a tourist beach on Coloane island Cheoc Van beach, Macau, China.
    beach_pollution01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • Sandy maze built on low-tide River Thames foreshore during Thames Festival on London's South Bank event.
    beach_maze03-11-09-2010.jpg
  • Sandy maze built on low-tide River Thames foreshore during Thames Festival on London's South Bank event.
    beach_maze01-11-09-2010.jpg
  • Two men enjoy their own versions of Blackpool North Pier, Lancashire, England. On the right, the first man is lying down on a bench with his trousers gathered around his ankles, his red bathing costume or underpants are baggy and he is looking across to something of interest while scratching his bald head. The second man on the right is not wearing a shirt and his stomach is spilling over his trousers. He has a bunch of keys attached to his belt and is pointing a video camera (camcorder) towards the shore. It is a comical scene and typical of Blackpool beach life. This northern sea side resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd.
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  • An unrecognisable bather wearing a stripy costume bends over awkwardly to adjust his towel on the promenade pavement (sidewalk) at Minehead, Devon. The man's reddened posterior is pointed towards the viewer and his dachshund (sausage) pet dog stands still looking away to the right, towards unseen interest. A family of four stroll along the sandy beach during low tide. It is a hot afternoon but we only see a quiet scene at this busy resort.
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  • With his personal belongings and beach shingle surrounding him, a man sits on his seaside towel in soft sunlight in Dover eating a snack which is dribbling out of his mouth. The skin from many previous hours of exposure to solar radiation has left him raw and sunburned and therefore dried and dying skin is peeling in shreds on his back and shoulder. He looks like an eccentric local character who seems oblivious to the health risks that his continued sunbathing is inflicting on his bizarrely scorched body.
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  • A wife gives an tight, affectionate hug to her husband on the Promenade at North Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. There is no such showing of reciprocated love from the man who continues to read a cricket report in the sports page of his tabloid newspaper. She is wearing a floral summer top and he is topless. In the background we see a bustling sea front. People are walking along the Prom, enjoying the sun and warmth of this usually chilly area of Britain.
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  • Two men enjoy their own versions of Blackpool North Pier, Lancashire, England. On the right, the first man is lying down on a bench with his trousers gathered around his ankles, his red bathing costume or underpants are baggy and he is looking across to something of interest while scratching his bald head. The second man on the right is not wearing a shirt and his stomach is spilling over his trousers. He has a bunch of keys attached to his belt and is pointing a video camera (camcorder) towards the shore. It is a comical scene and typical of Blackpool beach life. This northern sea side resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd.
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  • An unseen person's hand reaches from the corner of the picture to offer a chip (French fry) to a hovering seagull at Minehead on the Somerset coast, South-west England. Another younger person has turned around to see what is happening but is also holding up his hand to other birds  none of the others are accepting the free meal. The summer afternoon sky is filled with bird life but clear of clouds and is a deep coastal blue which echoes the reaching shirt sleeve.
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  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
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  • Jogger runs along remote deserted sandy beach of Northumberland coast beyond long grass dunes near Bamburgh
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  • A low-tide River Thames, people on Millennium Walk, London Eye, and the Houses of Parliament are seen from a high viewpoint.
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  • The face of the Irish Republican Bobby Sands is painted on the office wall of Sinn Feinn, the left-wing politcal arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 - 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate. .
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  • The memorial to IRA hunger strikers Terence O'Neil, Bobby Sands and Joe McDonnell in Milltown Cemetery, on 7th June 1995, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike was a hunger protest in Northern Ireland by Irish republican prisoners during the Troubles. During the protest 10 prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army had starved themselves to death in the hunger strike. The first to die, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom during his hunger strike.
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  • The graves of Irish Republican hunger strikers in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast. Their roll-call of names are on stones laid o the ground including that of Bobby Sands, the elected MP. The five-year protest during The Troubles began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. The second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death?including Sands, whose funeral was attended by 100,000 people,
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  • Dawn breaks over the sandy low-tide beach of Northumberland coast and a distant Bamburgh Castle
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  • A hardy family of three play in the sand of the chilly, autumnal harbour of a Northumbrian North Sea fishing town, on 25th September 2017, in Amble, Northumberland, England.
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  • A 4x4 desert expedition vehicle climbs a sand dune at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A 4x4 desert expedition vehicle climbs a sand dune at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A 4x4 desert expedition vehicle climbs a sand dune at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A Bedouin and his desert expedition 4x4 vehicle in sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A Bedouin in desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A Bedouin in desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
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  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
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  • Young men in drag perform to an audience as part of their Club 18-30 holiday experience to Ibiza, Spain. A tour rep encourages the men to push their inibitions to the limit but with a reputation for 'Sun, Sand and Sex' the 18-30 holiday formula has been labelled as parents' worth nightmare. From from the company's web site however the fantasy sounds less riotous: "There comes a time in life when you need to do it for yourself. A time to break free and break the mould. To explore, leave the map at home and find yourself. To find that one moment and make it last a lifetime. That time is now. Sunrise to sunset. Sunset to sunrise. This is the time of your life. Love every single second of it."
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  • A homeless man lies in the sand near the ornate Triumphal Arch in Praça do Comércio and statue of King José I.
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