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  • On the day that the Bank of England announced a rise, from 1.25% to 1.75% in the interest rate, the highest increase in 27 years, Jehovah's Witness pamplets offer help from stress outside the Bank of England, on 4th August 2022, in the City of London, England. This increase is widely seen as a slide towards inflation with a shrinking of the UK economy - the start of its fall into recession in the third financial quarter of 2022.
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  • On the day that the Bank of England announced a rise, from 1.25% to 1.75% in the interest rate, the highest increase in 27 years, Jehovah's Witness pamplets offer help from stress outside the Bank of England, on 4th August 2022, in the City of London, England. This increase is widely seen as a slide towards inflation with a shrinking of the UK economy - the start of its fall into recession in the third financial quarter of 2022.
    city_economy-16-04-08-2022.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.
    city_banker07-16-1998.jpg
  • On the day that the Bank of England announced a rise, from 1.25% to 1.75% in the interest rate, the highest increase in 27 years, Jehovah's Witness pamplets offer help from stress outside the Bank of England, on 4th August 2022, in the City of London, England. This increase is widely seen as a slide towards inflation with a shrinking of the UK economy - the start of its fall into recession in the third financial quarter of 2022.
    city_economy-15-04-08-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the Bank of England announced a rise, from 1.25% to 1.75% in the interest rate, the highest increase in 27 years, Jehovah's Witness pamplets offer help from stress outside the Bank of England, on 4th August 2022, in the City of London, England. This increase is widely seen as a slide towards inflation with a shrinking of the UK economy - the start of its fall into recession in the third financial quarter of 2022.
    city_economy-14-04-08-2022.jpg
  • 1990s traders look stressful on a city trading floor, on 29th March 1996, in London, England.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996_5.jpg
  • 1990s traders look stressful on a city trading floor, on 29th March 1996, in London, England.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996_4.jpg
  • Flight Lieutenant Antony Parkinson a pilot with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, signs posters on arriving at the team's home base at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire from his last ever display. Flt Lt Parkinson has served on the Red Arrows for four years and is to leave for a Typhoon squadron - from a relatively simple aircraft to one of the most sophisticated. Press and PR is one of the team's main purposes, acting as ambassadors for the UK and as recruiting tool for tomorrow's RAF officers and autographing publicity material is a routine chore. Traditionally, photographs are designed to allow pilots a space to sign their names alongside their respective position in the display formation. In high-spirits after a stressfully long year, he is in the crew room to wind down, with a tomato in his mouth. .  . .
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  • Looking down from above, we see one lone queuing traveller at Charles de Gaulle, gazes up towards the large Departures board. Fellow-passengers wait by baggage trolleys in a civilised line beneath the information. Charles de Gaulle/Roissy is a hub airport for Air France north of the French capital. The departures information has schedule times, destinations, flight, satellite and gate numbers plus   remarks. Air travellers experience such misery every day and shows of how global air travel has become a routine, mundane and stressful for the everyday airline passenger - a far cry from when commercial flight was purely for the elite. 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_corbis29-27-07-2000.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-04-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-03-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-10-14-07-2022.jpg
  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand pointing to flight IDs on screen in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc133-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc138-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc363-03-06-2014.jpg
  • A man has chosen a free surface to spread himself out on during a lunchtime break in the City of London. Having removed his shirt and tie, he sunbathes topless with only his trousers and shoes, the clue as to his day-job in a London office. There is a heat wave in the capital and others are soaking up rays during a working week. Bronzed and asleep, the young man is carefree enough not to worry about his eccentric behaviour in a public place.
    city_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A month before Christmas, a retailer's poster promoting this year's Black Friday bargains, deals and percentage reductions are seen in a shop window in Oxford Circus in Westminster, on 22nd November 2022, in London, England.
    black_friday-2-22-11-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-01-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-07-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-06-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-09-14-07-2022.jpg
  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand and radio trigger in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc143-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc319-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc366-03-06-2014.jpg
  • A lone pedestrian over the centre of a mini-roundabout in a City of London side street.
    roundabout02-24-05-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view of a city pedestrian crossing the circles of a City of London roundabout
    aerial_roundabout04-22-03-2012.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
  • man is lying down on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, to take a nap under a mid-day sun in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
    city_bus_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-02-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-05-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-08-14-07-2022.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc364-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc353-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc321-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc373-03-06-2014.jpg
  • A train is stopped at Loughborough Junction railway station where a Samaritan's poster urges those with mental health issues, or even thoughts of suicide, to seek help from the registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    samaritans_poster02-26-02-2021.jpg
  • A British army Parachute Regiment recruit is suffering from exhaustion on a rigorous assault course conducted over rough terrain and into water. He emerges dripping from the water jump and back into the forest accompanied by instructors who shout encouragement and abuse to get the candidate to a successful stage of this test. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_course-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment of peace with a cigarette in a former medieval narrow City of London called Fye Foot Lane which sources suggest was called Five Foot Lane (or Fyve" Foot) as being "five foote in breadth" at the west end. It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1666.
    city_people14-23-02-2012.jpg
  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    sandhurst_cadet04-12-1996.jpg
  • At first light, an early morning jogger runs past Tower Bridge on the South bank of the River Thames in London
    london_time01-03-09-2008.jpg
  • In the terminal at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport, Paris France, the peace of the airport chapel looks like a Star Trek-style place of worship, typical of the new airport experience pushed upon in the late '60s and early '70s. Short stools and padded benches line the intimate space in the satellite building. Designed by Paul Andreu, Charles de Gaulle became a symbol for airport modernity becoming an 'Aérogare' where trains and planes whisk the new world traveller of the late '60s, away beyond an ever-extending horizon. From here, the Air France Concorde crashed on the aviation employment town of Gonesse on July 25th 2000. 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_corbis31-24-07-2001.jpg
  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
    Lambermont_biscuits_296.jpg
  • A passenger looks bored awaiting the departure of his flight from the old French capital's Orly International Airport at Orly.
    esa_guiana02313-08-2007.jpg
  • A female rail traveller walks along the platform at Loughborough Junction railway station where a Samaritan's poster urges those with mental health issues, or even thoughts of suicide, to seek help from the registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline, on 27th February 2021, in London, England.
    samaritans_poster04-27-02-2021.jpg
  • A female rail traveller walks along the platform at Loughborough Junction railway station where a Samaritan's poster urges those with mental health issues, or even thoughts of suicide, to seek help from the registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline, on 27th February 2021, in London, England.
    samaritans_poster03-27-02-2021.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners02-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners04-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners06-26-10-2020.jpg
  • A man walks looking at his own reflection in the window of a car showroom dealership on Piccadilly in central London, on 24th September, in London, England.
    reflection_man01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • A detail of a waorning sign of cliff top height dangers at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-05-26-12-2019.jpg
  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge (opened 1864) is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-04-26-12-2019.jpg
  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge (opened 1864) is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-03-26-12-2019.jpg
  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge (opened 1864) is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-02-26-12-2019.jpg
  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge (opened 1864) is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-01-26-12-2019.jpg
  • Two businessmen walk beneath the high outer walls of the Bank of England in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    city_bank-02-25-03-2019.jpg
  • A young man sits on an exterior ledge, benneath apartments at Waterloo, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    southbank_apartments-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • A London bus crosses London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
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  • A London bus crosses London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    thames_life_ring-02-23-11-2018.jpg
  • London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    thames_life_ring-01-23-11-2018.jpg
  • The Shard skyscraper, London Bridge and a life ring overlooking the Thames river on a winter's evening, on 23rd November 2018, in London, England.
    london_shard-19-23-11-2018.jpg
  • An Asian man crosses a bridge over Upper Thames Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-01-07-11-2018.jpg
  • A chef takes a cigarette break near colourful seating in the City of London, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    city_smoker-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • The solitary figure of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team. The man may be a security guard, keeping watch over the streets below as crowds gather to honour the Atlanta Braves Baseball team, after their 1995 World Series win. The figure is in his manmade environment and the high walls and windows of the buildings that make up this metropolis dwarf this tiny human who in the scale and perspective of a modern city looks incongruous, isolated and insignificant.
    roof_man01-10-11-1995.jpg
  • Support struts of Heathrow airport's control tower, London.
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  • Support struts of Heathrow airport's control tower, London.
    adie_dolan_atc409-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Blurred people walk towards bright sunlight through a subway tunnel beneath the Embankment in central London.
    tunnel_crowd02-27-01-2013.jpg
  • A young woman dashes through woodland after reaaching a checkpoint during an orienteering race.
    orienteering-12-07-1990.jpg
  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
    Red_Arrows362_RBA.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment of peace with a cigarette in a former medieval narrow City of London called Fye Foot Lane which sources suggest was called Five Foot Lane (or Fyve" Foot) as being "five foote in breadth" at the west end. It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1666.
    city_people13-23-02-2012.jpg
  • The solitary of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team.
    roof_man02-10-11-1995.jpg
  • A boy soldier has collapsed on the ground suffering from fatigue and dehydration on a rigorous march conducted as a squad of soldier recruits, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. Two senior trainers haul the buy up who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company02-30-07-1996 copy.jpg
  • Teenage Nepali boys await the start of a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They have to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes 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. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    doko_gurkhas-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A lone walker passes by a partially-collapsed broken sign announcing the summit of Rannoch Moor, Scotland UK, 1,350 feet above sea level. He is hunched against a driving wind at this altitude and the country he is walking over is bleak and boggy, a wetland high up in the Scottish Highlands. Thick tufts of grass and moss lie about in this tough terrain, held in great affection for long-distance hikers. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
    RB_128-12-10-1996.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes 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.
    gurkha_training0116-01_1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes 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. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment08-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Beneath the giant, solid pillars of the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district - the ancient Square Mile - a man dressed in a traditional pinstripe suit has stopped to make a phone call or check for messages. Halting his journey along this street he has opted to stand in line with a traffic no waiting cone and also near double-yellow lines that restrict parking or stopping. Without the cone or lines this scene would otherwise be without colour - the columns of this financial institution and the pavement (sidewalk) are drab - so the welcome yellow gives this picture more interest. We only see the man from the rear view and so he remains anonymous, a small person set against the scale of a large-scale financial landscape..
    city_gent_bank-29-06-1993.jpg
  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    army02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall  of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag  but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because  we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a  giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..
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  • Three soldier recruits wearing shorts and black army boots, one with blood trickling down from the knees to the shins, stand at ease, lined up for inspection after the rigorous steeple-chase endurance race, an individual test with candidates running against the clock over a 1.8 mile cross country course. The course features a number of 'water obstacles' and having completed the cross country element, candidates must negotiate and 'Assault Course' to complete the test. This forms part of  the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret. A plastic bottle of water stands between recruit number three (3) and six (6).
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  • Roller-coaster fans gasp with excitement as they plunge down an almost vertical drop on the Pepsi-Max Big One, Britain's largest and the second Highest, 4th fastest Roller Coaster in Europe. It is a steel structure located at the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, opened in 1994. Roller-coaster freaks raise their arms above their heads though one's instinct is to hold on for dear life. Although it is no longer the tallest, fastest and steepest roller coaster in the world, it is still one of the scariest roller-coaster experiences on offer. Extended caption ..
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • A female passenger leans forward with head in hands amid the busy terminal at Chicago O'Hare Airport, Illinois, USA. Fellow-travellers in the background appear unworried, waiting for their respective flights in a calm manner. The lady in the foreground's body language however, suggests fatigue and distress and perhaps a fear of flying. 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. .
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  • Air passengers exit and enter a transit train at Chicago O'Hare airport, Illinois USA. They pull suitcases behind them as they negotiate the airport terminal transport system that takes them across the sprawling complex of terminals and tunnels. A large central yellow traffic arrow saying OUT is most prominent telling arriving people to keep in the middle, allowing those departing to enter the carriage from the sides. There is a slight blur to the picture showing the hurrying nature of modern air travel, vastly different from the pioneering days of flight for only the socially elite. 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..
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  • A young girl in transit at Colombo Airport, gazes from a window across the apron where Sri Lankan Airbuses are sitting.
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Female employee boxes finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Female employees package finished Moments biscuitsof at the United Biscuits-owned Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control workers sort through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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