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  • "One candle." A family are gathered to celebrate the first birthday of a young child, the back garden of her parent's south London home. The birthday girl reaches out to touch the single lit candle on a chocolate log cake while her grandmother and mother both show her how to blow and extinguish the flame instead. Friends and relatives are sat around the garden on a perfect late-summer afternoon, drinking and laughing on this joyous occasion, a milestone in the first year of any young life. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella24-20-04-1995.jpg
  • 'Christmas Comes but once a Year ..'  A grandfather holds his tired granddaughter at arms-length while watching a television prgramme at Christmas time. The baby girl is 5 months-old and yawns with a wide, open mouth while the elder relative pouts, looking grumpy. Both are seated on an armchair in the family home's living room. A decorated Christmas tree is seen in the far corner and the curtains behind are drawn. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella10-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Crooked Lady." A twelve month-old girl who has recently learned to walk proudly strides past an elderly lady with balancing arms outstretched while at the Dulwich Show in South London. There is a marked difference between the youthful, upright posture of the young girl to the hunched and bent stance of the old woman who stands supporting herself on a brolley. It is a picture that compares youth with old age, the delight that a person of later years shows to a child whose life reaches far ahead. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella23-20-04-1995.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism08-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism09-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism03-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism04-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism01-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism02-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper in Knightbridge walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism01-12-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, shoppers in Knightbridge walk past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism04-12-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, shoppers in Knightbridge walk past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism05-12-11-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
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  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-02-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-01-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-03-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-02-01-01-2020.jpg
  • "First shoes in Wales." An eleven month-old infant tries to walk in her first pair of proper rigid shoes whilst on holiday in Snowdonia, North Wales UK. Tentatively taking a few unconfident steps the young girl  cries out in surprise, almost falling over. Her mother instinctively grabs her coat hood before she topples into into the pebbles and soft mud of a river bed which would soil her clean clothes. We see a mother preventing her daughter from getting dirty and from hurting herself, a fast reaction to stop injury on a small child. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella22-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "On all fours." An eleven month-old infant crawls up some back garden steps and into her parents' house. Her head and shoulders are already hidden as she disappears inside. She is exploring a familiar world, being bold, gaining strength and confidence to move independently to eventually stand upright and walk unaided. Someone has taped a short stick to the upper step to help her position herself downwards when exiting the house backwards.  Wearing only a nappy (diaper) it is clearly a warm summer's day. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella20-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Garden ballet." With hands outstretched, a ten month-old infant supports her weight on some garden chairs as she learns to stand on her own two feet. Without the strength in her legs, she loses her balance and her mother stands behind holding her daughter by the waist preventing her from falling over. It is a warm summer afternoon with both mother and child barefoot on the back garden patio and we see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella18-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Puddle in Oxleas Wood." A six month-old infant looks out from a baby back carrier frame whilst out on a muddy winter jaunt in Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill, South London. The girl peers out with a fascination for the outdoors from a warm coat wearing a tiny hat and loose-fitting gloves to view the world while perched high-up on her mother's back who carries her child on the chilly walk. The bare trees and forested landscape can be imagined from the waterlogged puddle that is out of focus to the right. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella15-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "First ladies." A six month-old infant girl has a shocked look on her face as she plays with a copy of the broadsheet Guardian newspaper whose front page headline photograph is of Hilary Clinton, then First Lady of the United States. Clinton is also looking aghast at something she is experiencing. Coincidentally, the President's wife and the first-born of this family are both first ladies. The child has sunk down into her high-chair, reacting to something her mother has said. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella14-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Then raindrops fell on my head." Looking over the shoulder as a mother pours bath water from a toy seive on to the head of her five month-old baby daughter. The infant looks unsure but otherwise spellbound as the droplets fall, watching them leaving the pot to feel them trickling down. We see the child's trust for her mother and imagine her fascination with tumbling liquid, the feel of it touching her skin. This water is shallow, a child can drown in an inch of water so the mum is supporting the baby's head around the neck in the correct manner. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella11-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Anywhere between 3-5am." A mother has brought her three and a half month-old infant into bed and comforts her new baby back to sleep in bed by holding her hand at dawn, after a broken night's rest. We see large adult's fingers encircling the tiny digits of the baby girl who is mercifully sound asleep again, instinctively aware of love and trust. It is a picture of protective parenthood, of a close bond between mother and child in a safe, cosy, warm and idyllic place within the loving family home. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella08-20-04-1995.jpg
  • On the living room floor at home, a young mother grabs a few minutes to herself to exercises her pelvic floor muscles three weeks after giving birth to a baby girl who lies asleep in a Moses basket carry cot on the carpet. She rotates her hips to her right, twisting her body to regain strength in her lower torso, still sore from labour. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella07-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "No Distance Covered." The leathery soles of a new-born 3 day-old baby girl's feet are seen in detail. Her skin is wrinkled and cracked despite applying foot lotion to keep them soft. The tiny toes have yet to support her upright body and walk anywhere because she has been at home from hospital for only a few days. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella05-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Brave New World." On a maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a tiny new-born baby girl sleeps in her cot at the foot of her mother's bed. We see the mum's legs and feet pointing towards some curtains against which her infant is wrapped in an NHS shawl to keep her snug and warm. But it's Summer and the bedding is ruffled at the bottom to keep the heat down for an exhausted mother comfortable in an otherwise airless room. It is a scene of serenity and safety, at a time when mother and baby are bonding. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella04-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "7lbs 13oz." On a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a new-born baby girl has been temporarily separated from her mother and placed uncomfortably in a small weighing dish, minutes after taking her first breaths, to record her birth-weight, recording in old imperial pounds and ounces rather than modern metric grams and kilo units. The midwife has clamped a plastic seal on the child's umbilical cord wound which eventually dries and falls off. The crying girl has a mass of black hair but whose ethnicity is caucasian. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella02-20-04-1995.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism07-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism06-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a contractor applies stars to window glass in Harvey Nichols's Christmas-themed window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism05-13-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, shoppers in Knightbridge walk past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism02-12-11-2020.jpg
  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper in Knightbridge walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism03-12-11-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-04-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-04-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Year's Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-01-01-01-2020.jpg
  • "Homo erectus." At the exact moment that a young human being walks for the first time, an eleven month-old girl infant conquers her fear and takes her first tentative upright unaided steps. After months of building lower leg strength by pushing and leaning against household objects, she now leaves the protective hands of a delighted but nervous mother who relishes the joyous moment of her offspring's great achievement. The girl's legs and hips help propel her forward motion, naturally making her an upright bi-pedal species. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella21-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Flight to Portugal." An eleven month-old child stands on a restaurant  table and is held by her mother whilst holidaying on the Algarve, southern Portugal. Caught with side-lit flash and ambient Mediterranean evening light, her with arms and fingers are outstretched and the balancing infant girl who is learning to stand on her own before attempting to walk, pretends to fly in mid-air, relishing a sense of space and freedom. We see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella19-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "More than you can chew." A ten month-old infant uses new teeth to bite her mother's nose in the back garden of their Victorian south London terrace home. The mum winces in pain as the child sinks her new milk teeth into her skin but they enjoy a warm summer afternoon, playfully interacting with each other in a moment of parental love and harmony. The girl wears a short-sleeved t-shirt and has plump arms of baby fat, a healthy sign of a contented infant. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella17-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old...
    corbis_ella16-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Losing the hair I was born with." We look over the darkened shoulder of a mother as she cuts her baby daughter's hair, at home, for the first time. Sitting in her high-chair, the child watches with fascination as the scissors snip away at the tufts of thick, dark hair the girl has had from birth. The experience is clearly enchanting her and she looks with her mouth open, captivated by this strange instrument that she feels trimming her head. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella13-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Eye Contact." A mother peers over the bath to keep watch over her five month-old baby daughter who is lying on a matt, holding a towel to her face. The infant has had her own time in the water and the mum has taken the opportunity to bathe too. They both look into each other's eyes in a picture of love, trust and joy. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella12-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Diptheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis."  A four month-old baby screams with the sharp prick of an innoculation needle administered by a health visitor at a doctor's surgery, London. The post-natal clinic is a health check for the baby and for new mothers to discuss parenting problems with a NHS-qualified midwife and paediatric specialist. She attends to mother and child since they arrived back home from hospital, days after birth and therefore knows all their details and the baby's growth statistics and development curves. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella09-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "A Day Away from Choosing a Name." A baby girl of only two weeks old cranes her neck around to see where her mother's soothing voice is coming from. Wrapped up in a checked blanket to keep her snug and warm, she is learning to recognise familiar sounds, focus on close objects and learn about her own small world. She has a round face with a squashed, button nose and has opened her mouth to bend round in her mum's direction. Her name has yet to be recorded with the local register office, a legal requirement that needs completeting within six weeks after a birth. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella06-20-04-1995.jpg
  • On a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a young mother sits back and rests before being transferred to a bed on the maternity ward. Wearing a hospital gown and an identity wrist tag, leans back exhausted on a wall with eyes closed, reflecting on the last 24 hours of labour, contractions and the birth of her first child, a baby girl who    sleeps in a cot next to her mother. Tissues and a drink cups are on the table in front but the new mum is too tired to reach out for a sip. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella03-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "Three cylinders of gas and air." A young mother enters the final stage of labour on a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London. Using the painkiller Pethadine from a cylinder she draws on the mouthpiece to counteract the pain during contractions. A hospital identity tag bearing her name, date of birth and code number is secured to her wrist. She already looks exhausted, tolerating the rythmic stages of birth and she grips tightly a supportive hand. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella01-20-04-1995.jpg
  • The Chinese words Kung Hei Fat Choi or Happy new Year with cartoon characters outside Bank of China building, Hong Kong.
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  • With the City skyline in the distance, a New Year's Eve fireworks display appears on a screen from inside City Hall on the Southbank, on 14th December 2017, in London, England.
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  • 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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  • Engineer airframe specialist Junior Technician Barry Pritchard of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, forms part of the team's highly-skilled group of support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. Here J/Tech Pritchard straddles the fuselage of  the Hawk jet aircraft performing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) jack change in the squadron hangar. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. The team's aircraft are in some cases 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent overhauls needed. In these shelters were housed the Lancaster bombers 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows nearby offices as their administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. .
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  • A barrow laden with festive Christmas decorations sits during the closed holiday period (on New Year's Day) outside the florist at Herne Hill Station, on 1st January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Spectators at the The Princess Margaret Hospital (TPMH) on the Akrotiri peninsula, about 4 kilometres from the RAF Station at Akrotiri, admire the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, as they perform one of their first public shows of the year. RAF staff and patients are allowed on to the grass outside the hospital building for this free show, given in honour of local charity fund-raisers of the Cyprus-based RAF Association whose guests form one of the smallest crowds to watch a Red Arrows display. Here, the team perform The Twizzle manoeuvre in front of the small crowd who stand by a green fence, matching tree and palm tree stumps. The bare earth is baked hard by the lack of rain and it almost looks like a desert scene as five of the nine jets speed overhead,
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  • Stored in their respective wooden boxes are the flying helmets and miscellaneous equipment belonging to two pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, at their headquarters RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. All ten pilots have their own storage space for gear. We see the place names of Reds One and Two: Squadron Leader Spike Jepson and Flight Lieutenant Matt Jarvis, whose visors are protected by soft cloths preventing scratches protective face screen. Squadron Leader Jepson is team leader and Flight Lieutenant Jarvis flies slightly behind and to the right in the Red Arrows Diamond Nine formation. On an average winter training day at Scampton, the crews will collect their kit up to six times a day in readiness for the forthcoming summer air show season. Flight Lieutenant Jarvis died of cancer one year later in March 2005. .
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  • A barrow laden with festive Christmas decorations sits during the closed holiday period (on New Year's Day) outside the florist at Herne Hill Station, on 1st January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Flowers form the memorial to those passengers and travellers, killed in Brussels Zaventem airport, a year afterwards, on 26th March 2017, at Brussels Airport, Belgium. On the morning of March 22, 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured.
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  • Flowers form the memorial to those passengers and travellers, killed in Brussels Zaventem airport, a year afterwards, on 26th March 2017, at Brussels Airport, Belgium. On the morning of March 22, 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured.
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  • Flowers form the memorial to those passengers and travellers, killed in Brussels Zaventem airport, a year afterwards, on 26th March 2017, at Brussels Airport, Belgium. On the morning of March 22, 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured.
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  • Flowers form the memorial to those passengers and travellers, killed in Brussels Zaventem airport, a year afterwards, on 26th March 2017, at Brussels Airport, Belgium. On the morning of March 22, 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. Night is falling with only blue daylight remaining in the western sky and the warm light from the hangar spills out of the giant open doors on to the concrete. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangaran original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. .
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  • Whilst one spectator cranes her neck skyward, another is oblivious to an air show spectacle above their heads. One looks up into the sun, shielding her eyes with a hand and outstretched fingers but the other concentrates on lighting her cigarette with a match. Unseen in this picture, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are performing high in the blue skies above the public on West Greensward, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. In front of the seaside town's brightly coloured red and yellow Lifeguard Station, the two ladies have different interests in the aerobatic manoeuvres. The Red Arrows' 25-minute display either captivates some or bores others although they can be seen upwards of 90-plus shows and fly-pasts each year in front of several millions live or on TV. They have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • A door painted with a high-gloss red finish is closed and a warning sign for privacy is hung to deter outsiders from entering. This briefing room belongs to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team Lincolnshire, who use these offices as headquarters and administrative centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. The pilots' crew room is screened off from visitors and the notice says "Stop, do not enter, briefing in progress" to isolate the serious business of briefing and de-briefing. Performance appraisals before and after a training flight or air show displays are intense. Matters of safety and perfection are discussed so the aviators politely close the door unless visitors have been invited in to hear about the features of the next flight or afterwards, the gentlemanly exchanges providing analysis and frank views.
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  • Squadron Leader John Green the executive officer of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, instructs a group of RAF fighter pilots in the art of manual close-formation aerobatic flying. Explaining how to line up their aircraft with their nearest neighbour using a system called 'referencing', he shows them with his fingers the margin of error that is tolerated when only 12ft (3-4m) apart and flying at 400mph (650kph).  The recruits all hope to be selected for next year's team and have travelled to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus where the Red Arrows complete their pre-season training. Seen from beneath the Hawk jet aircraft's nose on the 'line' Squadron Leader Green kneels by the trailing wing edge to demonstrate what he will expect from their upcoming flying test.
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  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
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  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
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  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
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  • An 8 year-old boy plays catch in the back garden of a rural property, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • A 16 year-old teenager shows his 4 year-old cousin his smartphone on the family home sofa.
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  • A 16 year-old teenager and his 4 year-old cousin play guitar together in the family living room.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A 16 year-old teenager and his 4 year-old cousin play guitar together in the family living room.
    sam_jamie04-20-04-2014.jpg
  • A 16 year-old teenager and his 4 year-old cousin play guitar together in the family living room.
    sam_jamie02-20-04-2014.jpg
  • A 16 year-old teenager and his 4 year-old cousin play guitar together in the family living room.
    sam_jamie01-20-04-2014.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
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  • A 4 year-old boy holds an umbrella outdoors in family woods.
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  • A four year-old boy plays below beech trees on a mound in Somerset woods. Jumping and stretching up towards the treetops amid the trees, the woods look dark and menacing although sunlight is shining between the branches in the height of summer. The young lad enjoys the freedom of the great outdoors, experiencing the joys of boyhood - memories that last forever in a life lead outside in the wild.
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  • A fifteen year-old teenage boy plays on a family trampoline.
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  • A four year-old boy plays below beech trees on a mound in Somerset woods. Running over the small hillock amid the trees, the woods look dark and menacing although sunlight is shining between the branches in the height of summer. The young lad enjoys the freedom of the great outdoors, experiencing the joys of boyhood - memories that last forever in a life lead outside in the wild.
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  • A 17 year-old boy enters a fresh water lake in Kaltern-Caldaro, south Tyrol, northern Italy.
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  • A 17 year-old boy enters a fresh water lake in Kaltern-Caldaro, south Tyrol, northern Italy.
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  • A 17 year-old boy enters a fresh water lake in Kaltern-Caldaro, south Tyrol, northern Italy.
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  • A father reassures and congratulates his 4 year-old son after his baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church.
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  • Family and relatives after a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • Family and relatives after a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • Family and relatives watch a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • Family and relatives watch a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • Family and relatives watch a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • A 15 year-old boy blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset. The old but sprightly and active gentleman keeps his legs straight to avoid scraping them along the woodland floor and stopping him before the end of the short ride. In the background are members of his family of varying ages, encouraging and laughing as he sweeps past on this bright summer afternoon.
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  • A 15 year-old boy blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset. The young lad keeps his legs straight to avoid scraping them along the woodland floor and stopping him before the end of the short ride. In the background are members of his family of varying ages, encouraging and laughing as he sweeps past on this bright summer afternoon.
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  • A 40 year-old man blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset.
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  • A 17 year-old teenage girl takes her first driving lesson in a meadow on private land.
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  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • A 4 year-old's blows out a candle after his baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • A 4 year-old's blows out a candle after his baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church
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  • A 70 year-old grandfather falls on the ground after a woodland home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset.
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