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  • A homeless man lying underneath a billboard advertising poster for the latest series of Big Brother. The new series of the celebrity version of the hit TV show starts on Chanel 5 in the UK on 17th August 2011. The feeling of surveillance and the contrasting life of the man in the picture shows a stark reality of rich and poor. Of celebrity and man on the street, quite literally
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  • A blind or partially sighted man walks past a Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
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  • A blind or partially sighted man walks past a Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150109_keeping an eye_E.jpg
  • Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150109_keeping an eye_C.jpg
  • Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150109_keeping an eye_B.jpg
  • Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150109_keeping an eye_A.jpg
  • A blind or partially sighted man walks past a Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150109_keeping an eye_D.jpg
  • A figure walks past street art graffiti of a face and pair of eyes looking over a fence in Digbeth on 14th March 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The eyes have a big brother feel of surveillance, as if people nearby are being watched.
    20200314_sinister eyes_002.jpg
  • Street art graffiti of a face and pair of eyes looking over a fence in Digbeth on 14th March 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The eyes have a big brother feel of surveillance, as if people nearby are being watched.
    20200314_sinister eyes_001.jpg
  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding appears to be watching pedestrians and their long shadows on Neal Street, London. Reminiscent of an Orwellian 'Big Brother' scenario, where in the book 1984, the State is seen to be spying on its citizens, we see the portion of the large face's eye open and gazing at the passers-by who walk past unaware of their secret surveillance. It is an autumn afternoon and long shadows stretch across the pavement as the pedestrians get on with everyday life - activities that may require reporting on by those needing to know what the People are doing, saying and thinking.
    eye_hoarding02-21-09-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • Chairman of Ernst & Young Mark Ottey peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of E & Y staff who have congregated at an Ernst & Young Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see over the shoulder of a council camera operator spying on innocent pedestrians and a view of a shopping precinct. Citizens and passers-by go about their own business unaware that their movements are being watched by camera lenses and their human eyes and security personnel. Other monitor screens date the pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of a Big Brother-type Orwellian police state.
    cctv02-22-07-2002_1.jpg
  • Big Brother like eye looking out from a phone box in central London. The large scale eye looks as if it is keeping surveillance on passers by. UK.
    20150118_big brother eye_A.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_003.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_006.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_009.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_008.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_007.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_005.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_004.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_001.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_002.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_009.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down onto a McDonalds advert and people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_012.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_008.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down onto a McDonalds advert and people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_011.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_010.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_007.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_006.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_005.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_003.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_002.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_001.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London on 28th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20200128_city big brother_001.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190401_eyes big brother_010.jpg
  • Giant advertising face with full lips and eyes looking down on the people passing below on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, United Kingdom. The atmosphere is one of being watched and of Big Brother watching you.
    20190311_eyes big brother_004.jpg
  • At rush hour a figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the in the City of London financial district, which is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • At rush hour a figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the in the City of London financial district, which is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • At rush hour a figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the in the City of London financial district, which is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • At rush hour a figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the in the City of London financial district, which is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • At rush hour a figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the in the City of London financial district, which is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • Figure walks past a giant face wearing a face mask in the City of London financial district is virtually deserted due to the Coronavirus outbreak on 23rd March 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following government advice city workers are staying at home to work leaving the streets quiet, empty and eerie. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200323_coronavirus city of london_...jpg
  • As Londoners await the second coronavirus national lockdown the City of London braces itself for the economic hardship to come a few days before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 2nd November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has not worked sufficiently, to suppress the virus, and there have have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19.
    20201102_city of london pre lockdown...jpg
  • A scene of busy modern air travel as international passengers check-in at the British Airways Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Under the gaze of a giant eye that seems to be peering from out of a massive TV screen, the self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport626-15-07-2009_1.jpg
  • A lone male figure makes his way along a corridor of power in the newly-opened European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. As the new head-quarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), it is a contemporary architectural symbol of infuence and modernity. We see the man walking towards an open atrium. The viewer can see three floors though there are many more out of sight and on two of the levels there are TV screens with the stars denoting the number of member states at that time. The interior is grid-like with warm and inviting lighting, making for a productive environment in which office workers can feel comfortable when dealing with European political business.
    european_parliament01_1.jpg
  • A pair of eyes and City police officers on Fenchurch Street - in the heart of the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile),  on 25th September 2018, in London, England.
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  • Two CCTV cameras on a wall outside a shop of New Look, in the City of London, one of the most-watched cities in the world, on 11th August, 2017, in London, England. According to 2011 figures, there are 420,000 CCTV cameras in London.
    cctv_cameras-08-14-08-2017.jpg
  • Canaletto hoarding with CCTV cameras at London Bridge train station. London, UK. The new and the old as this old master painting is in contrast to a modern security camera.
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  • Canaletto hoarding with CCTV cameras at London Bridge train station. London, UK. The new and the old as this old master painting is in contrast to a modern security camera.
    20120910canaletto hoarding_C.jpg
  • Canaletto hoarding with CCTV cameras at London Bridge train station. London, UK. The new and the old as this old master painting is in contrast to a modern security camera.
    20120910canaletto hoarding_A.jpg
  • Warning sign offers information that CCTV cameras are operating in the area in London, United Kingdom.
    20190729_cctv sign_001.jpg
  • As Londoners await the second coronavirus national lockdown the City of London braces itself for the economic hardship to come a few days before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 2nd November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has not worked sufficiently, to suppress the virus, and there have have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19.
    20201102_city before lockdown_010.jpg
  • As Londoners await the second coronavirus national lockdown the City of London braces itself for the economic hardship to come a few days before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 2nd November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has not worked sufficiently, to suppress the virus, and there have have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19.
    20201102_city before lockdown_011.jpg
  • A scene of busy modern air travel as international passengers check-in at the British Airways Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Under the gaze of a giant eye that seems to be peering from out of a massive TV screen, the self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
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  • A Londoner walks beneath two CCTV cameras in the City of London, one of the most-watched cities in the world, on 11th August, 2017, in London, England. According to 2011 figures, there are 420,000 CCTV cameras in London.
    city_people-02-11-08-2017.jpg
  • A pair of eyes and passers-by on Fenchurch Street - in the heart of the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 24th September 2018, in London, England.
    city_eyes-02-24-09-2018.jpg
  • A pair of eyes and passers-by on Fenchurch Street - in the heart of the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 24th September 2018, in London, England.
    city_eyes-01-24-09-2018.jpg
  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see six screens that show various locations around the city centre. Some car parks, a stair well, and some views of a shopping precinct. In some the landscapes are empty of people and in others, there are citizens and passers-by all going about their business and all unaware that their movements are being watched by the authority's camera operators and security personnel. The middle camera dates the camera pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of an Orwellian police state.
    cctv01-22-07-2002_1.jpg
  • A Corporation of London CCTV car is parked on a taxi space to monitor a road junction, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    cctv_car-03-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Two CCTV cameras on a wall outside a shop of New Look, in the City of London, one of the most-watched cities in the world, on 11th August, 2017, in London, England. According to 2011 figures, there are 420,000 CCTV cameras in London.
    cctv_cameras-05-14-08-2017.jpg
  • Boy with facepaint standing in front of a 3D photo of an eye by Liam Hayhow, Shangri La field, Glastonbury Festival 2016. The Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is now attended by around 175,000 people. Its a five-day music festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, United Kingdom. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.
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  • CCTV camera fixed to a building and back lit against a blue cloudy sky. This Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) camera can record images for surveillance, which may be relayed to screens in a central control room. They monitor and record activities in all environments. They can be used as deterrents in crime or to identify persons involved in illegal activities.
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  • CCTV camera fixed to a building and back lit against a blue cloudy sky. This Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) camera can record images for surveillance, which may be relayed to screens in a central control room. They monitor and record activities in all environments. They can be used as deterrents in crime or to identify persons involved in illegal activities.
    08-cctv_1263.jpg
  • A 2 year-old girl reads a book about being a big sister, coming to terms with role-play, the idea of having a newborn baby brother in his basket at home in south London. The siblings are in their south London home, the girl sitting up on the carpet and her brother - only a few weeks old - is starting to wake from a mid-morning sleep. The book being read is 'I'm a big sister' by writer Joanna Cole, written to help young girl's overcome the shock of suddenly no longer being the most important member of a young family, helping her deal with a new status as the eldest but more mature child.
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  • A brother and sister run through the back garden of their South London home. We see the younger sibling - a boy of three leading his big sister by the hand in some sort of follow-my-leader game. He pulls hard to tow the girl along who wears Wellington boots that are too large for her and they both hold out their arms for stability. From 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 two and half year-old girl shows affection to her baby brother in the living room of her South London home. Reaching out to show her love, the big sister tickles the boy under his chin although he looks more intrigued than amused at the attention that this person is showing him. He is a few weeks old and lies in a baby bouncer chair on the floor. from 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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  • Sitting in cool water of a paddling pool, a 7 year-old girl enjoys an ice lolly while her younger brother winces as he has suncream wiped across his face. They're both enjoying a summer heatwave and the family pool has been inflated and filled with cold water, heated up by the south London sunshine. As the big sister looks on holding her ice cream, the boy reacts at having the sunscreen applied to his skin.
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  • Seen from a low angle, we see a big sister turning around to see what her younger brother is up to as they sit back-to-back in a park in London, England. The boy is actually playing with the girl's toy windmill, turning its sails proving a fun way of passing part of a summer's afternoon in this inner-city park. His sister is unimpressed however and she is about to snatch her own property back - not because she needs it, but simply because it is hers. These siblings are having to learn sharing each other's things and as a five and three year-old are finding out, it's a hard lesson. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam18-15-07_2001_1.jpg
  • A two and half year-old girl meets her sleeping baby brother for the first time on his actual birthday. In the maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, Camberwell, London, the child reaches out with the maternal instincts of her gender to touch the fragile infant who is wrapped up in an NHS blanket in a cot that was wheeled directly from the birthing room a few hours beforehand. The baby boy is oblivious to his sister's affection and attention but he is healthy and already thriving before waking up for his first feeds. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes.
    ella+sam02-31-03_1998_1.jpg
  • Brothers Kevin, 32, and Gareth, 30, Fortey.  After their father, one of the founders of competitive giant vegetable growing, died the brothers  decided to continue the tradition and may even pass it on to their children. Kevin’s 4 year old son is growing giant sunflowers. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Big Brother & Obey posters,  Shangri-la, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding watches street next to a workman up a ladder on Neal Street, London. The workman stands on top of the hoarding structure and attends to a detail in the shop's frontage, equipped with tools that hang from his belt. Below him is the large-scale face being covered by the model's hand and whose fingers are open wide across his right eye. His left is seen gazing across the city - almost an Orwellian scenario of the writer's 'Big Brother' story from 1984.
    eye_workman01-22-09-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • Interior shot of a screen  at a training centre in a London office conjures up visions of the nanny state and controlling organisations reminiscent of  George Orwell’s big brother scenario in his classic novel 1984. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Crowd indulge in the hedonistic delights of The Acid House hosted by Happy Mondays mainman / Celebrity Big Brother alumni Bez (maracas optional), Unfairground, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • Visitors walk past a picture of Mao Zeming, Mao Zedong's younger brother, in Zeming's bedroom at their former home and birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009.  The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
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  • A picture of Mao Zeming, Mao Zedong's younger brother, hangs in Zeming's bedroom at their former home and birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009.  The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
    QS090812Shaoshan013.jpg
  • Stacks of cigarette cartons are piled up in a display of duty free goods at Bahrain International airport . Camel Filters are featured more prominently here to suggest the importance of desert Gulf States like Bahrain in the global market. Bahrain is a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Duty free merchandise such as tobacco, jewellery, perfumes and electronics are big business here, favouring cheaper import duties and currency rates. 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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  • Mu Ze Latso visits a neighbour and mother of the mayor of the village on Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Mu Ze Latso, a Mo Suo minority girl returns home with a large basket strapped to her back containing the algae from the lake which she will then feed to her animals.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_033_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso  prepares lunch at home amidst hanging corns and posters and photos of the Dalai Lama, in village along the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_022_1.jpg
  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
    20180216_chile_mapuches_194.jpg
  • Virgin Chairman Sir Richard Branson performs in front of the media during a publicity launch of Virgin Atlantic's new Airbus A340-600 which is parked behind the business tycoon during the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. He stands on one leg in a typically eccentric aviation-owner balancing trick. Behind him near the aircraft's nose a Virgin 'babe' echoes his outstretched arms while flying the British Union Jack flag. Farnborough centres its presence on big aerospace business to the tune of $40bn in orders and industry leaders like Branson, Boeing and Airbus parade their brands and announce new orders throughout the week-long display. 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_corbis26-23-07-2002_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with a friend, also from the Mo Suo minority visit a Buddhist temple in Yongning town, north west Yunnan Province, close to Tibetan and Sichuan border.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_049_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, 22, shares a joke and an intimate moment with her mother Mu Ze Namu, they belong to the Mo Suo minority / tribe from Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room
    chilugu_048_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, 22,  at home with her parents, Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_039_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso feeds algae from Lugu lake to her chickens, donkey, and cows.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_034_1.jpg
  • Together with a Mo Suo friend Mu Ze Latso goes down to Lugu Lake to collect  a type of algae / plant which she then feeds to her livestock: hens, ducks,  pigs, cow, etc. northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_030-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso working in  the family's courtyard with mother and father and a neighbour's child, close to  Lugu lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_028_1.jpg
  • Close up of family meal in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_026_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with family have lunch together amid posters of Mao  Zedong and  the Dalai Lama in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_024-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions. minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walkin
    chilugu_012-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions.
    chilugu_010-2_1.jpg
  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
    20180216_chile_mapuches_166.jpg
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