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  • Black youth walk by the derelict and burned out remains of several buildings in a Washington DC impoverished neighbourhood, a city with a very high crime rate, USA.
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  • Burned out lorry on the roadside on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. This image is an hommage to a racist incident on Mother’s Day, May 1961 when a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Washington, DC, to New Orleans were met by a white mob in Alabama. ⁠The mob attacked the bus with baseball bats and iron pipes. They also slashed the tires. When the hobbled bus pulled over, the mob pulled riders off the bus and beat them with pipes. Then they set the bus on fire.⁠
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  • The burned out remains of Ceucescu palace in central Bucharest after the Romanian revolution succeeded in ousting from power the hated and feared dictator.
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  • A very poor black man walks through the derelict and burned out remains of houses in a Washington DC. neighbourhood, USA
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  • Young member of the McCarthy family plays on a gas canniester by a burned out building at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAY.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_007.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_003.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_004.jpg
  • A young boy wearing his school uniform kicks the door of a burned out car that was set alight by vandals beneath the infamous Divis flats of the Catholic Lower Falls Road, West Belfast, on 7th June 1995, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The Divis Tower was a flashpoint area during the height of the Troubles. Nine year-old Patrick Rooney a child of a similar age to this lad, was the first child killed in the Troubles, killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969.
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  • Kathleen McCarthy stands defiantly with her sister Mary beside a burned out building at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAU.jpg
  • Kathleen McCarthy stands defiantly beside a burned out building at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAT.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_006.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_005.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_002.jpg
  • Burnt out Audi car in the city centre on 7th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In Birmingham, it is very common to see the wreckage of crashed, abandoned or burned cars as there is an abundance of car theft and wreckless driving, especially at night time when car racing is rife. Amongst local people the city has a reputation for wildness on the streets where a lack of policing results in a culture of lawlessness amongst some groups.
    20201007_burnt audi car_001.jpg
  • McCarthy sisters and family stand defiantly beside a burned out building at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAV.jpg
  • The wreckage of a burned-out scooter leans abandoned against fencing in an alleyway outside a local scool in Beckenham, on 14th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • The wreckage of a burned-out scooter leans abandoned against fencing in an alleyway in Beckenham, on 14th June 2020, in London, England.
    vandalised_scooter-02-14-06-2020.jpg
  • A young boy wearing his school uniform looks traumatised standing next to a burned-out shell of a saloon car that was set alight by vandals beneath the infamous Divis flats of the Catholic Lower Falls Road, West Belfast. He wears a red jumper which contrasts the blue graffiti paint on the wall behind him and the charred ground at his feet. He is alone, a young boy experiencing childhood through the traumas of a violent world Divis Tower was a flashpoint area during the height of the Troubles. 9 year-old Patrick Rooney a child of a similar age to this lad, was the first child killed in the Troubles, was killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969,
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  • A burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-09-27-11-2016.jpg
  • A burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-13-27-11-2016.jpg
  • A burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-02-27-11-2016.jpg
  • A detail of police tape and charred bodywork on a burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-16-27-11-2016.jpg
  • A burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-08-27-11-2016.jpg
  • A burned-out car found abandoned by unknown vandals on 27th November 2016, in woodland near Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Fly-tipping of industrial and domestic waste plus stolen vehicles is a major problem for rural councils. It is the responsibility for councils to remove dumped vehicles from roads and occupied land but vehicles on private land, including National Trust, Woodland Trust, Moat or West Kent Housing Association parking areas, should be reported to the landowner.
    woods_car-04-27-11-2016.jpg
  • One of the employees at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu lights the fire ready to burn the bodies for Cremation.
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  • A postcard of patron Saint Nicholas, all that is left after the burning on a bonfire of religious mementoes, personal data, accounts records and general paperwork, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Saint Nicholas 270 – 343AD, was an historic 4th-century Christian saint.
    data_bonfire-15-29-07-2017.jpg
  • A truck driving along  the Nakkhu river bed past the cremation of a local man taking place at Tikabhairab Temple on the 13th of March 2020 in Tikabhairab, Lalitpur, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal.
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  • A truck driving along  the Nakkhu river bed past the cremation of a local man taking place at Tikabhairab Temple on the 13th of March 2020 in Tikabhairab, Lalitpur, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Distrcit-4190.jpg
  • Two farmers take a break from work, drinking beers on the porch of home, Illinois, USA
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  • A view of Bucharest's central Square surrounded by tanks and bombed out buldings after the Romanian revolution ousted the dictator Ceucescu from power over Christmas of 1989.
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  • In the town of Solingen, Germany on the night of 28th May 1993 four German youths set fire to the home of the Turkish Genç family. Five family members, including three children, died and became worldwide symbols for victims of racism. Here people pay their respects with laying of flowers and Turkish flags in solidarity to the victims.
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  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-04-21-08-2019.jpg
  • London Fire fighters dampen down smouldering remains from a Simon Snorkel platform after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire24-26-11-2009.jpg
  • The burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathB.jpg
  • Medieval fort ruins in a fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • The pathway, normally hidden, through a wood revealed after a large fire on 4th August 2019 near the village of Monze, France. The woodland are very suseptable to dangerous fires as the leaves of the mountain oak are rich in oils.
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  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-01-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-03-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damaged block of carved masonry held in the City of New York Buildings Department, Manhattan, by Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch, Manhattan. Kept as evidence after the fire incident, the stonework shows the fragile nature of 100 year-old materials still in place hundreds of feet above street level. Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch570-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • The smouldering remains of a construction site after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire20-26-11-2009.jpg
  • A group of local residents have been allowed past cordons and return to see their devastated estate after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire19-26-11-2009.jpg
  • Scorched paintwork of a van after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire16-26-11-2009.jpg
  • Melted properties and devastated frontages after an inner-city estate fire in south London. A satellite dish has all but been incinerated after being exposed to very high temperatures facing the scene of this davastating incident. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire07-26-11-2009.jpg
  • The sons of the man who died wash his remaining ashes into the river after the body has been cremated.  They are at the Pasupatinatha Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Mary McCarthy (r) laughing in defiance at the situation at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionBB.jpg
  • Mary McCarthy laughing in defiance at the situation at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionBA.jpg
  • Mary McCarthy laughing in defiance at the situation at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAZ.jpg
  • Mary McCarthy (l) stands with her sister Margaret at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAX.jpg
  • Mary McCarthy (l) stands with her sister Margaret at Dale Farm site prior to eviction. Riot police and bailiffs were present on 20th October 2011, as the site was cleared of the last protesters chained to barricades. Dale Farm is part of a Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller site in Crays Hill, Essex, UK. <br />
<br />
Senior resident Kathleen McCarthy said she now wished to leave, once obstacles are removed, and the majority of residents are expected to join her. Most plan to relocate to Oak Road, on the neighbouring legal site.<br />
<br />
Dale Farm housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK. The whole of the site is owned by residents and is located within the Green Belt. It is in two parts: in one, residents constructed buildings with planning permission to do so; in the other, residents were refused planning permission due to the green belt policy, and built on the site anyway.
    20111020dale farm evictionAW.jpg
  • Police lines protect burnt out remains of a row of shops and flats on London Road in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathO.jpg
  • Police lines protect burnt out remains of a row of shops and flats on London Road in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathN.jpg
  • Police lines protect burnt out remains of a row of shops and flats on London Road in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathM.jpg
  • Police lines protect burnt out remains of a row of shops and flats on London Road in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathL.jpg
  • The burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathG.jpg
  • Firefighters pass the burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathF.jpg
  • Firefighters pass the burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathE.jpg
  • Firefighters pass the burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathD.jpg
  • The burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathC.jpg
  • The burnt out remains of two furniture businesses at Reeve Corner in Croydon. The day after rioting took place in Croydon in South London. Riots flared for a third night in a row, resulting in burnt out buildings, looted shops and general smashed up devastation.
    09082011croydon riot aftermathA.jpg
  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
    _E6A0391.jpg
  • Three London Fire Brigade fire fighters attend to smouldering remains after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire12-26-11-2009.jpg
  • An former military high ranking officer is cremated according to Hindu tradition. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
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  • One of the funeral service men washes the flowers away to collect coins given by friends and relatives of the old man being cremated. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
    IMG_0218_1.jpg
  • An old man is cremated, his sons lit the fire and the fire is tended to by funeral service men. Monkeys are running past returning to the forrest after having feasted on donated food in the temple all morning. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
    IMG_0191_1.jpg
  • An old man is cremated, his sons lit the fire and the fire is tended to by funeral service men. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
    IMG_0179_2.jpg
  • An old man is cremated, his sons lighting the fire and the fire tended to by funeral service men. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
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  • Wood burning stove, in a cafe. Llanerchaeron, Wales, UK. A wood burning stove used for heating and cooking in the cafe. Wood is a carbon neutral source of energy, as the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere when wood is burned is the same amount as that which is absorbed by the growing tree. A stove can spread or direct a fires heat much more efficiently than an open fire place.
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  • An old man is cremated, his sons lit the fire and the fire is tended to by funeral service men. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilo of wood using butter as fuel. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be burned. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten alocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.
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  • Worker clears the burnt ashes from thousands of incense sticks which are burned at Yonghe Temple, also known as the "Palace of Peace and Harmony Lama Temple", the "Yonghe Lamasery", or - popularly - the "Lama Temple" is a temple and monastery of the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism located in the northeastern part of Beijing, China. It is one of the largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world. The building and the artworks of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles.
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  • Detail of a burned-out cigarette and steak medallions and chips in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Slash and burn landscape in the Phunoi ethnic minority village of Sinesai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Fallow fields, slash and burn landscape, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao PDR consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. To rebuild the soil fertility after growing crops on a shifting cultivation plot, farmers ‘abandon’ that plot and allow vegetation to regrow for a number of years.  This is called the ‘fallow period’.  In the meantime, they grow crops on other new plots. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Fallow fields, slash and burn landscape, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao PDR consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. To rebuild the soil fertility after growing crops on a shifting cultivation plot, farmers ‘abandon’ that plot and allow vegetation to regrow for a number of years.  This is called the ‘fallow period’.  In the meantime, they grow crops on other new plots. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Brighton, UK. Friday 21st December 2012. The big burn. All of the lanterns are set on fire. Burning the Clocks has been a Brighton tradition for almost two decades. This event takes place on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. A 2,000-strong parade winds its way through the streets and people pass their handmade paper and willow lanterns – filled symbolically with their hopes and dreams – into a blazing bonfire to “burn the clocks” and welcome in the new longer day.
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  • Brighton, UK. Friday 21st December 2012. The big burn. All of the lanterns are set on fire. Burning the Clocks has been a Brighton tradition for almost two decades. This event takes place on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. A 2,000-strong parade winds its way through the streets and people pass their handmade paper and willow lanterns – filled symbolically with their hopes and dreams – into a blazing bonfire to “burn the clocks” and welcome in the new longer day.
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  • Brighton, UK. Friday 21st December 2012. The big burn. All of the lanterns are set on fire. Burning the Clocks has been a Brighton tradition for almost two decades. This event takes place on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. A 2,000-strong parade winds its way through the streets and people pass their handmade paper and willow lanterns – filled symbolically with their hopes and dreams – into a blazing bonfire to “burn the clocks” and welcome in the new longer day.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority man lights a fire to burn the dry vegetation on his upland field, Ban Non Boun Kang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority subsistence farmer accompanied by her young son clears her land by slashing and burning to grow hill rice and coffee as a cash crop in Ban Sinesai; Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation. The practise is gradually being taken over by the planting of permanent cash crops such as coffee.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority man lights a fire to burn the dry vegetation on his field, Ban Non Boun Kang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority subsistence farmer clears her land by slashing and burning to grow hill rice and coffee as a cash crop in Ban Sinesai; Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation. The practise is gradually being taken over by the planting of permanent cash crops such as coffee.
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  • A recently harvested upland rice field, Ban Cha Wang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • 'The Green Season', a swidden rice field almost ready for harvesting Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • 'The Green Season', a swidden rice field almost ready for harvesting Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • 'The Green Season', a swidden rice field almost ready for harvesting Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • 'The Green Season', a swidden rice field almost ready for harvesting Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • 'The Green Season', a swidden rice field almost ready for harvesting near the Ko Pala village of Honglerk, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • Slash and burn landscape, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao PDR consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • An Akha Oma woman from Ban Na Nam village eats sunflower seeds as a snack during a break from harvesting hill rice with a sickle. Upland rice is the main crop grown by Lao shifting cultivators but several other crops including sunflowers are often grown in smaller quantities in the same plot.  Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • An Akha Oma man from Ban Na Nam village harvests his hill rice. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao PDR consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • A partially harvested rice field, Ban Na Nam, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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