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  • 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.
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  • Sheik, 38 a former security manager at a diamond mine in Kono. His arm was amputated by rebels and then, because he was screaming so much, they cut off his ears..Sheik and his family have taken in an orphan amputee girl. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999.
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  • In a bed in Connaught hospital, a man who was recently amputated and then fitted with an artificial leg, ponders his future. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fofona, 16, crippled by polio since he was 10 was caught by the rebels who hacked of his good arm on a tree stump. From a very poor family, he cannot work and so must beg. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A couple in Avatar costume with blue face paint in the Glastonbury Festival 2016, United Kingdom. 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. 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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  • 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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  • Poster with staring eye in the Bastille area of Paris, France.
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  • Exhibition of the sculptures by British sculpter Anthony Gormley at the White Cube Gallery, Bermonsey, London on the 7th October 2016. Anthony Gormley configured the gallery into 15 spaces “in the form of a labyrinth”.<br />
Gormley describes his work as an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live. Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body. Visitors to the show at White Cube Bermonsey “faced a choice of passages” through the differently sized spaces, which have been divided up to create “a series of dramatic physiological encounters”.
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  • Father dipping his son into a river on a warm summers evening for his first swimming lesson in on the 27th June 2019 in Lagrasse, France. A baby has to be able to hold his or her head up usually at 3 to 4 months, to be ready for swimming lessons. Children can be taught, through a series of prompts and procedures, to float on their backs to breathe, and then to flip over and swim toward a wall or other safe area.
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  • A child looks out of the window of one of the Mobile Resource Centre’s run by the Shaishav Trust.  The Trust has 2 buses that are equipped with libraries, television; audiovisual equipment and learning resource materials. The buses visit 36 schools a week in the Bhavnagar region giving additional support and resources for education.
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  • A woman draws her scarf known as a dupatta over her head as she passes men on the street, New Delhi, India.
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  • A boy whose father is an amputee. Makeni resettlement camp for amputees, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Professor Susan Greenfield, scientist, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. London, UK.
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  • Man with fashion sunglasses posing in the street on 15th September 2019, London, United Kingdom. The glasses were perfect for arriving for the London Fashion Show during Londons heat wave.
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  • Baker Street Irregular Astronomers meeting for an evening of stargazing in Regents Park in Central London, UK. This is an amateur astronomy society whose members gather with their telescopes to view the stars once a month.
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  • Baker Street Irregular Astronomers meeting for an evening of stargazing in Regents Park in Central London, UK. This is an amateur astronomy society whose members gather with their telescopes to view the stars once a month.
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  • A young professional couple lie in the sun and share a humerous moment. They sit with their backs to intricate and delicate tiling which depict the Spanish province of Coruna, at the Plaza de España, Seville, Andalucia, Spain. The lady is sitting with her partner's head in her lap, indicating romance and contentedness as she suppresses a giggle. They are both lit by strong sunshine and gives the impression of a perfect moment in their loving relationship. This semicircular enclosure was built by Aníbal González, the great architect of Sevillian regionalism, for the Ibero-American exposition held in 1929.
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  • Baker Street Irregular Astronomers meeting for an evening of stargazing in Regents Park in Central London, UK. This is an amateur astronomy society whose members gather with their telescopes to view the stars once a month.
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  • Baker Street Irregular Astronomers meeting for an evening of stargazing in Regents Park in Central London, UK. This is an amateur astronomy society whose members gather with their telescopes to view the stars once a month.
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  • A couple gaze into each others eyes, while  man wearing an indian headress talks on his mobile phone in the Alleys, also known as the Badlands, it's impossible to tell where you'll end up if you enter this seedy maze of wrongness - dark with shards of light piercing the roof in the day, fat drops of rain splatting in the broken neon glare.Shangri-la. Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • A young boy looks over his shoulder by a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the lad glances back as his father leads him towards a local station. The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
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  • A kind stranger retrieves a hat belonging to another pedestrian by a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the man hands over the item to its owner and  exchange thanks and expressions of gratitude. The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
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  • Behind railings that honoured American aviator Wilbur Wright at the annual Le Mans air show, France, seven spectators gaze upwards to a clear sky where a lone but unseen aircraft performs in front of the French crowd. Wright made 110 flights at Le Mans and nearby Auvours in 1908 and his legacy for French and global aerospace lives on at events like this where a replica of his Wright Flyer was also exhibited. It is a bright summer's day and the blue sky has vapour trails left by a previous display pilot's jet engine. A prominent British Union Jack flutters on a pole and the words 'invites' (for invited guests only) are printed on to sheets of paper. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A young couple gaze out towards the city of Edinburgh from the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
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  • Locals gather at sunset to exercise and play in the water or just gaze out to sea in the island's main settlement Stone Town. Here as a Dhow sails by. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Locals gather at sunset to exercise, play in the water or just gaze out to sea in the island's main settlement Stone Town. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Locals gather at sunset to exercise, play in the water or just gaze out to sea in the island's main settlement Stone Town. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Diplomatic protection police officer interacting with tourists at the gates of Downing Street, the Prime Minister's address in Westminster London. Pointing up the street for the benefit of a male visitor, possibly to show him exactly where the Prime Minister's official home is, the policeman is seen to be wearing a stab-proof vest and yellow-handled taser on his chest. Childern follow his gaze, interested to know about this London landmark at the heart of the UK's government.
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  • Lady joggers run past CCTV a camera and a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the two women pass the temporary hoarding which will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
    river_hoarding10-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A young boy plays by a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the lad plays a fantasy game with his plastic water bottle as a stranger strides on towards a local station. The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
    river_hoarding07-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A father pushes his child's buggy past a CCTV and a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the dad strides on towards a local station. The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
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  • Members of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team gaze out of respective windows during helicopter ride. The crew are travelling between Guernsey and Jersey in the Channel Islands where the team are about to perform another of the air shows they appear at. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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  • Lambeth property called The Corniche development marketing hoarding landscape. Workmen attend to an issue on the roadside in front of a futuristic impression of a penthouse balcony cityscape where a young affluent couple gaze over the Thames in a utopian dream. The homes going up here will " .. offer a selection of luxurious one, two and three bedroom apartments and penthouses boasting magnificent views of some of London's most iconic landmarks.."
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  • A group of young Nepali children stand on the terrace of a small hut where they live in the village of Rip in the Gorkha district of central Nepal, one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal. The kids gaze into many directions while two village elders attend to domestic chores in the dirt. Beyond them, we see snow capped peaks of Himalayan mountains. Gorkha has lent its name to the Gurkha soldier, from where young teenage boys are typically recruited for service into the British army, a tradition that goes back to the Indian Mutiny of 1857
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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving a party speech at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire, a full year after being removed by her own colleagues the previous November. Her softer and perhaps pensive expression contrasts with her reputation of the Iron Lady with a gaze that made her opponents uncomfortable. She seems distant here, perhaps recalling her great days in office when she was a powerful figure in world politics. She is wearing the same favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings as she wore the year before when still in office. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as Prime Minister at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire before being removed by her own colleagues a few weeks afterwards. Her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of Iron Lady with a gaze that make her opponents uncomfortable. She is wearing a favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
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  • A young woman wearing headphones walks beneath a large female model's face advertising Nike's Tech Fleeces. We look from a low angle, up at the large model's face who watches us with a steady gaze from under her hood. Below her is a young woman wearing a hat and earphones, walking underneath the epitome of beauty and modern style.
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  • 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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  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people in Grenfell Tower, bystanders stop to gaze up at the charred tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
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  • Behind the viewer, tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • A man sits unnoticed on the roof of a mobile phone provider kiosk at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Lambeth. We see the scene unfolding from the upper deck of a red London bus as it stops at a nearby bus stop at this major road junction south of the river. Oddly, the man sits on the roof looking relaxed and unconcerned. Below him, pedestrians pass underneath his gaze, unaware of his presence.
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  • A man sits unnoticed on the roof of a mobile phone provider kiosk at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Lambeth. We see the scene unfolding from the upper deck of a red London bus as it stops at a nearby bus stop at this major road junction south of the river. Oddly, the man sits on the roof looking relaxed and unconcerned. Below him, pedestrians pass underneath his gaze, unaware of his presence.
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  • CCTV cameras keep watch on the population, seen in front of a giant construction hoarding in Whitehall, Westminster, London. With the classical figures in the background symbolising Britain's population, a society constantly under the gaze and surveillance by the state and whose data is now known to be accessed without permission for security reasons. The illustration is from the Peter Paul Rubens painting 'The Apotheosis of James I' which appears on a ceiling inside the Banqueting House, behind this screen and location of King James' son, Charles 1st execution.
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  • CCTV cameras keep watch on the population, seen in front of a giant construction hoarding in Whitehall, Westminster, London. With the classical figures in the background symbolising Britain's population, a society constantly under the gaze and surveillance by the state and whose data is now known to be accessed without permission for security reasons. The illustration is from the Peter Paul Rubens painting 'The Apotheosis of James I' which appears on a ceiling inside the Banqueting House, behind this screen and location of King James' son, Charles 1st execution.
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  • Under the gaze of CCTV, a customer uses a Bancomat cash dispenser in the northern Italian south Tyrolean city of Bozen-Bolzano. The woman leans over to see the screen in sunlight with the map of the city on the right. ATMs in South Tyrol are all called Bancomat and are wide-spread, even in smaller, rural villages. South Tyrol is one of the safest regions in Italy and in Europe and there are practically no violent crimes.
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  • A young couple gaze out towards the city of Edinburgh from the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-20-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Locals gather at sunset to exercise, play in the water or just gaze out to sea in the island's main settlement Stone Town. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_05_stonetown sunset_d.jpg
  • A kind stranger picks-up a hat belonging to another pedestrian by a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) and adjacent apartments across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the gentleman retrieves the item for another (unseen) person as his friend points to alert its owner. <br />
The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
    river_hoarding02-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Sweating in tropical heat, two young men volunteers gaze up to the roof of the rainforest canopy whilst on a Raleigh International expedition in Brunei, Borneo. This is one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet and will have been a life-changing experience for them and their friends from all over the world who will have raised several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
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  • Tourist ties his shoelace under the gaze of the statue of Ares (Mars), the 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman marble 2.11 metres statue. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Showing us her gold medal under the gaze of a venus statue we see Kelly as a close-up portrait. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
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  • 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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  • Tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. The couple sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi
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  • Women tourists pause to look at a map of central London (Londres) beneath a large male model's face advertising Nike's Tech Fleeces. With the model's large face gazing steadily outwards from the shop's window, we see the eiptome of male beauty - a handsome and rugged male to seduce women shoppers into the Nike store. Underneath we see the three women consulting their map of central London - seeking directions to their next location.
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  • A departures information board at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 is viewed by passengers who stands motionless to read the details of flight departure times to echo that of a Vodafone advertisement containing a tourist on a beach, a generic scene of a person on holiday taking advantage of low mobile phone charges in mainland Europe.  A finger from an unseen traveller points to a flight time and to ladies stand gazing up at the check-in guide that helps tell which is the check-in zone of this 400 metre-long terminal that 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 bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. The female member of staff sits behind a glass window because she handles foreign cash from behind the security screen. Gazing into her computer screen and supporting her chin in her hand, the woman is in her own world, unaware of the busy street outside.
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  • An eleven year-old girl swings with head thrown backwards in a field in Herefordshire, England. It is an image of care-free youth, of a free-spirit and without a care in the world. The young lady gazes skyward as the swing takes her on an upward trajectory, the sun sinking behind distant trees, a scene of splendid inner-peace and tranquillity, disturbed only by the creaking of the rope on the tree above that supports her as she rides. She is staying at this small camp site where tipis and yurts is the theme of this eco-friendly and carbon-neutral holiday.
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  • A middle-aged man, possibly in his late-fifties, holds the lead of his pet dog on a park bench in London England. Afternoon sun filters through nearby trees and the man is wearing a simple, plain white shirt. He sits crossed-legs on this warm afternoon gazing to a point in the distance looking lonely and hopeful of meeting someone else, or maybe of events in a long life. His dog is the man's best friend and companion and he guards him with a strong hand as a master should.
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives sits making a call on his mobile cell phone on the bow of a dhoni boat which heads along on a calm Indian Ocean. After a hard day's fishing he gazes forward to open sea where an almost uninterrupted view of sea and horizon is seen beyond except for a small island is faintly in view. Even small remote atoll communites in the Maldives have strong phone signals and many also have good Wi-Fi connections. He and his crew have been catching Yellow Fin Tuna in the seas north of the capital Male in this Islamic Republic. Their catch is for export to the EU and in particular, the UK's supermarkets. There is no limit and no obvious destination, just infinity and the thought of tomorrow.
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  • A departures information board at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 is viewed by passengers who stands motionless to read the details of flight departure times to echo that of a Vodafone advertisement containing a tourist on a beach, a generic scene of a person on holiday taking advantage of low mobile phone charges in mainland Europe.  A finger from an unseen traveller points to a flight time and to ladies stand gazing up at the check-in guide that helps tell which is the check-in zone of this 400 metre-long terminal that 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 departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at. Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. While embracing her young man, she gazes off into the distance amid the otherwise busy airport terminal where the emotions of parting as well as the joys of reunited loved-ones are played out in various parts of aviation hubs around the world. They are both in their own worlds, removed from the noise and confusion of other passengers. Her departure is brief and yet their sadness of being separated is plainly too much to bear. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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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.
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  • It is late on a summer Somerset evening and light is fading towards bedtime for children. Clutching a small bunch of daisies, a five year-old girl gazes at one of her flowers as if held in a trance. Standing in a meadow belonging to her grandfather, she holds up a single stem and twirls it around in her fingers to see its shape and sense its smell. About to climb over a gate in the background, her younger brother is having an adventure of his own, standing on the metal horizontal part of the frame, holding on with one hand. It is a tranquil scene of childhood innocence, of long summer days and summer holidays. 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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  • Tourists point out landmarks from the second level of the Eiffel Tower, Paris. Looking towards the trocadero on the opposite bank, the woman wears a hejab and gazes in the same direction as the male. In the far distance is the tall Defense development. The Eiffel Tower (nickname La dame de fer, the iron lady) is a puddled iron lattice tower standing 320 metres (1,050 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It is located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • A walking couple rest on a bench at Morte Point on the North Devon Coast. Gazing out to see in the direction of South Wales straight ahead or out to the Atlantic to the right, they sit in peace on a calm summers day. Green grasses carpet the rocks on this clifftop location, a favourite of coastal trekkers and outdoor enthusiasts. Owned by the National Trust, Morte Point is a spectacular headland on the North Devon coast behind the village of Mortehoe near Woolacombe. The treacherous reefs and strong currents at the point, have caused numerous shipwrecks.
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  • A lone passenger gazes out from the departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport terminal to where airliners are parked. It is late evening and blue light outside makes the orange interior look warm. Designed by Paul Andreu, Charles de Gaulle became a symbol for airport modernity - a Le Corbusier concept of rail stations and ‘autodromes.’ Charles de Gaulle’s role as airport and rail station fuses into one, thus becoming an ‘Aérogare’ where trains and planes whisk the new world traveller of the late ‘60s, away beyond an ever-extending horizon. From here, the Air France Concorde crashed on the aviation employment town of Gonesse on July 25th 2000. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Looking down from above, we see one lone queuing traveller at Charles de Gaulle, gazes up towards the large Departures board. Fellow-passengers wait by baggage trolleys in a civilised line beneath the information. Charles de Gaulle/Roissy is a hub airport for Air France north of the French capital. The departures information has schedule times, destinations, flight, satellite and gate numbers plus   remarks. Air travellers experience such misery every day and shows of how global air travel has become a routine, mundane and stressful for the everyday airline passenger - a far cry from when commercial flight was purely for the elite. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Wearing a large green helmet with the number 26 painted on the front, a worried-looking black soldier recruit gazes into the distance in front of a white army  instructor at the large Garrison at Catterick, England. Here, the Parachute Regiment (The Paras) - hold part of their famous basic training programme called Pegasus (P) Company. The most notorious selection procedure in the British Army. After initial recruitment, each student is sent to either pass or fail a set of 9 events from which a total score of 90 points is possible. 58% or more passes, less fails. Events like the 18 mile Forced March followed by a further 5 miles can earn 10 points though this will inevitably prove too much for many young man, desperate to pass P Company and earn his prestigious beret (Like the Foreign Legion).
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