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  • Hard hats left outside the Central Government Offices by the Umbrella Movement. The hats are a symbol of a political struggle and were used in occupying the streets of Hong Kong earlier in the year. The movement demands universal suffrage in Hong Kong with direct elections of the Chief Executive.
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  • Hard hats left outside the Central Government Offices by the Umbrella Movement. The hats are a symbol of a political struggle and were used in occupying the streets of Hong Kong earlier in the year. The movement demands universal suffrage in Hong Kong with direct elections of the Chief Executive.
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  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
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  • The massive IRA bomb in Bishopsgate Street in the heart of the City of London destroyed a substantial number of businesses and disrupted a major part of London's financial hub. In the days after the attack on 24th April 1993, we see the pictorial evacuation of smiling faces in a portrait of Pret a Manger staff, the sandwich and lunch chain (from the French 'Ready to Eat'). The image was hung above the premises and construction workers wearing hard hats transport the picture, like hundreds of other nearby businesses whose workers carried away company property, for temporary safe storage. This store was also badly damaged and had to be transferred to another location. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. It is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area.
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  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employees at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. They are inspcting the inner-surfaces and tongue and groove seals of the horizontal pipes wearing obligatory hard hats and corporate blue shirts. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years.
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  • Yellow cranes blend with yellow girders of the O2 arena as on going construction work continues at the Design District site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
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  • The O2 Arena is seen in the background as a man drives a digger on the  Design District construction site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
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  • Builders working at the Design District construction site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
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  • Yellow cranes blend with yellow girders of the O2 arena as on going construction work continues at the Design District site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
    untitled-669.jpg
  • Builders working at the Design District construction site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
    untitled-657.jpg
  • The O2 Arena is seen in the background as a man drives a digger on the  Design District construction site in Greenwich Peninsula in London, United Kingdom on 15th August , 2019. Scheduled to fully open in 2020, developers Knight Dragon Developments Ltd aim to deliver 15,000 new homes. 13,000 new jobs. 7 new neighbourhoods.
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  • Workmen wearing high viz safety clothing at the construction site on Tooley Street for London Bridge station redevelopment. UK.
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  • Visitors enjoy the well preserved Victorian architecture at Crossness Pumping Station on the 22nd September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette for Londons sewage system and opened in 1865, Crossness Pumping Station is a Grade 1 Listed building.
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  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • Workmen wearing high viz safety clothing at the construction site on Tooley Street for London Bridge station redevelopment. UK.
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  • Workmen wearing high viz safety clothing at the construction site on Tooley Street for London Bridge station redevelopment. UK.
    20141003_workmen london bridge_A.jpg
  • Visitors enjoy the well preserved Victorian architecture at Crossness Pumping Station on the 22nd September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette for Londons sewage system and opened in 1865, Crossness Pumping Station is a Grade 1 Listed building.
    D_Crossness_PS-1044212.jpg
  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employee at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. He cleans and inspects the tongue and groove seals of the upturned pipes wearing an obligatory hard hat and blue overalls. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years.
    hanson01-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • A workman stands at the top of a ladder fixing electricity cables to a pylon on the street in Tejgaon railway district of Dhaka on the 25th of September 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A worker climbs the scaffolding of Gaudi's famed Sagrada familia cathedral. Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Portrait of a Sugar Cane worker on a large "fazenda" ranch in the state of  Sao Paulo, Brazil
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  • Sugar cane worker, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
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  • Police officers attach a harness to a climate change protesters who glued herself to the roof  of a Docklands Light Railway carriage on April 17, 2019 in London,England, United Kingdom. This is the third day of a coordinated protest by the Extinction Rebellion group who are demanding the government decisive action from the UK Government on climate change.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Gathered on the Docklands Light Railway track, a group of police investigators and health and safety experts stand beneath the devastation and wreckage caused by the IRA’s docklands bomb on 10th February 1996. Office windows have been blown out and shattered glass lies everywhere making these workplaces unusable for many months afterwards. We see the men under the tall buildings looking tiny in comparison to the chaotic aftermath of this enormous explosion the day before. The bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. 2 people were killed in the half-tonne lorry bomb blast which caused an estimated £85 million damage.
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  • Police officers fit two climate change protesters with goggles as they  begin to remove the pair  who glued herself to the roof of a Docklands Light Railway carriage on April 17, 2019 in  London,England, United Kingdom.This is the third day of a coordinated protest by the Extinction Rebellion group who are demanding the government decisive action from the UK Government on climate change.
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  • On-going construction work in Battersea, surrounding Battersea Power Station, on 22 January 2018, in south London, England.
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  • On-going construction work in Battersea, surrounding Battersea Power Station, on 22 January 2018, in south London, England.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Leo Smith from Southern Solar and Andy Tyrrell and Jake Beautyman install solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
    _MG_5329_1.jpg
  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Andy Tyrrell and Jake Beautyman install solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
    _MG_5318_1.jpg
  • Jake Beautyman installs solar panels on a barn roof on Grange farm, near Balcombe. The installation is part of an initiative by local residents in Balcombe to encourage more people to use renewable energy rather than energy based on carbon such as fracking. The initaitive is called Repowerbalcombe and is supported by the charity 10:10.
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  • Moving steadily 100 feet (8 metres) along a live-line electricity cable, a National Grid maintenance worker protected in a conductive cage, proceeds to the next 'separator' that holds the high-voltage cables from touching each other. From the ground we see the sagging cables stretching to a distant electricity pylon and two yellow cages, one large in the foreground where we see the human figure standing like an astonaut, and the other cage out of focus, a greater distance away but all dwarfed by the huge structure of girders and relays. Wearing clothing bonded to the conductor, the lineman can work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States. The company adopted its current name in July 2005 when shareholders agreed the change from National Grid Transco plc.
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  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London engineering officials examine the huge crater left by the terrorist device. We see debris around the hole with drainage and road material. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
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  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
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  • Cavity wall insulation is being installed in a home in Kirklees, UK. Holes are drilled into the wall and foam pumped in.
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  • A veteran and former soldier from world war 2 stands in a side street of Westminster during the annual Armistice Day. This is a full-face portrait of a quintessential Englishmen from a bygone era, typical of the stereotype expected by those from other countries when in fact, he is a disappearing breed. The man has been parading though London's political district near Parliament as old soldiers march with their old comrades in rank, as they would have in their glory days. We see his pencil moustache and the famous bowler hat. The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby (US), billycock or bombín, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for the British soldier and politician Edward Coke. The bowler hat was popular with the working class during the Victorian era though it came to form the official work uniform of bankers.
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  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, a team of New York City Police Department (NYPD) and a US Marshal walks through a barrier after spending a traumatic shift searching for human remains in the 'Pile' of Ground Zero. Making their way through the general public, they have a look of exhaustion and stress. Haunted but still mindful of the enormous task ahead to investigate the crimes committed here, they go towards a welcome rest. The streets are tall above them and the sky a clear blue as the men carry their hard hats with dust masks still around their necks - protection from the then unknown hazardous elements and chemicals in the environment.
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  • In the heart of the City of London, a caterpillar tracked crane tears down the walls of an old 70s office block close to St Paul's Cathedral, England. As a pedestrian walks past the blue hoardings that protect passers-by like him, the rubble is piled high before being removed as spoil to make way for an brand new construction that appears in an artist's impression picture on the right, above two site engineers wearing fluorescent jackets and hard hats. This is a scene of renewal in London's financial district. Of optimism and regeneration as businesses invest in new workplaces and replacing the tired, old offices that cannot accommodate new computer and server cabling technology.
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  • On the eve of transfer of law in Hong Kong from the UK to China, construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on their tasks during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule. Some are dressed in yellow waterproof coats and hard hats, we see a British-style sign warning drivers of Men at Work resembling a man holding an umbrella. Lastly, on the right another man on a wall, also holding an brolley. In the foreground a car park sign states that the space is full in red letters and a local authority sign saying "Working for a better environment" is written in Chinese and English lettering. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The <br />
brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic.
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  • A native " Pansaleo" man high up in the Andes mountain range in his small farming community, near Simiatug, Ecuador
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  • Sitting drunk on a mid-town sidewalk (pavement), a construction worker wipes tears from his eyes. The man has driven from his mid-west home to offer help at the hazardous Ground Zero where for the past 4 days and nights he has been uncovering debris and human remains after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Exhausted and emotional, he was sent away for his own and the safety of others and alcohol was his first purchase. New Yorkers praised their heroes for assisting their city (and America) in their hour of need but here, passers-by stepped over him complaining of his drunken state. The now lonely man is distressed, tormented and psychologically fragile but gets no help. With his few possessions, his hard hat and flag, mask and cans of Budweiser we see a man at his lowest ebb.
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  • A portrait of Tate Modern art Gallery Director Sir Nick Serota during the refurbishment of the south bank power station's Turbine Hall in 1998. Wearing hard hat and high-vis clothing on this dangerous construction site, Serota looks over his left shoulder with the view that will in future exhibit some of the world’s most engaging art works. Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born 27 April 1946 is a British art curator. He was director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, before becoming director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art in 1988. He was awarded a knighthood in 1999. He has been the chairman of the Turner Prize jury. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern, which opened in 2000.
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  • A farmer near the village of Grudziadz in Southern Poland rests on a hat cart on the edge of a corn field during harvest. it is later afternoon and the sun is falling on his weathered face and crossed arms which are muscular and veined, signs of a life of hard labour. He is in deep thought, perhaps thinking of Poland's fast-changing economy, now that the Berlin Wall has fallen and Poland is soon to become a member of the European Community (EU). Of Poland's 18,727,000 hectares of agricultural land (about 60 percent of the country's total area), 14,413,000 hectares is used for crop cultivation.
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