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  • A man with poor posture walks beneath the Queen Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of parliament, currently under hoardings and scaffolding during the multi-million Pound renovation and reapir project - unusually reflected light from Portcullis House windows, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    parliament_hoarding-05-23-11-2017.jpg
  • Darren Budziszewski is a Junior Technician engineer in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. He is seen carefully standing in the cockpit of a Hawk jet closely inspecting the Plexiglass canopy for smears and scratches. Stooping at the open surface while keeping back flat and his knees bent, its posture that the RAF teaches its employees. Darren polishes the aircraft before its pilot emerges from the building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the team whose air displays are known around the world, cleaning the red airplanes on their day off, so particular are they. The image is backlit and both canopy and man are bottom-weighted to allow us to see space and sky. Specialists like Darren outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
    Red_Arrows099_RBA_1.jpg
  • Identical and eccentric twin sisters wait for buses at a stop's shelter in central Brussels. Dressed almost identically too, with matching lipstick, shoes and sports trousers, the pair look towards oncoming traffic making sure they don’t miss their bus home from central Brussels to a suburb. The eccentric pair has adopted the same posture in a way that twins and sisters sharing the same genetic characteristics and habits often do.
    twin_sisters01-24-06-1992_1_1.jpg
  • Two sisters sit in identical poses on sea wall benches at Blackpool's Promenade, Lancashire, England. The eccentric pair has adopted the same posture in a way that twins and sisters sharing the same genetic characteristics and habits often do. Seated with bags at their own sandals and with the same styles of floral pattern dresses, the two look like the proverbial ‘peas in a pod.’ Blackpool is a seaside resort in the northwest of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people during the industrial revolution.
    promenade_sisters01-19-07-1993.jpg
  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • "Crooked Lady." A twelve month-old girl who has recently learned to walk proudly strides past an elderly lady with balancing arms outstretched while at the Dulwich Show in South London. There is a marked difference between the youthful, upright posture of the young girl to the hunched and bent stance of the old woman who stands supporting herself on a brolley. It is a picture that compares youth with old age, the delight that a person of later years shows to a child whose life reaches far ahead. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella23-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • Annual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada part of the summer festivities around the country, Nicaragua
    20080817_nicaragua_0063_1.jpg
  • A farmer in his fields, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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  • Annual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada part of the summer festivities around the country, Nicaragua
    20080817_nicaragua_0057_1.jpg
  • Sugar cane worker, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
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  • Annual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada part of the summer festivities around the country, Nicaragua
    20080817_nicaragua_0031-Edit_1.jpg
  • A very muscular, fit and upright man walks alongside a stooping elderly gentleman on Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
    young_old_men-01-03-08-2017.jpg
  • Ahmad Sidiqqi, photographed in the laboratory that he runs,  has worked at Afghan Film for many years. “During the Mujahideen years the building was attacked. I was here when it was shelled, The archives were saved from the Taliban who wanted to burn them. They were hidden in a secret room”<br />
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His boss is Engineer Latif Ahmadi, who explains how, even with the allied occupation of Kabul, filming is still difficult:<br />
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“We were filming a hundred yards from a suicide bombing, one hundred metres from the Ministry of Culture, five people were killed. We actually felt the force of the explosion and heard the shots. It took two minutes for the dust to clear but I told the director, ‘please continue’, because what can we do but carry on?”
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  • A middle-aged man walks beneath the sign of the London Stock Exchange at their old premises known as the Tower.  The gent looks hunched as if with all the troubles of the world on his shoulders, a pessimistic view on the world. He makes a sorrowful figure with such a strong presence against the wall shadow. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986, this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange-20-04-1989_1_1_1.jpg
  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In front of the couple is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
    buddhist_retreat62-27-06-2010_1.jpg
  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A man carries a heavy new rolled-up carpet on his back to a West End Hotel, on 6th February 2019, in London England.
    carrying_carpet-01-06-02-2019.jpg
  • Two women both bend to search for items in their bags, outside a box office entrance, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bending_women-01-16-02-2017.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of The Chemical Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. Large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor04-20-04-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
    city_resting02-16-1993_1.jpg
  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. Their retreat centre is a Victorian house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
    buddhist_retreat70-27-06-2010_1.jpg
  • A meat industry worker hauls heavy pork carcasses while delivering fresh meat to a local butchers, on 10th August 2020, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
    aylsham_butcher06-10-08-2020.jpg
  • A meat industry worker hauls heavy pork carcasses while delivering fresh meat to a local butchers, on 10th August 2020, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
    aylsham_butcher04-10-08-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, an elderly man walks with a severly bent spine past the Wyndhams Theatre in Theatreland, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-28-22-04-2020.jpg
  • A lady looks unhappy, and a dancer leans backwards while a suited man looks on in a night clun near Buda Castle, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people05-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Younger generations of a Polish mother and child pass a bent, elderly and disabled lady in a Krakow suburb, on 24th September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-364-24-09-2019.jpg
  • A van driver bends to check delivery items from the back of his vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-312-23-09-2019.jpg
  • An elderly 1990s Polish lady struggles along a street and past a cafe whose walls are crumbling - the heritage of polluted communist decades, on 15th July 1990, in Krakow, Poland.
    poland_elderly-15-07-1990.jpg
  • A man next to a Man At Work traffic sign, stands up after crouching on the bust street on 8th September 2016, in the City of London, England UK. In the background are the pillars of Royal Exchange. It is rush hour and commuters are beginning their journeys home from the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first century.
    city_people-20-08-09-2016.jpg
  • Smoking women and dejected-looking businessmen sit looking at the ground in sunshine outside an office complex in the City of London. During a lull in afternoon work, the two men are sitting in a warm place outside the corporate building, talking quietly about an issue or problem. Two women stand in a similar pose in almost matching coats holding cigarettes in their fingers - a few minutes respite from their office jobs. The are is a pedestrian zone on Lime Street in the City, the heart of the capital's financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century.
    city_people05-17-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. A lady employee stares at her data near a large keyboard and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor01-20-05-1992_1_1.jpg
  • A pet Chihuahua dog looks up to its owner whilst walking along the promenade of Ilfracombe, a seaside resort on the north Devon coast, England. Dressed in pink clothing befitting this ‘toy’ species, the pooch spreads it little legs to steady itself, threatened by an approaching stranger and camera. The Chihuahua (Spanish: Chihuahueño) is the smallest breed of dog and is so named for the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. Chihuahuas come in a wide variety of sizes, head shapes, colors and coat lengths. The Chihuahua’s history is puzzling and there are many theories surrounding the origin of the breed. Both folklore and archeological finds show that the breed originated in Mexico. The most common theory and most likely is that Chihuahuas are descended from the Techichi, a companion dog favoured by the Toltec civilization.
    pet_pug2-05-August-2011.jpg
  • Officers and new recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment pose for their official photograph at their army camp at Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment02-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment parade before taking official oaths on the Union Jack flag at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_inspection-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007_1.jpg
  • A lady concentrates in a cluttered office unit beneath corporate artwork in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed building. The oval-shaped picture depicts an esasperated-looking female rolling her eyes to the ceiling while her contemporary below stares down at her laptop surrounded by the paraphernalia of her accounting London job. Dressed in an open-neck shirt and wearing glasses, the woman at work is busy and preoccupied with the job in hand of auditing a company's accounts. Despite all the 385,000 square feet in the European headquarters on the River Thames, there is no spare space in this tiny office that she shares with another employee. The Fine Art has been supplied by Anderson O'Day and E & Y have invested in 500,000 Pounds of office art for their 114,000 employees in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
    ernst+young249-09-08-2007_1.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993_1.jpg
  • Sitting among others in long grass a middle-class lady reads the high-circulation Daily Mail newspaper during a lunchtime break at the Chelsea Flower Show, in London England. The front page headline reads 'Icy Blast from the Kremlin' in an echo from the darkest days of the Cold War, when western media fuelled the insatiable appetite for propaganda. But this scene is from May 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall and when the eastern states of the Warsaw Pact were still ruled by their Communist masters. Visitors to this annual horticultural event either sit in the cool shade or like this woman who appears comfortable cross-legged in sandals and a summer dress, stays under the hot mid-day sun with her tabloid format paper spread and with her possessions kept in a shoulder bag.
    chelsea_lady05-26-1989_1.jpg
  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In the middle on a polished parkay floor is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
    buddhist_retreat112-27-06-2010_1.jpg
  • A meat industry worker hauls heavy pork carcasses while delivering fresh meat to a local butchers, on 10th August 2020, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
    aylsham_butcher14-10-08-2020.jpg
  • A meat industry worker hauls heavy pork carcasses while delivering fresh meat to a local butchers, on 10th August 2020, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
    aylsham_butcher09-10-08-2020.jpg
  • A meat industry worker hauls heavy pork carcasses while delivering fresh meat to a local butchers, on 10th August 2020, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
    aylsham_butcher11-10-08-2020.jpg
  • A van driver bends to check delivery items from the back of his vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-311-23-09-2019.jpg
  • An elderly lady walks slowly with her shopping trolley across a road on the Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-34-04-09-2018.jpg
  • In a scene of youth versus age, a frail and stooping elderly man walks slowly past a young womans face on a poster outside a soon to open Jigsaw shop, on 30th September 2016, at the National Gallery, London, England.
    elderly_poster-01-30-09-2016.jpg
  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • Corporal Andrew Haynes and Senior Aircraftman Michael Owen load boxes packed with the possessions and kit belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows' pilots, Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, before travelling for winter training at Akrotiri in Cyprus. In the team's hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the two Suppliers lift the reinforced cardboard 'tri-pack' struggling to lift the weight from the ground. Corporal Haynes lifts with the correct technique: knees bent, straight back. The man on the right, has a bent back risking spinal injury. Some 80-plus members of the team will spend six weeks away from home. 23 tons of spares and personal effects travel ahead by ship with another 10 tons travelling on-board a C-130 transport aircraft. The Suppliers ensure possessions and spares are stored taking many weeks of meticulous planning.
    Red_Arrows014_RBA_1.jpg
  • Geometric angles and diagonal lines on new architecture at Southwark SE1, on 7th September 2018, in London, England.
    one_blackfriars-31-07-09-2018.jpg
  • Two businessmen walk along a street, both with hands clasped behind their backs, in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 4th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-28-04-06-2018.jpg
  • Workmen deliver a wooden box to an events venue, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
    delivery_men-04-04-05-2017.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.  <br />
Employees talk on handsets or stare at their data near large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor03-20-04-1993_1_1.jpg
  • A model from the Alion Couture fashion house takes part in a street parade with horses for the benefit of the media in Kensington, central London UK. We see the lower section of a horse ramp and another horse is in the background. Seen from a low angle, both the horses hoof and her foot in red high heel shoes appear to be askew in a postural echo, when two mannerisms or body language are similar.  The light is blue because of the shadow both subjects are in but her shoes and matching short red dress appear vibrant in saturation and hue.
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  • The fantasy monster Shrek and a bald man adopting the same postural echo outside a tourist trinket shop near Piccadilly Circus, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated adventure fantasy comedy film loosely based on William Steigs 1990 fairy tale picture book.
    shrek_man-06-09-05-2018.jpg
  • A pet poodle looks towards us in the same way that an RSPCA charity box model spaniel does outside a seaside shop tourist. The shop is selling seaside resort holiday tourist trinkets – a postcard rack has been carefully placed in the middle of the pavement (sidewalk) as holidaymakers pass-by to browse the cheap mementoes. The owner of the poodle has stopped to choose some cards for those at home and allows his dog a little slack on the lead. The dog cranes its neck towards the viewer, matching the posture and stance of the model charity spaniel whose cast sits, posing in a sorrowful and empathy-making show of need, suffering and want – enough perhaps to encourage people to give to this charity, the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals).
    poodle_spaniel00-21-08-1992.jpg
  • The coincidental relationship between a direct marketing company poster and a man checking messages outside in the rain on a central london street. While the man on the poster seemingly enjoys the thrill of receiving a package we also see an outsider on a rainy pavement also looking down, this time at his smartphone. It is a scene of repetition and similarities of posture and body language.
    london_people10-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • Children play a game in class to inmprove their posture, The Peto Institute, Budapest
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  • Children play a game in class to inmprove their posture, The Peto Institute, Budapest<br />
Designed by Dr Andras Peto in the 1940's in Budapest, Conductive education is a unique system of teaching and learning for children with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Designed to improve motor skills and increase independence, it is a method of intense exercise and education.
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  • Three choristers sing hymns outside the Norman-built St Bartholomew the Great church in Smithfield, City of London. Open-mouthed they recite the songs with great enthusiasm, all looking down and concentrating on the Holy words from their songbooks. Dressed in white and red choir cassock robes they are all identical in their facial expression, their stance and posture. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great is an Anglican church located at West Smithfield in the City of London, founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123.
    RB_083-09-04-1993.jpg
  • Londoners cross southbound over London Bridge during the evening rush hour. With fingers outstretched and with an upright, erect posture, the woman wears sunglasses and a bag diagonally over a shoulder she paces positively surrounded by other commuters striding alongside others walking out of the City of London. There has been a crossing over the Thames here since the Romans first forded the river in the early 1st Century with subsequent medieval and Victorian stone bridges becoming an important thoroughfare from the City on the north bank, to Southwark on the south where transport hubs such as the mainline station gets commuters to the suburbs and satellite towns.
    bridge_commuters48-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • As an Anglican vicar leads an outdoors service, his choristers await the next hymn outside the Norman-built St Bartholomew the Great church in Smithfield, City of London. Reading from his sermon and with an altar boy holding a crucifix, the singers have recited the songs with great enthusiasm, all looking down and concentrating on the Holy words from their songbooks. Dressed in white and red choir cassock robes they are all identical in their facial expression, their stance and posture. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great is an Anglican church located at West Smithfield in the City of London, founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123.
    vicar_choir01-09-04-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Snatching a well-earned lunchtime snooze, a young office worker in Broadgate in the City of London. The young man sits with legs wide apart, oblivious to his posture.<br />
The bench which is owned by the Corporation of London, provided in this public space for those emerging from their offices to enjoy mid-day sunshine, a chance to steal a few precious minutes sleep before re-entering their office buildings and returning to desks.
    sleeping_man01-15-07-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Large image of a model and real-life lady customer also reclined for beauty treatment, in the window of Debenhams on London's Oxford Street. The woman to the right is lying prone, in a horizontal position, awaiting further treatment by a shop assistant in the beauty department of this central London retailer, a department store on Oxford Street a short time before Christmas. We look in from the outside to see the female heads backed towards each other in a matching posture.
    debenhams_window04-21-12-2015.jpg
  • A cyclist and pedestrian pass-by in a London street with circles on a construction hoarding behind. Purposely blurred as they pass across this urban scene, we see the figures in the same posture, back bent and leaning forward towards their destinations. Concentric circles on the background hoarding belongs to a new business due to open soon on this bust shopping street in central London.
    street_circle01-23-11-2015_1.jpg
  • An entertainer dressed up as Spiderman makes obscene gestures in angry postures outside the National Gallery.  A large number of performers earn their money outside the national Gallery and the trade is good on a sunny day.
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  • In the Villa of the Vettii in Pompeii we see a fresco in the lararium where a shrine to Roman guardian spirits of the household was situated. Family members performed daily rituals here to guarantee their protection by these domestic spirits. The first two characters are the deeply venerated 'lares' (presumed sons of Mercury and Lara) depicted as two young men in dancing postures, holding drinking horns that guaranteed prosperity. In the centre is the 'genius'. She is another guardian and fertility spirit ensuring the family line (gens) would continue and she wears the 'toga praetexta', bordered in purple, the garment of high-ranking Roman magistrates. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, these frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of volcanic ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
    pompeii01-15-12-2007 .jpg
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