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  • Remains of rubber boat that brought refugees from Syria to the Greek island of Chios. As soon as they landed they slit the boat to prevent them being sent back out to sea. Each boat brought 50 refugees across the Aegean from Turkey, a five hour crossing.
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  • Hens peck at deer and goat skulls and antler remains that lie in the rain after the annual cull at the Pennyghael Estate, Isle of Mull, Scotland. In the wet gravel, the heads still have their flesh attached to their sockets and farm livestock are free to clear them before the remains are cleaned again and sent to those who shot these animals, many of which came to this estate on the Ross of Mull from other EU countries. The open seasons for deer stalking in Scotland are: Red deer – stags 1st July – 20th October Red deer – hinds  21st October – 15th February Roe bucks 1st April – 20th October<br />
Fallow bucks 1st August – 30th April.
    isle_of_mull84-18-11-2011_1.jpg
  • Locals walk over the exposed stone walls of the once-thriving village of Ashopton that now lies at the bottom of Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire, England. Remains of the village were revealed during the drought of 1989 the levels of water dropped from the country's reservoirs as rainfall failed in the heatwave while demand peaked in the cities such as Sheffield. The villages of Derwent & Ashopton were submerged when the valley was flooded, between 1943 & 1945, amid much controversy. Derwent church tower was left standing at first, but demolished in 1947 for safety reasons. The remains of the buildings are still visible when the water is very low, as it was in 1989.
    drought_reservoir-12-08-1989_1.jpg
  • Only the wings as remains of a Sparrowhawk, which was hunted by some other creature. Just feathers and a few bones in tact. Isle fo Wight, UK.
    20141231_sparrowhawk wings_A.jpg
  • Half destroyed remains of Eastbourne Pier following a fire. The Pier suffered a fire on July 30, 2014 that ripped through a large amount of the central domed building. Sussex Police initially said that the fire was not to be treated suspiciously, though later the police said arson was suspected.
    20140831_eastbourne pier_A.jpg
  • Half destroyed remains of Eastbourne Pier following a fire. The Pier suffered a fire on July 30, 2014 that ripped through a large amount of the central domed building. Sussex Police initially said that the fire was not to be treated suspiciously, though later the police said arson was suspected.
    20140831_eastbourne pier_B.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of Boeing 747 airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis40-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • In fading afternoon sunlight, after the mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of TWA Boeing 747s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliners which sit as if in a take-off queue at the storage facility at Mojave airport, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. 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.
    mojave_jets02-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Remains of the stolen Barbara Hepworth sculpture Two Forms (1969) stolen from Dulwich Park where it was installed for 40 years. Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. The sculpture which is insured for £500,000 is believed to have been stolen by scrap metal thieves who entered the unprotected park at night on Dec 19th 2011. The bronze piece, called Two Forms (Divided Circle), was cut from its plinth overnight, Trevor Moore of Dulwich Park Friends said. The price it could fetch as scrap metal would only be a tiny fraction of its value as a complete work. Southwark Council is offering a reward for the thieves' arrest and conviction.
    hepworth_sculpture1-01-01-2012_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner and a US Navy fighter jet and engines stacked  at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners and military aircraft are decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_graveyard07-16-03-2008_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_graveyard04-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing 747 airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_graveyard02-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • Remains of a dead pigeon. Feathers only are left in a patch after being killed.
    20110116dead pigeonA.jpg
  • The burned out remains of Ceucescu palace in central Bucharest after the Romanian revolution succeeded in ousting from power the hated and feared dictator.
    cp_rom_0171_1.jpg
  • A table of food leftovers, the remains of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
    christmas_table-02-25-12-2019.jpg
  • Visitors at the remains of Hadleigh Castle on 10th September 2019, in Hadleigh, Essex, England. Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role. The castle was significantly expanded and remodelled by Edward III, who turned it into a grander property,
    estuary_walk-34-10-09-2019.jpg
  • The remains of a burnt out motor scooter in London, England, United Kingdom. Crime involving scooters and mopeds has increased in London, but this crime wave is yet to spread further into the UK.
    20170506_scooter crime_002.jpg
  • One of scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-54-25-03-2017.jpg
  • The remains of the former Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel, where the Air France Concorde airliner crashed on 25 July 2000. Now a flattened site, it is screened off from passers-by from a nearby road near Le Bourget airport - where the pilots of the stricken supersonic aircraft were trying to make for before it stalled and fell on this spot. One hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one seriously injured.
    concorde_site01-29-07-2002_1_1.jpg
  • A Nepalese woman walks through the remains of United Nations Park, Paurakhi Basti, next to the Bagmati River in the centre of Kathmandu, Nepal.  This used to be a slum area housing many Nepalese people. The government forces arrived in the middle of the night and used tear gas to displace the residents before demolishing their homes.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-UN-Park-7422_1.jpg
  • A table of food leftovers, the remains of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2020 in London, England.Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas12-25-12-2020.jpg
  • A table of food leftovers, the remains of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
    christmas_table-03-25-12-2019.jpg
  • Dropped McDonalds packaging and food remains on the floor of a London bus, on 3rd October 2019, in south London, England.
    bus_litter-02-03-10-2019.jpg
  • A cyclist visits the remains of Hadleigh Castle on 10th September 2019, in Hadleigh, Essex, England. Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role. The castle was significantly expanded and remodelled by Edward III, who turned it into a grander property,
    estuary_walk-31-10-09-2019.jpg
  • The remains of Hadleigh Castle on 10th September 2019, in Hadleigh, Essex, England. Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role. The castle was significantly expanded and remodelled by Edward III, who turned it into a grander property,
    estuary_walk-30-10-09-2019.jpg
  • The remains of a burnt out motor scooter in London, England, United Kingdom. Crime involving scooters and mopeds has increased in London, but this crime wave is yet to spread further into the UK.
    20170506_scooter crime_001.jpg
  • The remains of a burnt out motor scooter in London, England, United Kingdom. Crime involving scooters and mopeds has increased in London, but this crime wave is yet to spread further into the UK.
    20170506_scooter crime_003.jpg
  • A coastal landscape of St. Cuthberts Island on Holy Island and in the distance, left, the St. Marys church and the remains of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Cuthbert c. 634 - 687 is a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in what might loosely be termed the Kingdom of Northumbria in the North East of England and the South East of Scotland. After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northern England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-33-27-09-2017.jpg
  • After the rest of the bike has been stolen, a lone wheel remains locked to a bike stand, on 11th September, 2017, in London, England.
    stolen_bike-03-11-09-2017.jpg
  • After the rest of the bike has been stolen, a lone wheel remains locked to a bike stand, on 11th September, 2017, in London, England.
    stolen_bike-01-11-09-2017.jpg
  • Three scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-51-25-03-2017.jpg
  • One of three scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-56-25-03-2017.jpg
  • The remains of a billboard, now laying on the ground in a south London street. After heavy rain the layers of the advert are lying on the pavement next to a railing whose shadows from afternoon sunshine make strong diagonal lines across this detail. The sheets are drying out but need throwing away, a disposable facet  of this multi-media world. The face of a model looks shocked and surprised to be abandoned on the pavement like this.
    pavement_poster02-01-10-2015.jpg
  • Peeled and torn poster showing remains of woman's face and features in Soho, central London. The eyes of a female model peer through the layers of torn paper in a small street in the capital - a vandalised version of what was once an expensive advertising campaign reduced to litter and waste. The resulting image seems almost abstract, an artistic statement of dystopia and finality.
    female_media02-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of a Boeing 747 cockpit at the storage facility at Mojave, California. The wiring of the now-extinct flight engineer's console is a jumble of old technology. Either by age or cooling economy airliners are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis43-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Fading, graduated light of the arid Sonoran desert shows the remains of airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California, their silhouettes forming a line of aviation's by-gone era. Because of age or a cooling economy they are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis41-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sits the gutted remains of a Lockheed Tri-Star airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through the sleek curves. Elsewhere, Jumbo jets, Airbuses and assorted Boeings sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis39-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • A Nepalese woman searches through rubble remains of the centre she used to work at in United Nations Park, Paurakhi Basti, next to the Bagmati River in the centre of Kathmandu, Nepal.  This used to be a slum area housing many Nepalese people. The government forces arrived in the middle of the night and used tear gas to displace the residents before demolishing their homes.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-UN-Park-7439_1.jpg
  • A pile of bricks which remains from United Nations Park, an illegal slum dwelling which has recently been destroyed by the Nepalese government in Paurakhi Basti, next to the Bagmati River in the centre of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The shacks were built with scrap plastic, wood and bricks. The settlement has poor security and lacks in clean water, electricity, sanitation and other basic services.  The government forces arrived in the middle of the night and used tear gas to displace the residents before demolishing their homes. A few shacks have been rebuilt and people continue to live here.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-UN-Park-7383_1.jpg
  • A ruined sandstone wall of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-43-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A ruined sandstone wall of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-42-27-09-2017.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin10-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin09-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin08-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin06-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin04-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin02-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin01-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, the last remaining B-52 bombers from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total. In the nuclear arms treaties of the 80s, Soviet satellites proved their decommissioning by spying the tails had been sliced apart huge guillotines and set at right-angles. This is a scene of confrontation, with opposing forces apparently facing each other in the way that Soviet and western armies fought the war of propaganda. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis38-10-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Years Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-01-01-01-2020.jpg
  • A detail of half-eaten chips fries left in a styrofoam dish, on a green cafe table in central London, on 6th October 2016, in London, England.
    more_london-11-06-10-2016.jpg
  • Three glasses, one empty and two almost full, have been left in the street, the morning after New Years Eve, on 1st January 2019, in south London, England.
    newyear_drinks-02-01-01-2020.jpg
  • Members of a British family help themselves to a turkey and vegetables Christmas Day lunch, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas03-25-12-2020.jpg
  • Bones including skulls beneath the fantasy animal artwork entitled Belbeth on the Ground by Colin Castell et Sébastien Garibaldi on the sculpture park trail, on 22nd May, 2017, in Mayronnes sculpture park, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
    sculpture_park-01-22-05-2017.jpg
  • The Arch of Germanicus, an ancient Roman arch in Saintes, Charente-Maritime in France. It was built in 18 or 19AD by a rich citizen of the town (then known as Mediolanum Santonum), C. Julius Rufus, and dedicated to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus. It has two bays and was originally sited over the terminus of the Roman road from Lyon to Saintes. On the proposal of Prosper Mérimée in 1843 it was moved fifteen metres during works on quays along the river, and it was restored in 1851.
    saintes_arch01-30-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery04-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A young Nepalese mother holds her baby in her arms outside their plastic tent home in United Nations Park, a slum in Paurakhi Basti, next to the Bagmati River in the centre of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The slum was recently demolished by the Nepalese government, however a few shacks have been rebuilt and many people continue to live on this site.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-UN-Park-7465_1.jpg
  • A water tap has been modified with a green plastic bottle in the middle of United Nations Park, a demolished slum in Paurakhi Basti, next to the Bagmati River in the centre of Kathmandu, Nepal.  This used to be a slum area housing many Nepalese people. The government forces arrived in the middle of the night and used tear gas to displace the residents before demolishing their homes.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-UN-Park-7414_1.jpg
  • A young woman tries to solve a cracker novelty puzzle after a family lunch on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas10-25-12-2020.jpg
  • An empty plate, wine glass and a table of food leftovers, the remnants of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas09-25-12-2020.jpg
  • A table of food leftovers, the remnants of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas07-25-12-2020.jpg
  • Members of a British family help themselves to a turkey and vegetables Christmas Day lunch, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas04-25-12-2020.jpg
  • A table of food leftovers, the remnants of Christmas excess on Christmas Day, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
    family_christmas05-25-12-2020.jpg
  • Members of a British family help themselves to a turkey and vegetables Christmas Day lunch, on 25th December 2020 in London, England. Christmas lunch or dinner in the UK is the main meal during the December Christian celebration, when families traditionally come together for the high-protein turkey and high-fibre vegetables - one of the most nutritious meals of the year.
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  • The crash site of the Air France Concorde which came down after shortly after taking off from nearby Le Bourget airport, killing all passengers and crew plus those on the ground at Hotelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel, on 29th July 2002, in Gonesse, Paris, France. One hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one seriously injured.
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  • The crash site of the Air France Concorde which came down after shortly after taking off from nearby Le Bourget airport, killing all passengers and crew plus those on the ground at Hotelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel, on 29th July 2002, in Gonesse, Paris, France. One hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one seriously injured.
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  • The crash site of the Air France Concorde which came down after shortly after taking off from nearby Le Bourget airport, killing all passengers and crew plus those on the ground at Hotelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel, on 29th July 2002, in Gonesse, Paris, France. One hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one seriously injured.
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  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-01-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-03-21-08-2019.jpg
  • A brown paper bag containing the remnants of fast food from Burger King discarded on a seat in a London bus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A brown paper bag containing the remnants of fast food from Burger King discarded on a seat in a London bus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
    bus_food-01-30-04-2019.jpg
  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A postcard of patron Saint Nicholas, all that is left after the burning on a bonfire of religious mementoes, personal data, accounts records and general paperwork, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Saint Nicholas 270 – 343AD, was an historic 4th-century Christian saint.
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  • Schoolchildren work on projects beneath New Kingdom 1279-1213BC Egyptian Mummies of Henutmehyt in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Visitors crowd around the popular Ptolemaic/Roman Mummies in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Visitors crowd around the popular Ptolemaic/Roman Mummies in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Visitors crowd around the popular Ptolemaic/Roman Mummies in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Visitors crowd around the popular Ptolemaic/Roman Mummies in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Broken green glass lying in a pile on double-yellow lines in a south London gutter, on 2nd October September 2016, at the National Gallery, London, England.
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  • Skulls on the alter of the church at Ndera, Rwanda that is now a national monument to those who were murdered inside by Hutu militias during the 1994 genocide.
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  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert, a complete set of main landing gear undercarriage stands upright amid a field of similar items from airliners at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or cooling economy. Cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium is worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their engineering. 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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  • Using ladders and ropes during a rescue operation, Fire Brigade crews enter the floodlit broken air frame of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. We see the aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees. Here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Btitain's worst.
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  • Bolivia. June 2013. Tiwanaco, which was the capital of a pre-Hispanic empire.
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  • Bolivia. June 2013. Tiwanaco, which was the capital of a pre-Hispanic empire.
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  • Bolivia. June 2013. Tiwanaco, which was the capital of a pre-Hispanic empire.
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  • Disused wooden piles at Salen Pier, Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The mailboat service from Oban to Mull traditionally called at Salen pier en route to Tobermory and many people still have fond memories of the Lochinvar.  From 1964 the new ferries required bigger piers and Craignure was established as the main ferry terminus. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
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  • Walkers pass near the ruins of Milecastle 39 on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire from Barbarian tribes. Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was built as a military fortification though gates through the wall served as customs posts to allow trade and levy taxation. The 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Tough walkers generally take 7 days to trek its coast-to-coast length.
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  • The ancient Parthenon (circa 400 BC, the largest Doric temple ever built) sits on Acropolis hill surrounded by global tourists and scaffolding. Here the modern world's philosophy was born, once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and forward-thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • Fallen Ionic and Doric columns lay in the undergrowth at Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and in the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery here. These fluted columns that date to about 400BC that now lie in the shade were originally piled on top of each other to construct - among other buildings too - the Temple of Zeus. There, the athletes made offerings to Nike, the Goddess of Victory before going out to compete in the many sports. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • A toilet sign sits near the standing Doric columns and tourists at Olympia's Palaestra or wrestling school. Here, training, instruction and bathing took place in the month before the Games. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art and an old Trabant car at the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Trabants were the common Socialist vehicle in East Germany, exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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