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  • Giant neon rooftop sign spells out the Chinese character name for the electronics company ‘Sharp’. Situated on the 30th floor rooftop on a building rear to Nanpu Bridge in Nanpudaqiao, this old sign is one of Shanghai’s icons, and can be seen when crossing the bridge. In the distance high-rise residential developments in Pudong rise up to take their part of the skyline. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 055_corbis.jpg
  • Giant neon rooftop sign spells out the electronics company name ‘Sharp’ in Shanghai, China. Situated on the 30th floor rooftop on a building rear to Nanpu Bridge in Nanpudaqiao, this old sign is one of Shanghai’s icons, and can be seen when crossing the bridge. Below the highway traffic roars through high-rise residential developments which rise up to take their part of the skyline. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 060.jpg
  • Giant neon rooftop sign spells out the electronics company name ‘Sharp’. Situated on the 30th floor rooftop on a building rear to Nanpu Bridge in Nanpudaqiao, this old sign is one of Shanghai’s icons, and can be seen when crossing the bridge. Below the highway traffic roars through high-rise residential developments which rise up to take their part of the skyline. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 057_corbis.jpg
  • A guardsman of an unknown regiment, stands on ceremonial duty in the Mall during celebrations of the Queen's official Golden Jubilee in June 2002. The soldier in resplendent red tunic and the controversial bearskin is an iconic emblem of Britain's armed forces during official events. But the officer may be a Grenadier or a Welsh Guard who share similar uniforms and perform similar duties in London. We see over his shoulder on which his regimental insignia is and also where the bayonet of his weapon is fixed and dangerously sharp. He is a sergeant major and therefore responsible for other soldiers' rank and files. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
    grenadier_guards03-03-06-2002_1.jpg
  • Sharp metal from a vehicle, after having been cut open by the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) who gave a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions.
    fire_brigade_demo33-14-05-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Scales Tarn glacial lake beneath Sharp Edge of Blencathra mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.
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  • Sharp Edge, a knife-edge arete on the east side of Blencathra mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK. The narrow rock ridge separates Tarn Crag and Foule Crage.
    UK-Tourism-Lake-District-9072.jpg
  • A discarded insulin syringe lies on the ground near a drain in a residential alleyway, on 25th November 2020, in London,England. Accorind to the NHS (National Health Service, syringes should be disposed of in a sharps bin - a specially designed box with a lid that can be obtained on prescription (FP10 prescription form) from a GP or pharmacist. When full, the box may be collected for disposal by a local council.
    alley_syringe01-25-11-2020.jpg
  • A discarded insulin syringe lies on the ground near a drain in a residential alleyway, on 25th November 2020, in London,England. Accorind to the NHS (National Health Service, syringes should be disposed of in a sharps bin - a specially designed box with a lid that can be obtained on prescription (FP10 prescription form) from a GP or pharmacist. When full, the box may be collected for disposal by a local council.
    alley_syringe03-25-11-2020.jpg
  • Standing with a bloodied knife and hand is an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) who has butchered a deer near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
    usaf_survival001-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • A large and aggressive seagull, squawks and looks angry as it takes-off in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-05-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A construction site hoarding peels in summer heat, below the spikes of security railings, on 3rd July 2017, in Clapham, London, England.
    peeling_hoarding-01-03-07-2017.jpg
  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
    maldives452-15-11-2007.jpg
  • 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.
    gutter_glass-01-02-10-2016.jpg
  • A young Egyptian man has a shave from the local barber in Bairat, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. With his lathered face on which his stubble shows through, he turns away and lets the barber pass the blade towards his mouth.
    egypt118-02-03-2016_1.jpg
  • The nose detail of a de Havilland Comet in the colours of the long-defunct airline Dan Air is seen in profile at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford airfield, Cambridgeshire, England. The British de Havilland Comet first flew in July 1949 and is noted as the world's first commercial jet airliner as well as one of the first pressurized commercial aircraft. Early models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue and the aircraft was redesigned. Here, the nose structure is held together with rivets that sit askew of the aircraft skin making it aerodynamically unfit to fly. It remains however, one of the classic and iconic designs in the history of commercial aviation. 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_corbis15-12-12-1997_1.jpg
  • Barbed wire framed by a blue sky, 27th December 2016, Lagrasse France.
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  • Broken glass attached to the top of a wall to prevent intruders, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
    UK-Security-Broken-Glass-2517.jpg
  • Using a bloodied knife and hand, an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course who has butchered road kill deer. Near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State, the man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison that is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
    usaf_survival01-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • Lock operator on the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham. It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world.
    20190416_sharpness canal_001.jpg
  • Cassue Sharpe, Canada, during the womens skiing halfpipe flower ceremony at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    Cassie Sharpe-D15-MHPQ-02653_1.jpg
  • View along the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham. It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world.
    20190416_sharpness canal_003.jpg
  • Lock operator on the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham. It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world.
    20190416_sharpness canal_002.jpg
  • Marie Martinod, France, SILVER with Cassie Sharpe, Canada, GOLD and Brita Sigourney, USA, BRONZE, during the womens skiing halfpipe flower ceremony at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    D15-MHPQ-02674_1.jpg
  • Cassie Sharpe, Canada, takes gold and celebrates with Marie Martinod, France, SILVER and Brita Sigourney, USA, BRONZE following the womens skiing halfpipe finals at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    D15-MHPQ-02602_1.jpg
  • Marie Martinod, France, SILVER with Cassie Sharpe, Canada, GOLD and Brita Sigourney, USA, BRONZE, during the womens skiing halfpipe flower ceremony at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    D15-MHPQ-02663_1.jpg
  • Cassie Sharpe, Canada, during the womens skiing halfpipe finals at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    Cassie Sharpe-D15-MHPQ-02367_1.jpg
  • Cassue Sharpe, Canada, during the womens skiing halfpipe flower ceremony at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 20th 2018, at the Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea
    Cassie Sharpe-D15-MHPQ-02694_1.jpg
  • A tuna fish's sharp yellow fin protrudes from shredded ice at the Cyprea Marine Foods processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives135-12-11-2007.jpg
  • The tail and sharp barbs of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw the rest.
    maldives98-12-11-2007.jpg
  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
    20200201_battersea bridge boats_001.jpg
  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
    20200201_battersea bridge boats_002.jpg
  • Honk your horn as you travel around the sharp curve road sign on 19th May 2016 in Myanmar
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  • Children play on a UN armoured vehicle exhibited during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Climbing on the top of the tank, the kids risk injury on the surface, with many sharp corners and places to fall from. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
    UN_children-06-05-1995_1.jpg
  • Corporal Chris Ward, one of the photographers belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, reads a novel while wrapped up in sleeping bag and hammock aboard a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft during a two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. Corporal Ward has established for himself a comfortable nest in the rear section at the loading ramp. The interior is basic with sharp corners but the walls are padded.  Ward wears a heavy camouflaged coat to counteract the cold and ear-plugs from the droning engines. The Red Arrows pilots fly their Hawk jet aircraft to air shows but on long journeys requiring the support of ground crew borrow RAF transporters that fly behind the main airborne squadron shipping 10 tons of spares and personal effects for their six-week winter training stay.
    Red_Arrows050_RBA_1.jpg
  • An elderly retired couple pause on the wide but darkly lit dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The light is orange and red because of the tungsten light source. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ which is played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus  was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
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  • Still in the era of being able to smoke inside public places, an elderly gentleman extinguishes his match by waving it in the air to blow out the flame, exhaling and listening to a fellow-drinker in a Newport pub in south Wales. Clouds of smoke can be seen as they waft against the back light that filters through the windows of this smoky bar in the town centre. Pints of bitter are on the table in front of them and ash trays with used butts. The scene is of an industrial town’s pub for working men where language is sharp and there is talk of realities of hard lives.
    pub_smokers-25-01-1986.jpg
  • Fishermen from the Maldives haul aboard a yellow fin tuna to the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. The tuna has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth but after being dragged up with hooks, the 50kg fish will be clubbed to death by smashing its skull with repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives298-14-11-2007.jpg
  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives281-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives279-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A No Sharp objects warning is plain to see as a British Airways check-in employee attaches a luggage tag to the suitcase of a Business Class passenger about to take a long-haul flight from London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The bag is about to disappear down the conveyor belt to join up to 70,000 other items during this average day at T5. With a bar code to identify both the bag and its owner's destination as well as the three letter IATA code, the bag enters 11 miles of underground conveyor belts beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • A No Sharp objects warning is plain to see as a British Airways check-in employee attaches a luggage tag to the suitcase of a Business Class passenger about to take a long-haul flight from London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The bag is about to disappear down the conveyor belt to join up to 70,000 other items during this average day at T5. With a bar code to identify both the bag and its owner's destination as well as the three letter IATA code, the bag enters 11 miles of underground conveyor belts beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1414-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • "Diptheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis."  A four month-old baby screams with the sharp prick of an innoculation needle administered by a health visitor at a doctor's surgery, London. The post-natal clinic is a health check for the baby and for new mothers to discuss parenting problems with a NHS-qualified midwife and paediatric specialist. She attends to mother and child since they arrived back home from hospital, days after birth and therefore knows all their details and the baby's growth statistics and development curves. 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_ella09-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • Man on skates glides past a stylish clothing shop for business people on a poster in the City of London. Skating past the images of very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion - the youth looks out of place from an otherwise white and elite class of young people. The street is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart.
    city_style11-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Men in shirtsleeves walk past a stylish clothing shop for businessmen on a poster in the City of London. The two businessmen stride past very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion. The street is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart.
    city_style09-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Models on a poster of a stylish clothing shop for business people are reflected in the rear of a black vehicle parked in the City of London. Alongside very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion - we see the styles of contemporary London in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and business people are walking along this side street off Cannon Street.
    city_style02-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Models on a poster of a stylish clothing shop for businessmen are reflected in the bonnet of a black vehicle parked in the City of London. A businessman stops with a cigarette to check his messages alongside very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion.
    city_style04-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Models on a poster of a stylish clothing shop for business people are reflected in the rear of a black vehicle parked in the City of London. Alongside very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion - we see the styles of contemporary London in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and business people are walking along this side street off Cannon Street.
    city_style01-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A visitor to Budapest zoo reaches out with food scraps to a captive elephant, whose enclosure has sharp spikes around its moat, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    budapest_elephant-13-06-1990.jpg
  • Euros changing hands for bric-a-brac and old possessions, sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
    berlin_mauerpark_market03-07-04-2013...jpg
  • 1950s-era chairs and assorted furniture, bric-a-brac and old possessions being sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
    berlin_mauerpark_market04-07-04-2013...jpg
  • An elderly couple dance on the wide dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
    ballroom1-29-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Alaba International Market. Julius Paul, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sharp televisons. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Elderly member of the Caribbean community looking sharp on Sunday 28th August 2016 at the 50th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europes largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. It is led by members of the West Indian / Caribbean community, particularly the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past and centres around a parade of floats, dancers and sound systems.
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  • Dated October 2010 with less than two years before the London Olympiad commenced, we see a section of the outer fence to the Olympic Park. The brick wall marks the boundary of no access to land near River Lea in East London. Sharp barbs of security wall line the top, keeping out trespassers.  Covered in graffiti, it describes more the outer limit of the the property secured by the Olympic Authority who purchased land from small industrial businesses and landowners, separating people from their own localities - all in the name of a three-week sporting event that few feel they would benefit from.
    stratford_olympics21-08-10-2010_1_1.jpg
  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
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  • Seventeen officer cadets march in line wearing full dress uniform with their rifles on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The recently-graduated soldiers march in a near-perfect line looking over their right shoulders towards their commanding officers and VIP guests which sometimes includes Her Majesty the Queen. We see every face clearly and notice their different heights and sizes.  Sharp focus is centred on the smallest man in the parade. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • The chef Marco Pierre-White works in the kitchens of the Hyde Park Hotel. Waving a sharp knife in his right hand, he is about to carve a joint of red meat amid the heat and bustle of his busy work area. Overseeing a small army of sous-chefs and waiters, he rules his roost though it is his reputation that needs preserving. Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur and television personality. He is noted for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine and his exceptional culinary skills. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene and the Godfather of modern cooking. White was, at the time, the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars.
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  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • A team of employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth, just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • Man walks past a stylish clothing shop for businessmen people on a poster in the City of London. The businessman reads his copy of the Evening Standard newspaper and strides past very good-looking and stylish men wearing sharp suits - the latest in 2015 city fashion. The street is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart.
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  • Glassware, crockery, bric-a-brac and old possessions being sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
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  • An elderly couple dance on the wide dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
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  • Alaba International Market. Julius Paul, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sharp televisons. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • A holiday couple sit in deck-chairs to enjoy their chips wrapped in paper, the traditional way for eating fish and chips while at the seaside. The people scoff their food as a seagull stands patiently on the promenade wall waiting to scavenge from anything dropped or left behind. The bird's razor-sharp beak will cause injury and distress so the couple eat quickly before moving on.
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