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  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • Central Post Office sorting office at Mount Pleasant on Farringdon Road and Roseberry Avenue. The post office is increasingly in trouble as a business, with strikes becomming regular.
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  • Central Post Office sorting office at Mount Pleasant on Farringdon Road and Roseberry Avenue. The post office is increasingly in trouble as a business, with strikes becomming regular.
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  • Central Post Office sorting office at Mount Pleasant on Farringdon Road and Roseberry Avenue. The post office is increasingly in trouble as a business, with strikes becomming regular.
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  • An aerial view overlooking the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres such as DIRFT.
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  • School children hanging out on the steps outside The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
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  • Interior of The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
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  • Exterior with giant scale of The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
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  • School children hanging out on the steps outside The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
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  • Interior of The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
    20170518_the mailbox birmingham_007.jpg
  • Exterior with giant scale articulated lamp sculpture of The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
    20170518_the mailbox birmingham_002.jpg
  • Exterior with giant scale articulated lamp sculpture of The Mailbox exclusive department store on 5th August 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
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  • Exterior with giant scale articulated lamp sculpture of The Mailbox exclusive department store on 20th May 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
    20200520_mailbox_002.jpg
  • Interior of The Mailbox exclusive department store in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
    20170518_the mailbox birmingham_004.jpg
  • Exterior with giant scale articulated lamp sculpture of The Mailbox exclusive department store on 20th May 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Mailbox is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of six Harvey Nichols department stores, and was once the Royal Mail sorting office.
    20200520_mailbox_001.jpg
  • Female workers sorting lettuce, Riverford Organics farm, Totnes, Devon, UK food industry
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  • Local fishermen bring freshly caught fish from their fishing boats using a traditional small round boat known as a coracle to be sorted and processed at the harbour in the coastal fishing village of Ninh Hai, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The fish will be sold at the local fresh market where a large variety of exotic fish are available for sale as well as other products.
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  • Local fisherman Neil Cameron uses creels to catch Velvet and Green Crab between Fionnphort and Iona, Isle of Mull, Scotland.  Iona, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The contents of 500 creels is taken every week by truck and sold to Spain. On each line are 25 creels that are spaced out in different areas of the nearby bays. The main fishing on the Ross of Mull, Ulva Ferry and Tobermory is now is commercial shell fishing with baited traps(creels) for lobsters (homarus gamarus), edible brown crabs( cancer pagurus), Prawn (Norwegian Lobster) and velvet swimming crab (necora puber). Scallop dredgers and Prawn trawlers also operate from both ends of the island, dragging the seabed for their catch. Before the late 1960s shell fishing with creels was generally carried out on a seasonal or part time basis allied to crofting, farming or another shore based job.
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  • A fruit stall selling citrus and other varieties such as strawberries, avocados, cherries and melon, in Mercado do Bolhao, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. The 19th-century, wrought-iron Mercado do Bolhão does a brisk trade in fresh produce, including cheeses, olives, smoked meats, sausages, breads and more. At its lively best on Friday and Saturday mornings, the market is also sprinkled with inexpensive stalls where you can eat fish so fresh it was probably swimming in the Atlantic that morning, or taste or sample local wines and cheeses.
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  • Pointing towards the viewer and the bottom of the picture near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow directs traffic flow at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse walls shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • In front of empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from right to left in the foreground at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. A bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining  on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • The form of a giant generic warehouse glows from ambient light at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bare trees without foliage are seen in the foreground on this cold winter night. We see the building low in the picture and the sky graduates from light into near darkness. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Seen from a high viewpoint, we overlook loading of roll cages at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. This is the largest of 10 distribution centres using an automated ordering system for receiving food direct from suppliers by truck through 170 dock doors. Long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. The temperature is just above freezing point in a series of chill, ambient and frozen chambers. Real-time ordering means that stores can obtain requested stock within hours. Food orders are conveyed (at 2 meters a second) with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked.
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  • A long-distance lorry is parked at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. With round wheels echoing the circles of oranges, long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. Transporting refrigerated perishable foodstuffs, these lorries are ever-present on the nation's motorways and A-roads, plying back and forth to re-supply the supermarkets. Food orders are conveyed with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked.
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  • It’s a free for all as elderly pensioners sift through piles of clothing left outside a community hall at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Some hold up items of clothing and others are happy to stand back and watch while some young children descend some steps of this Victorian-era building during a charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. Property has been donated and the old folks’ attention is on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • Alongside the A5 highway, an industrial landscape is illuminated in light from roadside street-lighting. Reeds are in the foreground in front of a giant generic warehouse that glows from its own territory. Grass is next to the crash-barrier and faint mist is seen on this cold winter night at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Seen from the middle of the road, an empty highway landscape is seen at night alongside a giant generic warehouse wall at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. The tarmac is dark and the newly-painted white painted lines stand out. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Male and female workers putting together veg boxes on a production line, Riverford Organics farm, Totnes, Devon, UK food industry
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  • Joe Cooke, sort eels ready to be killed and gutted at the rear of Cookes' Eel, Pie and mash shop in Hoxton, London, UK.Eel, pie and mash shops are a traditional but dying business. Changing tastes and the scarcity of the eel has meant that the number of shops selling this traditional working class food has declined to just a handful mostly in east London. The shops were originally owned by one or two families with the earliest recorded, Manze's on Tower Bridge Road being the oldest surviving dating from 1908. Generally eels are sold cold and jellied and the meat pie and mash potato covered in a green sauce called liquor.
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  • A Nepalese male factory worker holds out bundles of raw wool that he has sorted in the outdoor store area of the R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal. The company export rugs and carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers, as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
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  • A Nepalese male factory worker sits and sorts through the newly arrived bundles of raw wool in the store area of the R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal. The company export rugs and carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers, as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
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  • A female factory worker sits and sorts through the newly arrived bundles of raw wool in the store area of the R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal. The company export rugs and carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers, as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5477_...jpg
  • A Nepalese male factory worker sits and sorts through the newly arrived bundles of raw wool in the store area of the R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal. The company export rugs and carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers, as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
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  • Calligrapher at work in his Beijing studio, keeping alive an ancient traditional art form which is still much revered in China.
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  • A young ragpicker and a discardrd statue of Ganesh that have been ritually submerged into the Yamuna. The river, by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi is so polluted that it can no longer support life, however a community still live and work on it's banks. The boy, like many works as a scavenger, searching for anything valuable to sell
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  • A scavenger looks for discarded waste to sell on a home made raft of rags in the Yamuna River by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi. The river is so polluted it can no longer support life yet a community live and work on it's banks. This boy uses a powerful magnet to dredge for coins and other metals which he can sell.
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  • A scavenger looks for discarded waste to sell on a home made raft of rags in the Yamuna River by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi. The river is so polluted it can no longer support life yet a community live and work on it's banks. This boy uses a powerful magnet to dredge for coins and other metals which he can sell.
    SFE_070209_0025.jpg
  • A scavenger looks for discarded waste to sell on a home made raft of rags in the Yamuna River by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi. The river is so polluted it can no longer support life yet a community live and work on it's banks. This boy uses a powerful magnet to dredge for coins and other metals which he can sell.
    SFE_070209_0174.jpg
  • A scavenger looks for discarded waste to sell on a home made raft of rags in the Yamuna River by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi. The river is so polluted it can no longer support life yet a community live and work on it's banks. This boy uses a powerful magnet to dredge for coins and other metals which he can sell.
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  • Somerset eating apples warm in afternoon sunshine on shelves outside the Pony and Trap pub, October 8th 2017, in Chew Magna, Somerset, England.
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  • A detail of a tightly-bound bale of supermarket retail cardboard, ready for recycling and reprocessing in London, UK. Squashed together is the packaging of branded merchandise just removed from inside the nearby supermarket in London, UK. The materials will be taken to a central plant where they will be correctly recycled.
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  • A City of London Police officer based at Bishopsgate station, flicks through a card index system during a nineties pre-digital era, on 16th June 1993, in London, England.
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  • Somerset eating apples warm in afternoon sunshine on shelves outside the Pony and Trap pub, October 8th 2017, in Chew Magna, Somerset, England.
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  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east–west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
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  • Florence Khalumbia (46) With daughter Alice (7 ) lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. Alice, the youngest, is seven years old, and she spends her days sorting through rubbish with her 14-year-old brother Allan Karani. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Alice ( 7)  has her hair  braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Alice (7) has her hair braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
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  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
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  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
    Alibaba045_1_1.jpg
  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
    Alibaba043_1_1.jpg
  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
    Alibaba041_1_1.jpg
  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
    Alibaba044_1_1.jpg
  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
    Alibaba042_1_1.jpg
  • Workers sort and move packages at a SF Express sorting facility near the airport in Hangzhou , China on 11 November 2013. Express courrier services are facing logistical shortages as Chinese consumers increasingly shop online, with the success of an online retail often depend on the speed of its deliveries.
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  • Men sorting flowers at the Jantar market, Jaipur, India
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  • Volunteers sorting out donations of clothing to distribute. In April 2014 thousands of people were evicted from Telerj favela in an old building owned by communications company Oi. Having nowhere to go, they camped outside the Central Cathderal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of them were children, they received many donations from local people and community groups.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor eating lunch at home with her two youngest children, Talisay, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing,  Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. Imelda and her family eat whatever is left over from her sales round. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor discussing the day's catch with a fisherman, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing,  Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Fish vendor Imelda Esgana helps the fishermen carry their pump boat onto the beach, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor prepares lunch at home for her two youngest children, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. Imelda and her family eat whatever is left over from her sales round. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • Fish vendor Imelda Esgana, prepares lunch at home for her two youngest children, Talisay, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. Imelda and her family eat whatever is left over from her sales round. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • Fish vendor Imelda Esgana holding a bowl of freshly caught crabs, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor preparing lunch at home for her children, Talisay, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing,  Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. Imelda and her family eat what is left over after her sales. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • Fish vendor Imelda Esgana selecting freshly caught crabs, Talisay, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Freshly caught fish on the weighing scales, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am fish vendor Imelda Esgana meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations in Bantayan.
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  • Joao Lopez Tavez, 31 who works at the Roca Boa Vista sorting and raking cocoa beans, Sao Tome. The cacao plant was taken from Brazil to Principe and Sao Tomé for the first time around 1822 and by 1908, Sao Tome had become the world’s largest producer of cacao. Today, it is no longer the largest, but produces some of the worlds finest quality cacao.<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and later a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Dina Lopez Tavez, 35 who works at the Roca Boa Vista sorting and raking cacao beans, Sao Tome. Sao Tome and Principe. The cacao plant was taken from Brazil to Principe and Sao Tomé for the first time around 1822 and by 1908, Sao Tome had become the world’s largest producer of cacao. Today, it is no longer the largest, but produces some of the worlds finest quality cacao.<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and later a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Queen holding paint can and pet corgi dog mural by artist Mr Brainwash at the Old Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
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  • Van Gogh as a Banksi-like criminal by artist Mr Brainwash, an adaptation on Norman Rockwell at the old sorting office in new Oxford Street, London. The reference is from a 1943 Norman Rockwell poster promoting the purchase of war bonds to "save freedom of speech" during World War II; image depicts several town's people seated in a school class room for a meeting as a male stands in audience attempting to speak set against a large black board located in the background. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
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  • Volunteers sorting out donations of clothing to distribute. In April 2014 thousands of people were evicted from Telerj favela in an old building owned by communications company Oi. Having nowhere to go, they camped outside the Central Cathderal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of them were children, they received many donations from local people and community groups.
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  • An Indonesian man and his daughter sorting and bagging chillis in the street on 9th June 2018, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A nun sorting seeds outside the cave that is her home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Bolivia 2013.Huayhuasi. Paula, Teodosia's 92 year old grandmother sorting potatoes.
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  • Sorting out the dirty laundry on the Saturday turnaround in Butlins Holiday camp, Skegness. Butlins Skegness is a holiday camp located in Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire. Sir William Butlin conceived of its creation based on his experiences at a Canadian summer camp in his youth and by observation of the actions of other holiday accommodation providers, both in seaside resort lodging houses and in earlier smaller holiday campsThe camp began opened in 1936, when it quickly proved to be a success with a need for expansion. The camp included dining and recreation facilities, such as dance halls and sports fields. Over the past 75 years the camp has seen continuous use and development, in the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s being subject to substantial investment and redevelopment. In the late 1990s the site was re-branded as a holiday resort, and remains open today as one of three remaining Butlins resorts.
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  • A female Nepalese student sorting paper that has just been printed in the machine behind her in a vocational training centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.  She is studying a one-year course in off-set printing press and once completed, she will hopefully continue to apprenticeship training.  She is an orphan who was rescued by the Friends of Needy Children organization and they are supporting her through her education.  Another female student and male teacher are behind her.
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  • A female Nepalese student sorting paper that has just been printed in the machine behind her in a vocational training centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.  She is studying a one-year course in off-set printing press and once completed, she will hopefully continue to apprenticeship training.  She is an orphan who was rescued by the Friends of Needy Children organization and they are supporting her through her education.  Another female student and male teacher are behind her.
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  • Two elderly Nepalese women sorting through their Turmeric crop on the 3rd of March 2020 in the rural mountain village of Dalbhanjyang, Ghairung, Gorkha, Nepal.
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  • Fishermen, who follow the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) code of fishing for certified sustainable seafood, sorting their catch out aboard their boat moored on the beach at Hastings, England.
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  • Airline headphone sorting. Piece work. £5 per week. £6 if enhanced. plus £6 per 500. Each one is stripped, re-sponged, folded and bagged. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Downview Prison holds adult Sentenced Female prisoners and convicted and remanded female juveniles. The prison holds approximately 50% foreign nationals. Downview is divided into 4 Wings, A,B,C,D (D wing is a resettlement Wing), and the Juvenile Unit. All wings have single cell accommodation with in-cell electricity. The prison offers vocational training courses and NVQs for inmates. The resettlement wing provides opportunities for inmates to work and receive education outside the prison.
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  • Hunter sorting the birds from his days shooting near Minot, North Dakota, United States. Prior to hanging the pheasants and grouse he has shot, the birds must have their guts removed. Failure to clean the birds organs will result in the insides rapidly going off and contaminating the game meat. It is an unpleasant and strong smelling job, but all part fo the process of having wild meat in the hunters freezers for the year ahead.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing,  Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Fish vendor, Imelda Esgana washes her youngest son at home in Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house which as a single parent gives her time to take care of her family. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • Freshly caught fish on the weighing scales, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am fish vendor Imelda Esgana meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations in Bantayan.
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  • Freshly caught fish, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am fish vendor Imelda Esgana meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations in Bantayan.
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  • Fisherman selling his freshly caught fish to fish vendor Imelda Esgana, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am fish vendor Imelda Esgana meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing, Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations in Bantayan.
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  • Fab Four art Beatles' faces peer from criminal scarves on street mural by artist Mr Brainwash at the Old Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
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  • Volunteers sorting out donations of clothing to distribute. In April 2014 thousands of people were evicted from Telerj favela in an old building owned by communications company Oi. Having nowhere to go, they camped outside the Central Cathderal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of them were children, they received many donations from local people and community groups.
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  • Volunteers sorting out donations of clothing to distribute. In April 2014 thousands of people were evicted from Telerj favela in an old building owned by communications company Oi. Having nowhere to go, they camped outside the Central Cathderal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of them were children, they received many donations from local people and community groups.
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  • Volunteers sorting out donations of clothing to distribute. In April 2014 thousands of people were evicted from Telerj favela in an old building owned by communications company Oi. Having nowhere to go, they camped outside the Central Cathderal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of them were children, they received many donations from local people and community groups.
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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School. She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals. Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School.<br />
She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals.<br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • Fishermen, who follow the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) code of fishing for certified sustainable seafood, sorting their catch out aboard their boat moored on the beach at Hastings, England.
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  • Shop selling religious icons, paintings and pictures in the area of Monastiraki. Among religions in Greece, the largest denomination is the Greek Orthodox Church, which represents the majority of the population and which is constitutionally recognised as the "prevailing religion" of Greece (making it one of the few European countries with a state religion). Other major religions include Catholicism, Islam and Protestantism. According to a 2005 Eurobarometer Poll, 81% of Greek citizens believe that there is a God, whereas 16% believed in some sort of spirit or life force and 3% responded that they did not believe there is any sort of God, spirit or life force. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Shop selling religious icons, paintings and pictures in the area of Monastiraki. Among religions in Greece, the largest denomination is the Greek Orthodox Church, which represents the majority of the population and which is constitutionally recognised as the "prevailing religion" of Greece (making it one of the few European countries with a state religion). Other major religions include Catholicism, Islam and Protestantism. According to a 2005 Eurobarometer Poll, 81% of Greek citizens believe that there is a God, whereas 16% believed in some sort of spirit or life force and 3% responded that they did not believe there is any sort of God, spirit or life force. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Shop selling religious icons, paintings and pictures in the area of Monastiraki. Among religions in Greece, the largest denomination is the Greek Orthodox Church, which represents the majority of the population and which is constitutionally recognised as the "prevailing religion" of Greece (making it one of the few European countries with a state religion). Other major religions include Catholicism, Islam and Protestantism. According to a 2005 Eurobarometer Poll, 81% of Greek citizens believe that there is a God, whereas 16% believed in some sort of spirit or life force and 3% responded that they did not believe there is any sort of God, spirit or life force. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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