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  • A conservator with City of London contractor Rupert Harris Conservation, washes off soap solution from the statue of Victorian philanthropist, entrepreneur and banker George Peabody (1795 to 1869). As part of a rolling programme of maintenance and cleaning by the Square Mile's governing Corporation, historic items - from statues and plaques to other pieces of historic value are regularly attended to.
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  • Graphic exterior of a buillding in the City of London, UK. This is 1980s architecture at it's best, utilising angular pieces of granite with glass, though it looks dated now.
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  • Mr Massoudi,  Director of the  National Museum of Afghanistan pictured next to a statue recently restored after the Taliban smashed it to pieces. Overall the Taliban smashed 2000 museum exhibits and more famously two colossal Buddhas in Bamiyan ‘because they were "false idols" contrary to Islam.  Mr Massouudi with the help of the international community has rebuilt and reopened his museum and is now seeking to recover and restore the many artifacts either looted in the civil war or smashed by the Taliban:<br />
"They took the decision that artefacts such as statues, or anything representing the human figure, was against Sharia Islam . Looking at statues as part of history, is not the same as worshiping them. It was an extremely sad time not just for me, but all museum staff , cultural and educated people in Afghanistan. They destroyed around 2000 artefacts.”
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  • A Bench depicting a scene from The Wind in the Wiillows by Kenneth Graham with the Bank of England and the WW1 memorial at Cornhill, City of London. Scottish-born Graham (1859-1932) was a city worker at the Bank of England, retiring as its Secretary in 1908 due to ill health, before writing one of the most loved pieces of English fiction about Thames river bank wildlife characters. BookBench is part of a trail of 50 uniquely designed benches around London, connecting literary locations. The benches will be auctioned off to raise funds for the National Literacy Trust, helping to raise literacy levels in the UK.
    city_people02-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Ron Araad, designer & architect. Born in tel aviv in 1951, studied at the jerusalem academy of art (1971-73), moved to London and studied at the architectural association in london (1974-79), 1981 with Caroline Thorman established 'one off ltd', a design studio, workshops andshowroom in covent garden. 1989  founded 'ron arad associates', an architecture and designpratice in chalk farm. In 1994 he established the 'ron arad studio', design and production unit in como, Italy. His London studio has increasingly produced individual pieces made of sheet steel,and he always mischievously exploits their formal and functional possibilities to the fullest. The sculptural forms often have an unexpected impact which first emerges during use, and are just as much a result of graphic design as the experimental work that goes on in the workshop.
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  • Ron Araad, designer & architect. Born in tel aviv in 1951, studied at the jerusalem academy of art (1971-73), moved to London and studied at the architectural association in london (1974-79), 1981 with Caroline Thorman established 'one off ltd', a design studio, workshops andshowroom in covent garden. 1989  founded 'ron arad associates', an architecture and designpratice in chalk farm. In 1994 he established the 'ron arad studio', design and production unit in como, Italy. His London studio has increasingly produced individual pieces made of sheet steel,and he always mischievously exploits their formal and functional possibilities to the fullest. The sculptural forms often have an unexpected impact which first emerges during use, and are just as much a result of graphic design as the experimental work that goes on in the workshop.
    _O7F2000.jpg
  • Schoolboys from the City of London School play string instruments during a public performance of classical music. The young orchestra is performing at St. James Garlickhythe, a city of London church redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren after its destruction in 1666. Showing great concentration and passion for their music, the violinists and cellists play with great skill for such young players. We see their copyrighted sheet music attached to the stands, guiding them through the classical pieces listened to by an unseen audience. There is a slight blurring to arms and hands as their bows pass over the bridges of their instruments. <br />
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    youth_orchestra01-16-04-1994_1_1.jpg
  • Attending to a floral memorial of Lillies in a 5th Avenue store front in mid-town Manhattan. In the days following the September 11th attacks, a store window dresser is seen through the glass with Fifth Avenue reflected behind. The words "In Memory and Gratitude" are written in block capitals on the window and a passer-by walks briskly past the large floral display and the large US flag that hangs vertically in mourning for those killed and those heroes helping to uncover their remains in the debris. America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity by installing these shrines in the frontages of businesses and in homes as New Yorkers try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
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  • In an archaeologists' shed at the site of further excavations in Pompeii, Italy, the bones of an ancient Roman citizen is spread out on a metal sheet after being uncovered from Volcanic ash and pumice. Pompeii was buried beneath metres of toxic material from Mount Versuvius in May AD79 and this person was suffocated then crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be examined for desease yielding clues as to its lifestyle and eating habits. The skeletal remains are clearly identifiable with spinal column vertibrae, one jaw still containing teeth and various pieces of bone have been recovered. Many bodies littered a rooftop here proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • Shop owner writes a reduced price on an upright mirror with bright furniture on sale in a London street.A shop owner writes a reduced price on an upright mirror with bright furniture on sale in a London street. Writing on the glass with a marker pen the man has decided to tell us the original price of this item was #250 and he writes down a new, reduced value of #170, making us believe there are massive savings to be had on this home furnishing. Behind him is a garish pink sofa chair that was made in Egypt and imported to the UK capital where it and other pieces sit in bright sunshine, their colours looking tacky and cheap.
    pink_furniture08-23-03-2011.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1533-19-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading it into the aircraft hold container bins. 50-70,000 pieces of BA baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall 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. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1200-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1187-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passengers struggling to separate two trolleys in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport464-14-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passenger being helped to pull her heavy suitacse from the carousel in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport459-14-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
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  • Girls in London's British Museum admire the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803, obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon
    elgin_marbles06-19-02-2012_1.jpg
  • Woman photographs photograps the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803, obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon
    elgin_marbles05-19-02-2012_1.jpg
  • Visitors in London's British Museum admire the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803, obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon
    elgin_marbles01-19-02-2012_1.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Bella Freud stands looking over her sister Esther's garden in West London. She is known for her womens' fashion label, though she is currently focussing on knitwear, producing beautiful collections of sweaters in limited numbers each season. For Autumn/ Winter 2005 Bella’s knitwear range expanded to include menswear for the first time ever with a capsule collection of four sweater designs for men. She works as consultant with Miss Selfridges plus designing one off pieces for special clients like Nick Cave to wear on stage. Her celebrity clients include Madonna, Kate Moss, Courtney Love and others. Bella Freud is the daughter of the artist Lucian Freud and the great grand daughter of Sigmund Freud.
    bella_freud02-03-09-2007_1.jpg
  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mud made from crushed stones and water. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
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  • Small pieces of shrapnel from a deliberatly destroyed M85 cluster bomb unit in an olive grove in South Lebanon. The Danish Church Aid train local men and women to clear the huge number of cluster sub-munition left on the ground after the Israeli invasion and bombings in 2006.<br />
South Lebanon.
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  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
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  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
    mike - big ben001.jpg
  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
    07-pidyon_7720_1.jpg
  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
    07-pidyon_7699.jpg
  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
    05-tachlich_3796.jpg
  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
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  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
    20120324graffiti parkland walkC.jpg
  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
    20120324graffiti parkland walkA.jpg
  • Multi coloured golf tees used in a shop window display. These iconic little pieces of plastic are layed out  in numbers to create a tee carpet on artificial grass.
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  • Multi coloured golf tees used in a shop window display. These iconic little pieces of plastic are layed out  in numbers to create a tee carpet on artificial grass.
    20110224golf teesB.jpg
  • Two Japanese artists dressed in the same clothes selling their small pieces. The Art Car Boot Fair in a car park just off Brick Lane in East London. This is an alternative art event where artists show their works and engage with the public. The Art Car Boot Fair was an idea that grew out of a desire to re-introduce some summer fun and frivolity into a thriving but increasingly commercial London art scene. The aim for the Art Car Boot Fair is to be a day when the artists let their hair down and for all-comers to engage with art in a totally informal way, and to pick up some real art bargains.
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  • An artwork made from hundreds of pieces of suspended rock. Visitors and exhibitors at the many galleries exhibiting at the Frieze Art Fair 2010. This art fair is for work at the high end of international contemporary art with many well known artists on show from many of the world's most reknowned dealers.
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  • A replica of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, set inside a giant bottle and made by artist Yinka Shonibare, is the latest addition to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. The artwork, entitled Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has 31 sails, as did Victory when she went into battle. The sails look like Shonibare's trademark African cloths, woven in England and printed with African patterns, which he has used repeatedly to subvert iconic pieces of western art. They are actually made of traditional sail canvas, hand-sewn, and hand printed in batik designs by the artist.
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  • A replica of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, set inside a giant bottle and made by artist Yinka Shonibare, is the latest addition to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. The artwork, entitled Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has 31 sails, as did Victory when she went into battle. The sails look like Shonibare's trademark African cloths, woven in England and printed with African patterns, which he has used repeatedly to subvert iconic pieces of western art. They are actually made of traditional sail canvas, hand-sewn, and hand printed in batik designs by the artist.
    20100525victory in a bottleD.jpg
  • A replica of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, set inside a giant bottle and made by artist Yinka Shonibare, is the latest addition to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. The artwork, entitled Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has 31 sails, as did Victory when she went into battle. The sails look like Shonibare's trademark African cloths, woven in England and printed with African patterns, which he has used repeatedly to subvert iconic pieces of western art. They are actually made of traditional sail canvas, hand-sewn, and hand printed in batik designs by the artist.
    20100525victory in a bottleC.jpg
  • A replica of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, set inside a giant bottle and made by artist Yinka Shonibare, is the latest addition to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. The artwork, entitled Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has 31 sails, as did Victory when she went into battle. The sails look like Shonibare's trademark African cloths, woven in England and printed with African patterns, which he has used repeatedly to subvert iconic pieces of western art. They are actually made of traditional sail canvas, hand-sewn, and hand printed in batik designs by the artist.
    20100525victory in a bottleA.jpg
  • Palm fronds. These pieces fo dry leaf coil and strip away from the main leaves against a blue sky.
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  • Palm fronds. These pieces fo dry leaf coil and strip away from the main leaves against a blue sky.
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  • Colonial and Chinese antiques for sale at a stall on Dong Tai Road (Dongtai Lu) street market. This small area is lined with shops and the streets covered with stalls selling artifacts from Shanghai's past. There are many colonial pieces which tend to be genuine, and some genuine Chinese antiques which can be very expensive. But there is also a lot of fakes for sale too. Usually snapped up by tourists who are under the impression they are getting a bargain. The portrait is of Sun Zhong Shan one of China's great leaders who revoluted to end the Qing dynasty, then started China Min Guo, but only for short time.
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  • Two Japanese artists dressed in the same clothes selling their small pieces. The Art Car Boot Fair in a car park just off Brick Lane in East London. This is an alternative art event where artists show their works and engage with the public. The Art Car Boot Fair was an idea that grew out of a desire to re-introduce some summer fun and frivolity into a thriving but increasingly commercial London art scene. The aim for the Art Car Boot Fair is to be a day when the artists let their hair down and for all-comers to engage with art in a totally informal way, and to pick up some real art bargains.
    19062011art car boot fairZ.jpg
  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as 'the redemption of the first born son'. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves 'buying him back from a Cohen.' Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother's womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
    07-pidyon_7720.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion activists having left sculptures by the artist Gray made out of ice outside the art gallery Tate Modern, February 4th 2019, Central London, United Kingdom. The pieces look like life jackets and are meant to represent both the climate and refugee crisis.
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  • Extinction Rebellion activists having left sculptures by the artist Gray made out of ice outside the art gallery Tate Modern, February 4th 2019, Central London, United Kingdom. The pieces look like life jackets and are meant to represent both the climate and refugee crisis.
    IC5A4019.jpg
  • Rekha Bhal painting one of her art pieces in her shop Rem and Rekha in Champa Gali, New Delhi, India. Champa Gali is the latest and most intimate of Delhis urban creative villages.
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  • Rekha Bhal painting one of her art pieces in her shop Rem and Rekha in Champa Gali, New Delhi, India. Champa Gali is the latest and most intimate of Delhis urban creative villages.
    SFE_180311_093_1.jpg
  • The 12th Fourth Plinth sculpture named 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' by artist Michael Rakowitz, in Trafalgar Square, on 5th April 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The artwork attempts to recreate more than 7,000 objects which have been lost forever. Some were looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, while others were destroyed at archaeological sites across the country during the Iraq War. Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 BC until it was destroyed by Daesh in 2015. The Fourth Plinth is an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London originally intended to hold an equestrian statue. For over 150 years there was much squabbling about what to do with the fourth plinth, but very little agreement, until the temporary use of the plinth to display three pieces of art in the last years of the 20th century lead to a commission being formed to decide on a use for it. Eventually that commission unanimously decided to use it for the temporary display of artworks.
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  • The 12th Fourth Plinth sculpture named 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' by artist Michael Rakowitz, in Trafalgar Square, on 5th April 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The artwork attempts to recreate more than 7,000 objects which have been lost forever. Some were looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, while others were destroyed at archaeological sites across the country during the Iraq War. Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 BC until it was destroyed by Daesh in 2015. The Fourth Plinth is an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London originally intended to hold an equestrian statue. For over 150 years there was much squabbling about what to do with the fourth plinth, but very little agreement, until the temporary use of the plinth to display three pieces of art in the last years of the 20th century lead to a commission being formed to decide on a use for it. Eventually that commission unanimously decided to use it for the temporary display of artworks.
    20180405_fourth plinth_004.jpg
  • The 12th Fourth Plinth sculpture named 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' by artist Michael Rakowitz, in Trafalgar Square, on 5th April 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The artwork attempts to recreate more than 7,000 objects which have been lost forever. Some were looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, while others were destroyed at archaeological sites across the country during the Iraq War. Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 BC until it was destroyed by Daesh in 2015. The Fourth Plinth is an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London originally intended to hold an equestrian statue. For over 150 years there was much squabbling about what to do with the fourth plinth, but very little agreement, until the temporary use of the plinth to display three pieces of art in the last years of the 20th century lead to a commission being formed to decide on a use for it. Eventually that commission unanimously decided to use it for the temporary display of artworks.
    20180405_fourth plinth_001.jpg
  • The John Lennon Memorial Wall in Velkoprevorske namestiGrand Priory Square, Malá Strana, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Lennon Wall or John Lennon Wall is a wall in Prague, Czech Republic. Once a normal wall, since the 1980s it has been filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti and pieces of lyrics from Beatles songs. In 1988, the wall was a source of irritation for the communist regime of Gustáv Husák. Young Czechs would write grievances on the wall and in a report of the time this led to a clash between hundreds of students and security police on the nearby Charles Bridge. The movement these students followed was described ironically as Lennonism and Czech authorities described these people variously as alcoholics, mentally deranged, sociopathic, and agents of Western capitalism.
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  • Portrait of a Makara Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of Rackaback Morris dancers wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Makara Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Makara Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Makara Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Makara Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Rackaback Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Portrait of a Rackaback Morris dancer wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Makara Morris Men dancing a stick dance at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • The Green Man at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Hanging a good wishes label on a cider apple tree at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Makara Morris musicians performing at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Rack-a-back Morris Men dancing a stick dance at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Hanging a good wishes label on a cider apple tree at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Good wishes label hanging on an apple tree at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Hanging a good wishes label on a cider apple tree at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Rack-a-back Morris Men dancing a stick dance at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Rack-a-back Morris Men dancing a stick dance at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • A member of the Makara Morris Men at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Makara Morris Men dancing a stick dance at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Makara Morris Men at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Musicians from the Makara Morris Men at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • A member of the Makara Morris Men at an orchard-visiting wassail in Kilham village, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 21st January 2017. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • People passing a pacing cat creature sculpture in the City of London, England, UK. The city has a long tradition of having modern sculptures on show thanks to the Sculpture in the City initiative, which selects contemporary art pieces in and around the Square Mile.
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  • The Buddha (2000) by artist Niki de Saint Phalle in the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The sculpture is formed from a steel base covered in polyurethane foam. The surface is made from pieces of glass, mirror, ceramic tile and polished stones – termed ‘M&Ms’ by the artist.
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  • Shimenawa and Shime tied to a tree in the grounds of a temple. Nikko, Japan. Sacred places are typically marked with a shimenawa (special plaited rope) and shime (strips of white paper). Placed at the entrances of holy places to ward off evil spirits, or placed around trees/objects to indicate presence of kami. Made of rice straw or hemp, the rope is called nawa 縄. The pieces of white paper that are cut into strips and hung from these ropes (often hung from ropes on Torii gates as well) are called shime 注連 or gohei; they symbolize purity in the Shintō faith.
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  • A detail of Big Ben's clock face in Westminster, central London. The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin, set in an iron frame 23 feet (7.0 m) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window. As a symbol of parliamentary power and a national democracy, Big Ben is part of the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power, influence and a world-famous landmark for tourists. Big Ben is the name of the clock's bell and not the tower itself.
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  • Ron Araad, designer & architect. Born in tel aviv in 1951, studied at the jerusalem academy of art (1971-73), moved to London and studied at the architectural association in london (1974-79), 1981 with Caroline Thorman established 'one off ltd', a design studio, workshops andshowroom in covent garden. 1989  founded 'ron arad associates', an architecture and designpratice in chalk farm. In 1994 he established the 'ron arad studio', design and production unit in como, Italy. His London studio has increasingly produced individual pieces made of sheet steel,and he always mischievously exploits their formal and functional possibilities to the fullest. The sculptural forms often have an unexpected impact which first emerges during use, and are just as much a result of graphic design as the experimental work that goes on in the workshop.
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  • Ron Araad, designer & architect. Born in tel aviv in 1951, studied at the jerusalem academy of art (1971-73), moved to London and studied at the architectural association in london (1974-79), 1981 with Caroline Thorman established 'one off ltd', a design studio, workshops andshowroom in covent garden. 1989  founded 'ron arad associates', an architecture and designpratice in chalk farm. In 1994 he established the 'ron arad studio', design and production unit in como, Italy. His London studio has increasingly produced individual pieces made of sheet steel,and he always mischievously exploits their formal and functional possibilities to the fullest. The sculptural forms often have an unexpected impact which first emerges during use, and are just as much a result of graphic design as the experimental work that goes on in the workshop.
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  • Ron Araad, designer & architect. Born in tel aviv in 1951, studied at the jerusalem academy of art (1971-73), moved to London and studied at the architectural association in london (1974-79), 1981 with Caroline Thorman established 'one off ltd', a design studio, workshops andshowroom in covent garden. 1989  founded 'ron arad associates', an architecture and designpratice in chalk farm. In 1994 he established the 'ron arad studio', design and production unit in como, Italy. His London studio has increasingly produced individual pieces made of sheet steel,and he always mischievously exploits their formal and functional possibilities to the fullest. The sculptural forms often have an unexpected impact which first emerges during use, and are just as much a result of graphic design as the experimental work that goes on in the workshop.
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  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on airline passengers awaiting the arrival of their baggage in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through these 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall 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. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. There are four colour codes: Yellow for out-of-gauge (oversized, like golf clubs); dark blue for not x-rayed; light blue for transfer and red, meaning the item has been subjected to 12 seconds of x-ray scanning. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Yoiung boys in London's British Museum play near the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803, obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon
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  • March 26 was the day of the March for the Alternative, an anti-cut demonstration organised by the TUC, which drew 3-500.000 people from all over Britain. Some carried shields made of giant one penny pieces as symbolic protecting.
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  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mudd made from crushed stones and water. Here gold dust is shining in the sun. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
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  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mudd made from crushed stones and water. Here gold dust is shining in the sun. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
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  • A couple has their wedding pictures taken at the Chedun Studio City near Shanghai, China on 07 April, 2009.  The Chinese movie and TV industry has seen explosive growth in recent years, box office receipts along last year saw a 27% jump from the previous year, easpecially historical pieces which uses studios such as Chedun as a backdrop. The studio also serves as a popular tourist destination and a place for engaged couples to have their wedding photos taken.
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  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
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  • Three prisoners working in the prison kitchen, preparing chicken pieces. YOI, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. HMYOI / HM Prison Aylesbury (Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution Aylesbury) is a prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. Each man attending takes some of the sugar cubes as a part of the ceremony. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Men praying and casting away their sins into the river Lea, Hackney, London for Tashlich. Tashlich is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah).
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  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
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  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
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  • Legal graffiti in walls along The Parkland Walk, London, UK. Parkland Walk, is a 4.5 mile long strip of green land in North London that has been a nature reserve since 1990. The leafy walkway follows a disused railway which used to connect Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. It is also an excellent place to see graffiti in North London as many year’s worth of pieces and throw ups adorn several of the bridges that the railway used to run under and abandoned buildings along the route.
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