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  • Old colleagues greet each other in the City of London as an outsider looks on. Some of the men have recognised each other while with others as they head over Bishopsgate in the capital's financial heart. On the left is an outsider, a stranger with darker skin than the group of young professionals wearing suits. He makes his own way in the opposite direction, looking at the men with hands in pockets.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
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  • Three work colleagues enjoy a picnic on the grass in a City of London park in summer sunshine. As the male admires the body of the younger, more beautiful lady, she throws her head back as a reaction to the conversation. In the background are other office workers also relishing the warm weather in the capital.
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  • Two smart, young city suited office workers stand outside in warm summer sunshine outside the Crispin pub at 3 Finsbury Avenue in London's Broadgate. Wearing hot, dark clothing that they might also wear in Winter, the men stand holding pint glasses of lager or bitter that hold equal measures of alcohol though they don't appear to be enjoying each other's company. Perhaps they are colleagues or client and customer but both seem nervous or uncomfortable in each other's company. It might also be the so-called Englishman’s stiff upper lip. St Crispin is the Christian patron saint of cobblers, tanners and leather workers.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR.  Deputy team leader, Manixia Thor, relaxes with her colleagues from UCT6 during breaktime whilst clearing UXO in Ban Namoune. The team has 10 minutes break every hour and works an 8 hour day.
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  • Labour MP John Smith sits with shadow cabinet colleagues at a Labour event in April 1992 in London, UK. John Smith QC PC b1938 was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994.
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, two businessmen sit with identical laptops open, perched on their knees. The colleagues are en-route to Australia and are enjoying this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, two businessmen sit with identical laptops open, perched on their knees. The colleagues are en-route to Australia and are enjoying this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral, in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England.
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  • Six walkers blur as they walk through an English wood during a weekend ramble. The friends and colleagues make their way along a country path, through an oak forest in central Kent, south-east England. Our point of view follows the people as they blur, their rucksacks containing lunch and berries, their boots treading on the soft ground.
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  • Female colleagues enjoy a chat over an alfresco lunch in the city alongside an art installation of women at the beach. Rather suggestively we see, one lady eating a fresh banana to suggest a sexual act but this is in the open air at one of the City of London’s financial district’s landmarks, Broadgate that is adjacent to Liverpool Street Station whose arched Victorian roof is seen in the background. The scene is of the female gender, taking a well-earned break from office life, while perhaps, dreaming of and planning their next holiday vacation on a tropical beach. The working women and their leisurely counterparts are juxtaposed from an unknown artist’s installation in London. The banana, by its very curved shape has long been the butt of sexual innuendo and double-entendre. The surrogate penis being the perfect adult pun.
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  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
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  • A male employee of a Barristers helps a woman colleague with a boxes of legal documents into the chambers address in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Two ladies stand outside of a bar to sip lunchtime drinks in Broadgate, City of London. Dressed in matching scarlet red jackets, the brunette and the blonde look relaxed in the warm mid-day sunshine during a warm spell in the capital. The nearest woman holds the remains of a gin and tonic whose lemon slice  is at the bottom of her glass while her friend or colleague, with wide shoulder pads and gold chain strap for her bag draped over across a shoulder, smiles to show white teeth. In the background are other women who wear the same red clothes and these primary colours are set amongst the deep green foliage of the bar’s plants.
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  • Fisherman Zhang Zhi Ping having lunch with his wife and friends
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  • Four men of Asian appearance share a funny moment while eating lunch in a City of London park. Sat on a park corner wall near St Paul's cathedral, the 4 munch and bite their sandwiches and pies bought nearby. One has shared a humerous moment and the others react at the apparent joke. The small green space is located in the City of London, the capital's financial financial heart and historic centre founded by the Romans in AD43 but now the point of focus for Britain's economy.
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  • An Asian couple pose for holiday photographs in London's Piccadilly Circus. While their friend holds a compact digital camera out to see the screen, the young people hold their arms out wide, almost echoing the spread wings of Eros, ("Intimate Love" in Greek mythology), was the primordial god of sexual love and beauty. The statue known as Eros in Piccadilly Circus London, was made in 1893 and is one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium. The Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the Shaftesbury memorial fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros (sometimes called The Angel of Christian Charity, but intended to be Anteros).
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  • Holding drained pint beer glasses that symbolises an economic recession, City of London office workers gather to drink at lunchtime while dressed in red ties and white shirts, on the 23rd April, St George's Day, England's national day. In recent years, more English flags have become more prevalent in a resurgence of national pride and more citizens have come to work dressed with a red and white theme such as ties and shirts, hats or shoes. Anything for a little fun in such gloomy times. This anonymous trio have all agreed to dress identically and enjoy an early warm spell of good weather to show-off their dress sense and patriotism.
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  • Three silhouettes walk into shadows beneath a south London railway tunnel. The three human figures make their way from strong winter sunlight into the depths of the shadow under the railway bridge tunnel in SE1, an area of businesses and apartments. A bent railing has been twisted in the direction of traffic that can drive through too.
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  • Portuguese office workers have left their desks and PCs to climb on to a buildings ledge to watch their national football team during their victory procession through the capitals streets, the day after the Euro 2016 final with France, on 11th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Lined up along the concrete ledge near Praca Marques de Pombal in the largely corporate and banking district of the city, they take photos and cheer their favourite players, including the national hero/deity, Christiano Ronaldo.
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  • A young woman dances and sings with friends and associates during a karaoke night at a City of London wine bar. Holding high a glass of an unknown drink, she shouts out the words during this evening of after-work merriment where friends and associates gather to share alcohol and fun.
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  • With great care, two surgeons work intensely during an open heart procedure at the private Health Care International hospital, They wear hygienic face masks and do their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population world-wide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is 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.
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  • An amateur tennis player serves to a friend on the opposite side of a local court near high-rise flats seen from Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. Having thrown the yellow ball up in thee air, the server pauses, before it drops and he can swing his racket to pound it across court to the waiting receiver, dressed in a blue t-shirt. The flats behind are lit in winter sunshine, warm air rising from an outlet, with only the upper floors visible to outdoor pedestrians. Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located between Brixton, Herne Hill and Tulse Hill. Brockwell Hall house and its grounds were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public the following summer. In 1901 the LCC acquired a further 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of the original park.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_summer04-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_men01-25-08-1995_1.jpg
  • Libyan nationals and diplomatic staff celebrate on the steps outside their London embassy in Knightsbridge, central London on 20/10/11, reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, on the day his 42 year rule over Libya came to an official end.
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  • Libyan nationals and diplomatic staff celebrate with their the revolutionary flag on the steps outside their London embassy in Knightsbridge, central London on 20/10/11, reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, on the day his 42 year rule over Libya came to an official end.
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  • Libyan nationals and diplomatic staff celebrate on the steps outside their London embassy in Knightsbridge, central London on 20/10/11, reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, on the day his 42 year rule over Libya came to an official end.
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  • Wearing a plastic Viking horn helmet, one of three friends make their way along a high-altitude deserted road amid the spectacular wilderness of Glencoe, a valley surrounded by high peaks 3,000 feet (1,000m) high mountains. The landscape is magnificent but unforgiving and walkers mainly stay on well-marked paths or, as these lads are doing - walking along the A82 road that snakes through this Scottish Glen. They admit to having trekked from Glasgow on pagan fertility Wassail rite, once performed in medieval times. This region of Britain, lake many others, was populated by Viking raiders who later settled locally and raised families whose descendents now inhabit the UK. English is full of old Norse words as are place names.
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  • Boeing employees beneath company 787 Dreamliner (N787BX) at the Farnborough Airshow. On its first flight outside of the US during its testing programme, the newest airliner in the Boeing aviation family, has arrived at the air show for a few days of exhibitions to the aerospace-buying community and the trade press. Later the public will have the chance to see this jet up close too. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long range, mid-sized, wide-body, twin-engine  jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It seats 210 to 330 passengers, depending on variant. Boeing states that it is the company's most fuel-efficient airliner and the world's first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction
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  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
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  • Vacant desks and empty chairs are placed facing each other for an Ernst & Young's counselling workshop held for company employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Soon, employees of this seminar will arrive for a day's role-playing in this classroom setting where the office furnature makes a square to force participants to confront their opposite numbers. Jotter pads are provided for brainstorming ideas and concepts that help E & Y get the best out of their talented people. The room is otherwise empty as bright daylight floods through a window allowing positive thoughts and bright ideas to influence their thinking.
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  • A motivational guru is standing on a podium to address an audience of Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. Standing confidently on his rostrum with a laptop computer, bottled water and a pyramid as teaching aids, he holds his hand to encourage the personnel to participate by offering their ideas and input dring the seminar. Each employee attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theate and each employee will attend this fair where pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and motivational gurus talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Friends greet each other warmly in the booking hall of the main railway station in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. In front of them are passengers in queues for tickets. Overnight trains from Cairo arrive early morning with the station is some 400m from the River Nile and the ancient Egyptian antiquities of Luxor Temple.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above. Seen parallel to a large retailer's front window, the world beyond is seen as a mirror image, duplicating left and right halves, to show the capital's financial and oldest district, as a double picture. Company mates walk along the street full of male bravado and testosterone, a funny comment on urban lives.
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  • Angled passer-by reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance. The forms of two Londoners and their shadows pass near the windows of a corporate office foyer whose red seat is seen on the right. The view is angled to let the straight lines become diagonals that cross the photo, in the heart of the capital's financial centre, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • Three associates walk through area of City of London sunlight with takeaway lunch bags. Making their way through from dark shadow into the pool of urban light, the men are in step with each other - all striding and carrying the sandwich bags bought locally. The architecture and cityscape is in the capital's financial heart - the City of London, known as the Square Mile, founded by the Romans in AD43.
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a London taxi on Upper Thames Street upstream from London Bridge in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a London bus on Upper Thames Street upstream from London Bridge in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • Insurance industry business people gather outside the Lloyds of London building on leadenhall Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 10th July 2019, in London England.
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  • Two young city worker women walk past the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 11th July 2019, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
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  • Casually-dressed young successful businessmen, each with large cigars, walk along Conhill, a City of London street, on 11th August, 2017, in London, England.
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  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society.
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  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
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  • Two businessmen shake hands after meeting in a side street in the capitals financial district, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Two men in conversation beneath cafe lighting on Fleet Street, on 14th December 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Three businessmen walk past a vaping contractor sat on the ground on Haymarket, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • City workers carry office possessions including computer hard drives and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
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  • Two crewmen aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman sit on a fire vehicle on the ship's deck. Wearing red signifies that they are part of a crash and salvage team who respond to emergencies and fire hazards and so wear flame-retardant and anti-flash clothing material. Ordinarily they are responsible for making safe and towing (‘doing the bow dance’) $38 million F/A-18s fighters round the deck of the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, here on coalition patrol somewhere off Kuwait in the Arabian Sea. The Truman is so called after the US President who was in office from 1945 to 1953.  Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • In a London street, an apprentice in the bakery or milk industry endures a shower of fresh milk being poured over his head after a dusting of flour. This traditional ritual is usually performed on the unfortunate young man when he has successfully passed his apprenticeship term in the company - his mates participating in making his day as miserable as possible. But he takes it with good humour as it means he is now initiated into the industry.
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  • Amateur dramatic actors sit applying make-up and rehearse dialogue before their local production of Bonaventure. In the English seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, a community known for its inward-looking attitudes to a dislike of strangers, outsiders or change, the townsfolk put on a show that they put on in the town hall theatre. Putting the finishing touches to their theatrical powder and hair, the nun in the foreground practices her lines with a fellow thespian.
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  • Three businessmen gather for an informal meeting, outside a bar in central Milton Keynes, UK. Each with a pint of bitter or lager, the three associates sit outside a bar in the town centre at lunchtime, half-way through the working day. One takes a sip from his pint glass and the others refer to paperwork, the subject of their time together.
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  • Ken Pilkington, chief herdsman on the farm, looks at some data with Lindsey Hodgson. All of the data about each animal is shared and written onto boards so everyone is on the same page. Subsequently all of this data is collated on computer for analysis. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business, where nothing is left to chance. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Ken Pilkington, chief herdsman on the farm, looks at some data with Lindsey Hodgson. All of the data about each animal is shared and written onto boards so everyone is on the same page. Subsequently all of this data is collated on computer for analysis. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business, where nothing is left to chance. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Farmer Roger Banks chatting to Chief Herdsman, Ken Pilkington. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business, where nothing is left to chance. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. MAG provides a permanent camp for each team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site. UCT6 spend time together after work washing themselves, their clothes and chatting together back at the camp in Ban Namoune village.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed province in Lao PDR.  UCT6 team leader, Manixia Thor and a technician relax after work at the camp. MAG provides a permanent camp for each clearance team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR.  MAG provides a permanent camp for each team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site. UCT6 spend time together after work washing themselves, their clothes and chatting together back at the camp in Ban Namoune village.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. MAG provides a permanent camp for each team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site. UCT6 spend time together after work relaxing chatting together back at the camp in Ban Namoune village.
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  • We see four office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The two figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in the same direction, carrying a bag or briefcase but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. This is due to telephoto lens foreshortening. Some therefore look giants and some appear tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
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  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, a portrait of traditional thatchers with straw for a barn roof in Suffolk, England. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
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  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, a traditional thatcher works in afternoon sun. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
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  • Surgeons performs open heart surgery during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital in 1994, Glasgow, Scotland. Forceps and scissors and other various implements necessary for efficient medical practice as the masked and gowned doctors, consultants and assisting nurses concentrate on the work in hand, the saving of a human life.
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  • A traditional band of Morris Men dance outside the ancient Christian church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate in the City of London on St George's Day. Wearing white uniforms they jig their traditional dance, a form of English folk dance accompanied by accordion and pipes. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers. Implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor. English records of Morris dancing date back to 1448. The church may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
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  • Two Spanish men walk and talk during the Spring Feria in Seville, Spain. Crowds of locals mingle in the late-afternoon sunshine at this lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast fairground area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • Wealthy punters with bottles of empty Champagne laid out enjoy a morning car park party on grass, hours before the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • Formally-dressed gentlemen arrive at the racecourse during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy a tranquill lunchtime high above the City on the rooftop garden at Fen Court in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • A group of cycling mates gather for a photo on the Passo Falzarego (Pass) in the Dolomites, south Tyrol, Italy. Cyclist groups as well as biker clubs ascend the pass (alt 2.105m) as part of their tours of the Dolomites - one of the must-do climbs on two and four wheels. The Falzarego Pass is a high mountain pass in the province of Belluno in Italy and connecting Andráz and Cortina d'Ampezzo. The name Falza Rego means false king in ladin and refers to a king of the Fanes, who was supposedly turned to stone for betraying his people.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is 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.
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  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
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  • City workers beneath the architecture at 122 Leadenhall Street, (aka the Leadenhall Building) on Leadenhall Street in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England. The commercial skyscraper opened in July 2014 and was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and is informally known as "The Cheesegrater" because of its distinctive wedge shape.
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  • Surgeons perform an operation during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital. With great care, two surgeons work intensely wearing hygienic facemasks and perform their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population worldwide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • An NHS surgeon performs an operation in a London hospital using endoscopy. Watching the progress of the instrument as it makes its way along a part of the stomach, the surgeon uses his skill to make minute adjustments using great care and hand-eye co-ordination. Endoscopy means ‘looking inside’ and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope, an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ. Endoscopy can also refer to using a borescope in technical situations where direct line-of-sight observation is not feasible.
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  • A group of young Scottish women gather for a portrait on Brighton seafront during their Hen weekend. One of their number is soon to be married and they are holidaying in this southern English seaside resort wearing matching nautical sailor caps and sunglasses, enjoying the warm coastal weather on May Bank Holiday. Behind them is the calm sea and the Victorian Palace Pier. Seagulls wheel overhead during this busy long weekend and the girls are revelling in their fun away from partners or husbands, escaping the tedium of the working week.
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  • Volunteer Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London. Three members of the Angels mess about at street level, outside a London underground station. The Angels are under the supervision of the organisation's creator Curtis Sliwa, who started the band of youths to help make New York a safer place, - and in London's case in an era before CCTV made travel less secure. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subways.
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  • With thousands of employees in the capitals financial district still working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, other City workers enjoy a socially distanced lunch beneath the Swiss Re building aka the Gherkin, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • Chairman of Ernst & Young Mark Ottey peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of E & Y staff who have congregated at an Ernst & Young Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • We see a close-up of rows of name badges awaiting collection by their owners at the beginning of an Ernst & Young Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. Stacked neatly, we see yellow, green and red lanyards wrapped around each individual Christian and surname. Some names yield clues to the peoples' ethnicity: Either White British like Julia and Rosie, British-Asians like Pratul and Neeraj and possibly British-Muslim like Jamal. Each employee will attend this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Walking friends enjoy a rest on benches at an outdoor cafe in Epping Forest, Essex, England. Gathered on bench seats and wrapped up against a Spring chill, the people sit with foam cups of tea, talking next to another person whose pet American Staffordshire Terrier is on a lead. The outdoor cafe is in a car park inside Epping Forest, an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. It covers 2,476 hectares and contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, rivers, bogs and ponds - popular with families and more serious walkers.
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  • Local men on the West Bank of the river Nile talk at dawn on railings overlooking the city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The waterfront is a meeting place to talk business or meet other commuters and from where the state-run ferry plies this great African river. In the distance are the twin spires of the Christian Manak church. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Image).
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  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society.
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  • Two businessmen - one younger than the other, who may be his superior - pace through the Broadgate Estate during a break in the working day in the City of London, the capital's financial centre - otherwise called the Square Mile. Seen as they walk fast under a covered alleyway, the warm sun strikes their faces while they are deep in conversation - perhaps discussing a strategy while fetching a local coffee. Deep shadow allows us to focus in on their dark suits, their pink skin and the similarly orange colour of the strong vertical columns that form this urban architecture completed in the Bishopsgate development of the mid-1980s. Broadgate is a large, 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates.
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  • As nearly-empty lager glasses are lined up on a sill of a City on Lime Street, male businessman enjoy after-work drinks, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Two afternoon drinkers stand outside a public house pub enjoying cool beers on a hot day in the Square Mile, the capitals ancient financial district dating back to the 1st century Roman era, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Two men walk past a fashion poster showing a fashion boy and girl and St Paul's Cathedral. The stylish boys walk together along a street in the capital, where the billboards replace the windows of a soon-to-open retail business. The models are the epitome of youth and happiness, with the backdrop of the capital's famous landmark.
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  • Angled smoker stands talking plus angled reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance. The man stands talking to an unseen associate, a cigarette held in the fingers of his right hand, near the windows of a corporate office foyer whose red seat is seen on the right. The view is angled to let the straight lines become diagonals that cross the photo, in the heart of the capital's financial centre, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • Two businessmen eat takeaway lunches in St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate churchyard. Facing each other on a low wall that borders the grounds of this historic religious site, the men talk and concentrate on forking their food during their hour off. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate’ in 1212. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
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  • Strangers to and fro in a sunny City of a London street corner. Businessmen walk during lunchtime, in conversation with associates and strangers in their own space. In an almost cinematic moment of street corner life, we see reflected light from nearby plate glass office buildings that fill in shadows and darker places in the capital's financial heart - the City of London, known as the Square Mile, founded by the Romans in AD43.
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