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The photographs on this website, and the associated images in A Different View print materials, are protected by copyright. They are licensed for educational use in conjunction with A Different View only. Anyone wishing to re-use or re-publish the photos for any other purpose, whether in print or on a website, must apply to the copyright holder for permission.

Apologies to Luke Beaman, whom we should have credited as the photographer of the Doreen Massey photo on page 9 of the A Different View booklet. This has now been corrected in the PDF version of A Different View.

Energy Flows

Oahu Pipeline, Hawaii, 2008. © Seth Johnson
West Vigne Glacier, Baltistan District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, August 2006. Altitude: 5000m+. © Ahmad Abdul-Karim
Contours of the canyon walls, Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, October 2005. © Rod Irvine
Underground escalator, Ferenciek Square, Budapest, Hungary, March 2008. © Csaba Jekkel
Stromboli, Piscità, Aeolian Islands, Italy, mid-1990s. © Carlo A G Tripodi
Niagara Falls, May 2007. © James Watkins, all rights reserved


Vanishing Points

The Maldives, April 2006. The Maldives, with more than 80% of land less than a metre above sea level, are particularly at risk from rising sea levels. © Ahmed Zahid
Piazza San Marco, Venice, May 2008. © Bart Ceuppens
Ice arch, Lago Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile, February 2007. Licensed under Creative Commons on Flickr for non-commercial use.
Early morning sun lights up the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, November 2005. © Rod Irvine
Coastal erosion at Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, March 2007. © Alan Green
Coastal erosion at Happisburgh, July 2005. © Val Vannet
Demolition of flats at Crossbank Road, Toryglen, Glasgow, 21 January 2007. © Jason McAlister


Producers and Consumers

China produces 75% of the world's toys. This photo is part of a 2004 installation called The Real Toy Story, by Michael Wolf. Photograph © Wolf/LAIF, Camera Press London
Sorting chillies, Bangkok Flower Market, April 2001. © Bryan Ledgard
Winter wheat ready for harvesting, Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt, near Harz National Park, Germany, April 2008. © Ben Visbeek
Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire, May 2008. © Bryan Ledgard
A tractor-drawn cultivator preparing the soil, Rendlesham, Suffolk, December 2006. © Ian Murray
A protest by progressive groups at the proposed bailout of Wall Street, September 2008. © Teri Tynes
Royal Exchange, London, April 2005. © Ian Murray
Cycleurope bike factory, France, Autumn 2006. © Sveta Bogomolova
Busy supermarket, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, September 2008. Taken at midnight during the Moon Festival, one of the most important holidays in the Chinese calendar. © Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Big burger, February 2009. Specially created by the chef at Cubley Hall Hotel and Restaurant, Penistone, for photographer Bryan Ledgard. (He managed to eat about a third of it.) © Bryan Ledgard
Traffic jam, Siam Square, Bangkok, November 2006. The concrete structure above the road supports the Bangkok skytrain. © Fran Royle


Moving Stories

Concourse, Waterloo Station, 2007. © Jack Davison
Rush hour at Grand Central Station, New York City, June 2008. © Esther Tange
Contre parade, Paris, 14 July 2007. To counter the militaristic official commemoration of the storming of the Bastille, an 'alternative' parade was organised by pacifists, environmentalists, clowns … © Philippe Leroyer
Central well in Darfur. Women from the Fur people busy drawing water for their animals and families at one of the few wells in Darfur. © David Haberlah
Australian supporters at the Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, March 2006. © Clayton Scott
Football crowd, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 2004. © Scott LaPierre
Dutch football fans at a Euro 2008 qualifier, November 2007. © info@matin.nl


Running Free

Parkour, Cambridge, February 2008. © Daniel Roy Connelly. All rights reserved.
Young bikers at a skateboard park on the shores of Lake Tuggerah, NSW, Australia. © Wendy North
The queue for the elevator up the Eiffel Tower. January 2006. No queue for the stairs! © Alexandre Duret-Lutz
The other line always moves faster ... Pinakothek der Moderne museum, Munich, January 2007. © Sophie Saller
Boys on the Payatas Garbage Dump, Quezon City, Philippines (two photos, both from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
CCTV cameras in Victoria Station, London, December 2005. © Antonio Martínez Corral
Heathrow Airport Terminal Five protest, 27 March 2008. © Bernard Burns
Winter sunshine on the Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare (unfortunately no longer with us), November 2006. © Katherine Jones
A lovely day on the beach: Bournemouth, June 2005. © Markus Jordan
Skateboarder, City of London, August 2006. Modern spaces, and the way that skateboarders are occupying them. © Reza Masoudi Nejad


To the Ends of the Earth

Climbers on Wapta ice fields below Mount St Nicholas, British Columbia, Canada, March 2006. Altitude: 2972m. © Tristan Clements. Visit the More Altitude Blog for more.
Koh Kut island, Trat Province, eastern Thailand, during the rainy season, August 2008. © Ben Visbeek. Further information about this picture is available on Flickr.
Machu Picchu, Huánuco, Peru, February 2006. © Glenn Davis
Small canyon leading into the Grand Canyon, Arizona, June 2004. © Philip Shane
Connell Canyon, Antarctica, November/December 2007. Taken during the Fuchs Foundation scientific research expedition. © Ruth Hollinger, reproduced by permission of the Fuchs Foundation.
Fishin' together: the Nam Ngum hydroelectric Dam, 90 km north of Vientiane, Laos. July 2008. © Ben Visbeek. Further information about this picture is available on Flickr.
Lakes in the Western Rift of the Great Rift Valley, September 2007. © European Space Agency. All rights reserved. Further information about this picture is available on the ESA website.
Retreat of the Gangotri Glacier, Himalayas. June 2004. NASA. Visit the NASA website for more information about this image, and the facility to download a higher resolution jpeg.
Antarctic Peninsula and Perutz Glacier (16 km long and 3.2 km wide), Barnes Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, 1988/1989. © BAS/David Vaughan


Between Heaven and Earth

Tea plantation near Guilin in southern China, Summer 2007. © Paul Berry
Earthrise at Christmas, taken over the lunar horizon by the crew of Apollo 8, December 1968, showing for the first time earth as it looks from deep space. (NASA). Visit the NASA website for more information about this image, and the facility to download a higher resolution jpeg.
Rice field ploughing, Yangshuo, Guangxi, China, April 2008. Water buffalos are used as draft and dairy animals and can be often seen in Yangshuo pulling ploughs through the paddy fields. © Pan Shijun
Oasis in Air Mountains, Niger, December 2006. Water from very deep wells is distributed by carefully constructed irrigation systems. The Touareg saying 'Amen iman' means 'water is life'. © Swiatek Wojtkowiak
Irrigating crops, Toungad oasis village, Mauritania, November 2006. This man is working on a scheme to use water pumped from beneath the Sahara to grow crops. The village already has a huge date-palm plantation, which can be seen as a green triangle in Google Earth. The village is at 20°03'20 N 13°07'58 W. There is view of the village and palmerie here and a man harvesting dates here. © John Spooner.
Deforestation in the Philippines 1 (from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
Deforestation in the Philippines 2 (from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
Amazon deforestation, Peru, September 2008. © Jeanette Eaglin
London allotments, October 2008 (1). Rita and Suvass Saha of the Ladywood Road Allotments Association, winners of The Daily Telegraph 'Best Community Allotment' competition 2008. © The Daily Telegraph by permission of the Ladywood Road Allotments Association.
London allotments, October 2008 (2). Roy Smith, Association Secretary, with his wife Letta, of the Ladywood Road Allotments Association, winners of The Daily Telegraph 'Best Community Allotment' competition 2008. © The Daily Telegraph by permission of the Ladywood Road Allotments Association.
Orchard in Israel, May 2008. A pipeline from the Sea of Galilee provides irrigation to this orchard, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. © Ben Margolis
Irrigation fields north of Umatilla, Oregon, May 2008. © Samuel M Beebe/Ecotrust
Berber village in the High Atlas © Ruth Totterdell


Appearances Can Deceive

Touareg, Ténéré Desert, Niger, October 2008. © Alessandro Vannucci
Muslim youths attending a rally in Birmingham to raise awareness of the lack of emergency services, after the death of a local Muslim teenager, July 2007. © Bryan Ledgard
Collecting water snails, Sukhothai Park, Thailand, April 2001. © Bryan Ledgard
The food court of Canal Walk shopping mall in Century City, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2008. © ada.photo
Aircon units, Singapore: A street behind waterfront restaurants, March 2006. © Bryan Ledgard
CRS (French riot police) arresting a demonstrator during an anti-CPE protest. The CPE (contrat première embauche, roughly first employment contract) made it easier for employers to sack young employees. © Alain Bachellier
Fisherman with cormorants at Li River, Guilin, China, March 2008. © Rein Kuresoo
Touareg pouring tea, Awbari, Libya, December 2006. © Alessandro Vannucci
Free running, Belfast, September 2007. © Jett Loe
Khartoum, Sudan, November 2006. © Vit Hassan. Licensed under Creative Commons for non-commercial use.
Crowds on Brick Lane, London, May 2005. © Joe Jabbar
Cottage in the Cotswolds, December 2007. © Scott McLean
Child soldier in the Congo, 2002. © Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures. Mai-Mai child soldier smoking a cigarette in the 'Hauts Plateaux' near Uvira. Congo has been at the centre of what has been called Africa's world war. The Mai Mai are one of numerous rebel movements to have emerged over the last five years, taking advantage of the anarchy within the country to plunder the many natural resources of the Congo. Human rights organisations estimate that 2.5 million people have been killed in the Congo during the conflict, either as a direct result of fighting or because of disease and malnutrition. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
Boy soldier, Gbagdolite, DRC, August 2008. © Rudy Atallah


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