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Football game at Jardim São Marcos Favela, Cubatão adjacent to the Fosfertil Fertiliser Factory, Cubatão, Brazil

A couple samba in an open-air bar, Cubatão, Brazil

Cubatão Samba School (bateria da escola de samba nações unidas) practice on the street in Cubatão, Brazil

The home of D. Maninha, aged 94, one of the oldest inhabitants of Pylons, Cubatão

My photographs from Cubatao are featured on the artwork for Geopolitica Brasileira / Brazil Geoplitics (CEZ4076) CD, by Silvano Michelino released by Cezame Music Agency, Paris. Graphic design: Jacques Boucaux, Produced by: Françoise Marchesseau & Frédéric Leibovitz

“An emerging power on the international scene, Brazil is in a period of profound change: industrial, ecological, economic and social. Its famously rich musical culture is perceptibly responding to these changes. Silvano Michelino here presents his personal synthesis of ingrained musical diasporas and evolving trends in a nation in flux.”

The photographs featured on the CD artwork are from Cubatao, Brazil once one of the most polluted places on earth, which were made during the filming of Holiday in Cubatao

My account of the experience can be read in  Cubatao: Life in the Valley of Death

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2008

Damien Hirst Cover Feature in Modern Weekly China (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Damien Hirst Cover Feature in Modern Weekly China (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Damien Hirst Cover Feature in Modern Weekly China (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Damien Hirst Cover Feature in Modern Weekly China (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Photoshoot commissioned by Callum Sutton PR for the cover feature of Modern Weekly Lifestyle for the launch of the Hong Kong Art Fair for which Hirst and his gallery White Cube are participating. Interview by Anna Sansom.

Modern Weekly is the grand-daddy of lifestyle weeklies with a circulation of half a million. Published out of Guangzhou, it set the trend of putting out one magazine in several separately-bound sections – for news, life, finance, and urban fashion

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Artworks © Damien Hirst. All rights reserved, DACS 2010

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Rainforest Club Annual Dinner 2010: Welcome by Hon secretary Paul Baker, a few words from the founding President – Lord Cranbrook and the launching of a new expedition by Dr Susan Cheyne.
Dinner chaired by Nigel Winser with speeches by Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Paul Goodyear. DVD screening about Ghost Forest by Angela Palmer. Radcliffe Observatory, Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Rainforest Club Annual Dinner 2010, Radcliffe Observatory, Green Templeton College

The Rainforest Club is 42 years old this year. It originally rose from the Mulu Rainforest Expedition that the Royal Geographical Society organised in 1978 This expedition was lead by Robin Hanbury Tenison who with many other Rainforest scientists including the Earl of Cranbrook and Nigel Winser brought the club into existence. The Club has grown over the years and it includes august members of the academic community and rainforest friends who have been involved in Rainforest expeditions and research over many years.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010


The Southern Upland Way is a 341 km coast to coast walk in Scotland between Portpatrick in the west and Cockburnspath in the east. I walked the route camping and staying in bothy’s during a wet couple of weeks in July 2009 during which time I met less than 10 people on the path.

Finger post at the start of the southern Upland Way long distance path, Portpatrick

Lichen, sedum and grass on the headland by Killantringan Lighthouse Scotland

Loch Derry seen under a cloud from Craig Airie Fell, Borders, Scotland

Ghostly trunks of timber forest next to a recently felled area near Laggangarn, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Wind turbines catch the light under a stormy landscape from Craig Airie Fell, Borders, Scotland

Cattle water troughs in a field near Stranrear, Scotland

Trig point of Craig Airie Fell looking east towards the Galloway hills, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Rusted cattle feeder and discarded cast iron bath Balmurrie, Scotland

Beehive Bothy, Near Laggangarn on the Southern Upland Way, Scotland

View west of fields in sunlight under a storm cloud from Benbrack near Cairnhead, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Drystone wall near St John's Town of Dalry, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Sanquhar town seen from near Shiel Hill on the Southern Upland Way, Scotland

Fence descending Benbrack in the Galloway Hills, Southern Uplands, Scotland.

"The manor", Church Street in the village of Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The sign on the wall says The Manor, the date above the door is 1989.

Markers by the road to Lowther Hill Radar Station from Wanlockhead, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Turf topped stone Sheepfold, Phawhope, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Clothes drying in White Laggan bothy interior South of Loch Dee, Southern Uplands, Scotland

Dryhope Tower built 1535 catches the evening sun, a ruined Scottish pele tower (castle keep) in the valley of the Yarrow Water, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Elidon Hills seen from the Three Brethren, Yair, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Pease Bay Holiday Home Park, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland

More images of Landscapes on the Southern Upland Way

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009

Misty silhouette of limestone karsts and islands in Ha Long Bay, near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

Panorama of limestone karsts and islands in Ha Long Bay on a sunny day with blue sky, near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

Base of a limestone karst showing rock strata and vegetation in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Fixing nets in a floating house with and marine aquaculture in front of a Limestone karst in Ha Long Bay, near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Lenin's Mausoleum, former Soviet Parliament building behind, Red Square, Russia

Lenin’s Mausoleum also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated in Red Square in Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin. His embalmed body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924 (with rare exceptions in wartime).

Two policemen walk past the Facade of Lenin's Mausoleum, Red Square, Russia

Aleksey Shchusev’s diminutive but monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great. More than 10 million people visited Lenin’s tomb between 1924 and 1972. The design was an inspiration  or the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam See Images here

Saint Basil's Cathedral, Kremlin and Lenin's Mausoleum, Red Square, Russia

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007

Facade of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum "Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh" inscribed across it, meaning "President Ho Chi Minh" , Ba Dinh Square Hanoi, Vietnam

The Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum (Vietnamese: Lăng Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh) is a large memorial to the Vietnamese leader in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is located in the center of Ba Dinh Square, which is the place where Ho read the Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1945, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Built 1973-1975. Ho Chi Minh’s body is preserved in the cooled, central hall of the mausoleum, with a military honor guard.

Entrance to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum with guard of honor , Ba Dinh Square Hanoi, Vietnam

The Totalitarian / Stalinist mausoleum was inspired by Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow (see images) and is contextual to the extent that the roof lines and peristyle vaguely recall traditional houses. The exterior is made of gray granite, while the interior is gray, black, and red polished stone. The mausoleum’s portico has the words “Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh” inscribed across it, meaning “President Ho Chi Minh” inlaid from crimson stone gem of Cao Bang.

Two platforms with seven steps for parade viewing. flanking the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi, Vietnam

Construction materials were brought from all over the country and the Soviet Union also sent two thousand slabs of marble and polished marble to decorate the tomb. The structure is 21.6 metres high and 41.2 metres wide. Flanking the mausoleum are two platforms with seven steps for parade viewing.

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi, Vietnam

The Mausoleum is designed to have high durability against the bombing and earthquake. There are also special protection against floods and the glass coffin is built to withstand large mechanical force and “special accommodations” are in place to keep the corpse safe in case of war.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Golf carts, Lonely horse, Walled hall, Collabsed barn, Bee swarm, Fibre factory, Empty factory, Toilet for sale, Busy tea rooms, Verdant meadow, Gas pipe line, Ruined abbey, Steam train whistling, Sapling alley, Floating house, Ridge & Furrow, Coffin in wall

Honey Bee Swarm starting to leave for a new location in a field near Postlip, Gloucestershire

Early growth crop of corn (maize). Field near Postlip, Gloucestershire

Wormington to Sapperton high pressure Gas Pipeline in the Cotswolds waiting to be buried in a field near Hailes, Gloucestershire, England

Row of Saplings forming an avenue with Stanway House Fountain at Coscombe corner on the Cotswold Way

A field of pronounced Ridge and furrow pattern contrasts with a wood, Lower Coscombe Wood Stanway, Gloucestershire, England

Churchyard Wall, North Side of Churchyard, Church of St Peter, Stanway, reused stone from church including stone coffin

Churchyard Wall, North Side of Churchyard, Church of St Peter, Stanway, reused stone from church including stone coffin

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010