An example is a stark set of black-and-white photographs by Tomoko Yoneda, showing heat burns on peeling wallpaper above a radiator, interior shots of poverty positioned in such a way as to provoke and unsettle the upmarket diner.

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In the 40-plus degree heat, we were all guided to a white hut at the end of the runway.

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He was grinning broadly and waving his trademark white handkerchief - a handkerchief that he sorely needed to wipe away perspiration in the boiling heat of the packed stadium.

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