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Afghanistan - Kabul (1958) - Market place below the Bala Hissar.
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Afghanistan - Kabul (1958) - Market place below the Bala Hissar.

  • Afghanistan - Kabul (1958) - Market place below the Bala Hissar.
  • Afghanistan - Kabul (1958) - the Bala Hissar viewed from a vegetable market.
  • Afghanistan, near Kabul, (1958) - The royal vinyards at the summer palace of the Afghan ruler, Mohammed Zahir Shah. This is where he caught us eating royal grapes.
  • Afghanistan (1958) - The ruins of the Masjid-i-Sabz (Green Mosque) in Balkh. So-called because of its green dome(which looked blue to me)
  • Afghanistan (1958) - Ruins of the great walls of Balkh (ca 1200 AD).
  • Afghanistan (1958) - Ian and Jane Brown's VW campervan heading west from Kandahar.
  • Afghanistan (1958)- Walking with nomads near Kandahar.
  • Afghanistan, near Farah (1958) - Village elder.
  • Afghanistan (1958) - Afghan boys who just seemed to materialise whenever we stopped to have a pee. Brown's VW campervan in rear.
  • Afghanistan, near Kandahar (1958) - a friendly nomad.
  • Afghanistan - Herat (1958) - Kharbuzeh and Anar in the vegetable market. Note the apparently ruinous condition of practically every building.
  • Afghanistan, Herat (1958) - my ex-roommate, David Agee Hoar standing at the foot of the ruined citadel of Herat.
  • Afghanistan, Herat (1958) - the great Friday Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Herat. All colour is minute tilework.
  • Iran (1958) - A dye-grinder outside his mill in the Great Bazaar of Isfahan. His skin and clothing are exactly the colour of the dye he was grinding.
  • Iran, Isfahan (1958) - Interior of a dyer's shop in the Great Bazaar.
  • Iran - Tehran (1958) - Our flat in Tajrich and pool. Notti and Helga lived upstairs. Two of the children are Raul and Pepi, sons of our next door (left of picture) neighbours, Bill and Delma Lewis. Glass French doors off terrace lead into our lounge.
  • Iran, near Natanz (1960) - Jack Van Wagner in the caravanserai at Samarqand.
  • Iran, Village of Torut (1959) - our convoy - two jeeps and two power wagons - just outside the village of Torut on the northern edge of the Dashat-i-Kevir. Tall figure is me. Feiredoon Saleh is on my right.
  • Iran, Tehran (1958) - my Armenian secretary, Anabella Jordanidis.
  • Iran, Tehran (1959) - Mohammed Taghi (Jack) Razaghnia. My best Iranian friend, he was married to Fidelia Baldonado -a hispanic girl from Arizona. His father owned our officea building. After the fall of the Shah, he managed to get his fortune out of the country and was last heard of driving his Rolls through the streets of London.
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