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It is big. Grey. Austere. It makes me sad. Having visited Israel and Palestine, I adore both peoples on the sides of this imposing...

Jan' 22. 'Ibrahim’ is the Arabic form of ‘Abraham’, derived from the Hebrew ‘avhamon’. It means ‘father of many’. The little man you see...

A protein-packed portrait. 📌Jerusalem Old City. Jan '22.

Jan '22. The ancient biblical scriptures describe Israel as "a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil...

08/01/2022. I took these photographs a few months ago on Southeast London's Deptford High Street. Far from royal bling and grand avenues,...

I wish you all a 2023 like this London telephone box: bold, beautiful, freshly painted and littered with funky reggae posters... . . . ....

13/ 10/ 2021. “You find no man…who is willing to leave London. Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in...

Scenes of London. 21/ 09/ 2021. My first day as a Londoner. On the morning of Queen Elizabeth's funeral, in the throngs of humans and...

On our last evening in Berlin, around midnight, we stood and observed 'My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love', sometimes known as...

'Blurry basement beats in an erstwhile brothel turned bar, between gulps of bitter Berlin Pilsner beer'. A satisfying amount of plosive...

The infamous Cold War era crossing between Soviet occupied East Berlin and West Berlin's American sector. The stuff of spies, soldiers,...

Who are these two beautiful creatures? What is their story? This woman was dancing in a trance-like fashion to the music of a Ukrainian...

Portraits of B+W Berliners, (featuring two Brits at the end). The infamous words 'Ich bin ein Berliner' were uttered by John F Kennedy in...

I have yet to find a more filling, flavourful and compact source of sustenance. I'm not a confrontational being but would challenge...

Berlin.

Denise is our next-door neighbour, in the small, Breton village of Kersiguenou. Over several dinners of abundant crêpes and cider, and...

Maurice and Jean are nothing short of two walking encyclopaedias. It is a hot, summer’s morning in Pont-Aven, southern Brittany, and we...

Memories from the Festival du Bout du Monde. August 2022. From early morning night trances to Thylacine’s spellbinding melodies, to...

“Girls, is everything OK?”. We turn to face the three, fully geared-up gendarmes (French police). I gather all my effort and harness the...

I will conclude my posts and anecdotes on my trip to India and Nepal, with a story which took place in Birmingham. In May of this year, I...