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It is easy to see how entire armies perished on the road to Khiva. By land the city is reached after an 8 hour journey from Bukhara, along one of the most desolate and inhospitable highways in the world. Temperatures … Continue reading →

When his family had been deported from their homes in eastern Poland in 1940, my dad was only 9 years old. He saw his father for the last time in his home village of Niechniewicze (now in Belarus) when he … Continue reading →

I am quite reticent of photographing local people on our travels. I don’t know why, but my shyness means that while many others have stacks of pictures of women and children in colourful costumes and toothless men smiling broadly for … Continue reading →