Distant view of a member ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Distant view of a member ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauDistant view of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding along the side of a dune in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. The man, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides his camel, followed by a baggage camel, along the side of a softly sloping dune. The dune has many horizontal ridges, which rise up to the peak at the top of the dune on

where a few locals are standing

He is smiling and his eyes are closed

central Tibetan headdresses decorated with corals

Portrait of an elderly man

Four Jewish boys stand together in a crowded marketplace

Portrait of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek

wearing white trousers

A boy in a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt) walks across a mound of stones below the walls of Al Fahidi fort

Mountains in background

Half length portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin

View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi

a few men look on in front of the outer walls of Qasr Al Hosn fort