Full length standing portrait of ... Africa

Full length standing portrait of ... AfricaFull length standing portrait of two men in front of Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya Quarter. Two men wearing waistcoats over their thobes (long shirts) and holding camel sticks stand in the sand beside a wall. Behind them sits a large 'arish building made of palm fronds. One of its woven panels has been removed to expose a room, possibly a shop. Directly behind it a square corner tower of Al Fahidi fort rises high above the building. The tower is one

Some monks holding hand held drums are processing

Behind the camel bushes grow in the sand

A camel stick lies in the sand in front of his knee

A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) stands in front of the stern of a beached badan

A row of two storey buildings made of stone sit overlooking a large square

Rai al Raqiqa is a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin

holding poling sticks

On the left an elderly man carves into the hump of the camel with his khanjar (dagger)

likely cultivated by Bani Yas villagers

Seated portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari

His right hand is in his lap

The camel wears a camel udder bag suspended from a harness over her haunches