Archive for September, 2009

On the subject of travel photography….

I receive a lot of emails right now about my photos from Yemen. Justin wrote: Magnificent! Well done you. Am hideously envious. Keep up [...]

Ollie, Jamie, Gunnar, Sam, my brother and Mohammed Asad

Just came back from London and ended up at my brothers house in Dala-Järna. Which is where I am born, bred and [...]

Back in Stockholm…..

….at first, it felt relaxingly cool and extremely silent. No buses, motorbikes or minibuses who tried to run me over, no Yemenis [...]

Jihad!

In a few days I will be leaving Sana`a and return to Sweden. It feels exactly like when the woman you love [...]

The Arabian Vision, Amazing Meetings

It just came as a matter of fact. The vision. Ever since returning home from the Siberian Expedition I have had no [...]

Am I a taliban…..

…I guess to a certain extent, since the word is Arabic and means a student, and yes, I am a student of [...]

I am right now Ahmed Al-Hamdani

”My father and his father and so on, they all travelled to Mecca by camel” , the old man explained whilst touching [...]

Me a Yemeni from Sanaa?

“Taxi, Taxi, taxi, we have to help this guy!” The old man shouting was, as always, Hussein, my landlord in Old Sanaa, [...]