Sandbathing

An old deck chair on the roof of our villa in Baghdad, shot at the start of a sandstorm, when the light was yellow.

Training

Training Staff preparing for weapon handling lessons

Yellow Cabs in the Rain

Baghdad roads in the rain.

Security Forces

MoI troops on the move around the centre of Baghdad.

Cats

A stray cat with green eyes hiding under the foliage in Secure Business Park.

Police Checkpoint

A checkpoint in Southern Iraq, between Iraq Energy City and the Basra International Airport.

B6 Teams

B6 Toyota Landcruiser Armed Private Security Teams preparing to deploy in the morning

AK47 Magazines

30 rounds of 7.62mm short.

Shadows

PSD men preparing to deploy

Baghdad

Under the Bridge at Speed

Gas Flares

Gas Flaring on Majnoon, captured with a Samsung Smart Phone.

Bogged In!

Getting stuck on the edge of a very large minefield in the mountains on the border between Iran and Iraq.

Northern Kurdistan

Autumn colours in the mountains.

Evening Colours

On the route back to Erbil from Sulaymaniya.

Ankawa sunset

A sun set over Ankawa, a Christian area in western Erbil, Kurdistan

Kurdish Gentlemen

Two unkown Kurdish men at the foot of the Citadel in Erbil give a thumbs up.

'NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS'

SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQI KURDISTAN, 29th NOVEMBER 2014. I had arrived in Sulay' to visit a minefield clearance project on the border with Iran near Haji Omran, one of the largest minefields in the world. We had a villa in Sulaymaniyah. It's an unusual town. Quite conservative, not the bars and clubs of Erbil, but I was told it was very friendly. I woke up early in the morning and decided to go for a walk around town. Our villa was in a good neighborhood, next to the Provincial Governors compound, which sits on a small rise. The murals are painted on the retaining wall for his compound, which sits at the top of the photo. The Kurds have a keen sence of history and of culture. These murals represent both.