The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more
We walked and dozed in Umberto Pasti's garden with Eden Revisited a few years ago; now we wander his house amongst his treasures - tiles, carpets, textiles... All beautifully photographed t... read more
Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on O... read more
The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more
Looks at three groups of wandering herders in three very different regions - the Central Sahara, the Arabian Gulf and the Central Eurasian steppes. Many photographs.
In two volumes: the photographs in part 1 were taken in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. Those in part 2 were taken at a sanctuary in Bolivia in 2022. (Each volume is available individually,... read more
Majorelle (1886-1962) was a French painter who travelled widely in Italy and Egypt before settling in Morocco in 1917; he became well-known as an Orientalist painter (with shades of Edward H... read more