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Books by Tor Eigeland
- ‘Stuff Happens’ – The far from humdrum life of a photojournalist
- ‘When All the Lands Were Sea’ – Marsh Arabs of Iraq
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Books by Tor Eigeland
- ‘Stuff Happens’ – The far from humdrum life of a photojournalist
- ‘When All the Lands Were Sea’ – Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Gallery:
Biography
Contact

Marsh Arabs, Iraq 1967

A small sample of historic photographs taken of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq in 1967… Read Tor’s book ‘All the Lands Were Sea‘.

Tor Eigeland - Marsh Arab girls watching their mother weaving. Iraq 1967, prior to the draining of their marshes. W8685

Tor Eigeland - Dream-like image of a woman silently punting her slender canoe pre-dawn in the Central Marshes. W8881

Tor Eigeland - A typical village scene. Water buffalos were essential to the Marsh Arab way of life providing milk, meat, dung for fire. W8880

Tor Eigeland - Large and busy village of Al Beda in the Eastern Marshes, Lots of reed huts and boat activity. W10111

Tor Eigeland - Typical Marsh Arab village seen framed by a 'mudhif' - meeting house - under construction. W8680

Tor Eigeland - Dreamy beauty of the Iraqi marshes seen through reed hut wall. W5785

Tor Eigeland - A 'tarada' - a special long, slender canoe - glides home past typical reed dwellings. W10121.

Tor Eigeland - Paddling home in a dream-like world at sunset. Sunsets are amazingly colorful in the marshes. W11229

Tor Eigeland - Marsh Arab woman punting her elegant 'tarada' - long slender canoe. The typical reed building is called a 'mudhif, a guest house and meeting place'. W5779

Tor Eigeland - Water buffaloes resting after foraging in the marshes. This is a typical settlement in the Central Marshes. W8880

Tor Eigeland - Young Marsh Arab women gathering edible plant called 'gat'. They sell them or barter with them in their hamlet. W10128

Tor Eigeland - A happy young Marsh Arab boy, Iraq 1967, prior to the draining of the marshes. W8089

Tor Eigeland - A woman in her canoe with the classical shape of the 'Mudhif', village meeting house, behind. W10090

Tor Eigeland - Strikingly weather-beaten looks of a man of the Marshes. W5906

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