Tor EigelandPhotographer & Writer

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- Stuff Happens – The far from humdrum life of a photojournalist
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Home
Galleries
Books by Tor Eigeland
- Stuff Happens – The far from humdrum life of a photojournalist
- Marsh Arabs – When All the Lands Were Sea
Biography
Contact

Marsh Arabs of Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Nature →← Timeless

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