Moving to Eau
This blog has moved to Eau Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
12 Apr
12.58pm
12.58pm
The church of black volcanic stone, rising out of Clermont-Ferrand. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
11 Apr
11.16am
11.16am
The path between the fields, behind Monsieur Marlow’s house. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
09 Apr
12.43pm
12.43pm
Rocks atop the Forest of the Druids. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
18 Mar
6.41pm
6.41pm
The last snow. The end of winter. Above the cross of Gibreix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
17 Mar
6.13pm
6.13pm
Around Gibreix, the last days of winter. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
16 Mar
6.05pm
6.05pm
Along the path between the fields. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
15 Mar
5.59pm
5.59pm
The path over the hill above Courdemanges. Towards Gibreix, and the end of winter. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
14 Mar
5.58pm
5.58pm
Towards Gibreix, and the end of winter. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
13 Mar
2.48pm
2.48pm
Hundreds of years old, oaks at the top of the hill above Les Treix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
12 Mar
3.30pm
3.30pm
Between the villages and the forest. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
11 Mar
4.03pm
4.03pm
Around Gibreix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
10 Mar
3.53pm
3.53pm
Around Les Treix, before the end of the path leading away from the abandoned warehouse. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our …
09 Mar
3.16pm
3.16pm
Just before Croix Gibreix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
08 Mar
3.13pm
3.13pm
Looking towards Auzances from the hill above Gibreix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
06 Mar
3.51pm
3.51pm
Once used by warriors and pilgrims, a snowy path through the Forest of the Druids, la Forêt de Drouilles. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the …
04 Mar
3.40pm
3.40pm
The path to the Forest of the Druids, la Forêt de Drouilles. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
03 Mar
2.52pm
2.52pm
The trails of a ragondin across a frozen pond in the Forest of the Druids. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our …
02 Mar
12.37am
12.37am
Along the track that leads from the hill above Les Treix to Le Soulier from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
01 Mar
11.50am
11.50am
The edge of the farm at Les Treix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
27 Feb
11.31am
11.31am
Towards Gibreix. The road that no one takes. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
25 Feb
9.40am
9.40am
Turning back towards Les Treix. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
24 Feb
9.39am
9.39am
A morning with one dog and no people. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
23 Feb
9.33am
9.33am
The field near the cross of 1877 from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
22 Feb
9.26am
9.26am
Snoopy, the dog from Les Treix who isn’t ever at home. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
07 Feb
9.18am
9.18am
The road to the Forest of the Druids, la Forêt de Drouilles. Creuse. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
01 Feb
9.16am
9.16am
The cross near the abandoned chicken coop. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
29 Jan
6.18pm
6.18pm
First snow of the year. Courdemanges, January 28. from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
23 Jan
6.12pm
6.12pm
Le Soulier from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
14 Jan
6.11pm
6.11pm
The mill above the stream. Le Soulier from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
13 Jan
6.06pm
6.06pm
Le Soulier from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
10 Jan
6.02pm
6.02pm
Le Soulier from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
29 Dec
7.44pm
7.44pm
The hill above Gibreix from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
25 Dec
7.25pm
7.25pm
Le Petit Ecouteix from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
16 Dec
9.32pm
9.32pm
Foret de Drouille from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own
11 Dec
9.28pm
9.28pm
Foret de Drouille from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
09 Dec
9.24pm
9.24pm
Foret de Drouille: the forest of the druids from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
02 Dec
12.01pm
12.01pm
Foret de Drouille: the forest of the druids from The Loneliest Village in France Pinaki | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
29 Nov
12.04am
12.04am
Worli, Bombay. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
28 Nov
3.16pm
3.16pm
The church at Hermet from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
18 Nov
12.34pm
12.34pm
Acchelal Kando has spent most of his life selling peanuts in Bombay. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
14 Nov
Zafraniya
Zafraniya
Around the corner from Wariposht, we sip on kahwa with Shamsa’s mother. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
12 Nov
12.31pm
12.31pm
Wild daisies around la Ferme de la Valette from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
10 Nov
Paris. Afternoon.
Paris. Afternoon.
www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
09 Nov
The Sheikh of Lawami
The Sheikh of Lawami
I lean in and switch to the 50. I can manage f1.8/200 and his eyes, watery blue around the irises, pop into focus. Everything else …
08 Nov
Khor al Fardh
Khor al Fardh
Hilal bin Ali al Amri has been burnt almost black after a lifetime in the glare of the sea, loading wood and dates onto dhows …
06 Nov
9.32pm
9.32pm
Foret de Drouille: the forest of the druids from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
05 Nov
2.58pm
2.58pm
Foret de Drouille: the forest of the druids from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
04 Nov
8.41pm
8.41pm
The one-road village of abandoned houses. from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
31 Oct
The Color of Jaundice
The Color of Jaundice
Even the walls seem a sickly jaundiced yellow in the last house of Mateira. It is here, crammed between the rock and the sea, that …
30 Oct
12.30pm
12.30pm
The muallim of Luluah, up here www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
29 Oct
6.21pm
6.21pm
The graveyard behind Crocq. from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
26 Oct
5.15pm
5.15pm
Le Dolmen d’ Urbe from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
23 Oct
9.12pm
9.12pm
The way to Croix de Gibreix from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
10 Oct
2.46pm
2.46pm
Roches Tuilière et Sanadoire, once part of the same volcano before it blew itself up till you could see right through it, down the path …
09 Oct
5.27pm
5.27pm
The man who grew up with wines, and sold them at the cooperative until the manager stole the money and shut it down. That’s when …
03 Oct
3.07pm
3.07pm
Col de la Croix-Morand from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
25 Sep
11.07am
11.07am
Münster. Basel, Switzerland www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
21 Sep
9.38pm
9.38pm
Le Petit Ecouteix: The Little Listening from The Loneliest Village in France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
20 Sep
8.40pm
8.40pm
Empty rabbit cages at the end of town www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
16 Sep
6.22pm
6.22pm
Barcelona, Spain. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
08 Sep
6pm
6pm
Towards Crocq, a village of ghosts. Creuse, central France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
05 Sep
6.35pm
6.35pm
Looking out over Etang des Landes from a peninsula of sand and marshland. La Creuse, France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan …
03 Sep
2.48pm
2.48pm
Moutier-d’Ahun. Creuse, France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
02 Sep
3.04pm
3.04pm
Moutier-d’Ahun. Creuse, France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
29 Aug
4.22pm
4.22pm
Barcelona. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
22 Aug
2.08pm
2.08pm
Chauche, France: I ate the cow named Désirée that’s being carved in the background. She had been cooking since 4am that morning, and fed 700 …
18 Aug
8.47pm
8.47pm
Towards Croix Gibreix. Central France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
16 Aug
3.34pm
3.34pm
Hermet, France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
13 Aug
Dinner and Tragedies
Dinner and Tragedies
Up here www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
10 Aug
9.10pm
9.10pm
Near Ferme de la Valette. Creuse, France. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
09 Aug
9.09pm
9.09pm
The stare of a Charolais in the dying light of Creuse. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
08 Aug
9.59pm
9.59pm
The horse that no one wants www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
07 Aug
10.57am
10.57am
Foret de Drouille, central France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
06 Aug
7.15pm
7.15pm
Foret de Drouille, central France www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
05 Aug
8.57pm
8.57pm
A land so lonely even the cows stare at you www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own for Eau Du Volcan | Courdemanges, France
19 Jun
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
From Losing Sela www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
27 May
Imagine
Imagine
Imagine an island. An island that you can only imagine. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
15 May
3.18pm, Kashirskaya
3.18pm, Kashirskaya
From Moskva: Sandpaper www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
10 May
The Forgotten
The Forgotten
Beyond the Rubble of Bat. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
27 Apr
Thailand, 2004
Thailand, 2004
Outside Krabi, Thailand www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
23 Apr
Jolfa
Jolfa
Armenian church in Isfahan, Iran www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
16 Apr
Ané. 10.27pm
Ané. 10.27pm
Kemp’s Corner, Bombay, 2008 www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
13 Apr
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
In a city unbearably overloaded with architecture and tourists. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own
12 Apr
Crossing, 2005
Crossing, 2005
My first crossing of the desert: the Wahibas that were later renamed to the more politically-correct but inevitably wishy-washy Sharqiya Sands. This is a scan …
07 Apr
6.06pm
6.06pm
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12 Dec
4.39pm
4.39pm
Turning away from Jebel Kawr . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops
11 Dec
4.49pm
4.49pm
Wadi Ala . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops
10 Dec
3.34pm
3.34pm
Dragging myself over the remnants of a prehistoric lake . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat …
09 Dec
4.12pm
4.12pm
Towards Jebel Kawr . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops
07 Dec
4.38pm
4.38pm
The death of a fox. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops
06 Dec
Leftovers
Leftovers
Just south of the Iraqi border, in Kuwait. Leftovers from the invasion. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you …
03 Dec
5.09pm
5.09pm
With a fox behind me, and nothing ahead . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo …
02 Dec
5.18pm
5.18pm
Perhaps a bit clichéd, but we don’t believe in clichés, do we? . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you …
30 Nov
5.41pm
5.41pm
Sometimes, the best light to shoot in is the bad light. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really …
29 Nov
4.35pm
4.35pm
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28 Nov
Bausher
Bausher
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17 Nov
the Life of a Hadra
the Life of a Hadra
And we cracked open haab gara’a between our teeth, sipping at water in glasses with fake gold lining in a massive room of empty seats …
16 Nov
11.11am
11.11am
After the Iraqis left, there wasn’t enough reason to ever come back. . Failaka, Kuwait . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if …
14 Nov
The Azmi
The Azmi
Over tea and pumpkin seeds, talking of rabbit traps in the desert and fish traps in the sea, traps that stretched from al Faw in Iraq …
12 Nov
Oshairij
Oshairij
Shooting in good light, shooting through bad light. ‘And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good – need we ask anyone to tell …
09 Nov
Failaka
Failaka
Destroyed, and abandoned, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat …
07 Nov
Towards Iraq
Towards Iraq
6.13pm, Kuwait. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops | Paragraphs + Pixels
06 Nov
Looking at Iraq
Looking at Iraq
6.41pm, Kuwait. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops | Paragraphs + Pixels
31 Oct
Noon. Ja’alan
Noon. Ja’alan
The gargoor: a cage that lets the fish in but which is very difficult to swim out of… . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our …
28 Oct
Dewaniya
Dewaniya
A work in progress. But more here. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops …
20 Oct
9.29am
9.29am
. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | & if you really insist, Twitter Paragraphs + Pixels | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops
26 Sep
Kumartuli
Kumartuli
From The Edge of Calcutta. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
21 Sep
Books
Books
Up here now . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
11 Sep
Cow
Cow
Eid in Wadi Bani Auf. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
09 Sep
Christmas Eve, Sana’a
Christmas Eve, Sana’a
From Kalashnikovs and Christmas in Yemen. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really …
06 Sep
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet
Portugal and The Book of Disquiet, up here now. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & …
06 Sep
Afternoon, Alentejo
Afternoon, Alentejo
Portugal, coming soon. . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
02 Sep
Campo Maior
Campo Maior
Portugal . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
30 Aug
4.47pm, Alentejo
4.47pm, Alentejo
Portugal . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
29 Aug
9.39pm
9.39pm
Lisboa . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
28 Aug
Capela dos Ossos
Capela dos Ossos
Campo Maior, Portugal . www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
26 Aug
Noon, Alentejo
Noon, Alentejo
What does my wall think about my shadow? Sometimes I wonder about this until I realise I’m wondering about things… And then I feel annoyed and out of …
07 Aug
Munkabong
Munkabong
“My son made a cry like a monkey when he was born, mad and deaf,” he says, pointing to the now grown-up man sleeping on …
06 Aug
9.20pm, Jaalan
9.20pm, Jaalan
And Rashid was always getting lost. He was three years old and the family had been stuffed in the back of the pickup, and there …
05 Aug
5.57pm, Moskva
5.57pm, Moskva
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03 Aug
8.42pm
8.42pm
And it got so hot the bitumen on the roads turned to mush and the trucks that cleared the streets at night were sent out …
26 Jul
An ill wind
An ill wind
But that summer sleep was no good, and it brought nightmares like an ill summer wind blowing in all the bad stories, and I dreamt …
23 Jul
Luchshi Gorod Zemli
Luchshi Gorod Zemli
Or The Best City on Earth, by Muslim Magamayev in 1988. Better in Russian here You have never been to our bright city, You’ve never dreamed in …
22 Jul
9.55pm, Kolomenskoe
9.55pm, Kolomenskoe
And maybe we were all going crazy because it was ten at night and there was still light in the sky, because the sun almost …
12 Jul
Fredka
Fredka
And we stuff ourselves into the little kitchen – there are only small kitchens in Russia – cram ourselves into the little ground-floor room at …
09 Jul
Kolomenskaya, 8.52pm
Kolomenskaya, 8.52pm
And I lay, light-headed, half in the sun and half in the shade, while the berezki rustled between the raw concrete and the yellow tiles. …
05 Jul
Kashirskaya, 12.43am
Kashirskaya, 12.43am
Zaur is from Baku and we have nothing in common except music, and that’s enough, so he calls his son to meet us in the …
29 Jun
Beyond Gurun
Beyond Gurun
And that wind. That terrific wind that kills houses and roughs up the sea and turns daylight into a milky haze and throws sand over …
28 Jun
Sufayri
Sufayri
And there’s sand on the lens and we’re stumbling over tires and a stuffed toy horse. And Sayh Sufairi, the Plain of Copper, is just …
25 Jun
3.47pm
3.47pm
Somewhere south of the Ja’alan, between road, desert and sea. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | …
24 Jun
2.39pm
2.39pm
Khamis has lived in the wadi dust for a lifetime, without electricity, a phone or an address, with a donkey instead of a pickup truck, …
22 Jun
Wataed
Wataed
The sun has set but the light keeps reflecting off salt and water and sand and clouds. And the light is slipping away and we’re …
22 Jun
8.10pm
8.10pm
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19 Jun
Tabook
Tabook
And we’re crunching over the bits and pieces of the machinery that stood half a century ago in the factory where the sheikh used to …
17 Jun
8.08pm
8.08pm
Mukhaynig is a secret place, just a handful of houses of Sineidi, Bareeka, Saalmi and Hadmal slapped together in the earthen desert, downstream in the …
15 Jun
Mukhaynig
Mukhaynig
Mukhaynig is a place so removed from the outside world it looks like the ragged edge of a badly told fairytale. Because the light is …
13 Jun
Sayh Sufayri
Sayh Sufayri
The three month-old summer wind blows from the south, whipping an entire desert’s worth of sand across Sufayri, the plain named after its copper coloured …
05 Jun
Ruways
Ruways
It was the hottest month of the year, the time when tires explode in a mix of indiscipline, text messaging, speed and heat, and Ali …
05 Jun
10.17am: Daffah
10.17am: Daffah
High over the sea, on the cliffs of Daffa, the boy with oily hair walks up to me and raises his little face in greeting. …
03 Jun
Surfing, Heddah
Surfing, Heddah
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27 May
4.10pm
4.10pm
We’re crunching through sand where the wadi spills its guts out, the badlands of sand and dust and bits and pieces of stone carried with …
23 May
Khamis
Khamis
Khamis is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
21 May
Hani
Hani
Hani is up here now. This is the view from her house in Qohbon. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat …
16 May
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Sami is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
13 May
Diesel
Diesel
Mohammed Abdullah Shahu al Balushi is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you …
11 May
Awayna
Awayna
The Masjid Awayna is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really …
09 May
Ayman
Ayman
Ayman is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
08 May
Umm Khalid
Umm Khalid
Zeinab is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
05 May
Mithadhmat
Mithadhmat
Saalma is up here now. www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own & pinaki.info on Facebook | Nikon Muscat Photo Workshops online | & if you really insist, Twitter
04 May
the movie star
the movie star
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02 May
2.02am
2.02am
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30 Apr
12.34am
12.34am
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27 Apr
3.37am
3.37am
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27 Apr
1.41am
1.41am
And it was Paskha, the Russian Orthodox Easter, and we were outside the church in Podolsk, the one on the hill from where you could …
23 Apr
Moskva: Sandpaper
Moskva: Sandpaper
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20 Apr
Tawang
Tawang
On our way to Sela, just before Tibet. I’m not going to write anything because I’m in the middle of the 7,600 word Moscow piece and …
15 Apr
The old wound
The old wound
But to understand Russia you have to understand the weather, and what it can do to the land, and how it can sandpaper the berezkas …
13 Apr
Moloko
Moloko
And mornings meant Lubyatova cornflakes soaked in Domik v Derevne moloko, the one with the babushka and the dacha and the berezka on the carton. …
11 Apr
Andrushka
Andrushka
And the snow can be cruel too, and while we’re tearing into pig hearts before Paskha in the little kitchen Andrushka was on a surface …
06 Apr
Racing donkeys, 5.48pm
Racing donkeys, 5.48pm
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03 Apr
Yulia
Yulia
“The problem is that it’s easier to break down houses and start from zero than to restore them,” says Yulia, before she starts her eight-hour …
31 Mar
Zdorovo
Zdorovo
In Russia there is a babushka for everything. You will find the old ladies struggling impossibly outside with groceries in the cold, wool socks hitched …
26 Mar
Costya
Costya
Somewhere outside, past the thousands of trees and the villa that cannot be demolished because the owner has a paper signed by Lenin, past the …
22 Mar
Podolsk
Podolsk
And even the Pahra turned to slush and slowed to a crawl, and we cram ourselves into the smallest kitchen in Russia, sipping dry, homemade …
18 Mar
Banditsky Peterburg
Banditsky Peterburg
And the girl who had gone a lifetime without ever kissing anyone had a dream once that she was lying on the couch with a …
15 Mar
Novie Russkie
Novie Russkie
Gregory breathes heavily in his slick purple robe, panting through a haze of cognac and icons, while the snow drifts through the open doorway into …
12 Mar
Uspienski Sobor, Kreml
Uspienski Sobor, Kreml
Outside the Uspienski Sobor of the Kremlin, the group of women huddled together. “I didn’t notice the winter is almost over,” said one. “What are …
10 Mar
Moskva: sandpaper
Moskva: sandpaper
“Moscow in March is sandpaper,” said Tatyana. Like when the wind kicks up and your fingers go dead and your lips freeze till you can’t …
06 Mar
Clutching at Limqasil
Clutching at Limqasil
The furthest Khamis bin Rashid bin Khalfan al Nasibi has ever been is Rustaq, four hours of hiking and crawling and tiptoeing over rock away. …
25 Feb
October 2004
October 2004
My knees buckled when I first saw the path on the inside edge of Oman’s Grand Canyon that I had to walk and get a …
19 Feb
Pepper Fryberger
Pepper Fryberger
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15 Feb
6.10pm
6.10pm
The music’s so loud we can’t hear ourselves think. And as the sun sets behind the old house the dancer twirls through the last bit …
08 Feb
October 2007
October 2007
That last part, when you know you’re beyond ever stopping, happens in slow motion: the camel runs out from the trees and across the mountain …
02 Feb
6.54pm
6.54pm
A brother – a web designer – dances with his younger sister at a relative’s pre-wedding party in Muscat. Their father sings in the band …
31 Jan
9.51pm
9.51pm
Father and sons – one of whom is the groom – gather at the mosque their ancestor built, receiving well-wishers before the marriage. There is …
29 Jan
11.44pm
11.44pm
It is a quarter to midnight and the Balushi from Karachi is kick-starting the pre-wedding party, sashaying across the compound where the groom’s family is …
27 Jan
the Chronicle of Planets
the Chronicle of Planets
Manama, Bahrain. 2004. I was there to shoot the first F1 race in the Gulf, which was quite unbearable. I’d rather have spent more time sitting …
19 Jan
Howling over Yasab
Howling over Yasab
“The old people say that since we didn’t have any utensils in the old days we used to drop the flour for the bread right …
06 Jan
Shidyt
Shidyt
October 18, 2008 I’m sitting 1,300m up the northern slopes of the Jebel Kawr, squeezing limes into my bottles of water, licking the juice off my …
02 Jan
Limqasil
Limqasil
Was it worth it? Khamis laughs out loud at the question, while his brother Salim, who couldn’t ever put together enough money for a wife, …
26 Dec
the Rubble of Bat
the Rubble of Bat
January 2008 A handful of kilometers away from the forgotten civilisation that erected stone tombs 5,000 years ago, Zuwayna squints across her courtyard looking for company. The …
14 Dec
Samakt
Samakt
July 20, 2008: A quarter past noon. Hellishly hot white light bouncing off a landscape of rock outside. But I’m squeezing ISO1600 in the depths …
07 Dec
Vakils of Misfah
Vakils of Misfah
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17 Nov
Invitation
Invitation
Now up at the Bait al Baranda, the second in the series. This is what Time Out Muscat said after the last one.
11 Oct
le Conquet
le Conquet
But it is twilight in le Conquet, and the sea is rushing in so fast it gives you vertigo when you stand in the middle …
28 Sep
Paris, 5.05pm
Paris, 5.05pm
Past Notre Dame, unbearably overloaded with architecture and tourists, where the faithful can buy a fake gold medallion from a vending machine for two Euros …
19 Aug
Kaliabor
Kaliabor
No one goes to Kaliabor, not even the Assamese. But you can have a look at it here.
15 Aug
One way or the other
One way or the other
I suppose there are poor people everywhere, and some of them work through a hard life and their children start off a little better. But …
09 Aug
Wadi Slooh
Wadi Slooh
Up here now. Huddled in the shade of goatskins, plastic sheets and dried thorn bushes, with civilisation somewhere behind the dust I’ve just kicked up, and …
08 Aug
the Mingis
the Mingis
A camel in Qafifa, where I shot the remnants of the Mingis. Who says only elephants have nice eyelashes? A muzzle helps when one moves …
05 Aug
Confessions
Confessions
I have four pages of scribbles that I scratched into the Moleskine as the taxi lurched from one end of the city to the other. …
03 Aug
Failure at Kaziranga
Failure at Kaziranga
Up here now. It is May 1999, and I’m in the jungles of Kerala on holiday from college. I have borrowed a little film point-and-shoot from …
23 Jul
Squeezing art out of geology
Squeezing art out of geology
It was September 2005, and I was, after a year and a half in Oman, hungry for intellectual stimulation. I found it one Friday morning …
19 Jul
Three Men and a Trilith
Three Men and a Trilith
Anything is possible in Dhofar, even an Egyptian journalist, a British soldier and a line of Iron Age rock arrangements no one has figured out …
18 Jul
Wadi Creepy
Wadi Creepy
This is what 5.43 on a January evening in a dead-end wadi looks like, with the fluttering dishdashas somewhere to the south, a thousand and …
11 Jul
Children and Grandchildren
Children and Grandchildren
The 135 rials Fatma earns at the school is spread wafer thin over the house and granddaughter she takes care of, and she had to …
07 Jul
Sibelle and the Persians
Sibelle and the Persians
It is January 2007 and Sibelle and I are 2,100m high on the Jebel Akhdar, at the top of the steps that the Persian army …
02 Jul
Sibelle, windblown
Sibelle, windblown
This is what you get more than a thousand kilometres of desert away from Muscat: an unknown beach a couple of turns away from the …
28 Jun
Samakt: Draft
Samakt: Draft
I need help. Is this piece worth putting up on my site, under the Oman portrait section? First useful comment gets a Bialetti Moka Express. …
20 Jun
Gallery on the Stairs
Gallery on the Stairs
Starting now, I will be exhibiting one story at a time at the Gallery on the Stairs at the Bait al Baranda, Muscat. I’ll go …
10 Jun
Dead-Ends and Old Men
Dead-Ends and Old Men
It was April 13, 2008, and I was at the end of a dead-end road, desperately looking for inspiration up a mountain. Instead, I found …
26 May
a Jeep called Viola
a Jeep called Viola
Dragging the fan belt along the highway at 140 wasn’t such a good idea after all. It was my second breakdown in three days. The …
19 Apr
Dinner for One
Dinner for One
Not as good as this one, of course. Or this, for that matter. Or even the chai shop in Sana’a. But considering I’m in Muscat, …
11 Apr
A Quiet Cancer
A Quiet Cancer
I was a thousand metres above sea level near a prehistoric lake and the moon was so close and bright I had to turn my …
08 Apr
Twilight Grey
Twilight Grey
Hani is sitting under the caves gouged into mountains that give her village its name, wrapped head to toe in twilight grey, red and green …
06 Apr
Husbands, Sons, Lemons.
Husbands, Sons, Lemons.
Saalma is ecstatic when my fixer Seema and I hunt down her house the next day, and practically hugs me when I say I have …
05 Apr
Saalma: 10.30am
Saalma: 10.30am
It is half past ten and the light is being broken up by the jagged edges of an entire neighbourhood of palm fronds, scattered on …
30 Mar
Stinky and Exclusion
Stinky and Exclusion
It is half past eight at night and we are sitting down to coffee and Irish cream over dull green kitchen tiles and a single …
21 Mar
Umm Khalid
Umm Khalid
Umm Khalid used to be royalty back home in Mandh, but that was a lifetime ago, in a faraway land now divided between Iran and …
17 Mar
under Wadi Qani
under Wadi Qani
Ayman is subconsciously twitching his knees in the diffused light that filters through shut windows at the far end of the majlis, as if trying …
15 Mar
the Mosque at Awayna
the Mosque at Awayna
Behind the priest, water is seeping through cracks in the rocks and out of the mountain, quietly channelled past the archaeological site, the ravaged remnants …
09 Mar
The Voice of Emptiness
The Voice of Emptiness
It is midday and I am sweating my way up over water-smoothened rock, blue-faced lizards and a mountainside of sun-bleached thorns. High on top, on …
11 Feb
the Fisherman at Khor al Fardh
the Fisherman at Khor al Fardh
Hilal bin Ali al Amri has been burnt almost black after a lifetime in the glare of the sea, loading wood and dates onto dhows …
10 Feb
the Sheikh of Wadi Lawami
the Sheikh of Wadi Lawami
The old man hitches up his dishdasha, showing off scars from operations in India as we huddle into the little room surrounded by mango and …
02 Nov
Announcement: Resignation
Announcement: Resignation
After almost five years, five hundred gigabytes of photographs, an estimated five hundred thousand words and one hundred and twenty thousand kilometres under the belt, …
21 Oct
Tom Traubert’s Blues
Tom Traubert’s Blues
It is 4 minutes to midnight and dinner was too long ago, and Tom Waits is singing Tom Traubert’s Blues and I follow its lyrics …
19 Oct
4.47, Wadi Geel
4.47, Wadi Geel
I am sitting by myself on an exposed outcrop of rock almost 400km from Muscat, in a little dead-end wadi that no one knows of. …
16 Oct
jumping into a sweatshop
jumping into a sweatshop
How does it feel to spend a whole day stuck in a sweatshop, and have an entire photography workshop’s worth of people jump in and …
16 Oct
14 frames
14 frames
One wild eye stares at me as I am offered fruit by an old lady who sits looking out over Hillat Mina at 5pm. I’m …
16 Oct
five years of synthetics
five years of synthetics
Raj is from Punjab, and has found it worthwhile to work in a hole in the wall shop in Muscat, in a back-alley maze where …
05 Oct
between graffiti and a cat
between graffiti and a cat
A heartbeat away from pavements, Range Rovers and the royal ship, from the gold souk and the corniche and the hypermarket – those reassuring fixities …
25 Sep
Pakistanis, mutton and metaphors
Pakistanis, mutton and metaphors
It is just past six and a hundred Pakistanis sit down to eat on the pavement, wedged in between bare mountains, tons of second-hand Toyota …
07 Sep
the edge of calcutta
the edge of calcutta
The truth is, Calcutta was a failure. After a lifetime of hearing about it I just about scraped through, like a pariah dog of the …
Author: Pinaki