Thesiger Collection

Full length standing portrait of three Arab boys in Wadi Yiba or Wadi Hali.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Wadi Haluf. In the left foreground two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides sit on their mounts while the camels graze on a...

Portrait of Awad bin Khazai, a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, with an ibex in the Wadi Kidyut....

Standing portrait of a boy in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of a number of round watchtowers at a settlement in the region between the city of Abha and the village of 'Ar'arah. In the foreground a large circular tower...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at a well in the Hejaz foothills of the upper Wadi Hali. Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of vegetation growing on a vast flat in the Wadi al 'Ayn and Wadi al 'Umayri watershed, along the eastern side of Jebel Kawr. In the foreground trees and...

View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Bani Yas settlement near Radum in Liwa oasis. In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions pause with their...

View of a limestone cliffs atop Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. On the left a ridge of limestone, mostly bare of vegetation, slopes down towards the central foreground. Far below...

Standing full length portrait of a man and a thoroughbred camel on an Abu Dhabi island. A man wearing a headscarf, thobe (ankle-length shirt) and a waistcoat stands to the...

View of sailors preparing to hoist sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. A group of sailors stand in two lines on...

Portrait of a trained peregrine falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party with its prey, a hare, in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A...

Half length portrait of two Utaybah Bedouin boys and a small child at Al Qaiyah or Ad Dafinah wells, taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Marat village to Burayman, near...

Standing full length portrait of a young man with a cow at an oasis on Bahrain Island. A young man wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a wraparound skirt stands in...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Madi on the journey to Al Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of trees and vegetation growing in the Jabal Qara mountains near the summit of Kismim Pass. In the foreground trees grow on a rolling mountain slope. In the distance...

Landscape in the Bani Malik Mountains near the Yemen border.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Group portrait of a crowd of men and boys standing at the suq (market) in the village of Al Makhwah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Portrait of a middle-aged man of the Wahiba Bedouin at a well in the Sharqiyah Sands. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of two Arab men repairing the prow of a dhow (sailboat) in the harbour in Kuwait City. In the background a large dhow sits alongside a breakwater in the...