After fire-jumping on 'Red Wednesday'
Crossing a small river with a Bakhtiari family
Golsanem making the morning yoghurt
Inside the dome of this mausoleum on the Turkmen border, a muqarnas is being reconstructed
Karzem in his crib, in a land with no nappies but plenty of ingenuity
One of only seven men who can carve and repair stone at this high level
Trying out the rope device which measured Shah Abbas' 1000 km walk

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I’m a writer and photographer, specialising in Iran and the Ottoman world. You can see some of my photos here; and get a taste of what I’m working on. Sign up if you’d like to get e-updates. My big current project is my book about off-the-beaten track Iran – today and four hundred years ago.