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NEGATIVE COLORS
Narratives Through Words and Pictures
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Norbert Schiller
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Way cool. I’ll have to take a better look at it later.
Hi Norbert – Nice to have this space to explore. – Thanks.!! I will for sure stop in periodically : ). Ciao for now. <3 <3.
(Reference to the story titled: Remembering the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border War)
Hi,
A month later there were still bodies in the no mans land and birds would fall from the trees dead
Hi,
I was at Brandeau too, in 1979 – 81. I found out about it after meeting Peter Dunning on the Magic Bus from London to Athens. He’s the Peter from Rhodesia you talked about in your article. We’re still Facebook friends (he’s back in Zimbabwe). I also became good buddies with Nick (Barnet) from Slough, as I lived in London a lot during those years. We’ve lost touch though.
As a coincidence, I emailed Brandeau yesterday because I noticed a young Belgian couple had taken it over and I wanted to wish them well. The reply I got today wasn’t from them, it was from Fox! Here’s what she said:
“Sw France is particularly beautiful this year, despite climate change. Antony and Andrea still live in the ‘big house’. The ‘grand rangs’ are now vege garden and sheep pasture. I live in the watermill below St Philippe, 5 mins from Brandeau by car. You are very welcome to visit…”
I was just in Provence last month and wish I’d found a way to get to Brandeau. I will try to make it there before too much longer, cuz none of us are getting any younger.
Thanks for the write up and the pictures. I have ones that look just the same!
Hi,
Very much enjoyed the photos. Left Egypt in mid 1992 after living there a second time, 1988-1991. The first time was 1978-1982. During that stay, I visited some of the oases so your photos were of particular interest. Also, I knew Cassandra Vivian, took a photography course from her, and purchased some of her framed, photographic art of Egypt.
Sorry your book about Egypt is unpublished. I would have been interested in owning a copy.
Thanks for the lovely photographic journey through time into the remote areas.
Mary Russell
Excellent done!
Greetinx
Sonny Stengle
(Egyptomaniac)
Excellent images and information on the Tanker War! A real plus for the study of that key episode in modern US history.
Hello Norbert, Thanks for the permission to use two photos from this OUTSTANDING collection of photos capturing this moment in time! You put in some real excellent work with lens and camera capturing all the drama! I was there as a young American squid 20 years old, full of piss ‘n vinegar serving aboard Spruance Class Destroyer USS OLDENDORF (DD-972). We arrived on GONZO station (Gulf of Oman Naval Zone of Operations) with Battlegroup Alpha centered around the aircraft carrier MIDWAY (CV-41) and led by Battleship IOWA (BB-61) in November 1987. The Persian Gulf Strait of Hormuz was a hotbed of kinetic action. The carrier stayed on gonzo station but we aboard the “Oly” transited the deadly “silkworm envelope” in the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf and we escorted one reflagged Kuwaiti tanker. I can’t recall the exact date, I wanna say sometime in late December 1987, but I vividly recall it was at “zero dark thirty” in the black of night and during GQ (General Quarters) which lasted 36 hours during the entire escort mission of the tanker from Kuwait through the gulf and strait and into the Sea of Oman. I was on the bridge operating the sound powered phone “JX circuit” between signal bridge, bridge and radio central. I recall the officer of the deck looking at the stern of the tanker we were escorting through NVGs (Night Vision Goggles). I was also in considerable pain in my left shin after sustaining an injury which I’ll describe in detail on a YouTube video I’m working on and will send a link soon.
Mark Irons
Thank you for collecting and preserving photos of Mohamed Atta – they are surprisingly difficult to find. Very interesting website!