N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

The Empty Quarter

fter a lot of complicated bureaucracy, my cameras and I, plus 100 rolls of film, had finally arrived where I wanted to be: speeding through the desert sands of the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. It was 1970 and I was there on assignment for a chapter of the book . After driving through the cool of the night and

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