The tea was sweet, the sun scorching, the days slow.

In October I spent five days working at a Bedouin camp with my friend Ella, where we were given a mattress, a tent, and food such as flatbreads, hummus and Zaarb, a traditional Bedouin dinner, in return for photography work and kitchen duty. Wadi Rum is a desert valley in Southern Jordan, floored in red and white sands and walled in by rock cliffs and mesas of sandstone and granite. I was thrilled to be going into this foreign landscape which I had first encountered as a child in the film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. It was unlike any landscape I had ever travelled and was eager to see it through the lens of my own camera… .

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