"On crossing the Tigris"
These two photographs taken on a lazy July afternoon in 1990. They were taken on a small wheat farm that nestled along the banks of the river Tigris near the village of Tikrit in the fertile plains of the valley of Samara. Life was different then on the fertile plains of central Iraq as the communist regimes of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had just crumbled and with the American eagle on the wing, the citizens of the free world were experiencing the dawn of a new world order. Some months before, I had stood by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and personally witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain. In February of that year, the leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela was released from the Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town.
