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El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile

Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989

Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022572C. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres) under snow. The climate in the Khumbu can be harsh and unpredictable. The tents in the foreground belong to a European mountaineering expedition. The yaks are unperturbed.

Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.

Nepal; bridge over river in the Khumbu, 1986

Goddess Isis feeding Horus, wall relief

Nepal; cremation on the Baghmati river, 1986

Helwan, Egypt; smallholding growing sweet clover

Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.

Nepal; tenements, old and new, Kathmandu, 1986. Builders erecting new apartments on the site of an old tenement block. Once erected, the residents of the existing four-storey tenement block will have their daylight extinguished. A woman picks her way across the building site from her home to the street.

Male and female offering wine and food, wall relief

Nepal; wooden suspension bridge over a canyon

Temple offering of ducks, geese and wild fowl. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.

Nepal, Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986

Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Area as N0022565. Farmland on the lower slopes of the Himalayas (altitude 2900 metres). Sherpas are Buddhists and their houses are surrounded with prayer sticks flying cloth flags. A sherpa group with yaks travel along

Thebes, Egypt; felucca on the Nile, 1990

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Carole Reeves

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Nepal; wooden suspension bridge over a canyon

Temple offering of ducks, geese and wild fowl. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.

Nepal, Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986

Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Area as N0022565. Farmland on the lower slopes of the Himalayas (altitude 2900 metres). Sherpas are Buddhists and their houses are surrounded with prayer sticks flying cloth flags. A sherpa group with yaks travel along

Thebes, Egypt; felucca on the Nile, 1990

Carole Reeves

Images from the collections

Images by Carole Reeves

Works from the collections

Nepal; wooden suspension bridge over a canyon

Temple offering of ducks, geese and wild fowl. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.

Nepal, Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986

Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Area as N0022565. Farmland on the lower slopes of the Himalayas (altitude 2900 metres). Sherpas are Buddhists and their houses are surrounded with prayer sticks flying cloth flags. A sherpa group with yaks travel along

Thebes, Egypt; felucca on the Nile, 1990

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