General Pictures

Some shots I did in Iran a few years back for "The History of Football" a 13 part 1 hour TV series.

While we were filming the "large mural of soldiers with traffic in the foreground" a secret police vehicle spotted us and we were arrested and held for six hours while they made sure we weren't spies! It wasn't a pleasant experience, but that didn't change my feelings for the country and its people, some of the friendliest and hospitable on this planet.

Someone on the street in Yamassoukro, Ivory Coast

Market in Kano, Nigeria

Street cleaner, Tunis, Tunisia

Army and police watching the African Champions League Final, Cairo, Egypt

Drive-by picture of an afternoon prayer in a slum in Kano, Nigeria

Market lady in Yamassoukro, Ivory Coast

Mummified skeletons at the genocide memorial

in Kitale, Rwanda

World Cup Final 2002. Final whistle, the Brazilian bench steam onto the pitch

Palestinian girl. Shatila, Palestinian camp, Beirut.

5am Sunrise over Rio de Janeiro

Iraq National Football Team. Pre-war.

The Iraqi footbal team after their victory of a Middle East tournament.

They were ordered to put T-shirts of Saddam on as they paraded the cup.

As the team were celebrating in the changing room, Uday, Saddam's son and head of the Iraq FA, called on the phone congratulating the team. 

There was talk that Uday would go berserk when the national team put in a poor performance and would make examples on certain players, put them in jail, hang them upside down and have their feet whipped...A lot of these stories were hear say, but when we asked the players if this was true they didn't deny it.

Team photo with the Palestinian National Football Team

Martin Egan (left) and yours truly (right)

Syrian Riot Squad