“Four fully loaded, don’t give a damn camels obstruct our onward passage down the dark-maroon dirt track. They stare at us with total indifference. A young mother with her baby tightly secured to her back by an earthen-brown cotton wrap, attempts to subdue her youngest and most unruly . . . camel. A razor thin, shirtless man wearing dark-blue trousers, vainly tries to coax the stubbornness from these four-legged rapscallions into something reasonably accommodating; so that our Land Rover can pass.”

From ‘Escape Rope – included in the showcase