This is part of the the Antoni Paszkiewicz project.
Iraq, December 1942
Through Iraq flow the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. They rise in the mountains of eastern Anatolia and course south-east through the gorges of modern Syria and northern Iraq, across the alluvial plain of central Iraq to Al-Qurnah in the south, where they join to form the Shatt al-Arab, the ‘Stream of the Arabs’ (in Persian, the Arvand Rud, the ‘Swift River’). The Shatt al-Arab then flows past Basra and into the Persian Gulf at Al Faw.
Many of Toni’s photographs are of the rivers or the people that worked on them. The Polish captions are Toni’s, written on the back of the photographs; English translations and English captions are mine.
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- ‘Noc na Eufratem’ – Night on the Euphrates
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- ‘W nocy na Eufratem, październik 1942r ‘ – Night over the Euphrates, October 1942
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- ‘Eufrat, listopad 1942r’ – River Euphrates, November 1942
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- ‘Noc nad Eufratem, grudzień 1942r’ – Night on the River Euphrates, December 1942
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- ‘Żegluga na Eufrat, grudzień 1942r’ – Shipping on the River Euphrates, December 1942
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- ‘Bagdad, Tigris w nocy’ – Baghdad, River Tigris at night
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- ‘Latem nad Tigris, Bagdad, w październik’ – Summer on the River Tigris, Baghdad, in October
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- ‘Tigris, listopad 1942r’ – River Tigris, November 1942
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- Boatmen on the River Tigris in a ‘gufa’, a round boat made of wickerwork thickly coated with bitumen
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- ‘Wodopoj w Tigris, 1942r’ – Watering place on the River Tigris, 1942
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- ‘Żegluga na Tigris, Mosul, 1942r’ -Shipping on the River Tigris, Mosul, 1942
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- ‘Most na Tigris w Mosulu, 1942r’ – Bridge over the River Tigris at Mosul, 1942
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- ‘Bagdad, luty 1943r’ – Baghdad, February 1943. This is the Jumhuriyah Bridge (Jisr al Jumhuriyah) over the River Tigris
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- ‘Basra, grudzień 1942r’ – Basra, December 1942.
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- ‘Przed wschodnie słonia, Irak, 1942r’ – In front of the eastern elephant, Iraq, 1942
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- ‘Z mego pobytu na Wschodni Irak, 1942r’ – From my stay in Eastern Iraq, 1942
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- ‘Irak, 1942r’ – Iraq, 1942
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- ‘Irak w listopad 1942r’ – Iraq in November 1942