FAMILY PORTRAIT  
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CLICK ON PICS AGAIN TO ENLARGE. A hotel owner said it was O.K. to put this on his wall, but just as I was getting finished, the dear old police, God love ’em, turned up and started having a fit. It looked like turning into a replay of the previous sitcom (see notes to THE MARLBORO KIDS) i.e. “something’s out of the ordinary - when in doubt, arrest everybody and then let someone above take a decision”. (Excerpt from the police manual. The updated one, by the contract American trainers, which begins: “O.K. fellas, there’s no clear remit right now, what with the law and everything else being so up in the air. Just make your presence felt on the streets and try to keep up the paranoia, y’know, the general fear and mutual distrust. Remember: You’re gettin’ a wage - they’re not. ”) This time we were less conciliatory; waving passports, press cards, shouting, turning sharply on our heels and storming away in fine indignation – before getting round the corner and into the first taxi. The next day the piece was gone and I never got a good long shot of it. The photo of me spraying it up (see pic. 2 of 2) shows how much that machine gunner must have had it in for this wall.
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Family Portrait, North Bank, River Tigris, Baghdad.
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Arofish spraying Family Portrait, North Bank, River Tigris, Baghdad.
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Family Portrait, North Bank, River Tigris, Baghdad.
Arofish spraying Family Portrait, North Bank, River Tigris, Baghdad.
       
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