“You want to become a photographer of nudes? – With your makeshift equipment and lackadaisical attitude you’ll never get anywhere, I can promise you that.” Said my uncle Said to me when I was sixteen but already more than sure of what I wanted in life.
And look where I am now … most successful nude photographer in all of Egypt, with the ladies coming running and flocking. They love my lackadaisical attitude. And my makeshift equipment has served me excellently, be it in desert dunes, hotel rooms or kings’ graves.
– Ghamal Abd el Hadr
Note
I received an e-mail from an unknown a while ago who called himself Ghamal Abd el Hadr. He wanted to know if I could help him publish his autobiography (from which the above two paragraphs are a short excerpt). I replied that I would see what I could do. Perhaps this excerpt, which I’m publishing here because it accidentally includes all three of this week’s words for 3WW (lackadaisical, makeshift and nude), will generate some interest in this man’s biography. I have not seen any of his photos and can therefore neither include one nor evaluate his work – which he claims to be prolific and widely known in his home country – in any way.
James Steerforth, Dec. 2, 2015
Steer Forth! 
brave write.
🙂
An interesting take on the prompt. Not my personal cup of tea but I can see what you were doing and the story hints have that edge which will make readers uncomfortable even as they want to find out more.
powerful….
haha
Beautifully intriguing making the reader want so much more.
Very curious !!
Thanks for reading and commenting, oldegg! Maybe I’ll turn it into a novel some time 🙂