TAQ KASRA _ ROALD DAHL 1940 / KUMARI VAIM 2020 

In 1940, the British writer Roald Dahl, then undergoing pilot training at RAF Habbaniya near Baghdad^[13] took an award-winning photograph using a Zeiss camera of the Arch of Ctesiphon in Iraq which was subsequently auctioned by the Dahl family to raise funds for the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.^[14] The photo made £6,000. 

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Taq Kasra / Arch of Ctesiphon / ایوان مدائن , Iraq. Sassanid Persia c. 500 Photo: Roald Dahl, 1940

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In 1940, the British writer Roald Dahl, then undergoing pilot training at RAF Habbaniya near Baghdad^[13] took an award-winning photograph using a Zeiss camera of the Arch of Ctesiphon in Iraq which was subsequently auctioned by the Dahl family to raise funds for the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.^[14] The photo made £6,000. In his autobiography Boy he writes:

You may not believe it, but when I was eighteen I used to win prizes and medals from the Royal Photographic Society in London, and from other places like the Photographic Society of Holland. I even got a lovely big bronze medal from the Egyptian Photographic Society in Cairo, and I still have the photograph that won it. It is a picture of one of the so-called Seven Wonders of the World, the Arch of Ctesiphon in Iraq. This is the largest unsupported arch on earth and I took the photograph while I was training out there for the RAF in 1940. I was flying over the desert solo in an old Hawker Hart biplane and I had my camera round my neck. When I spotted the huge arch standing alone in a sea of sand, I dropped one wing and hung in my straps and let go of the stick while I took aim and clicked the shutter. It came out fine.^[14]