GALLERY

Simon has travelled extensively around the world. As a keen amateur photographer, he has captured these images showing the locations which inspire his books.

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PMN 2

A Soviet PMN2 anti-personnel landmine.

Nagorno Karabakh, 2015

Mortar bombs

Afghanistan, October 2014

Truman Trapsh Akhmatovich

Truman's house was badly damaged during the Primorsky explosion. He fled with his wife. When he returned two days later he found the garden littered with high explosive tank rounds.

Primorsky ammunition depot explosion, Abkhazia, 2018

FAB 100 Aircraft Bomb

A hundred kilogram Soviet-Manufactured blast and fragmentation bomb kicked out of the Primorsky ammunition depot explosion in August 2017, one of many aircraft bombs that surround the crater. It sits at the top of a ravine. The river beneath is contaminated with unexposed ammunition.

Tostig in the snow

Durisdeer, Dumfries and Galloway

January 2016

Soviet WW2 poster

Kaliningrad, 2018

Tostig

Tostig is a Siberian Husky

Rock Creek Park, Washington DC, 2009

photo: Dai Baker

Simon Conway

Edinburgh, 2012

Bengali migrants rescued in the Sahara

Western Sahara, 2005

Two Bangladeshis, Arufsindar and Oronmindar, huddle beneath foil blankets, dehydrated and in shock. They have been wandering in the desert for more than eight days. They are being treated by doctors from the Spanish charity Médico El Mundo.

The Bangladeshis paid a people-trafficker in Dakha several thousand dollars each to smuggle them to Europe, but their dream of riches ended in Morocco. They claim they were whipped with belts by soldiers before being abandoned in the desert.

BLU 63, cluster bomb

US manufactured cluster sub-munition

Western Sahara, 2005

M85 submunition

Israeli cluster submunition

Lebanon, 2006

Simon Conway

Khazali, Wadi Rum, 2018

photo: Sarah Smith

Anti-tank mines

Western Sahara, 2005

Misrata Air Force Base

Collapsed bunker at Misrata air force base struck during Operation Odyssey Dawn

Libya, 2012

Marika Jabelle

Libya, 2012

Mabrika Jabelle, IDP, “I want to go back to Tawergha”.

Metal Bridge, Fallujah

Iraq, 2017

University Library, Sirte

The ash of the books in the university library

Libya, 2012

Doug

IED Operator working in Fallujah, 2017

Demining

Clearing mines in Mahar Sarob village in Northwest Cambodia in 1999

photo: Alison Locke

Gaddafi the thief

Graffiti on a wall in Tripoli, 2012

Qahar, HALO Supervisor

Afghanistan, October 2014

Cote D'Ivoire weapons

Weapons collected for disposal

Ivory Coast, 2014

Mohammed, Syria

Mohammed standing outside his father's electronics shop

Kobane, Syria, 2015

Booby-trapped Church

On the banks of the River Jordan

Occupied Territories, 2014

HALO deminer

Mozambique, 2013

"Victory Day" in Stepanakert

HALO survey team leader Marcel Pogossian with his father, his son and his grandson

Nagorno Karabakh, 2015

Kids in the ruins of Kobane

Syria, 2015

Simon and Izmet

Abkhazia 2018.

Plastic bottles filled with home made explosives

Kobane, Syria, September 2015

The explosives are crystallising, expanding and splitting the containers.

Improvised claymores

Improvised directional fragmentation mines

Kobane, Syria, Sep 2015

Amelia

HALO deminer

Mozambique, November 2013

Rozand Roly, Republic of Congo

Rozand Rolly, March 2012

She was having breakfast in her house when the first explosion happened. She thought it was a plane crash and rushed outside to see what happened. It was very dark and after the second explosion the house fell down. Her neighbour had a baby that died. They ran in every direction and she left behind her one-year old baby. She came to the cathedral and remained there until 4pm when she returned to the ruins of her house and found the baby alive and crying in the rubble.

Mpila Ammunition Depot explosion

Republic of Congo, 2012 Mpila ammunition depot explosion, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

The School of the Revolution

Lycee de la Revolution (School of the Revolution).

Mpila ammunition depot explosion, 2012

If the explosion had happened on a Monday (instead of Sunday) this school would have been packed with 5,000 children.

Superman and friends

Kobane, Syria, 2015

Simon Conway in Cambodia

In a minefield in northwest Cambodia. 2018.

Leaving Wadi Rum village

Climbing Um Ishrin, April 2018

Wadi Rum

Jordan, April 2018

Simon Conway

Khazali, Wadi Rum, 2018

photo: Sarah Smith

IEDs in Iraq

Parallel rows of improvised mines stretching for 6 kilometres beneath the pylon lines

Fallujah, Iraq, 2017

Simon Conway & Tostig

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GALLERY

See all of Simon's photography on his Flickr account