Dan Steele

Photographic Colourist

December 14, 2022

RAF serviceman stands against the sandbags of an aircraft revetment

1942, somewhere in the Western Desert theatre, an RAF serviceman stands against the sandbags of an aircraft revetment.

Colour by Dan Steele
“The Western Desert 1942: A Royal Air Force officer wearing a cap with his arms folded, portrayed against the sandbags which were the universal building material of the desert.” Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1342

In Cecil Beaton, North Africa, WW2

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