East and West
A photographic journey to some of
the places shaped by a centuries long conflict
The fault line between East and West has ebbed and flowed over the last
2 thousand years. The West’s power has reached at times all the way
into modern day Israel and at other times it was stopped at the Danube River.
The ideas of the East still have a foothold in South Eastern Europe. Today
we see Turkey as the place where West becomes East, but that fault line
has changed over the years. From Central Europe to the deserts of the
Middle East, lay memories, ruins, and legacies of the millennium long
conflict between East and West.
Over the last millennium the border dividing East
and West has ebbed and flowed over Europe and the Middle East. Syria,
Turkey, the Balkans and Spain are just a few of the places that were at one
time or another the fault lines between the two. Today these places
still bear the mark of two cultures both peacefully melting together
and at other times clashing on not just battlefields but in the hearts and
minds of the inhabitants. The following does not pretend to be a scholarly
examination of this story but simply a photographic journey to some of the
places that have been influenced by the meetings between East and West.
Images of
Budapest, Hungary
Images of Istanbul, Turkey
Images of Moorish Spain
Syria's Castles
and Palmyra
Color
Images of Syria
Images of Prague
See More Color Images of Syria
Syria in Black and White
See Images of Jordan
See Images of Peru
See Image of Petroglyphs of South Mountain, Phoenix
Some have been cropped electronically.
About Me: nbsp; I am an ex-Histroy teacher who would love to transform my hobby of Travel Photography into summer employment. If
you would like to use any images in this web site in your magazine or web
site;please contact me at kevinrpatterson@hotmail.com
. I also have a large collection of photographs not included in this
web site from other countires such as Mexico, Peru, Jordan, Bosnia, and
Romania.
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