Last month, I was delighted to be asked to be interviewed by F2 magazine who wanted to produce an article about how I started and subsequently developed my career. Below are the results of that conversation:
Photographs Copyright – Richard Southall
Text Copyright – F2 Magazine
The November issue of F2 magazine is out now 
Richard
www.emphasis.biz
www.richardsouthall.co.uk
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A tasteful fish we did ate in Kelibia back in November.
manuel cristaldi has added a photo to the pool:

tunisia november 1977
farmer’s hamlet near gabes
best… tunisia # 6…on black
free tibet…. flickr.com/photos/99398068@N00/2333101045/

It is November 29, 1879 at Charly-sur-Marne (Aisne), was born Ernest Gustave Gobert.
In 1906, he obtained a PhD in Medicine and off for Tunisia. He exercises first in the south of Tunisia before being appointed in 1920, the director of hygiene and public health in Tunisia. Meanwhile, he developed a passion for prehistory and ethnography that give rise to many publications, books and scientific articles and literary works.
Back in France in 1958, he moved to Aix-en-Provence and bequeaths to the Natural History Museum of Aix-en-Provence a collection of artifacts from prehistoric times and a large collection of photography.
In the last two centuries, Tunisian visual archives were done by french and some Germans, at that time when Tunisia was under the French occupation, photography was about showing how France was doing good in a disordered country.
All the photos in [Photos-tunisie-gobert]

Bechi Manoubi was born in November 24,1930 in Tunis he started his career as boxer -He was even Tunisian Boxing champion in 1958- before becoming a sport photographer by 1960, he has been in the major world events as 10 world cups and 12 summer Olympic games and three Mohamed Ali boxing matches, he is believed to the be the most known photographer of Africa.
He used to wear a special clothing making him easily remarkable everywhere he went: the Mexican hat with a several Tunisian flogs and tens of cards covering both his jacket and hat he have been collecting. The whole thing wights 50 Kg that he owe him to get mentioned in the Guinness book. Unfortunately although his great works all along the 60 years of sport photojournalism, he was never rewarded nor locally nor outside the country.
In his testament, Bechir Manoubi asked that:
- Save his archives.
- His costume to be used.
- Keep on his mission thus Hosni ,his son, has taken the flame.
[Bechi Manoubi Official Webiste]
[Bechi Manoubi Official Galleries]
see also http://www.playphone.com
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manuel cristaldi has added a photo to the pool:

tunisia november 1977
bus from gabes to djerba 6.00 a.m.
I was on that………
best… tunisia # 3…on black
free tibet…. flickr.com/photos/99398068@N00/2333101045/
manuel cristaldi has added a photo to the pool:

tunisia november 1977
farmer’s hamlet near gabes
best… tunisia # 2…on black
free tibet…. flickr.com/photos/99398068@N00/2333101045/