[Leica] National Portrait Gallery (London)

[daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)]

There's an interesting exhibit going on now:

"Off the beaten track: three centuries of women travellers"

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/offtrack.asp

I can't find it on the web, but it even includes either Gertrude Bell's or
Freya Stark's Leica (southern Yemen, other mid-east travels).

"Well known twentieth-century women travellers, Gertrude Bell and Freya
Stark, both travelled in the Middle East and Arabia. Both were superb
travel writers and took photographs. Freya Stark's images of southern
Yemen are displayed in the exhibition and are particularly beautiful.
Bell lived in Baghdad, founding the Museum there, having been closely
involved in the political and geographical decisions that created the
modern state of Iraq. In the previous century, Jane Digby also chose to
live in the Middle East. After a stormy divorce and many love affairs she
found her final husband in Syria, a Bedouin Sheikh young enough to be her
son, and joined his tribe in the deserts around the ruined city of
Palmyra, shown here in one of her watercolours."

Daniel