Max Maujean, Desert man (PEOPLE 2021)

As I walked through the rocky hills of Petra in Jordan and reached the Treasury, I spoted some smoke high up the rock face before noticing a man way up the cliff. After zooming in on him with a 200ml lens to capture this image, my curiosity got the better of me and I took the risky climb to see what he was doing. The shy desert man was boiling water to make a cup of tea.

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