This is a retrospective collection of photographs from three years in the life of Dubai, where the author, at that time, lived and worked. Between 1980 and 1983, Dubai was learning to flex its muscles on the world stage; to add modern style to its traditional heritage - but modernity had not yet taken over. Roger's focus in this book is to document that period before Dubai acquired such enormous perspectives that people started to disappear beneath the region's spectacular image.