About

Elizabeth (Bizzie) Frost FRPS
Elizabeth (Bizzie) Frost FRPS
Welcome to my website.

I am from Kenya and grew up in Kericho, the major tea growing area of the country. After training as a secretary and then as a nurse, I fell in love with photography and decided to become a freelance photographer in Nairobi, learning my craft by reading as much as I could, and by trial and error.

In 1984, my husband, Richard, accepted a job with Saudi Arabian Airlines and, with our two young children, we moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We had originally planned to live there for a few years, but left 31 years later in April 2015. I continued with my photography in Jeddah, and also became a freelance journalist. I wrote mainly for the Saudi Gazette national newspaper, but also contributed to the Arab News, Ahlan Wasahlan (the Saudia inflight magazine) and HOG Tales (the Harley Owners Group magazine in the UK.

During our years in Saudi Arabia, photography evolved from being more or less forbidden to a phenomenon that the authorities couldn't control because of the advent of smartphones. Suddenly, millions of people on the street had a camera on hand and everyone became a photographer. This made street photography (one of my favourite genres) so much easier for me—although the camera I was using was a conspicuous large Nikon D3 or Nikon D800E. Because of this, I was still regarded with some suspicion, but the fear of being arrested was much less. I found that people in the street, or on the Corniche, including women (veiled or unveiled) didn't usually object to being photographed. I sometimes asked people to give me their email addresses so that I could email a photo to them, especially if the image was of a family with young children. Since leaving Jeddah, I really miss the time I spent taking photographs either in the Old Town or on the Corniche or exploring the designated walking/jogging areas of the City.

There is also a section entitled "Journey with my Wheelchair", the project that I did following a botched back operation in January 1999 in Jeddah. It resulted in a spinal cord injury and having to use a wheelchair, and eventually learning to walk very slowly with a walking stick. This project earned me my Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellowship of the Disabled Photography Society.

In 2005, following my spinal injury, we bought a Harley-Davidson Road King to add some adventure to our lives. Please check out the section with photos of some of our motorcycling trips. My book "Travels with Maridadi—Harley-Davidson Adventures in Saudi Arabia" is being published on 28 March 2023. The paperback version will be available in the UK on Amazon and major bookstores, and several European Amazon sites, as well as Amazon Australia. The ebook will be available worldwide. Please buy a copy and join us on some of our amazing rides around Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. A quote by the renowned author Robert Lacey: "Here’s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seen in a fresh and magical way — from the back of a Harley! Bizzie has brought the region's mountains, deserts and people to life in a bright and sharp book like no other."

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