Lane around Al Karaouine Mosque, Medina of Fez, Morocco
In the heart of the Medina of Fez, a man is walking in a lane near by Al Karaouine Mosque. About the picture: The photograph was taken in 2010 during my second visit to Fez. It was probably not the first time that I had walked down this lane, but the lines & the geometry [...]
Essaouira Harbour, Morocco
A man is sitting by a lorry parked in Essaouira harbour. As I was leaving the harbour, I noticed the shadows of passers by walking on the peer and the man seated by the lorry. I had to wait for the right people in the right place in order to get the shadow on the [...]
Moroccan Medinas: Between Tradition & Modernity
Surrounded by ramparts, Moroccan medinas are the guardians of historical traditions for both the Moroccan and Muslim cultures. They have a unique character, where a dense and secret life takes place. Their infinite number of tiny lanes, the effects of light and shade, the complexity of their layout and the maze-like lack of visibility are [...]
Tearsheet: Destination Magazine (France): Maroc
Four of my photographs were published in the latest Destination Magazine in France. It is a special Moroccan Imperial Medinas. Three of them illustrate an article about Rabat including one pictures taken during my last journey in October 2011. The other one was taken in Marrakesh. Above & below: All the photographs on top of [...]
Blue lane in the Medina of Larache, Morocco
Medina of Larache, Morocco, 2011 I was stunned by the beauty of the lane, its colours, its patterns and the symmetry of its Moroccan doors. I waited a long time for something interesting to happen to make this picture more alive. Unfortunately the Medina of Larache is a quiet place … and what best identified [...]
A journey through 2011
View the photo slideshow in big Shetland: I started 2011 by travelling to Shetland. I explored the most Northern part of Scotland, hiking through dramatic landscapes in all sorts of weather: strong winds, snow storms, sheets of rain, sun. I was not always fighting the winter elements. I shared a lot of good times with [...]
Boy playing football, Medina of Rabat, Morocco
I was wandering the street of the Medina of Rabat when I stopped in this place to observe two boys playing football. Children playing in the street is not an unusual scene in Moroccan Medinas. Outside their family home, it is in the street that they start socialising in their yearly years. Within the Medina’s [...]
Feeling the horizon, Medina of Tetouan
View over the new town of Tetouan and the Jewish cemetery – 2011 One of the Medina’s characteristic is a lack of space*. A feeling that is sometimes intensified by the tiny lanes and the lack of visibility. Facing the mountainous region of the Rif, the Medina of Tetouan built on the Djebel Dersa slope, [...]
Hammam, Medina of Larache & Fez
Medina of Larache, 2011 – See the photo in large In the Medina of Larache, a Moroccan lady traditionally dressed is entering a home. Opposite is the back door of a Hammam. A traditional public space where men and women go to wash themselves and socialise. Medina of Fez, 2010 – See the photo in [...]
Sunset time in La Skala, Medina of Essaouira
See the photo in large – Print available for purchase A beautiful golden light covers the Skala where a man is walking on the Medina’s rampart. Hidden couples flirt. Street vendors sell crafts. girls chat. tourists takes pictures. The place is one of the favourite spot for foreigners and locals to gather every evening to [...]
On the harbourside of Moulay Hassan square, Essaouira
See the photo in large – Print available for purchase On the harbourside of Moulay Hassan square, seagulls are squawking and roaming endlessly looking for fish remains. The smell is as indescribable as the mood of the place. Here, for a few dirhams some workers spend their whole day cutting and preparing fish to make [...]
Prickly pears sellers, Medina of Fez, Morocco
Prickly pears sellers talking to each others in the Medina of Fez.
Tanner at work, Chouara tannery, Fez, Morocco
Tanner dying skin in brown dye made from ceddar tree, Chouara tannery, Fez
Light and shade, Medina of Chefchaouen, Morocco
Moroccan man traditionally dressed walking in the Medina of Chefchaouen. A picture of Chefchaouen that I edited just a few days ago when revisiting my RAW archive. I am currently planning to go to Morocco next autumn.
School girl and motorcycle, Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco
School girl and motorcycle rider speeding in the Medina of Marrakesh. Earlier this month, Travel Budget, a US travel magazine, contacted me to buy one of my Bolivian images. Yesterday, I received a request for some of my Moroccan pictures from a French Travel magazine . Thanks for that. I am now working on it [...]
Health care product seller, Marrakesh, Morocco
Portrait of Hassan, health care product seller in the Mellah of Marrakesh
Man back from the bakery, medina of Tetouan, Morocco
Man coming back from the bakery. In Morocco, people can go and cook their own bread in their local bakery (or a special local place where people bake bread or cook traditional Moroccan dish in a oven).
Street restaurant in the medina of Fez, Morocco
Inside a street restaurant waiting for my kebab, Fez
Ancient city door, Medina of Chefchaouen, Morocco
Ancient city door and woman walking in the medina of Chefchaouen
