Posts Tagged ‘northern africa’

Lane around Al Karaouine Mosque, Medina of Fez, Morocco

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

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 [...]

Blue lane in the Medina of Larache, Morocco

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 [...]

Boy playing football, Medina of Rabat, Morocco

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

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

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

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

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, Medina of Fez, Morocco

Prickly pears sellers talking to each others in the Medina of Fez.

Medina of Sousse, Tunisia

Medina of Sousse, Tunisia

Lane in the Medina of Sousse, Tunisia

Tanner at work, Chouara tannery, Fez, Morocco

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

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, 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 [...]

Lane in the Medina of Tetouan, Morocco

Lane in the Medina of Tetouan, Morocco

Lane and view over the Medina and the Rif mountains, Tetouan

Souk in the Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco

Souk in the Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco

Oud guitars in the scrap dealer area of the Medina.

Health care product seller, Marrakesh, Morocco

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 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

Street restaurant in the medina of Fez, Morocco

Inside a street restaurant waiting for my kebab, Fez

Coffee shop bar, Marrakesh, Morocco

Coffee shop bar, Marrakesh, Morocco

Moroccan man having a coffee in the early morning, Marrakesh