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Guir Desert, Morocco A Berber woman breaks a cone of sugar with a brass instrument called a sugar hammer. The cones are about 14 inches tall and at the base about 3 inches in diameter. I don’t know how much … Continue reading
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Tripoli, Libya 1962 Don’t you love those men wearing the toga-like garment? But you can see the young men want to wear western clothes. Once I was met in Casablanca by a Berber driver from Merzouga. He wore a chech (turban) and … Continue reading
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Morocco’s Erg Chebbi 2000 The sun was setting. Three Berber men from a nearby village strolled toward the dunes. I shot this from the vehicle window. Luck. It happens.
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Morocco 2003 I used to help a Berber family with their fledgling tourist business. They responded by trying to think of places to take me where I would find interesting photographs. We drove into the desert from Rissani where two … Continue reading
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Morocco: On the Route des Kasbahs 2002 The urn-like kilns of the Haratine potters are visible from the highway: the famed Route des Kasbahs that threads from the Erg Chebbi to Ouarzazte. I always wanted to see the potters at work but my timing was … Continue reading
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Ouarzazate Morocco: some time in the late 1990’s There are several old kasbahs on the opposite side of the river from the town of Ouarzazate. A crumbled village sits behind the crumbled Kasbah and that is where this woman is … Continue reading
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Tripoli, Libya 1961 I visited Essaouira, Morocco in 1995 and, except for the men in the background wearing the red skullcaps, this scene from Libya in 1961 is nearly identical. The women of Essaouira wear a white haik (sheet like covering) and … Continue reading
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Morocco 2009 A laborer wrings out a hide that has been soaking in a red dye. Not many Moroccans have a muscular build like this man. I think his body is a testament to hundreds of hides that have had … Continue reading
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Morocco 1998 When ever a guest arrives, a Moroccan will immediately make tea. If the guests are men, a man will do the honors as this man is doing. If the guests are women or family, the woman of the … Continue reading
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Imilchil, Morocco 2000 Every year there is a Marriage Festival at Imilchil, a village in the High Atlas Mountains. The idea of a marriage festival draws tourists but the chance to buy, sell and trade draws the Berbers who are known … Continue reading
