Tinghir Street Scene - Morocco
by Stuart Litoff
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Tinghir Street Scene - Morocco
Artist
Stuart Litoff
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Photograph - Photograph
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This photo reminds me of the contrasts that characterized my visit to Morocco. In the hour before I took this photo I was inside the store named in the sign in the upper right corner of the photo in the city of Tinghir, or Tinehir, a city south of the High Atlas Mountains and north of the Little Atlas Mountains in southeastern Morocco.
Maison Berber is a rug store with too many incredibly colorful and beautiful handmade rugs to count. After watching demonstrations on rug making, drinking mint tea, and seeing so many beautiful works, I stepped outside to the sloping dirt street leading up to a mosque and saw this boy sitting on a step. The scene was such a gritty colorless contrast to where I had just been that I knew I had to process it as a black and white image.
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May 5th, 2019
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Paul Boizot
Revisiting this great image. The mosque at the end of the street looks in much better shape than the rest of the buildings. So there is another contrast. On a visit in Morocco organised by our hosts, a local person told us that there had been outside money made avaiiable for mosques - not sure if it was from Saudi Arabia, and if it was government money or from a particular religious grouping.
Paul Boizot
Yes, works well as b&w. I have visited Taroudant a few times, so I know what you meant about the contrast and "gritty".
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