MOROCCO

المغرب

A series of photographs depicting everyday life in Morocco

Kingdom of Morocco - 2010


Village Life

Village boy and his radio.

Mother and her children

A father enjoys some shade in the hot sun-baked afternoon

A boy, his mother and the beloved family mule return from a trip to the village water well

Brothers share the hash pipe

Sahara Life

Sahara Berber nomad leading some of his camels through the dunes

Hamza - a nomad Berber raising his family next to a Sahara oasis

Hamza's son outside their desert house

Hamza strolling through his beloved Sahara

In conversation with Hamza's nearest neighbour, a few kilometers away

Hamza enjoying good conversation with fellow nomads during a desert thunderstorm

City Life

The graveyard overlooking the city of Fez

The Fez tannery

Ali, one of the Fez tanners, takes a small break from the backbreaking work

A young boy coloring the leather with yellow dye at the Fez tannery

Shearing the wool from the skins before tanning them

The tanners of Fez sell their leather to artisans who convert it to items like handbags, sandals and pencil cases

A family sits down for tea


Photographs © Sam Asaert - 2010