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Annie Wright Photography

Travel photography and art projects. Photographer and aspiring nomad.

My work has been exhibited extensively and is included in a number of public art collections. I also work for private and commercial clients that include various travel companies in the Netherlands and the Middle East.

24/03/2023

According to physicist Jack Scudder, portals do exist. "They're places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away." However, portals are difficult to find. Scudder: "Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable, and elusive. They open and close without warning and there are no signposts to guide us in." Conversely, Stephen Hawking viewed black holes as being portals where, in his view, you’d be unlikely to be able to travel back again, thus making this form of photographing portals an improbable option.

Less out of this world is the literary use of doors as portals, such as The Wizard of Oz and C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where a wardrobe has no back and opens out onto Narnia, a completely different and magical world. Another example involves near death experiences such as a sense of well-being, traveling towards a bright light and encountering deceased loved ones.

Over the last year I have been photographing portals as terrestrial entrances to the uncanny that are out of touch and out of time. The example above is an abandoned house that holds its secrets close and where its contents, if any, are now hopelessly irrelevant and dated. These are places that make you shudder, that evoke a feeling of time travel and from where, deep down, you know you may never find your way back home again.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html

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10/02/2022

Honoured that my photo book, The Old Kasbah of Illigh, and Bert Hogervorst's The House of Illigh are to be included in the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a Jewish organisation founded in 1860 with the mission of safeguarding the human rights of Jews around the world.

Located on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara, Illigh was once a power centre on the Trans-Saharan trade routes stretching from Timbuktu to Europe. Together with gold, ivory and ostrich feathers, enslaved black people were brought to Illigh where they were bought and sold. Their descendants still live there and allowed me to photograph them for my book, which also focuses on the noble and historic Aboudmiaa family, the surrounding community and the Kasbah’s architecture. It is the first, in-depth photographic exploration of Illigh.
Bert Hogervorst's The House of Illigh comprises richly illustrated, French or English contributions from 14 authors varying from a student's experience of Illigh in 1980 to an essay on the Jews of Illigh and a graphic article starting with 17th century Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter's quest to free Dutch sailors imprisoned in Illigh.

The Old Kasbah of Illigh is available for €19,95 + p&p, The House of Illigh costs €29,95 + p&p, and both books can be bought for the special price of €39,95 + p&p. To purchase, please contact me on Messenger or by sending an email to [email protected]

Illigh’s Jewish cemetery © www.anniewrightphotography.com

13/10/2021

As of 22 October 2021, my photograph of the Moroccan Sahara will be on show in Bergen aan Zee, a North Sea village in the Netherlands. Along with three other photos taken in Ireland, Orkney and Marrakech, this will be my contribution to Artists on Sea V, an annual ten-day art route curated by Gonny van Oudenallen & Anja Swart, both of whom are well known figures in the Amsterdam art world.

The show will be held from 11 am to 5 pm & 22-31 October 2021 in the exhibition spaces of Hotel Mayer, Jacob Kalffweg 4, 1865 AR Bergan aan Zee. It is located opposite the aquarium.
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20/07/2021

Delighted my photo of the Birsay Whalebone will be included in the fourth and final Summer Salon at Arti et Amicitiae, the Dutch fine arts society.

Located on Orkney (Scotland), from the front it's just a few bones of some vast and long dead mammal. But seen from the back, the Birsay Whalebone shape shifts into a bird of prey zoning in on its next meal, an experience that's both repellent and enthralling.

The Summer Salon - HURRAY, SUMMER KEEPS COMING - will be held on the ground floor in Arti's capacious café/restaurant. The show will be open Tuesday to Sunday and from 26 July to 8 September 2021. Opening hours from 12 to 6 pm.

The café is open Monday to Friday and from 12.30 to 5 pm; it's reasonably priced and there's a different menu every day.

Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, 1012 LB Amsterdam, 020-6245134.

https://www.arti.nl/

07/06/2021

Delighted that my book, The Old Kasbah of Illigh; Photography by Annie Wright, has just been published by Maison de la Photographie de Marrakech & Cultural Heritage Publications. Located on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara, Illigh was once a power centre on the Trans-Saharan trade routes from Timbuktu through the desert and on to Europe. Together with gold, ivory and ostrich feathers, enslaved black people were transported to Illigh where they could be bought and sold. Some of their descendants still live there and have let me photograph them. This includes women, who frequently conceal their identity behind a veil.

What I didn’t know beforehand is that The Old Kasbah of Illigh is the first, in-depth photographic exploration of Illigh and therefore a scoop. It’s on sale for €19,95 at Arti et Amicitiae’ s UPDATE I exhibition in Amsterdam, in which many of my Illigh photos are included. The book can also be purchased for the same price, plus postage and packaging, by contacting me through Messenger.

The Old Kasbah of Illigh, full colour, 54 pages, 28.5 x 20 cms, 2021

UPDATE I – New Members’ Work,  5 – 27 June 2021, Tuesday to Saturday from 12 to 6 pm, Rokin 112, 1012 LB Amsterdam

16/03/2021

For the last three years I have been involved as a cultural heritage photographer in a project about the historic Kasbah of Illigh. Located on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara, this power centre originated in the 17th century and was ruled by the Aboudmiaas, a distinguished local family. They also controlled the Trans-Saharan trade that traveled from Timbuktu through Illigh and the port of Agadir before reaching its destination in Europe.

Through the gates of Illigh came not only gold, ostrich feathers and gum but also a human cargo: slaves. Some of their descendants – now known as the Isemgene – have remained in the village that surrounds the Kasbah, where the Aboudmiaa family also still resides. The above photo is of Sa’adia bint Mbrak. She is a close friend of mater familias Lalla Fatima Aboudmiaa. Sa’adia’s father, Mbrak, taught Lalla Fatima’s children to read the Qu’ran.

My job here was to record the Kasbah’s extraordinary architecture along with the surrounding landscape and, of course, its inhabitants.

Corona permitting, from May 29 to June 27 2021 these photos will be featured in the New Members Exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, a Dutch art society and a hub for artists and art lovers in Amsterdam.

My photo book 'The Old Kasbah of Illigh' is also in the process of preparation and will be published by the Maison de Photographie à Marrakech (Morocco). Needless to say I feel very honoured.

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