A Day of Photography Essaouira

18/04/2024

Do we have spiritual guardians?

Nepal 2015

Pokhara

Answers on a postcard

29/03/2024

Standing
on the top of the world.
I see sea
Dark blue
Waves
like
white horses
galloping

25/03/2024

Some are Born Young at Heart
Being the youngest of three I was naturally inclined to young at heart. To where those genes.
Apart from a spell when I was 17, wearing ties and drinking whiskey, I have always been young at heart.
I look at the years between 20 and 30 when I spent large spells hospitalised, as I time of being loved like a child, with all the attention of those nurses and doctors.
I have had no time to grow up.
And a year after leaving hospital with the green light, I was hired by a travel company to photograph their 5 star hotels and destinations.
Like any child addicted to sweets, I made sure the job lasted.
And it did for 10 years.
Ive never followed the yellow brick, playing the games of the devil.
These days I am living and prospering, wise and always young at heart.
Photography has helped me, fed my mind and soul, given me the love of a good woman, the icing on the cake.

25/02/2024

25/02/2024

The Call to Prayer

21/02/2024

10/02/2024

The Last A Day of Photography Essaouira

The sun follows the rain. Lighting up the puddles.
Magic.
And its warm.
What a last blast out and about!
Click clock
Click clock

09/02/2024

I Can See Clearer Now

Behind me we have all the s**t piled up on the beaches by the industrial zone.
A small community resides by the rocks.

Ahead lies the last of the abandoned factories, expanse beyond till you get to the small enclave of Moulay Bouzerktoun,

Clear.

Essaouira will end very shortly.

I am feeling melancholic as the rain lashes across the town today.

Yesterday was a million miles away.

09/02/2024

Messages from Bottles

09/02/2024

Im listening to Max Richter, whilst editing this series from yesterday by the dunes.

A lonely lady appears
Making her way home
Moving slowly

08/02/2024

How different?

Walking down the street on a busy afternoon in Brixton.

Getting all Cosmopolitan

And Vanity

Promenading

La Passagiata

07/02/2024

It was a passing shot, taken in the cozy den of Harira with Aziz. I have removed the clutter around him, leaving the focus on his expression. He seemed lost, or disturbed.

07/02/2024

Taking a trip back in time to my days staying at the Hotel Smara and the relationship I built with the community of sae gulls that passed by the terrace. Jimmy, with his bad left leg, was a great companion, along with the coffee, and as ever, my camera.

06/02/2024

Rediscovery

I found the picture!

It wasn't taken with a camera.

And it came under a file deep in one of external hard drives.

The hours spent scouring my archives.

Deep as they are.

Now the story can be revealed.

It was taken in May 2019

I spent the last week in La Skala Nouveau district of Essaouira in the apartment of my dear friend Milouda and her family.

The area has fascinating architecture and sits against the sand dunes north of the Medina.

It is otherworldly.

Mad Maxian

That was then just as I was preparing to start my life in Quebec.

I love this image.

More now because it can't be reproduced.

In the years leading up to now, the area has developed.

Spaces filled in for new faces.

I wanted this picture to be in the book.

And despaired.

I tried to replicate but the light was not the same, here in the winter months. Something similar maybe. But alas I had to accept that Essaouira had moved on.

But STOP lets consider the picture. There are no people as far as the ye can see. How can that be when the picture was not taken at sunset, when you might have a clear street.

So. Thats the story behind the picture that returned from the past.

06/02/2024

On Top of the World

The Prodigal Birds

The Gladiators of the Sky

05/02/2024

Amine is Tuareg.
He is 18 and already has a young child.
He caught my attention standing at the steps leading down and out from a small cafe in the market near to Bab Doukala.
We had a chat and I thought he might want some shots for his profile page on fb.
You just never know.
Peace Love and Joy