Fez

Where

NORTH AFRICA LOCATOR

Morocco in North AfricaMOROCCOSPAINNORTH AFRICAAtlantic OceanMediterranean SeaFez500 kmN

MOROCCO DETAIL

Fez, MoroccoMOROCCOAtlantic OceanRabatCasablancaMarrakechFez300 kmN

Description


Fez sits in northern Morocco and centres on Fes el-Bali, a walled medina recognised by UNESCO.

The tanneries — Chouara and its neighbours — are the working heart: dye pits, leather workers, colour and steam.

The streets are a maze: stone alleys, carved doors, tilework, markets that run late, light cutting across at odd angles.

These frames focus on the tanneries and the old town — craft, texture, and daily trade rather than set-piece monuments.

Date taken

June 2013

Tools used

Olympus EM-5
Panasonic 7-14mm f4
Olympus 45mm f1.8
Olympus 75mm f1.8
Traditional tannery with workers processing hides in colourful dye pits.Fez tannery with numerous colourful dyeing vats, workers, and old city buildings.Worker in a traditional tannery vat, surrounded by hides and coloured liquids.Tannery workers standing in large, liquid-filled vats, processing hides.Tannery workers processing hides in numerous colourful vats.Fez tannery workers among numerous pits of colourful dyes and animal hides.Overhead: children playing with a white lamb on a cobbled street.Fez, Morocco: Crowded city rooftops, a white minaret, and numerous satellite dishes.Crowded Moroccan city rooftops with satellite dishes and laundry drying.Densely packed white and terracotta buildings, with a distant communication tower.Man in robe smiling, watering plants on blue tiled patio with pool.Children walk arm-in-arm down a narrow market street with people and textile stalls.Smiling woman in pink headscarf posing before ornate Moroccan building.Man sits in leather goods shop; two people peer from upper opening.Woman in blue dress walks down steps past a leather goods stall.Back of an elderly person wearing a red fez, hands holding keys at a door.Three women in headscarves and robes in a narrow, old alley.Elderly man in brown robe with white beard and walking stick in a narrow street.Woman walks past men sitting on steps in a narrow, old street.Person in striped hoodie riding a donkey, another donkey, in an alley.Silhouetted figures walk down a narrow, wet alley towards a bright exit.
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