Morocco

            Sunrise over the Atlas/Photo by Mac Privately funded restorations of Tangier's most famous landmarks are helping to return Tangier to its former glory. The Librairie des Colonnes, the...

I spent a couple of days photographing in the old oasis town of Tinejdad, south of the Atlas mountains in Morocco, before continuing on to the edge of the Sahara. Tinejdad is very much the traditional large kasbah -  a large fortified and...

  With an apology to the TG gurus for another shot of my friend, the camel rider, we find him at the huge windblown dunes of Erg Chebbi behind the little town of Merzouga on the edge of the Sahara at the end of his hot working day. His two...

As the dying rays of the sun bathe the fine red sand of the huge windblown dunes of Erg Chebbi behind the little town of Merzouga on the edge of the Sahara , the camel rider and his charges are silhouetted on the skyline. Listening to the call to...

In the heart of the bustling World Heritage site " Jemaa el-Fnaa" square, in front of the elegant Koutoubia mosque, in the centre of Marrakech , you will find lines of these mobile orange juice vendors all jostling to attract your trade for their...

One morning, whilst visiting the World Heritage site of Ksar at Ait Ben Haddou, beyond the Atlas mountains and into southern Morocco's desert region, we awoke to blustery winds that made the fine sand race across the dried river bed - and - these...

I have a 'thing' about interesting doorways, whether it is the colour, texture, shape - whatever. So when I came across this excellent metal door in the little Berber town of El Khorbat during a photo tour into the southern Moroccan desert regions, it...

Met by chance on a visit to the towering Dades Gorges in the south of Morocco, this delightful and photogenic Berber mother is from a nearby nomad encampment. After a few frames, both mother and child are more at ease and their smiles are evident. As...

Snaking precariously up the steep sides of the massive Atlas Mountain range as you leave Marrakech and head up towards the Tizi n'Tichka pass in the southerly direction of Ouazazate, the gateway to the Sahara and the red dunes of the great Ergs ....

  Not much ever gets discarded in Morocco, much less something as sophisticated as a donkey cart. So what terrible fate befell this robust means of transportation to leave it looking so wrecked as it is? Perhaps a crazy burro or cavalier driver...

  Originally from the sub-Saharan ("Sahel") regions of Africa, notably Senegal, the Gwana are ritual musicians who originally came to Morocco as slaves in the 15th and 16th century from the vast Songhai Kingdom that existed across the Sahel...

  Happy New Year 2015 to all Gumbo-ists!! I wish you all health, happiness and prosperity in the coming year.   Today I am delighted to share my meeting with this gentle and friendly Berber nomad from his encampment above the Todra Gorge in...