Raid:
raid said:
I have taken photos of people easily in Jordan, so photography in Morocco should not be more difficult. I even took photos of bedouin women.
Not to side-track this thread, but it is a related question:
What about photography in Saudi Arabia?Is it allowed? Is it allowed but difficult?
How about taking photos of people praying?
Marc-A:
Marc-A. said:
Raid, I know that Saudian are pretty sensitive when it comes to photography. I would certainly not take photos of women and people praying, unless it's Hadj.
See Monz Ahmed's pictures.
Best,
Marc
Pablito:
Pablito said:
But there are two sides to everything. I am finishing up now a book of my photographs to be published in 2008 and one of the main themes is religion. There are many photos of people praying, taken in places of worship of various western and non-western belief systems. As part of the working process, I invested a lot of time talking to folks and trying to understand the specifics of their faith. I did not photograph unless I felt I was welcomed into the community of worship. In fact, the act of photographing itself became a sort of recognition and worship. I understood this and my subjects understood this.
This is a very interesting thread.
Some of you may have seen pictures showing the
2006/7 Hajj in my gallery (all taken with a Contax T camera over a 2 week period).
I became interested in photographing the Hajj after seeing the works of Japanese photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi in a magazine in the late 1990's. Recently, I chanced upon a book by Nomachi entitled "A Photographers Pilgrimage" (first published 2005). More info at...
www.globecorner.com/t/t41/20901.php
The book is a gem. I strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in exceptionally dramatic human photography. Not only are the photographs technically brilliant but they are taken and presented in a sensitive way and the accompanying prose is first rate.
Some of the pictures can be found on-line....
www.nomachi.com/index_en.html
Be sure to look under 'galleries'; there is a section on Morocco there.
Here is an account of Nomachi that I found on the web:
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Kazuyoshi Nomachi was born in 1946 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
In 1971 he began his freelance career as an advertising photographer. He turned to photojournalism the following year, at age 25, in the course of his first encounter with the Sahara Desert.
After two years spent photographing the desert, he followed the Nile River from mouth to source and then travelled through Ethiopia, his photographs capturing North Africa's harsh environment and the men and women who live in it.
From 1988 he turned his attention to Asia. Repeated trips to Tibet produced photographs depicting the religious faith and daily lives of people living at extremely high altitudes.
Converting to Islam in order to gain access to Islam's holiest cities, he travelled to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of a Saudi publisher and spent five years photographing the great annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.
The photographs that resulted appeared in leading publications around the world, including National Geographic, Stern and GEO.
He has published 12 photographic anthologies in various countries. His work has won numerous prizes, among them the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 1990 and 1997.
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All the best.
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Monz