One moment in the Medina (getting lost and found in Marrakech

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 5 photos

I believe in the power of photography to assist development. I take images to tell stories for the quiet voices, document cultures and explore the world one frame at a time.

These set of images were taken in Marrakech earlier this year. I allowed myself a late afternoon to get utterly lost in the alleys of the city. Instead of taking a photo with a snake charmer or buying a lamp, my favourite souvenir I took home was the memory of this quiet afternoon, in the shade of the enormous Medina walls, playing a makeshift game of Football with two local boys, Yousef and Jamal. I did not know any Arabic, the boys knew no English, yet we found a common language in laughter. Laughing firstly at each other when they saw the photos i was taking and secondly at me when they discovered I could not kick a ball to save myself. when the sun had disappeared they led me back through the maze of alley ways and said goodbye with a simple handshake.