This is the first photographic project I worked on.

I went on a trip through Morocco with some friends I met in Montreal two years before. We traveled around from Marrakech to the desert to celebrate New Year's Eve; then back to Zagora and Ouarzazate where we stayed for approximately a month.
During this “Ouarzazate journey” I & some friends went on some little trips in the Ourika Valley & Valley of Roses, we organized a little independent music festival in the historic Kasbah of Ouarzazate where my friends ran some workshops during the day and played their music during the night with some guests as Moha Awalou of Aza Band and local Rap band. Insane.
This project is made with several parts to show how my point of view has changed through my journey and how I evolved as a photographer, how I managed this on-going project.
When I arrived in Marrakech I naturally started photographing in vertical for some reasons and I said to myself “Why not photographing this way through all my trip in Morocco ?!” So I did.
It was strangely more comfortable & interesting to photograph this way. I could replace the Man in his whole environment, isolate every character in this vertical rectangle that feels tighter than horizontal, adding more of the ground and the sky below and above them.
Vertical shots also remembered me Raymond Depardon’s book “Errance” which was the really first photography book I read. I was astonished by the vertical black & white pictures, it is like entering in another world.

This little serie is a mix of little walks I did in Zagora and along the artificial lake in Ait Kdif neighbourhood in Ouarzazate, chasing shadows and silhouettes.