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I take this photo in Sahara desert, last June. You can see a very old

Camel left by his owner to die near a water tank. I used a Mamiya 645

AFD camera with Kodak Tri-X 400 Asa, developed in HC-110, dilution g

due hard light.

Aziz, the Berbere Touareg from Sahara desert, north of Africa. Take

this portrait in lateral open window natural light. Warm tones came

from the "ocre" colours of the walls, typical mud walls from Sahara

villages. Aziz have Berbere Touareg origins from sub-saharian Africa.

This is a photo from a berbere lady from the UNESCO well known Kasbah

in Morocco. This lady spend his life in "tapis" and "kilims"

handicraft production. I take this photo inside her home. ligth cames

from a hole in the roof, tipical in Arab houses. No electrical power

here.

I found this gentleman in Marrakech "souks". He is a wool dyer and

spend his life in this environment. As is a inside shoot i used only

the light from an open door, very low available light, so some

movement is added to the photo.

This is berber boy that belongs to a family of Gnaua music performers.

He lives in Sahara desert, south of Morocco in Algerian border. I take

this photo last June inside his home, near a window to modelate te

human element with incident lateral light. Hope you like it.

Nomad grandmother and grandson in Sahara desert. Caption from June of

2011. It´s about 47ºC outside, i use side light from a semi-open door

to modelate human elements.

Taked with medium format camera 6x7 with Kodak Tri-X 400 Asa film in

2009, center of Portugal. It´s part of "Rural Moments" project. It´s a

lady, she takes the sheeps every day to high mountains.

Another moment in Sahara desert, at sunshine.

Berbere people loves see the sunshine as a end of a day and time to

pray to God.

This is a moment captured in Sahara desert in south of Morocco, during

sunset.

Remember me the Three Kings from holly bible.

Hope you like it.

This photo was taken at Erg Chebbi, Morocco, during sunset. Human

element is my friend Joseph, son of a great friend of me. Light is

very good, filtered from the Iceland Vulcano ashes cloud that affects

Morocco in May of 2010 and stops all flights from south Morocco airports.

Hope you like it.

A great great documentary image, full of mood and telling us many things about rural lifes in deep winter.
Congratulations, Orhan !

I found this little girl in Sahara Desert in a Berbere nomad camp near

Rahmlia. She cames to me with that eagle under his arm, and my berbere

guide and translator tells me the eagle is little girl pet. I take

some pictures of girl and all the time the eagle try to atack me to

protect his little owner, the girl.

Encenated study about the danger of polution in near future. Shoted in

medium format BW film Kodak Tri-X 400 and Mamya RZ67 PROII.

Hope you enjoy it.

A encenation in a old factory. Used film Kodak Tri-X Pan 320, Mamiya

RZ67 PROII and 90mm/f3.5 lense. Available natural light. Film

developed in TMAX 1:4 and scanned in Epson V700. Hope you like the

great tonal gama of Tri-X Pan.

Another work from my project "Rural Moments".

Taked in B&W medium format film 6x4,5 Ilford 400 Asa

I hope you like the moment.

Scanned from medium format BW film. One from my "Rural Moments" series.

Hope you like it.

This photo is part of my "Rural Moments" collection and project, taked

in medium format 6x7. Scanned directly from film and no manipulation,

except some dust removal. This old lady is from a rural comunitarian

village in countryside of Portugal and was taked in 2008.

I take this portrait in Meknes, in april. The white spots in head of

model are natural. This gentleman is a weaver of real Berber rugs and

carpets.

Made in medium-format 6x7 with Kodak Tri-X 400 film.

Yossef is the masculin element of a nomad tribo in Shara, but the

tribo is ruled by his mother, this is a rare case of matriarchy in

muslim tribos. This photo has taken with direct sunlight reflected in

orange mud walls of the Saharian villages.

This is Sheik Jamal Ibn Mohamad, guardian of Ait Benn Haddou, in Morocco.

Portrait made with Mamiya RZ 6x7 PROII, lense 110mm/f2.8 and film

Kodak Tri-X 400 . The light came from open door. I take this photo

when i drink a tee after Mohamad invites me.

Young nomad in Sahara desert, tired afer participated with his family in

a drum show.

film : Kodak TRI-X 400

Joseph, son of my friend Sheik Abdul Rhamadan.

I meet Joseph when he have 6 y.o., now he was a adult and his father

send it to me to be my guide in Sahara.

Old ancient Women from Montemuro Mountains, other photo for my project

"Rural Moments". In medium format 6x7, Ilford film.