Sheltering Skies over Morocco

“I was recently reminded of Morocco in the late 1980s and of a haunting photo I once took there of a young girl stoically looking out over a river in a dry valley.” Fortunately, I could find the 38 year old film negatives from the Morocco trip in one of my film archive binders. I took this photo and a series of others during a short trip in Morocco and in that respect it was a kind of wild introduction to North Africa. We traveled with a small car (Renault 4) and I photographed with a Minolta CLE and 40mm and 28mm rokkor lenses. Kodak 400 T-max film. ‘Moroccan Girl’ is my modest salute to photographer Steve McCurry’s ‘Afghan girl’ photo and the film/book ‘The Sheltering Sky’ but in a different way of course.