Harry Gruyaert - Morocco

The expression of a spell.

Since his first trip to Morocco in 1972, Harry Gruyaert has returned again and again, in search of the initial shock he felt: a splendid harmony between shapes, colors, the everyday gestures of people and nature. From the High Atlas to the desert, from the countryside to Marrakech, Fez, Essaouira or Erfoud, Gruyaert's images are imaginary theaters that express the spell that this country has exerted on him for over 50 years. But his photographs are also paradoxically very physical. "Making a photograph means both seeking contact and refusing it, being the most there and the least there at the same time. In the field, it's a real 'fight' with reality, a kind of trance to record an image or perhaps miss the whole thing. It's in this struggle that I find myself at my best.

Morocco is the expression of this particular tension, halfway between exaltation and rapture.

29 x 23,5 cm
Hardback
208 pages
120 photographs
ISBN : 978-2-84597-976-5

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