Suez is a seaport on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern end of the Suez Canal. This city of 500,000 is an important way station for Muslim pilgrims travelling to and from Mecca, and also was a flash point in the on-going Egyptian revolution. I photograph our passage through Suez here in layers, building the image around the vertical thrusts of its mosque, and well as its power and communications towers. The buoy in the foreground launches the flow of layers from front to back, while the stacks on the approaching tanker, as well as the mountains in the background, complete them.