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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixteen: Story-telling street photography > Moment in the square, Place Jemaa el-Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2006
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26-DEC-2006

Moment in the square, Place Jemaa el-Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2006

This square is at the heart to Marrakesh. It teems with life. I was photographing this overloaded wagon as it rumbled across the square towards me. Suddenly, two children, who had been walking behind their mother, began to spontaneously play with each other. They look as if they could be dancing, but they are really engaged in a game of push and shove behind their mother’s back. They don’t even acknowledge the huge wagon passing only a few feet away from them. I like the incongruous contrast between the happy kids and the not-so-happy men on the wagon. I also like the fact that they appear to be off in a little world of their own – nobody sees them, except the photographer.

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Phil Douglis28-Jan-2007 02:16
Thanks, Tim, for noticing the thematic approach that runs through many of my Moroccan images -- the ages of man. (Hey, you have just given me a good idea for new gallery some day.) As I noted in my caption, this image is built on the incongruous contrast between the joyous children and the not so joyous men on that wagon.
Tim May27-Jan-2007 18:35
So much of your work - especially in these recent set of Moroccan images - a theme of the ages of man - here the children play and right next to them is there future - stolid plodding work.
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