Morocco

Morocco - the name of this North African country conjures up romantic images of exotic Marrakesh, the casbah in Tangier or Fez, colourful marketplaces, and mysterious veiled women. No American writer is more closely identified with Morocco than Paul Bowles, who travelled there with his wife, Jane, in the 1930s and remained as a famous expatriate for many years. In 1991, San Francisco-based photographer Barry Brukoff travelled to Morocco to meet Bowles and encourage him to provide a text to accompany Brukoff's photographs of the country. Brukoff's photographs capture the look and feel of North African light, the brilliant colour of Arab mosaics, the characteristic shapes of mosque doorways and minarets, the bustle of native markets and the serenity of a desert oasis.