A photo from my Leica Akademie trip to Morocco last October. It has been published on the blog previously in colour but I recently converted it to monochrome using Nik 8 Silver Efex and I feel that it is stronger in monochrome. It was taken with my Leica Q3 43
The photo was taken in Tangier on the very first day of the trip. A small group of us wandered out from the Hotel De France looking for photo opportunities.
It was Sunday morning and most shops were only just opening but by ducking up a flight of steps off the road to the medina we came across a square which is home to a number of very small and rather dingy carpet weaving workshops. We're not talking $3000 Afghans here, just everyday rugs and carpets.
The old weaver in the photo seemed pleased to let me take his photo. and I'm pleased with the result-particularly the lighting. Today I have just entered it into the portrait category of a major local photocomp.
I was prompted to take another look at this photo after looking through a book-A lifetime of Looking-by Jane Bown. She was a photographer for the UK Observer Sunday newspaper for many years. Her forte was portraits but she had a superb eye and photographed many significant events in the UK right through to the 1990s.
She was verging on the eccentric and many a celebrity she was sent to photograph was confused when a small lady turned up with a battered Rolleiflex camera in a shopping bag. Her work-almost all in monochrome-is still fresh and superb. She published a number of books and a few, including A Lifetime of Looking, are available from Amazon.
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