I am Morocco.I am part of the world.
I am a visual thinker so my life is divided into significant and insignificant images. I want to integrate meaning into my photography. I try and give purpose to my images. The first place that I will photograph starts in Morocco and it is the ancient city of Marrakech. My heart rushed with adrenaline as I booked my trip. I crave of capturing the souks, the city pace, the artisans, the carpet makers, the leather craftsmen, the escaping sand in the Sahara desert. Every grain has a story worth listening to. 
My childhood memories start to shape up and Aladdin springs to thought and form. The 1001 nights wrap up into a flare before my eyes and I can hear Scheherazade singing into a strange language I cannot compel to understand. I hopelessly fall victim to the charms of myth and history. Any city’s richness is valued by the things it lacks of. In a place where rain has lost its reign, water becomes as important as gold. Although, through the Saharan Desert water comes by as a mirage in the eyes of the old caravan travelers there are such places called oases, where everything changes. 
I think of Marrakech as a place out of time that can express human nature under a different point of view, a place that is not about possessing but about sharing, a place where the mountains of Atlas watch over you while the Sahara Desert lures you into an oasis of tranquility ,a place where the palm trees are the story tellers and people are the listeners… a place where you fall in love with simplicity….a place that changes your heart. I hope it will give my viewers the so called editors view. The ability to be part of my project and judge for themselves. I will never be more of myself than in these images. They are my maps of humanity. And they are all to be true. 
In my industry, we believe that images can change the world. I know some of you might consider this childish or even immature not to mention unrealistic. The truth is that we know that the images themselves don't change the world, but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography, images have provoked reactions in people, and those reactions have caused change to happen. 
We're looking for images that shine an uncompromising light on crucial issues, images that transcend borders, that transcend religions, images that provoke us to step up and do something -- in other words, to act. So when we are confronted by a powerful image, we all have a choice: we can look away or we can address the image. 
Society's problems can't be solved until they're identified. On a higher plane, the press is a service industry, and the service it provides is awareness. 
Every story does not have to sell something. There's also a time to give. 
That was a tradition I wanted to follow. I would like to take you on a visual journey through the kingdom of Morocco starting with the fast paced city of Marrakesh ,going over the Atlas Mountains towards the Sahara Desert and back to the relaxing seaside of the Atlantic Ocean in the old port-city of Essaouira. Photography carries a power that holds up under the relentless swirl of today's saturated, media world, because photographs emulate the way that our mind freezes a significant moment. These images are not of issues. They are of people, real people, like you and me, all deserving of the same rights, dignity and respect in their lives. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of these many beautiful, mistreated people I've had the tremendous honor of meeting. Did the images change the world? No, but they had a major impact. Images often push us to question our core beliefs and our responsibilities to each other.
I hope that these images have awoken a force.