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This is part of an ethnographic photo essay documenting the Berbers of Morocco that has enabled me to draw together my curiosity of visual cultures and their representations. Berbers, also known as Amazighs meaning the "freeborn" are descended from the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live predominantly in the mountainous region of Morocco known as the Atlas mountains. Villages are nestled within the natural beauty of the Atlas mountains the Timazighen people weave brightly coloured carpet, paint their faces hands and feet with natural henna and wear ornate jewellery. Their extraordinary detailed arts are rich in colour symbolism and are created by the women. Their arts continue to be visual expressions of womanhood and fertility and express their ethnic identity. Ultimately I wanted my photographs to introduce a circuit of imaginative energy, beginning a persuasiveness that will provoke and instigate a number of interpretations and inquisitiveness towards their rich long standing culture.
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