Tangier Under the rain

Text: Abdelkader Benali. Photography: Rachid Ouettassi.

Let me leap ahead to the conclusion by telling you that Tangier taught me that, in the end, the observer is the one who will be observed. And when we ponder this, who is observing whom, we stand still and feel as if God just took an image of us.

On the day of Resurrection, a bunch of photos will be presented to us: Look, I see you!

Followed by another question:
What are you looking for?

I was looking for Mohamed Choukri.
Mohamed, the man born in Beni Chiker.

I was born in Beni Chiker. Time moves in different directions. It brought him to Tangier, starving for food during the famine years in the Rif. Migration took me to Holland.