HORSE, MAN & FIRE
This book grew out of a long immersion in Tbourida, a Moroccan equestrian tradition where collective mastery, the power of movement and ancestral memory come together. Rather than taking a folkloric or purely documentary approach, it offers a resolutely aesthetic interpretation, exploring the tensions, ruptures and symbolic force of this practice.
The photographs were taken in the thick of the action, amid speed and gunfire. There, light becomes architecture: it sculpts bodies, reveals dust and smoke, isolates a gesture and heightens the moment. The scene shifts from documentary reality toward an almost painterly dimension.
Conceived as an immersive and contemplative object, the book alternates full-page images with visual pauses, giving the eye time to enter the very substance of movement and fire.
Part of this work has been shown in exhibitions in Rabat, Paris, London, Berlin, Milan, Dubaï and Tokyo, a sign of the international interest in this photographic research into one of Morocco’s most emblematic traditions.
HORSE, MAN & FIRE
Printing: Escourbiac
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Extent: 136 pages
Cover: Hardcover
Paper: Pergraphica Rough Natural 150 gm
Edition: Limited Print (500 copies)
Retail price: €60
