TboUrida

This book was born from a prolonged immersion at the heart of the Tbourida, a Moroccan equestrian tradition where collective mastery, the power of gesture, and ancestral memory converge. Far from a folkloric or strictly documentary approach, it offers a distinctly aesthetic reading, exploring the tensions, ruptures, and symbolic force of this practice.

Photographed as close as possible to the action—amid speed and detonations—light becomes architecture: it sculpts bodies, reveals dust and smoke, isolates a gesture, and dramatizes the moment. The scene then shifts from documentary into an almost painterly dimension.

Conceived as an immersive and contemplative object, this book alternates full-page images with visual breathing spaces, allowing the eye time to penetrate the materiality of gesture and fire.