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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighteen: Light and Landscape – combining personal vision with nature’s gifts > Progress, Tineghir, Morocco, 2006
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21-DEC-2006

Progress, Tineghir, Morocco, 2006

This landscape offers five layers of content, starting with the plowed fields in the first layer, which lead to the palm grove in the second layer. The third layer features the old adobe city, while the fourth layer provides the focal point of the image – new construction, spotlighted by a narrow shaft of sunlight coming though the clouds. The fifth and final layer provides a backdrop of earth and hills. The glow around the new construction implies that better days may be in store for the provincial Moroccan town of Tineghir.

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Phil Douglis25-Jan-2007 23:46
The light, the light, and the light. That is the mantra of photography as both you and I have come to see it. Light embraces the very grammar of the medium, as you point out here. It is doing all of what you say -- all five layers are informed by it. Thanks, as always, for articulating what goes in to making a photograph an idea as well.
Tim May25-Jan-2007 17:37
The light, the light - in this image it is the adjective and the adverb - it creates the glow that satisfies the eye and mind while and benevolently warms the past while it highlights the future.
Phil Douglis24-Jan-2007 05:31
Thanks, Iris --- they can afford to keep their ancient structures around. The land is very cheap in Tineghir and there is a lot of it. In LA, space is at a premium, so the past is readily destroyed. Glad this image can inspire such comparisos, and thanks for the comment.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)24-Jan-2007 01:20
An amazing picture, that, through its layers conveys a story of past and present, old and new in a setting that offers the hope of a bright and productive future. How nice that they don't destroy their historic past to make way for new construction....a mighty lesson for the developers in Los Angeles!
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