With her head covered by a scarf instead of a helmet, this Marrakesh commuter enjoys her own transportation to and from the job. The contradiction here is the clash between the traditional costume of the woman and her free wheeling approach to commuting. Many Islamic women in Morocco do not wear traditional costumes such as this. To find one that does sitting on a motorbike is the opposite of what we might expect to find. She was chatting with a friend while I made this image – a moment later she departed in a roar of exhaust fumes. The street was too crowded for me to get a clear shot of her burning rubber – it would have been even more contradictory.