MOROCCO - ZAGORA
PART 5 of 8
Our next destination is the desert Erg-Chigaga near Zagora city. After passing the Atlas Mountains the landscape changes drastically. Huge open areas, dry soil in terracotta tones with little vegetation and rare oases. I have never been to a desert before, so I was exited to see one for the very first time.
Oasis on the road from Hay Almansour Adahbi to Zagora
Abdo on the roof of Kasbah Oulad Othmane.
Abdo is a young man, who is curious about politics and geography. In his free time he loves to write texts for his hip-hop compositions. Abdo would love to travel around the world. For many Moroccan it is not easy to get a visa and not many people in Morocco have the financial possibilities to travel abroad. For some people, even if they have a job in a large city, it is financially tough to visit their parents who live 300km away.
Foum Anagame Pass, Zagora
In Marrakesh we met a man called Moohaa, a berber who has his small tourist office in the old medina. Moohaa immediately connected us with his relative Said, who has a camp in the Erg-Chigaga desert near Zagora town. Erg-Chigaga is a huge deserted area with a few sand dunes and is a part of Sahara Desert. Erg-Chigaga is less known among tourists and usually has much less visitors than the Erg-Chebbi in Merzouga, especially in the winter time.
Said is a hospitable man. He doesn’t talk much and doesn’t try to entertain his visitors as other hosts usually do in touristic hot spots. In his presence you start to feel relaxed and calm too. Emre and I had a feeling that being in Said’s camp was, probably, one of the most authentic cultural experience on our trip. Unfortunately on this journey we didn’t have many opportunities to really get in touch with culture and to know people as it was on our trip to Siberia, where we were living one months with different Shamans. That’s why we are thinking about making another trip to Maghreb in the future to learn more about berber’s culture.
After meeting us in a small village near Zagora, Said guided us the way to his camp driving his old Renault 4 through the desert.
This image was made by me sitting in the drivers seat, pushing the gas pedal and simultaneously holding the camera in front of my eye while Emre was holding the steering wheel.
Odin (on the photo) works in Said’s camp. He was open to us and curious about our stories. After the talking and playing music we all enjoyed the silence of the desert’s night and crackle of the camp fire. From time to time each of us went away from the camp fire into the darkness to enjoy solitude. The night sky was completely free of any artificial light pollution. It was my first long trip without a tripod, so I haven’t done any proper image of the night sky. Instead I simply enjoyed starring into the black infinity. During the winter in the desert the temperature can drop from +18℃ in the daytime to +3℃ in the night. Said had many blankets made of the camel wool. That night was cold. Each of us needed four to five blankets to get warm.
Moroccan’s cuisine is tasty, but the variety is limited. It was an overload of Tajine for us. Almost everywhere we went we had Tajine or couscous. At one point we had a new name for this country - Tajinestan.
Zagora, Erg-Chigaga.
When I was studying design at the FH Düsseldorf I had a professor in the film class Dieter Fuder. Once he told a story about his first experience in the desert and how much he was overwhelmed by the silence that prevailed there. Since then that story never left my mind each time I thought about the desert. Erg-Chigaga was my first experience in the desert. Now I understand what professor Fuder meant. The silence of the desert is beyond the words, its is magical, it is endless and wise.
Zagora, Erg-Chigaga
After Erg-Chigaga we went to explore M'Hamid El Ghizlane and it’s surroundings. M'Hamid El Ghizlane is a small town with 7500 inhabitants and is situated about 100km from Zagora.
With M'Hamid El Ghizlane ends the national highway N9. After M'Hamid El Ghizlane there are no significant settlements only huge deserted sand area that extends to the domain of Algeria.
Our next destination is Tinghir and Erg-Chebbi in Merzouga…
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SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL'S PHOTO 2019 COMPETITION
Today I have received a good news. My photo from the series Shamans Of Siberia won the Survival International’s Photo 2019 Competition. Survival International is an NGO that over 50 years fights for indigenous tribes and nature to survive and resist the negative impact on them from the global industries…
Today I have received a good news. My photo from the series Shamans Of Siberia won the Survival International’s Photo 2019 Competition.
Survival International is an NGO that over 50 years fights for indigenous tribes and nature to survive and resist the negative impact on them from the global industries.
Even if my image is a drop in the ocean, it is still an honor and such a pleasure to know, that my photograph can bring help, raise funds and contribute positively to our Planet and humanity - to me it is the most important award.
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MADRID PERFORMANCE
While photographing it was important for me to think that those images will be used in different formats. So I had to take into consideration how the images can be cropped in the future and where I should leave space for text or logo of the brand…
Client Madrid Performance
Photographs: Yuriy Ogarkov
Assistant: Eugen Onegin
Huge thanks to xFit for the location!
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IRON FIGHTERS
“Iron Fighters” - a muay thai and K1 competition that took place in Castelldefels, Spain.
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RUMBLE IN THE CAGE
In May this year I met a professional MMA fighter Karl Stahl from Bochum, Germany. He took me with him to Bremen, where the fighting event "Rumble in The Cage" took place. Concentration, aggression, effective tactics and luck, the euphoria of victory and sadness of defeat, pain and challenge, sweat and blood all of which are the companions of this sport. I was happy to be there not only because sport is fun to photograph, but also because I love martial arts…
In May this year I met a professional MMA fighter Karl Stahl from Bochum, Germany. He took me with him to Bremen, where the fighting event "Rumble in The Cage" took place. Concentration, aggression, effective tactics and luck, the euphoria of victory and sadness of defeat, pain and challenge, sweat and blood all of which are the companions of this sport. I was happy to be there not only because sport is fun to photograph, but also because I love martial arts.
Rumble in The Cage in the Pier2
Kevin Burmester
Niklas Stolze
Lukas Vesely
Lukas Vesely vs. Koray Cengiz
Utku Sahin vs. Hakan Bozkurt
Johannes Michalik
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ND PHOTO AWARD 2017 - 2nd PLACE
My series "Shamans of Siberia" won the 2nd place in the ND Photo Award 2017 in the category Professionals - People: Travel/Culture.
Today I have received a pleasant email saying, that my series "Shamans of Siberia" won the second place in the ND Photo Award 2017 in the category Professionals - People: Travel/Culture.
Winners also receive a certificate that looks like this
UKRAINIAN FASHION WEEK
Models of Ukrainian Fashion Week
In September this year I have visited my home town Kiev where the Ukrainian Fashion Week took place…
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer GASANOVA - model Tamila Protsenko
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer GASANOVA
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer GASANOVA
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - Model Mira March - hat designer Ruslan Baginskiy
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - Model Mira March
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer YANA CHERVINSKA
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - BOBKOVA
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - PRZHONSKAYA Backstage
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer DOMANOF
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - stylist Riccardo Terzo
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer PRZHONSKAYA
Ukrainian Fashion Week - designer PRZHONSKAYA
Ukrainian Fashion Week
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