Intimate Morocco

Ludovic Duchadeau Texier’s name is not recorded in Moroccan photography. No photos of him can be found on the internet. Still, his pictures are the most moving among the many recently browsed photo albums of Morocco.


He publishes his pictures not in an album, but in a public exhibition, in the very heart of Marrakech’s old town, on a plank surrounding the location of a demolished house, whose original decoration announces that a skateboard court is being built behind it. On this he has put up the twenty pictures representing the work of twenty years from 1999 to 2019, one for each year.


The photos were apparently taken in a single family. It is nice to see the kids growing up, or the young head of family becoming a worn-down, but loving old man.

Moroccans notoriously dislike being photographed. Even village children protest, shouting when they see the camera. In order to take such beautiful pictures of these five or six persons, it was really necessary for the photographer to have an intimate relationship with them, which he obviously had, so he could follow the changes and constancy of their lives for twenty years.