Signed; Harry Gruyaert - Maroc - 2013

Gruyaert has returned again and again to the places that have fascinated him, trying each time to capture images evoking the same emotions and curiosity as his initial trips. In the 1970s, he journeyed through Morocco many times in a Volkswagen camper van, notable stops along the way ranged from the High Atlas Mountains and the desert, to the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean shore. “The way I work might seem rather like scouting for locations, in the filmmaking sense,” writes Gruyaert, “but most of all it reflects an obsession: the quest to relive a memorable moment in a place I have visited before a longing to experience again with greater intensity.”