Autostrad
Autostrad is a Jordanian indie band from Amman, formed in 2007, blending rock, reggae, Latin and funk influences with lyrics written in Jordanian Arabic slang about everyday life, love, struggle and self-discovery. Across three albums, Fe Autostrad, Autostrad and Nitrogen, the band built a strong following among Jordanian youth. This portrait-and-performance shoot followed the band through a single session that moved between register and mood: an outdoor group portrait staged against a rugged, rocky backdrop that let each member’s presence read clearly in daylight, candid solo portraits captured between takes as the band settled into character, and a low-lit live shot from a vocal performance, the frontman mid-note under stage-colored light with the rest of the band dissolving into shadow behind him. The set balances the posed and the spontaneous, giving Autostrad a group of images that work equally well as press portraits and as documentation of their stage presence.
Lucaffé – Amore Italiano
Lucaffe began as a small artisan coffee roaster in Italy and scaled quickly, growing from around a million capsules a year to roughly two million a month within about fourteen years, while keeping the standard of a small Italian roaster even as its output reached multinational volume. Its Amore Italiano line carries that identity into a broader food-and-hospitality brand. The shoot combined restaurant-style food photography with product-focused espresso shots: plated dishes styled and lit the way a menu or social feed would need them, shot close enough to show texture and garnish, alongside tight shots of espresso pulling from the machine bearing the Lucaffe name, the crema forming in real time under the portafilter. The pairing was deliberate, treating the coffee itself as a dish worth the same attention as anything coming out of the kitchen.
Grand Prix Lalla Meryem de Tennis
The Grand Prix S.A.R. La Princesse Lalla Meryem is Morocco’s leading women’s tennis tournament, the only African stop on the WTA’s international circuit and part of the King Mohammed VI International Tennis Circuit. This coverage was shot at the 2017 edition, the tournament’s 17th, held April 29 to May 6 at the Union Sportive des Cheminots courts in Rabat, with 230,000 dollars in prize money and 32 of the world’s top players competing in singles and doubles as the clay-court season opened ahead of Roland Garros. The coverage began before the gates opened, with the empty stadium photographed at dawn, rows of empty seats and the clay court freshly rolled, before players, staff or fans arrived. From there the story moved courtside, following the ball kids stationed at the net and baseline, and closing on the baskets of tennis balls staged courtside, restocked between sets.
Sacrifice Feast
Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, is one of the two major holidays in the Islamic calendar and is considered the holier of the two. It commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son in submission to God, and the tradition of dividing the meat from the sacrificed animal into three equal shares, for family, for relatives and friends, and for those in need. This photo essay documents the prayers that open the holiday in Morocco, built as a quiet, observational reportage rather than a staged shoot. It opens on a child dressed in his holiday best, caught in a still moment before the crowd moves, then follows the imam delivering the address that opens the celebration. The bulk of the story sits with the congregation itself: rows of men kneeling and standing in unison during prayer, photographed from a respectful distance.
Asment Temara
Asment Temara is part of Votorantim Cimentos, the cement arm of Votorantim Group, a Brazilian industrial conglomerate present in more than 20 countries across cement, metals, steel, energy, paper and concentrated orange juice. This reportage covered one of the plant’s community safety days in Temara, an event built to bring workers’ families on-site and reinforce a culture of safety around heavy industry. The coverage followed local families as they moved through the plant grounds, all fitted with the same high-visibility vests required on an active industrial site, turning a serious safety briefing into a family-friendly open day. The images balance the informal, social side of the event, families mingling, kids in oversized vests, with the underlying seriousness of the setting.
Festival of Roses
Kelaat M’Gouna, in Morocco’s Tinghir province, is best known for the Festival of Roses, held each May to celebrate the Damask rose harvest, and for being home to the country’s largest rose water and rose oil producers, ingredients used widely in perfumery, cosmetics and traditional Moroccan cooking. This reportage was built around the harvest itself rather than the festival’s staged events. It opens close, with petal detail shots and blooms still attached to the branch before picking, then follows the harvest through to the distillation side of the work: the workers who turn mountains of freshly picked roses into rose water, hauling baskets and tending the stills that extract the scent the region is known for.
Airbnb
Airbnb is the online marketplace that lets people list and book short-term lodging worldwide, everything from spare rooms to entire homes, without owning any of the properties itself; it earns a service fee from both hosts and guests on each booking. This was an interior listing shoot built to make a property photograph-ready for its listing page. The work was as much styling as photography: adjusting each bedroom’s light fixtures, straightening and re-styling linens, and arranging decor so every room reads as inviting rather than lived-in. Each space was shot to the standard a booking platform requires, clean sightlines, natural light balanced against fixtures, no visual clutter, so that the listing photos do the work of convincing a guest the space is ready for them to walk into.
Centre Lalla Meriem Ligue Marocaine Pour La Protection de L’Enfance Rabat
The Centre Lalla Meriem in Rabat is run by the Ligue Marocaine pour la Protection de l’Enfance, one of about 30 such centers across Morocco. On its own, the center cares for roughly 120 babies a year who need a kafala foster family, alongside young children who need schooling, teenagers in school or vocational training, and residents with physical or intellectual disabilities who need daily medical and therapeutic care. This interior series was commissioned to document the physical spaces built for the center’s residents rather than the residents themselves. The shoot moved room to room, photographing the color choices, furniture and layout designed to make each space feel warm and age-appropriate rather than institutional, playrooms, bedrooms and common areas photographed with attention to how light, color and scale were used to soften the setting.
Ouzguiti Carpet Festival
The Ouzguiti Carpet Festival is held in Taznakht, about 80km south of Ouarzazate; this coverage is from the 4th edition, held over a week in mid-2016 under the theme Ouzguiti Rugs, Immaterial Capital. The festival gives women’s weaving cooperatives a chance to promote and sell their handcrafted rugs to a wider audience, alongside professional training in marketing and meeting international quality standards. The story follows the material through its stages, hand-dyed wool in its raw, colored state before it goes on the loom, through to the finished carpets on display, and closes on portraits of the artisans themselves, the faces behind work that is often reduced to just a product shot.
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank Group, founded in 1964 and made up of the Bank itself, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund, is a multilateral development finance institution whose mission is fighting poverty and improving living conditions across Africa by channeling public and private investment into projects with strong development impact. This reportage covered one of its energy infrastructure projects in Morocco. The shoot documented the project at working scale: a construction crane in motion on an active site, wide shots of mirrored solar collector fields stretching across the landscape, and interior shots of the control-room teams monitoring plant performance in real time.