Dear Reader (2025-11-09 – posted simultaneously to FB)
In today’s post you and I continue to explore Ghardaia(area) beginning with an outside view of one of the villages mentioned in yesterday’s post (Algeria – 15). My phone wasn’t entirely welcome in the market (04), but it was tolerated. I don’t think anything more obtrusive than that would have been tolerated. In that same image, sometimes the flaneur (me) is watched. In 03 I love the fact that no none is looking my way.
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1-I like the juxtaposition of old and new. The old looking buildings, with air conditioning units.
2-Old and new again. This reminds me of a crazy movie I saw at the Plaza a long time ago. A man on a motorcycle was driving around in the desert, searching for something, I don’t remember what. Along the way he finds a tower under construction, with a crew working like mad to make the bricks, carry them up the tower, mortar them in place. Never an explanation of why the urgency and why they were doing it in the heat of the mid-day sun.
3-I like this scene, but I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe the different textures of the walls.
4-Gives the sense of being there. Not sure I’d be entirely comfortable in such a crowd.
7-Somebody’s weekly shopping.
10-Another locked door. I’d have cropped the extreme right of the photo off. That the wall continues distracts me from the door.
11-The limitations of the camera phone make this wonderful! It accentuates the textures and shadows, giving it a bit of a film look. The wall and power lines lead me in to the choice of directions.
12-I’m not sure what I think here. I like the texture of both the walls and fabric, and yet in my brain they conflict with each other. Perhaps that’s the intent, showing the duality of textures, hard and soft, leading to a philosophical discussion of life and death.
Thank you kindly for your always interesting comments. Regarding 3 there were a number of images in this sequence, and this is the one where the scene has separation and activity in the figures, and feels balanced. Regarding 12, I have a fondness for hard soft contrasts. Though I have to admit I have never extended my thinking to hard and soft leading to thoughts of life and death. Which of those is hard and which is soft?