Tanners' Quarter, Fes, Morocco

Posted by Aaron Schmidt (Auckland, New Zealand) on 25 September 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

I stumbled through the Medina of Fes for hours before randomly finding Suuq Dabbaghin, the Tanners' Quarter. I was lead to the top of a small terrace and given some mint to help suppress the horrendous smell of the fresh cow skins that were being prepared for leather tanning. It was quite an experience.

VFXY Photos | Cool Photoblogs | Listed on Photoblogs.org

Comments (14)

See The Light from Newcastle, United States

Great shot.I have only seen this in text books. The dye pots are wonderful. What a great experience.

25 Sep 2007 12:38am

Davio from Aucks, New Zealand

Wow!

There is so many things to look at in that shot. That's awesome. I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before, even though I've been to Cappadocia in Turkey.

Where is that d00d's mint?

25 Sep 2007 1:09am

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Great documentary shot !

25 Sep 2007 1:26am

Hans from Heiligeneich, Austria

one of the amazing pics i ever seen...what a szene

25 Sep 2007 2:15am

Dimitrios from Greece

I have seen many pictures of this place, I was fortunate to visit it some time ago, it always amazes me, well done.

25 Sep 2007 2:32am

Shahab from Qazvin, Iran

Great shot!Nice composition!Well done!

25 Sep 2007 3:45am

Ian Bramham from Manchester, United Kingdom

Tremendous photo - I love the tones & colours. I'm so glad that you didn't crop out the satellite dishes at the top as they add to whole surreal feel of the image.

25 Sep 2007 7:37am

@Ian Bramham: Thought about it but I figured it made a nice contrast of new and old. Cheers.