Morocco on Film by Bernadeta Kupiec

Today, we’re featuring a beautiful Morocco photo essay from film photographer Bernadeta Kupiec. Scroll below to look at the image and read more from Bernadeta about her time in Morocco…

Analog cameras and films used: Leica Z2X (Find on eBay) | Kodak Pro Image 100 (Find on Amazon)

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Morocco on Film

By Bernadeta Kupiec

The first time I met Marrakech, we didn’t fall for each other.

It was loud and scary. It didn’t care if I understood it.

Love like that doesn’t beg.

It waits.

I went back anyway. Again and again. And then last November, Morocco opened a different door.

We slept in a 500-year-old kasbah where Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett once wandered while filming Babel. The walls held stories older than my country. You could feel them in the dust. In the silence. In the way the light slipped across stone like honey.

At night we danced to Berber music with the locals, not watching, not observing, but inside it. Laughing. Clapping. Playing like children who forgot what time it was.

We rode through villages on a tuk-tuk that wasn’t really a tuk-tuk. Just a bike with a trailer where we sat on the floor, knees touching, wind in our mouths. It felt reckless and holy.

In Merzouga, my Leica died after two frames. Sand in the zoom. RIP for a few days, my brave little camera.

So I stopped photographing.

And started seeing.

We ate dinner under a billion stars. Walked barefoot across orange dunes. Climbed them at midnight and lay back, small and breathless, under the Milky Way.

I still see that sky when I close my eyes.

Some loves take a second look.

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