Leather drying through time

Marrakech 2014–2017 7 photos of this spot

7 recent photographs taken at the same spot in Marrakech, spanning 2014–2017. Have an older picture of it? Add it and start this spot's timeline.

This 2014 photograph, part of a sequential series from Marrakech, shows a scene in the city's old town, long a crossroads for trade between sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean.

0193 Marrakesch 2014 This 2014 photograph, part of a sequential series from Marrakech, shows a scene in the city's old town, long a crossroads for trade between sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean.

Medina of Marrakesh 2015 A three-wheeled cargo motorbike is parked beside an arched riad entrance in a quiet nighttime alley of the Marrakech medina, Morocco, 2015.

Medina of Marrakesh 2015 A figure pushes a handcart beneath a single street lamp in a narrow, shadowed passage of the Marrakech medina at night, 2015.

Medina of Marrakesh 2015 Warm lamplight fills an archway leading to a horseshoe-arched wooden door in the Marrakech medina, Morocco, photographed at night in 2015.

Marrakech Museum 2016 The Marrakech Museum, housed in the late 19th-century Dar Menebhi Palace, photographed in January 2016. The palace was converted into a museum of Moroccan art in the late 1990s.

Leather drying in 2016 2016 Photographed in Marrakech, Morocco during January 2016, the image is part of a set recording street-level views of the city's old town, one of Morocco's four historic imperial cities alongside Fez, Meknes, and Rabat.

Leather drying 2017 Hides set out to dry at one of Marrakech's traditional tanneries, photographed in 2017. In the city's leather quarter, skins are still soaked, dyed, and dried in open-air stone vats using methods practiced for centuries.