Helen Colley

Helen Colley has been travelling to Morocco since 2000, when she fell in love with the country, and especially with the Berber people of the High Atlas. Her photos of the Festival of the Fiancés at Imilchil were taken on a trip to celebrate her husband’s birthday – the Festival takes place each year on the last weekend in August, and around 900 couples come to get married all on the same morning. There is a huge souk, selling everything from candy-floss to wrought-iron gates and mules, and lots of traditional music and dancing.

Morocco is a fabulous place to travel to, and if you have trustworthy transport and guides, you can explore a lot of it off-road, whether in the mountains – as Helen did up to Imilchil – or the desert. Helen and her husband and friends always travel with a Moroccan firm that provides 4x4 travel and excursions, Tour Awa Tour. Their manager, a young Berber guy called Ismail Sabiri, has become a close friend over the last few years, and you are guaranteed to have the trip of a lifetime with him. You can contact Tour Awa Tour in Morocco (+ 212 6776 01 69), in Spain (+34 677 377 671) or by e-mail: tour4.4[at]hotmail.com

Helen has no training in photography, but her husband Mike Colley is a photographer, and she has learned a great deal from his work over the years. While he works exclusively in black and white with a medium format camera and non-digital techniques, Helen still loves to work with colour, and enjoys the ease of digital photography, especially for sharing images with others.

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