Sep 10

Sep 10 "Look Up!" by Mallory Slucher

I often find that I don’t look up enough as I explore the world around me! Here is a collection of photos I have intentionally captured as I routinely remind myself to “look up” and immerse myself in all the views Morocco and Andalusian Spain has to offer above my head.

Looking up from among white residential buildings into the clouds which are orange and pink from sunset — Sunset in the Kasbah in Tangier. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Looking up at the ornate carved ceiling of a mosque, specifically into a muqarnas dome — The intricate roof of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

looking towards the top of a rocky hill in the blue pre-dawn, flashlight beams coming towards the camera in the distance — My friends hiking through the Middle Atlas Mountains before dawn in Zaouiat Ahansal. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Looking up from the ground of an interior courtyard. The roof is made of small glass panes, and each story of the building is full of intricately carved windows and doorways in an Islamic style — Captured the beautiful Islamic influence of architecture at the Real Alcazar in Sevilla, Spain. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Looking up into a dome of intricate metal work or gilded wood studded with stained glass flowers and other bits. — The roof inside of the Mausoleum of Mohammed V in Rabat. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Looking up into a pink dome painted with biblical motifs. — The ceiling of the Iglesia de San Mateo Apóstol in Tarifa, Spain. Legend says the church was built on the remains of a mosque. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Above two sets of narrow wooden French doors and carved into the wall itself is a shallow bowled half-circle with geometric and floral arabesque designs — Detailed window decoration at the National Museum of Jewelry & Adornment in Rabat. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Looking down the pedestrian street across a narrow suspension bridge, framed on both sides by motor roads. The sun sits low on the horizon. — View of the sky my first day in Sevilla as I crossed the Puente del Alamillo bridge. Photo credit: Slucher, 2024.

Mallory is participant from the University of Louisville in Kentucky studying on Amideast’s Area and Arabic Language Studies Program in Rabat, Morocco.