Cafe Clock is a restored 250 year old courtyard house on the edge of the old medina in Fez. Traditional moroccan houses looked inwards, based around a square, which would tend to be open to the sky. All other important rooms are then situated around the four sides of the courtyard, while the courtyard itself would be the focus to every day life, which lots of daily tasks taking place in the inside, outside space. Cool and protected from the bussle from outside!!
The restored cafe takes these elements into its life, with the central courtyard the hub of eating, chatting and discussion, while the many rooms and spaces surrounding it providing quiet spaces to meet, mingle, romanitcise or find quiet space to think and work.
In photographing the place, I simply tried to show its different purposes, by finding people in spaces doing what the spaces were designed for. The challenge was photographing in challenging light and realising, just how strong the sunlight can be in Morrocco in mid April. This location would be interesting to photograph over the course of a day, in order to take account of the light, but perhaps the varied moods of the cafe too!
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