Joe Eitzen
Earthen architecture at Aït Benhaddou beneath a wide blue sky
Volume 02 · Morocco31.0453° N · 7.1297° W

Walls, mountains, and the distance between.

Morocco

المغرب
Archive frame 01 / 04Scroll to cross the threshold
01The passage
MarrakechOuarzazateAït BenhaddouMerzouga

From limewashed rooms to earthen walls; from the last hard edge of architecture to a horizon remade by wind.

Plate 02

Where the road becomes sand.

First LightErg Chebbi · Reference plate
02 / Between wall and wind
“The desert begins before the dunes.”

A working photographic volume about thresholds, surfaces, and scale.

Aït Benhaddou · October 2019

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV · 70mm
01 October 2019

03The edit

Contact sheet

Roll 01 · Four plates in the first study. The grid expands continuously as the full Morocco archive is edited.

04 / open archive
Working edit / July 2026

Plate 01 is from Joe Eitzen's 2019 Morocco archive. Plates 02–04 are credited visual references for this first design study and will give way to the full photographic edit.

A dark desert ridge beneath a deep blue sky

The dunes redraw
the horizon while we sleep.

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Photographs made in Morocco — Marrakech, Ouarzazate, and Aït Benhaddou — in September–October 2019 by Joe Eitzen. Volume 02 of Field Notes / Earth, published as a working edit in July 2026. Plate 01 © Joe Eitzen; plates 02–04 are credited reference photographs by their named Unsplash photographers and will give way to the full archive edit.