|  My
photographs portray these places, my special places, places
in the sand drenched with light and modeled by wind, where
survival depends upon a drop of rain that may fall, or may
not. In the sinuous dunes, my eye reads memories - memories
less of place than of the emotions etched by desert places.
Margaret Courtney-Clarke
TRAVELLING THOUSANDS OF MILES across vast deserts, Margaret
Courtney-Clarke has photographed the remote and seldom-seen
landscapes of Africa's magnificent and delicate environment,
where nature wages an ongoing struggle to survive. Places
in the Sand portrays unfolding dunes blown constantly by
the wind, dreamlike roads that lead nowhere, the fragile
cracked ground stretching endlessly toward the horizon.
In Places in the Sand, she turns a nostalgic and knowing
eye to the landscape, creating evocative slivers of panoramas
in which earth touches sky, poetic images of abandoned shacks
engulfed by sand and time, and jewel-like shots framing
textures, majestic colors, and forms. "Only memories
have survived in the silence of the desert. All the rest
of this is gone." writes Courtney-Clarke of the beloved
desert of her childhood. In Places in the Sand, memories
are resurrected into timelessness.
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