Tag: Mauritania

Mauritania, The Last Frontier

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“My gaze was vague, confused. They were lost in embraces made of strips of pale, almost white earth. I traveled with light in my eyes, blinded by it. I delicately touched a hypnotic state that transported me elsewhere, to a place where reality did not exist.  In this land of immense silences, where sky and earth […]

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Collection Spotlight: Giovanni Mereghetti

.Reading time 4 minutes.

All images by: Giovanni Mereghetti Universal Images Group is privileged to represent photographer Giovanni Mereghetti.  Based in Milan, Mereghetti’s collection offers deep coverage of Italian culture and locations but is also reflective of the photographer’s global travels. Starting as a freelance photographer in 1980, Mereghetti became one of the most prolific stock photographers by focusing on […]

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Mauritania – The Last Frontier

.Reading time 5 minutes.

UIG contributing photographer Giovanni Merghetti sees the African nation of Mauritania as the last frontier, a place he has visited multiple times and a country he has discovered and explored by automobile.  His haunting and striking images of the people and places of Mauritania illuminate a nation seldom visited, discussed or otherwise known about. The Islamic […]

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