Picturing Our Place on Our Planet
There are currently 1121 special places around the world that have been awarded prestigious World Heritage status by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. They are some of the planet’s most unique and significant locations and are places of both Natural and Cultural importance.
OUR PLACE has Official Partnership status with UNESCO and is photographically documenting these sites for global promotions as well as archiving them for posterity.
Site List and more specifically:
BELGIUM
MOROCCO
CITY OF MEKNES , MOROCCO. THE TOMB OF SULTAN MOULAY ISMAIL. MOROCCO-Essaouria: Southern inner wall, clock tower « L HORLOGE D ESSAOUIRA » on Avenue Oqba Ben Nafii, Gateway is called Porte d’Horlage MOROCCO- Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida): Bastion de L’Ange at rear of photo and small fishing port to right (its outside the old city) ROMAN RUINS OF VOLUBILIS, MOROCCO. IN A FIELD HIGH ABOVE A FERTILE PLAIN THE MAIN THOROUGHFARE THE DECAMANUS MAXIMUS RUNS THE LENGTH OF THE RUIN FROM THE TANGIER GATE TO THE CARACALLA ARCH. NUMEROUS MOSAICS REMAIN IN THE RUINS OF HOUSES ON EACH SIDE. IN THE DISTANCE IS THE TOWN OF MOULAY IDRIS .
Historic City of Meknes
Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
Medina of Fez
(Medina of Tétouan)
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
See here The Collection
The Project
They have photographed over 400 sites in more than 100 countries and the OUR PLACE World Heritage Collection is the « the first official World Heritage Photographic databank. » – UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
The team of International photographers have endeavored to capture the human dimension of a site as well as its important physical elements and have worked in a large variety of cultures and geographical locations.
GEOFF STEVEN – TheirPlace Director has photographed sites in over 80 regions including Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Geoff is known in New Zealand as an Art photographer, Film and TV director and Television Executive. His photographs are in collections in Australia, Asia, Europe and America. In 2005 the prestigious NIKON Photo Salon in Tokyo, hosted a solo exhibition of his images. Selections of his work have also been exhibited in Paris, Auckland and in Sweden.