TENERE

About TENERE

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TENERE is a name of a big desert in Niger, whichi is a part of the Sahara.
Original meaning of TENERE is "a place where there is no people" in Tamasheq, a language of Tuareg, nomad in the Sahara.
That's why French named the big desert TENERE.
But in Tamasheq, TENERE has another meaning, "nostalgia".
So a title of this photoblog has both these meanings.

I love a nature of desert, its vastness, beautiful dunes, even a roar of the wind.
I love people of desert, their tolerance and sternness, generosity and simplicity.

I've stepped into Sahara in 1981 for the first time.
Since that time, I traveled, lived and worked with nomad for many years in the Sahara.
I married and got children there too.

Now I'm living in Japan, my native land, but really far from Sahara.
I hark back to the days of desert frequently.
I can not help visiting the Sahara, or other deserts.

Photographs in this blog are mainly pieces of my treasured past in the Sahara.
But these are not only relics but also sources of my life.
They encourage me when I lose my way in quotidian trivia.
I will increase photos in this blog piece by piece, forever.

May 5th, 2008.
Yoshinori FUKUI

Gear

I have used OLYMPUS OM-2, MINOLTA CLE, CANON 5D and many compact digital cameras before.
I mention the informations of camera and lenses of each photos if I didn't forget ;-p
Some monochrome photos were tooked by color films or color data and changed by retouche applications.

Cameras and lenses which I use now is as follows

Analog