About

TENERE is a name of  big desert in Niger, whichi is a part of the Sahara desert.
Original meaning of TENERE is “place where there is no people” in Tamasheq, a language of Tuareg, nomadic people in the Sahara.
That’s why French people named the big desert in Niger TENERE.

But in Tamasheq, TENERE has another meaning.
“Nostalgia”.
So a title of this photoblog has theseboth 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.
And I married and got children there.

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 still.
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

P.S.
I swithed this blog from Pixelpost to WordPress on May 8th 2011.