Tunisia for Le Monde d’Hermès
Tunisia was an editor’s idea; both times, in fact. Sean Rocha’s first visit — during the Ben Ali dictatorship, some years before the 2011 revolution — was to write an article for T, the style magazine of The New York Times, about Tunisia’s efforts to become a luxury destination rather than a place for cheap sun on package tours. In 2012, post-revolution, Sean returned on assignment for Le Monde d’Hermès to photograph (and write about) Leila Menchari, the Tunisian woman who for fifty years has been designing the remarkable window displays — as much visual fairy tales, really, as product showcases — at the Hermès store on the rue Faubourg St-Honoré in Paris. Sean’s assignment was not to photograph the store or any Hermès products but, instead, to reveal Leila’s beloved garden in Hammamet, just by the sea, which has been a life-long retreat for her.
Click here to see the tear sheets for the article on Leila Menchari’s garden published in Le Monde d’Hermès in Autumn 2012. The photographs below are outtakes from that assignment, as well as those taken on the earlier assignment for the New York Times.
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