Libya for Travel + Leisure
Sean Rocha traveled on assignment for Travel + Leisure to photograph (and write about) Libya one month after the US embargo against the country was lifted in 2004. His family has a surprisingly long history in Libya: his grandparents lived in Benghazi and Tripoli in the 1960s and his parents were married in Tripoli, both reflections of the large American presence there in the decades before Gaddafi came to power in 1970. Sean’s trip came just as the country’s international isolation was coming to an end and included ten days off-roading and camping in the Sahara — one of the great experiences of his life — as well as visits to the still nearly desolate Roman ruins of Leptis Magna and Sabratha. Along the way, he reshot some of the photographs his grandfather had taken nearly forty years earlier.
Click here to see the tear sheets for the article about Libya published in Travel + Leisure in August 2004. The photographs below include outtakes from that assignment.
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