Death and the Burger
“Halfway down Talaa Kebira, another sheep is parked, tied to a breezeblock while its new owner gets a haircut.”
Sheep slaughter, food and festivities in Fes’s medina – my column in today’s Independent looks at life in Morocco’s religious heart in the build up to Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice.
Marrakech and Essaouira
My current project is a new book on Marrakech, Essaouira and the Atlas for Footprint. I just spent two weeks out there finding some new places, taking photos and meeting some great people. I stayed in [...]
Footprint Umbria & Marche
For four months in summer and autumn 2008 I explored the piazzas, museums, bars, Roman remains and cookery schools in central Italy, photographing and writing a new book for Footprint, which is now available. There is a [...]
Independent column
I recently had a column in the Saturday Independent Travel magazine. You can read it on their website, or download a PDF. The piece looks at Umbria's relation to landscape, religion and (a certain disrespect for) authority. [...]
Rome
At the end of 2008 I spent two months in Rome writing and photographing the city for the new Footprint Rome guide, which uses many of my photos. There's a web album of pictures from my [...]
Catalyst
I designed, set up and managed the website for Catalyst Magazine. Run by the Commission for Racial Equality, the magazine was semi-independent and commissioned external writers and illustrators to look critically at issues of race, identity [...]
At the Turning of the Tide
Thirty contributors discuss the changes that have taken place in society, politics, literature, the arts, the law, science and more, and consider the future that today's children are likely to inherit, in a chronicle of the [...]

Julius Honnor is a writer, photographer and web person who lives in London and travels a lot. He has written several guidebooks for Footprint, Fodor's, Rough Guides and others, as well as for newspapers and magazines.

