ahara Collection S

After exploring the great wonders of Egypt, Courteille trekked to Assekrem to discover its nomadic cultures. The deep gold colours of the day contrast with the blues of the starlit skies at night. Her odyssey took her to the Sahara Desert in the north of Algeria, into the Hoggar Mountains where she followed the beaten trails forged by desert caravans and the Tuareg people. The same trails that would have been familiar to the Petits Frères de Jésus who lived in a hermitage founded by Charles de Foucauld in 1933.

Heading on through the arid sandstone landscape of the Tassili n’Ajjer mountains, sleeping under the night sky, after days filled with the fiery shadows of the eroded terrain, Lydia arrived on a plateau where she was greeted by engravings of elephants and giraffes, dating back thousands of years. She passed through the cypress valley where only a few Saharan cypresses (or tarouts) continued