Fantasia—the game of powder or “tborida” in Moroccan Arabic—stands for the breathtaking sport and equestrian art that has being practiced in Morocco and other Maghreb countries since the 8th Century. It
is a tribal, rural and religious tradition. In Morocco it is practiced to celebrate moussems (festival of sowing, harvesting) and to celebrate a saint. It can be performed to maintain the folklore or for tourism. It is an exhibition of mastery uniting the man and his horse. In the photo, Fantasia horsemen shoot in the air. All the group charges along a straight path at the same speed to form a line. Towards the end of the about-two-hundred-meters run they fire into the sky using their moukhalas: the complexity of the performance is the synchronicity of movements and shots by all the participants. Bouznika, Morocco, 2017 © Karim El Maktafi