Archives de juin, 2008
Dubaï, the navel of the Gulf…
Like New York or Hong Kong, Dubaï is a vertical town which stands straight optimising the space it holds on the ground.. A dynamic and truly modern business center, Dubaï stands out as a pionneer among other cities of the Emirates, while it distinguishe itself from the other cities for its acceptance of foreigners. It is also becoming a model for the rest of the world. A city where the most utopic plans become reality.
Photos ©Pascal Meunier/LightMediation Text ®Maud Tyckaert
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Parution Angleterre – GEOGRAPHICAL – The sacred fishing by Alain Buu (cover story)
The consequences of one-child policy in China…
According to Chinese officials, the one-child policy edicted in 1979 would have allowed to cut the number of births by 700 million (the population of the 25-member European Union) but this does not go without problems in Chinese society. An entire generation of single children –a generation of « king- children » to whom everything is owed– is beginning to take over. They live by social standards radically different from their parents’. But, for traditional as well as economic reasons, the Chinese still prefer to have male offspring. A male-female imbalance in favor of males is constantly growing. According to estimates, the deficit in women reaches 40 to 80 million. Consequences include high numbers of undeclared children, increasing numbers of unmarried men, the near absence of women in some villages, the kidnapping of women and children to be sold in other provinces and harsh repressin against families not abiding by Family Planning rules.
Photos and text ©Alain Buu/Orizon/LightMediation
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Parution France – DS – Les petites contorsionnistes Mongols de Bruno Morandi
Vintimille – Menton: le Passage.
« Ils sont des milliers chaque année à essayer de rentrer en France clandestinement par la frontière Italienne à Menton pour rejoindre Calais…»( un policier de la Police aux Frontières (PAF).
Photos et texte ©Jean-Pierre Rey/LightMediation
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Paris: Funeral of Yves St Laurent.
Photos ©Gilles Bassignac /Lightmediation
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Parution Corée – MORNING CALM – Les caves de la Rioja par Luc Castel
Sheges of Kinshasa: the sacrified children of a wounded country.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children whatever their age, can be pushed to the streets or deliberately abandoned, they are as many targets of family anger and fear. Then, they are called sheges, a name most often synonymous with « sorcerer-children »because their families think they have brought misfortune down on them: a mother fallen victim to AIDS, ill infants, a wedding that does not happen, work not found… In a society gradually falling apart, scapegoats have to be found…
Photos and text ©Dominique Viger/LightMediation
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