Stories-Sujets
Mokens: the sea gypsies.
Dubbed the « nomads of the sea », the Moken community, settled in the Ko Surin islands in the north of Thailand, is trying to find balance between the nomad identity and tourism, traditional labor and natural heritage preservation.
Photos and text ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
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“Restavecs”, slave children in Haïti.
On december 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sixty years later, a significant number of countries in the world seem to keep ignoring the statements of this text. In Haiti, about three hundred thousand children live in slavery. Given away,sold or abandoned by their families,they barely survive in the slums of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Photos ©Marie Dorigny/LightMediation Text ®Nadjet Cherigui
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Toy Bomb.
Raed Mokaled, who lost his five year-old son Ahmad in a cluster bomb explosion while celebrating his birthday, said that the death season was approaching. Raed was referring to cluster bomb ammunition scattered in fields in southern Lebanon. He said soon families would start picnicking on the weekends to enjoy the spring weather where the shapes and small size of what Raed Calls “the sleeping enemy” are appealing to children, who mistake them for toys.According to Human Rights Watch, the lethal weapon was used in 24 countries for more than 40 years causing unacceptable harm to civilians.They were last deployed in Lebanon in the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli war.
A Photo story by ©Laura Boushnak/LightMediation
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Voyage dans l’Amérique en crise.
A la veille de l’élection présidentielle américaine, ce reportage, mené conjointement par un photographe Français et une journaliste Américaine sous la forme d’un road-trip à travers les USA (16 états, de New York à la Nouvelle Orléans) dresse le portrait d’une Amérique plus fragile qu’elle n’y parait, où la fracture sociale est de plus en plus profonde et qui va devoir changer son mode de vie pour s’adapter au nouvel ordre mondial.
Ce reportage a par ailleurs été l’occasion de rencontrer des Américains de toutes conditions et de toutes origines dont 42 interviews et portraits sont disponibles.
Reportage ©Christine Buckley et Marc Roussel/Orizon/LightMediation
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Pyongyang : a flawless scenography ?
Massive buildings, spacious, spotlessavenues, little traffic, colorful posters,an unassuming but busy population,controlled silence, hardly disturbed bythe distant voices of kids rehearsing achoreography… The driver switched offthe engine to gather speed on a shortdownhill; eyes screwed to the window,one doesn’t notice this sort of detail, asattention is focused on the unfoldingsoulless landscape…The capital city of this “rogue state”doesn’t intrude upon the visitor’ssensibilities…
Photos and text ©PVince/LightMediation
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Hockey on Top of the World.
In the Himalayas, where the air is thinand distractions are few, Ladhakis people found a way to enjoy the harshwinters by practicing a sport comingfrom a distant foreign land. On icy ponds located at lofty elevations,thousands of meters above sea level,they skate and play the game of hockey, on top of the world.
Photos © Patrice Halley/LightMediation Text ®Andrew Findlay
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Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Daniel Lorieux : an extravagant photographic shoot in Moscow… by Alphonse Bernard Seny
It’s the most extravagant and most expensive shoot of these last ten years. The star portrays, in front of Jean-Daniel Lorieux’s camera, the heroine from the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov.
A dream come true for the Russian billionaire Eugene Yakovlev.
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The International Butler Academy.
What is BUTLER Service? “SIR, Butler service is technical skills plus energy, passion, commitment, SIR! »
No, this is not the yelling ofshaved-head Marines but the rallying cry of the International Butler Academy summer class, located at the Castle of Zeist, seven miles east of Utrecht (Netherlands). 9 am: ten students of various nationalities (English, American,French Dutch, German, Italian) line up for the first morning review and clear their throat yelling the Butler’s motto.The troup will have to show impeccably dressed (each trainee has to wear a made to measure hand-made suit with frock coat) for the inspection during which the head-butler will even check the cleanliness of their hands. But that is only the start of a long and demanding day of learning.
Photos and text ©Gilles Bassignac/LightMediation
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The Lascaux cave : a Prehistoric sky-map…
17,000 years ago, the Lascaux painters offered the world a peerless work of art. However, according to a new theory, some of the paintings could also be the representations of the constellations as seen in the sky by our ancestors from the Magdalenian era. Such a hypothesis, confirmed in many others Paleolithic Caves, radically transforms our conception concerning prehistoric Rock Art, as well as the history of Astronomy. Actuality : 2009, International Year of Astronomy http://www.astronomy2009.org/
Photos ©Stephane Begoin-Pascal Goetgheluck/LightMediation Text ®Pedro Lima
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Bilbao. A regeneration story.
Ten years ago, a bizarre “it”, a building between a ship and a gigantic fish, was anchored on the banks of the river Nervión, in the ex-industrial area of Bilbao. Its back was clad in titanium panels and its stomach was filled up with masterpieces of art. The Bilbaínos went down to see. They were dazzled by the sudden glare that flooded their grey city; shocked by the amount of money spent for this project, totally funded by the Basque authorities, they were incredulous of the future. Ten years later, this “it”, the Guggenheim Museum, changed the city’s image. Bilbao, the former coal-mining city has become like the Mecca of modern architecture and avant guard design, and consequently a boosting tourist destination.
Photos ©Massimo Pizzocaro/Lightmediation Text ®Elisavet Laloudaki
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