Reportage
Albino killings in Tanzania
Around lake Victoria in Tanzania, the evil is driven by the belief that albino body parts possess magical powers to bring riches if used in potions produced by local witchdoctors. Since 2007, 47 people with albinism have been brutally murdered.
A Photo story by Franck Vogel / LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency - +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 -email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Afghanistan - Education : strategic target and weapon
Kandahar province, Taliban and insurgents stronghold.
Children are being intimidated, professors are killed, Schools are burning and closing. Suicide attacks make it difficult for the children to go to school. Afghans are scared. Education is the strategic target by insurgents and taliban in Kandahar region.
A Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Life and death in Calcutta
Like tight rope walkers’, life precariously hangs in the balance for the people who live in the slums of Kolkata. Health care to these people is almost non-existent but there is one Doctor who has dedicated his life to helping them to survive and stay healthy.
A Photo story by Donna Todd/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency - +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The Sulphur Miners of Ijen
Twice a day they climb the Ijen volcano and descend the slope with baskets full of sulphur weighing up to a hundred kilograms.
Photos and text Ronald de Hommel/LightMediation
Contact Thierry Tinacci LightMediation Photo Agency - email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com - mobile: +33.6.61.80.57.21
North Korea : a glimpse of paradise.
North Korea is making a splash again,in the last two weeks test-launching a rocket, declaring it would restart its nuclear program and throwing out U.N.monitors.The world’s most secretive country does not enjoy visitors. The few foreigners allowed in are presented only with propaganda, strictly banned from seeing the realities of the poor,totalitarian state.To peek into the daily life, I sneaked into North Korea via the river border separating China and N Korea. For some minutes, I was able to get afleeting look at the regime, which calls itself a “Social Paradise”.
A Photo story by ©Justin Jin/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency - +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Birdmen.
Birdmen is an insight into the diminishing world of the pigeon racing community within the UK. The photographs focus on the people involved as they go about their day today activities like looking after their birds, training, race day, liberations, life around the allotments and so on.
A Photo story by Zak Waters/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency - +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Lapis Lazuli, the Afghan blue fortune.
For more than 6500 years, the laborious quest of a semi-precious stone,the lapis lazuli, has never stopped. Among the dynamite and the sweat,or among the luxury and the wars, the story of the lapis lazuli has involved the great dignitaries of History.
A Photo story by Philip Poupin/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency - email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com - mobile: +33.6.61.80.57.21
Cambodia Today: life in the land of Killing Fields.
The trial against the leaders of Pol Pot’s regime, the dictator who exterminated 20 per cent of his people between 1975 and 1979, has recently started.But how heavy is the burden of past for Cambodians? Young people fear criminality more than yesterday’s phantoms. And the majority of Khmer people hardly survive in the impoverished countryside.
A Photo story by ©Stefano Torrione/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Congo - The African forest, an endangered heritage.
As a consequence of the Rwandan genocide, several wars occurred in DR Congo since 1994. A great mass of people was forced to find refuge in the forest. To survive they had no other option as cutting trees for firewood and eating bushmeat. Paradoxically it was war that protected forest from lumbering. When a semblance of peace came back, forestry started again, worse then before, and people continues to cut tree for their needs.
A Photo story by ©Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Doomsday vault protects World’s seeds near North Pole.
The Global Seed Vault, opened in February 2008, is receiving on a 5 term basis, shipments of 100 million seeds (4,5 million samples) that originated in over 100 countries. The Norvegian Government has invest in the futur.In October 2008, an expedition organised by ICRISAT and the Global Crop Diversity Trust will be set from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to the Island Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen, depositing 20000 samples of 5 varieties of Indian seeds (Sorghum, peanuts…). Cultivated,identified,counted,and dried, the seeds conserved in the Norvegia nvault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world.
A Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LigthMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
