Reportage
Bali – The dark side of paradise
Bali is a tropical holiday paradise. But there’s a darker side few tourists witness: people with mental illness being chained, caged, or shackled by their family members, for years, often in shocking conditions. Dr Suryani tries to help them.
Photos by Fanny Tondre/LightMediation Text by Nadjet Cherigui
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Titanic breaks surface
April 15th 2012 will be the centennial of the Titanic’ sinking. This upcoming day also will be the sale of an exceptional collection, overloaded by the outstanding myth, which became the ship’s tragedy. Pulleys, fragments of stained-glass, plates, cooking-pots, crockery, mirrors, luggage, clothes and many more items salvaged from the most extraordinary underwater excavation sites of all times will go up for auction at Guernsey’s in New-York. A trove of about 5,500 artifacts, valued at $189 million.We offer exclusive photographs of the most iconic objects of the Titanic on the occasion of this double news.
We also have the incredible story of Irwin Horward whose belongings were found at the ocean floor. His name appears on the official list of passengers, but neither of the victims, nor that of the survivors.
Exclusive photographs of the most iconic objects of the Titanic by Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
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Out of Beirut’s Closet
Beirut is probably the only city in the Arab world where homosexuality is openly discussed and, up to a point, accepted. This has caused a number of organizations to spring up who fight for the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in the Lebanese capital. Helem (Arabic for dream) is one of them…
a Photo story by Laura Boushnak/LightMediation
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North Korea… A journey into the country of forbidden photographs
The « Dear Leader » of North Korea, Kim Jong Il died and his son Kim Jong Un is the new leader of the nuclear-armed country where of millions North Koreans suffer daily. Only a few journalists have managed to enter it. They must act as tourists to get a glimpse of the miserable life of a nation which has become the feudal kingdom of the Kim dynasty.
Photos and text by Patrick Aventurier/LightMediation
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« Gun City »…Making a living with weapons…
In the Philippines, they call this city « The Gun City. » For more than a century in Danao, the people have lived from making weapons. Pistols, revolvers or automatic weapons, they know how to do it all by hand. The City Hall set up a cooperative to legalize this activity. But in order to make more money,thousands of manufacturers continue to produce their weapons illegally…
Photos by Patrick Aventurier/LightMediation Text by Sebastien Farcis
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7th Km Market
The economic crisis in Ukraine risks to leave behind only mud on the streets lined by colored ship containers that serve as a market for 22,000 merchants that provide jobs to 60,000 people.
Photos by Andrea Alborno/LightMediation Text by Margherita Rosset
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Peru’s Melting Gods
Sacred water on the verge of extinction
In January 2009, the National Institute of Natural Resources in Peru stated that the Quilca glacier, located at an altitude of 5,250 metres in the region of Puno, had completely disappeared. The agency believes that because of global warming all of Peru’s 2000 glaciers are destined to totally melt by 2025.
A Photo story by Andrew McLeish / LightMediation
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The war of black diamond
The arrival of the festivities will they revive the war of the truffle? A robber shot and killed at the beginning of year in the Drome region (France) makes fear the worst. Because with the economic crisis, a new delinquency of the campaigns is organized during the harvest of black diamond, the famous Tuber Melanosporum. For the gangs prepared with weapons and a special training for the dogs, the truffle robbery is a very lucrative market.
a Photo report by Patrick Aventurier/LightMediation
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An Iranian nose job
A fad? A vogue? No, it’s a huge wave sweeping over the past few months on the youth of Iran: the girls change their nose. Even boys do it… For boredom? The Mullahs? For the moment, they tolerate that but until when?
Photos and text by Olivier Goujon/LightMediation
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The Aiguille du Midi… A ship among the Alps peaks
Settled in the centre of Chamonix, the Aiguille du Midi cable car is the Europe’s highest one, the second in the world. It holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1,038m to 3,776m. The cable car annually carries 500,000 passengers (1/5th during the month of August) to admire one of the most beautiful French panoramas. A technological feat that is still subject to the security of passengers: a high-risk challenge for the men who operate a myth.
A Photo report by Zeppelin/LightMediation
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