Reportage
Hunting for gold washers
To fight against the clandestine gold diggers who pullulate and pollute the Amazon forest, the civil authorities and military have just launched the more immense operation ever organized in France. Under the leadership of gendarmes, legionaries and marsouins track the garimpeiros in the heart of the jungle. During ten days, our reporters accompanied them.
Photos and text by Jose Nicolas and Christophe Gautier/LightMediation
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Santorin, honeymoon island
Among the Cyclades, there is an island that never ceases to shine. Exclusively focused on tourism, Santorini has no crisis. A very expensive island where the newlyweds of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have taken the place of the Japanese. New rich people who travel 10,000 km to realize their wedding photos.
Photos and text by Zeppelin/LightMediation
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William Kamkwamba…Lord of the wind
He’s a hero all over Africa: in Malawi, young William Kamkwamba builds windmills with recycled garbage. Supplying electricity and irrigation to his village, he overcomes drought and hunger. Here is the story of a self-made-man. The revenge over fate of a boy who was too poor to afford school.
Photographs by Olivier Touron/LightMediation Text by Cédric Gouverneur
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Gulabi gang, « Pink power »
In the rugged terrains of Bundelkhand – an area stretched between northern Indian state Uttar Pradesh (UP) and the central state Madhya Pradesh (MP) – muscle power rules over legal reach, mafia over the civil servants, bitter gender discrimination over wellbeing of the women and high caste people disdain their low caste brethren making this area a grand incubator of mass exploitation and corruption. But all that is about to change as a majority of its most downtrodden people are beginning to speak up against the injustices and deprivation of their society under the leadership of Sampat Pal Devi – a 49 year old village woman. But is the country listening?
a Photo story by Arindam Mukherjee/LightMediation
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Colombia -Land of Emeralds
In 1564, beating a hasty retreat following a savage combat against the Muzo Indians, the conquistador Juan de Penagos stopped his limping horse and discovered, caught in one of its horseshoes, a superb emerald. Thus, as legend has it, the mine of Muzo, containing the greatest deposit of emeralds in the world, was discovered.
Photography and Text by Gilles Crampes/LightMediation
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Welcome in Kollywood !
After Bollywood, Kollywood is the last trendy and busy place to make movies in India. With 200 films produced every year, the tamil cinema industry of Chennai, on the west coast, is on to overtake its famous neighbour of Bombay…with dance sequences usually filmed in exotic countries like France or Switzerland…
A Photo story by Olivier Goujon/LightMediation
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The ghosts of Ordos
China’s prosperity allows the country to build giant new cities in the middle of nowhere. As Ordos, which grows like a mushroom in the steppe of Inner Mongolia province. Journey in a young city who sees itself as a new Dubai, but is still waiting for its inhabitants.
Photographs by Olivier Touron/LigthMediation Text by Cédric Gouverneur
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Inside Google…
A Photo report by Frédéric Neema/LightMediation
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On the trail of James Dean
A Photo report by Frédéric Neema/LightMediation
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Slaves to Gold
Is Burkina Faso set to become the new eldorado of West Africa? This is what many are asking as the dizzying rise of the gold price has led to an explosion of activity in the mining sector. The awareness of the existence of gold in Burkina Faso is nothing new; for 10 centuries farmers have turned to it at a times of bad harvests, but the interest is now far more intense. The country has long been neglected in favour of its neighbour Mali, but is now attracting some of the biggest investments in the continent. In 2005 just one mining licence was issued; this compares to 2010 when 487 were issued.
A Photo report by Julien Chraibi/LightMediation
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