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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Micro-algae … This name, far from reducing, is hopeful for environmental and industrial sectors. These microscopic unicellular plants are like the elementary building blocks of the food chain. Capable of photosynthesis, they convert solar energy into raw material, with the help of the minerals and of everything they need for grow contained in fresh or sea water.

Photos and text by Pascal Goethgeluck/LightMediation

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After Gaucho insecticide, the Varroa mite, the collapse disorder bee colonies, the suspected toxicity of GMOs, the latest threat takes the form of a hornet. This is the Asian hornet probably imported in Europe at the of trading with Asia. So it has been found for the first time, in France in 2005. Widely settled in the area of Bordeaux, in France in 2005, it now spreads to the rest of the Europe…

Photos and text by Pascal Goetgheluck/LightMediation

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In Luxor, the giant temple of Amenhotep III delivers her secrets year after year. Some meters from the Nile and from the famous Colossi of Memnon, a team of archeologists discovers magnificent sculptures, on a construction site under maximum security.

Photos by Manolo Mylonas/LightMediation Text by Guy Bloch-Champfort

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A team of researchers started a hunt for the tomb and possible remains of the model for Leonardo Da Vinci`s Mona Lisa in an abandonned convent in the city of Florence … And they unearthed a complete skeleton that might belong to Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo « Mona Lisa » !

Photos by Eric Vandeville/LightMediation

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The Tag Heuer chronographs overturn the basic principles of mechanical watchmaking, irremovable for more than 100 years.

Photos and text by Marco Ansaloni/LightMediation

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The island is to become the world’s first self-sufficient land supplied by renewable energy, a sustainable place, a model to imitate, an example of how life is possible in harmony with nature, away from the paradigms that generates the dependence from gold black. And it is getting…

Photos and text by Marco Ansaloni/LightMediation

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What will be the city of tomorrow ? Certainly ecological according to many futurist architects. Their creed: improve the quality of urban life and reduce pollution and energy consumption. What a challenge!

A dossier carried out by David Marquette/LightMediation

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The most famous archaeological site is sick. But, professor Tala Akasheh, is maybe the man who could save Petra…

Photos and text by Enrico Martino/LightMediation

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The temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra, erected in Malta 5 thousand years ago and rediscovered in the eighteenth century, are in danger of disappearing under the siege of the elements.To protect them have been created enormous sheets of teflon and steel tested in wind tunnels in Germany.

a Photo report by Marco Ansaloni/LightMediation

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