Science
« Lightgraff »: when Photography and Writing merge…
Here, the definition of the word photography is taken literaly: to draw or to write (graphos) with light (photos).By the time, writing arts have never stopped evolving. Lightgraff is part of this process. After having used stones,reeds, inks, paints and sprays… we use light.Lightgraff is a new langage, that of light.
©Guillaume J. Plisson/Brusk/LightMediation *These photos are taken at night,without any computer retouching *
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Roman treasures of the Rhone river
For 2000 years, archeological objects of an inestimable value have been sleeping in the river bed of the Rhone River underneath the quay of the historic city of Arles, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A team of archeologists and divers has been digging patiently in these dark waters since twenty years in order to return their discoveries to the light of day.They are being presented to the public for the first time in the exhibition « César, le Rhône pour mémoire », the happy ending to an adventure story of a determined scientific quest in a battle against the ever-charging currents of a capricious river.
Photos by Remi Benali-Patrick Landmann/LightMediation Text by Alexie Valois
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Snail caviar, a new wonder of taste
Gastronomy, like haute couture, is a matter of taste. And, when ideas and innovation are combined with delight and flavour the good fortune make an appearance. Sylvie and Dominique Pierru gather week after week, with unparalleled care and unequaled softness the small white pearls that kindly gastropods were willing to lay.
Photos by Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
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Real Bubble Magic
Tom Noddy, the soap bubble expert, builds ephemeral structures,light and transparent. His magic bubbles astonish an international public; mathematicians and physicians alike are very seriously studying the scientific properties of his creations.
Photos and text by Olivier Blaise/LightMediation
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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
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The chemical gardens.
Since the dawn of time, explaining the origin of life from nothingness has generated much passion and polemic.Over a century ago, Stéphane Leduc,a French professor of medicine,attempted to duplicate this phenomenon. His work led to the invention of synthetic biology which created a great stir among the scientific community at the time.However, was he really misguided? What can be said is that the work carried out by this ingenious experimenter opened the way for as much scholarly research as violent debate.At the outer edges of science, on the borders of metaphysics, two chemists and a photographer have copied this scientist’s work. They have reinterpreted the illegible scribbles of the mad scholar in the light of the fabulous phenomenon of osmosis. An insight into their secret laboratory over a three-day period.
Photos ©Stephane Querbes Text ®Etienne Colomb/K-Minos Original idea ©R.E Eastes -C. Darrigan
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The true story of Easter Island.
After 10 years of excavations on Easter Island, the team of archeologists lead by Giuseppe Orefici,accompanied by international experts in anthropology, botany, geology, andof course, archaeology, think they are finally able to reveal the mysteries of Easter Island.Ceremonial architecture, petroglyphs,rock art, colossal sculptures, wooden statuettes, tablets inscribed with hieroglyphs: such are the wonders of this island filled with mystery. Many of the artefacts have never before been photographed, and are providing crucial clues to unveiling the mysteries of the island and its history.
Photos and text ©Stephane Compoint/DealTeam/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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The birth of an ocean in the hottest desert on Earth.
The Danakil desert located in the Afar triangle by the name of the tribes who live there, the Afar people, in northern Ethiopia on the Erythrean border, is 155 000 km2 large. In this desert, considered as the hottest on Earth (max. 60° C) and maybe the most inhospitable, we witness in real time the spectacular genesis of an ocean! Here on a geological scale, inexorably, the African horn is drifting away from the continent, and under our eyes is undergoing one of the greatest achievement of Gaia, the creation of a mid ocean ridge within the African Great Rift Valley.
Photos and text ©Eitan Haddok/LightMediation
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Malaria, the killing Machine.
One hundred years after the discovery that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, the indomitable disease remains Africa’s major problem. The World Heath Organisation estimates that malaria affects 300 to 500 million people and kills up to 2.7 million worldwide every year, 90% of them in sub-saharan Africa. Every five seconds, an African child dies of the disease.
Photographs ©Remi Benali/Lightmediation
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