Traditional Cultures-Cultures Traditionnelles
The feathered men’s waltz
Every year, the Highlands tribes of Papua New Guinea fight peacefully in great tribal « jousts » where each one tries to outdo in beauty the other with their feathered costumes. A secular art still alive in spite of the growing influence of the modern world.
Photos and text by Marc Dozier/LightMediation
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Tarahumaras, Indian runners
50,000 or so, Tarahumara minority people have passively resisted the pressures of the outside world for centuries already. They live a traditional life style in cave type dwellings or on isolated farms with neither electricity nor running water. This more surprisingly takes place only a few hundred miles from the US border.
a Photo story by David Ducoin/LightMediation
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The Christian treasures of lake Tana
Isolated from the rest of the world, the Christian priests and monks look after, since XVth century, an extremely valuable treasure: a collection of illustrated manuscripts, religiously stored in the monasteries built onthe islands of lake Tana, in Ethiopia.
Photos and text by Jean-François Lagrot/LightMediation
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In Gurus we trust. by Marc Wattrelot
« - In Gurus We Trust- story start from an interrogation. How can I understand India without approached its mystic and its spirituality? »
A PHOTO STORY BY MARC WATTRELOT/LIGHTMEDIATION
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Les rendez-vous sacrés des sâdhus. par Frédéric Soltan
La légende raconte que les dieux renversèrent quelques gouttes de leur nectar d’immortalité en quatre endroits: Allahabad, Haridwar, Nasik et Ujjaïn. Ces quatre villes sont devenues les lieux des plus grands rassemblements religieux du monde, les Kumbha Mela.
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Kalash, the last « pagans » of Pakistan.
There is only four thousand of them left, living in three very remote valleys in the north of Pakistan, in the Hindu Kush range, by the Afghan border.The Kalash people are the last one of their type in Pakistan, a non-muslim tribe, with polytheist rites.They worship fairies, spirits and devils,in a territory more and more dominated by islamic fondamentalism.
A Photo story by Marie Dorigny/LightMediation
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Japan: the Empire of Gesture
In Japan, gestures carry more weight than words.For centuries, postures and gestures have been worked,cultivated,codified. To such a degree that moving or remaining immobile, according to the rules, has become second nature.
A Photo story by Sylvain Savolainen/LightMediation
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The sons of the Thunder Dragon
Organized to take place each year during the first month of the lunar year, the festival of Punakha commemorates the glorious victory of the Bhutanese over the Tibetans and renews faith in the protective divinities of the country, guarantors of national unity.
A Photo story by Christophe Boisvieux / LightMediation
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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 people of marshlands
…in the garden of Eden
Persecuted and driven out of the Iraqi marshes, where Sumerian used to live since Antiquity, the « Arabs of Marshlands » started to recover their territory drained by Saddam Hussein. After three decades, water is back and life too, as it was 6,000 years ago.
Photos by Xavier Rossi and Marc Roussel/LightMediation Text by Marc Roussel
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