Travel-Voyages
Mokens: the sea gypsies.
Dubbed the « nomads of the sea », the Moken community, settled in the Ko Surin islands in the north of Thailand, is trying to find balance between the nomad identity and tourism, traditional labor and natural heritage preservation.
Photos and text ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
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Pyongyang : a flawless scenography ?
Massive buildings, spacious, spotlessavenues, little traffic, colorful posters,an unassuming but busy population,controlled silence, hardly disturbed bythe distant voices of kids rehearsing achoreography… The driver switched offthe engine to gather speed on a shortdownhill; eyes screwed to the window,one doesn’t notice this sort of detail, asattention is focused on the unfoldingsoulless landscape…The capital city of this “rogue state”doesn’t intrude upon the visitor’ssensibilities…
Photos and text ©PVince/LightMediation
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Bilbao. A regeneration story.
Ten years ago, a bizarre “it”, a building between a ship and a gigantic fish, was anchored on the banks of the river Nervión, in the ex-industrial area of Bilbao. Its back was clad in titanium panels and its stomach was filled up with masterpieces of art. The Bilbaínos went down to see. They were dazzled by the sudden glare that flooded their grey city; shocked by the amount of money spent for this project, totally funded by the Basque authorities, they were incredulous of the future. Ten years later, this “it”, the Guggenheim Museum, changed the city’s image. Bilbao, the former coal-mining city has become like the Mecca of modern architecture and avant guard design, and consequently a boosting tourist destination.
Photos ©Massimo Pizzocaro/Lightmediation Text ®Elisavet Laloudaki
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Doha booming.
Everyone is speaking of Dubai, but who knows Doha? The capital of Qatar is booming. Constantly under construction, Doha is flirting with the inordinate madness of Dubai… all while juggling with the conservatism of its neighbor, Saudi Arabia. A shopping paradise and financial stronghold, the future megalopolis is on its way to becoming an Eldorado of culture, sport and tourism, a Silicon Valley of the Gulf, still proudly attached to its traditions. It took centuries to build the megalopoles of today. It will have taken only a few years for Doha to become a leading player. It is here that tomorrow’s world is being built.
Photos ©Pascal Meunier/LightMediation Text ®Eve Gandossi
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Dubaï, the navel of the Gulf…
Like New York or Hong Kong, Dubaï is a vertical town which stands straight optimising the space it holds on the ground.. A dynamic and truly modern business center, Dubaï stands out as a pionneer among other cities of the Emirates, while it distinguishe itself from the other cities for its acceptance of foreigners. It is also becoming a model for the rest of the world. A city where the most utopic plans become reality.
Photos ©Pascal Meunier/LightMediation Text ®Maud Tyckaert
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Cratère du Ngorongoro: le Creuset de la vie.
Souvent désigné comme la « huitième merveille du monde », le cratère du Ngorongoro en Tanzanie, offre la plus grande concentration de prédateurs de la planète abritée au creux d’une gigantesque caldera. Cette reserve biosphère de L’UNESCO, inscrite à juste titre au Patrimoine Mondial de l’Humanité, présente une cohabitation singulière entre anciens guerriers Massai et rois lions.
Photos ©Remi Benali/Lightmediation Texte ©Heather Robinson
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Samarkand, cité des ombres glorieuses…
On en a toujours entendu parler sans savoir précisément où elle était située. Pourtant, Samarkand existe, fidèle au rêve qu’elle suggère. L’idée d’une oasis sur les routes de l’aventure, une halte opulente sur les chemins de la culture et de l’histoire.
Photos ©Rémi Benali/LightMediation Texte ®Heather Robinson
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Spain : the future’s lab.
The Spanish architectural landscape is in turmoil… Local creators or international stars turned this peninsula into one of the finest experimentation grounds.
Photos ©Marc Dozier/Lightmediation Text ®Marc Dozier and Rafael Pic
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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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Guatemala: a symphony of colours.
Guatemala is one of those countries where 60% of the population sees, in a way, the world through colours. For more than two thousand years, Mayan fabrics and clothing have served as an artistic support to convey the symbolic representations of their beliefs to the Mayas themselves and to those initiated in their culture: communication in the form of visual literature. We must take into account that the Mayan civilization, which had filled people with wonder and was recognized as one of the great ancient cultures saw a decline in the 9th century leaving scholars perplexed. While few vestiges remain of this greatness, textile art has crossed the centuries. As though, in the course of these rises and falls, a form of resistance implanted itself. As if, generation after generation, the Mayan women had decided to preserve the bond that linked them to their past. And here they wear there clothing as though they were carrying the world on their shoulders, as though they were paying homage to the gods and nature.
Photos and text ©Bruno Morandi/Lightmediation
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