Amérique du Nord
Voyage dans l’Amérique en crise.
A la veille de l’élection présidentielle américaine, ce reportage, mené conjointement par un photographe Français et une journaliste Américaine sous la forme d’un road-trip à travers les USA (16 états, de New York à la Nouvelle Orléans) dresse le portrait d’une Amérique plus fragile qu’elle n’y parait, où la fracture sociale est de plus en plus profonde et qui va devoir changer son mode de vie pour s’adapter au nouvel ordre mondial.
Ce reportage a par ailleurs été l’occasion de rencontrer des Américains de toutes conditions et de toutes origines dont 42 interviews et portraits sont disponibles.
Reportage ©Christine Buckley et Marc Roussel/Orizon/LightMediation
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The Great Depression by Dorothea Lange
Photos ©Dorothea Lange/Jazz Editions/LightMediation
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Ghosts of the Great Depression.
The Great Depression took place from 1929 to 1940. It was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. By the end of October, the total value of stocks listed on the New York Exchange had declined by 37%. That, it turned out, was only the beginning. By the time the bottom was finally reached in March, 1933, stocks had declined in price by more than 80%. By 1932 commodity prices had fallen by 30 to 40%. World manufacuring production was down by 30 to 50%. World trade declined by two thirds. The International Labor Office in 1933 said that approximately 33 million persons were out of work. 9,000 banks went out of business and 9 million savings accounts were wiped out. 86,00 businesses failed, and wages were decreased by an average of 60%.
Photos ©Dorothea Lange/Russell Lee/Jack Delano/Jazz Editions/LightMediation
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Alligators en Floride : une industrie controversée.
Tous les ans, quelques 600 nids d’alligators sont pillés en toute légalité dans l’état de Floride (USA). Plus de 54,000 oeufs viables sont ainsi retirés de leur environnement naturel pour être vendus par le gouvernement aux propriétaires des fermes d’alligators. Une industrie florissante et une très bonne affaire pour l’état de Floride. Pour certains ces fermes d’élevage ont permis l’arrêt des massacres et ont contribué à sauver l’espèce. Pour d’autres, les prélèvements d’oeufs augmentent les risques de disparition des alligators de Floride dont l’espèce est déjà menacée par la disparition de son habitat, les Everglades.
Photos ©Mauricio Granados/LightMediation
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Saudi…Alberta, financial boom and ecological disaster…
Imagine Saudi Arabia in Canada, unthinkable ? think again! The tar sands, a geological feature unique in the world, are stretching over a 75 000 square kilometer area and contain more than 3000 billion of tons of hydrocarbons whose 300 billions tons are exploitable. This natural resource moved Canada ahead of oil producing countries, just behind Saudi Arabia! A manna for some, but a real nightmare for others. According to environmentalists the oil iproducedd in Alberta’s tar sands is the dirtiest in the world. Welcome into the country of colossal excess, where each grain of sand contains gold, black gold that is.
Photos and text ©Patrice Halley/LightMediation
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Québec, le bel hiver…
Au fil de la glace : des Monts Valin au Saint-Laurent.
Les lacs y sont des mers. Les forêts des océans de verdure. Et l’hiver est à la démesure de “la Belle Province”. Par moins 30 °C, la nature se donne en grand spectacle.
“Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays c’est l’hiver” - Gilles Vigneault-
De novembre à avril, la neige et la glace règnent en maîtres sur le Québec. La nature hiberne mais la poudre se fait complice de nos désirs. Des immensités glacées du lac Saint Jean à la poudre des Monts Valin, aux falaises du fjord Saguenay jusqu’à la banquise du Saint-Laurent, on peut partir à l’aventure. Un périple hivernal à vivre en ski, en raquettes à neige ou en chien de traîneau…
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South Dakota Round Up: the Cowboys defy the buffalos !
Twice a year, the buffalos of Custer Park must be rounded up, a high-risk operation.
Danger! In order to control their abundant population, the thousand five hundred wild bovines must be led by about sixty rangers to the corrals of the park where they will be vaccinated and then culled. The protection of fauna is sometimes a paradox. Thus, to ensure the survival of the bison - saved from extinction forty years ago- Custer Park in South Dakota must reduce their population twice a year. The equation is simple: each spring, the herd of a thousand head increases by five hundred babes bisons. During this season, the area of the Grasslands which owes its name to its protein-rich grass, can feed this whole small world, but not during the summer, marked by repeated droughts, nor in winter, which is reputed to be very hard. This is why, in October and February, about sixty rangers, reinforced by a score of four-by-fours, mount their spirited horses and herd the cattle to the corrals of Custer State Park, in order to carry out the selection for the cull.
This operation - baptized Buffalo Roundup - is not without danger. Yet, seeing them grazing, rolling in the summer dust to get rid of insects, or digging in the winter snow with their muzzles in order to reach the grass, and then rubbing up against the rocks and trees to get rid of their winter coats, bison look like large cuddly toys. But beware: disturb a male that is marking his territory or frighten a female protecting her only calf, and this peaceful animal will turn into a wild bovine that will not hesitate to use its eight hundred kilos of muscles…
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