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Bishnois : environmentalists by Creed
Bishnois have made wildlife and environment protection their daily leitmotiv.
Love animals
Don’t cut green trees
And you won’t face adversity in life
Guru Jambheshwar (1451-1536 AD)
A photo story by ©Franck Vogel/LightMediation
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Afghanistan - Education : strategic target and weapon
Kandahar province, Taliban and insurgents stronghold.
Children are being intimidated, professors are killed, Schools are burning and closing. Suicide attacks make it difficult for the children to go to school. Afghans are scared. Education is the strategic target by insurgents and taliban in Kandahar region.
A Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LightMediation
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Life and death in Calcutta
Like tight rope walkers’, life precariously hangs in the balance for the people who live in the slums of Kolkata. Health care to these people is almost non-existent but there is one Doctor who has dedicated his life to helping them to survive and stay healthy.
A Photo story by Donna Todd/LightMediation
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The colors of Holi by Bruno Morandi
Holi is the happiest, wildest and most colourful festival of India.This former Spring fertility ritual and agrarian festival celebrating plentiful harvests has kept remnants of its bacchanalian character.Participants love to break taboos and conventions and reverse the role behaviour imparted by a rigid caste society.
Photos by ©Bruno Morandi/LightMediation Text by ®Carisse Busquet
Lapis Lazuli, the Afghan blue fortune.
For more than 6500 years, the laborious quest of a semi-precious stone,the lapis lazuli, has never stopped. Among the dynamite and the sweat,or among the luxury and the wars, the story of the lapis lazuli has involved the great dignitaries of History.
A Photo story by Philip Poupin/LightMediation
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EXCLUSIVE. The long march of the Dalaï-Lama.
On March 17th 1959, the Dalaï-Lama, 23 years old, took the road of exil with his goverment and his family.Fifty years later, the soul of Tibet opens his private collection and comments the pictures of this historical journey.
Photos of Dalaï Lama by ©Patrick Chapuis/LightMediation An interview by Philippe Flandrin is avalaible.
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Turkey: the “Silk highway”.
Pivotal country at the close of the silkroads itinerary, Turkey fosters an exceptional heritage gained from a blending of civilizations throughout history.Today friendliness and an integral part of modern Turkey.
Photos and text ©Marc Dozier/Lightmediation
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Afghanistan. French paratroopers at war.
No week without crossfire for French paratroopers since the tragic ambush of last August. From the forward operating base of Nijrab in the north of Kabul, a small camp like Fort Sagane trapped under the Hindou Koush mountains, the French battalion displayed on the front line has gone back to war of high intensity with a tough well-equiped enemy. Daily patrols and attacks led by French troopers has permited to reconquest the field around Kabul in a few months.
Photos ©Marc Charuel/LightMediation Text ®Frederic Pons
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India, land of the Landless.
–These photos were exposed at “Visa pour l’image”, for the 20th anniversary of the festival, in September, 2008.–
Soon after his return from South Africain 1917 Gandhi led his first political struggle in the state of Bihar, in support of peasant small holders against British indigo planters. In the course of doing so, he earned the title of Mahatma,The Great Soul.
More than ninety years later, little has changed in this largely rural state situated in northern India, which remains one of the poorest in the country.Poverty, illiteracy and violence: the daily life of the poor and maginalised in India today is a world apart from the ideals that were set by India’s prophet of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi.
Photos ©Marie Dorigny/LightMediation Text ®Christèle Dedebant
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Dharavi, Mumbai’s biggest slum!
Dharavi in central Mumbai is one of Asia’s largest slums. It is enterprise personified. Between 1200 to 1500 small scale industries exist and function within the Dharavi industrial area. It is a place where industry,incorrigibility and a never say die spirit co-exists.Plastic recycling ( perhaps the largestin India ), leather processing, oil drum and tin can reconditioning, dye making,garment and embroidery work, wastepaper raw material supplies, potterymaking , food processing are some of the major enterprises that operateamong other innumerable small scaleunits exists in Dharavi.It is a shadow city where nearly amillion live and work, annually churning out almost 500 million dollar worth of goods. It’s a place where new arrivals found their first footing , make businessand start their life in the urban metro like Mumbai.
A Photo story by ©Amit Chakravarty/LightMediation
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