Asie du Sud-Est
Cambodia Today: life in the land of Killing Fields.
The trial against the leaders of Pol Pot’s regime, the dictator who exterminated 20 per cent of his people between 1975 and 1979, has recently started.But how heavy is the burden of past for Cambodians? Young people fear criminality more than yesterday’s phantoms. And the majority of Khmer people hardly survive in the impoverished countryside.
A Photo story by ©Stefano Torrione/LightMediation
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Huê, renaissance d’une cité souveraine.
Comme un phoenix, la ville de Huê ressuscite de ses cendres. Abandonnées durant des décennies, la cité Impériale Vietnamienne et les tombes Royales érigées par la dynastie N’Guyen ont retrouvé leur splendeur d’autrefois, grâce à un vaste plan de restauration coordonné par l’Unesco.
Photos ©Rémi Benali/Lightmediation Texte ®Heather Robinson
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Cruise on the Mekong river.
From the jungles of the Land of Nine Dragons in Vietnam to the golden temples of Cambodia, the Toum Tiou voyages up the Mekong River for a one thousand kilometer journey brimming with life and vibrant cultures as diverse as the river itself.
Photos ©Remi Benali Text ®Heather Robinson
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Lake Inle, the Burmese Venice.
Aquatic oasis set south of the Shan State, Lake Inlé has all the features of a Burmese Venice. A spot of poetry and hard work that became, in a couple of years, one of the country’s major tourist attractions.
Photos and text by ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Made in Taiwan…
Unknown, the island of Taiwan is an incredible nexus for Chinese culture, where futuristic modernity and ancestral traditions meet.«Made in Taiwan » How many times did you read these three undissociable and trite words ? The famous set phrase is tightly linked with the country just as much as you can find it on the label of electronic equipment . With such a rehash, who could conceive an island different from the little urbain,polluted, industrial and laborious nation we all imagine ? Nonetheless, Taiwan is not of the readymade, boring and tedious kind. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Otherwise, why would the Portuguese seafarers of the XVIth century, have baptised it « Ilha Formosan », the Portuguese for « The Beautiful Island » ?
Photos and text ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
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60 ans déjà! L’agonie du petit peuple Karen – Rétro-
Située aux confins de la Thaïlande et de la Birmanie, la guérilla Karenne, plus ancien mouvement dissident d’Asie, se bat depuis 60 ans contre le régime militaire de Rangoon.
Photos et texte Marc Charuel/LightMediation
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Ratanakiri, a forgotten land.
It took a combination of boats and cars and two full days travel to reach what is the most remote corner of Cambodia.
Ratanakiri, which name means « Gemstone Mountain », has in fact only recently returned on the map of the country. The natural beauty and the many hidden and not hidden resources of the region are now giving reasons to many Cambodian migrants and to some foreign enterprises to settle in what is also the ancestral land of the several minority groups living in Cambodia. Known as « Khmer Loeu » (Highlanders) the minority people of the country have been left undisturbed for almost half a century.
Photographs and Text by ©Alberto Buzzola/LightMediation
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Le ballet Royal du Cambodge.
« De la magnificence d’Angkor, l’ancienne capitale de l’Empire khmer, il ne reste pas seulement les plus beaux temples d’Extrême-Orient, vertigineuses cathédrales surgissant de la forêt tropicale. Un art sacré, la danse, a survécu jusqu’à nos jours au travers des invasions et même du génocide Khmer Rouge », déclare avec passion la princesse Buppha Devi, qui était danseuse-étoile dans les années 60.
Sous sa direction, le Ballet Royal a retrouvé la splendeur et la magie d’antan.
Photos et Interview de Christophe Loviny/Jazz Editions/LightMediation
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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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