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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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Lost from Balochistan
Lost from Balochistan is the story of the penjabis domination against the Balochis. Balochis cultivate a particular resentment against the central power, accused of enslaving them and delaying the provincial development while drawing from its rich basement.
a Photo story by Marc Watrelot / LightMediation
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Kandahar – on Taliban holy land and stronghold
Kandahar is today the stronghold of insurgents, Taliban fighting against Karzai Gouvernment and NATO coalition. The insurgents make themselves justice. They terrorize or kill those collaborating with the government.
a Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LightMediation
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Shanghai 2010 World expo
The chips are down in Beijing and the die is cast in Shanghai! The sleeping beauty is giving herself a makeover, spending without counting, modernizing to the extreme while still restoring her past, all for the World Expo which opens its doors in May 2010.
Photos and text by Bruno Morandi / LightMediation
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The festivals of the desert
The camel fairs of Pushkar and Chandrabaga, in Rajasthan,are spectacular gatherings that evoke age-old times in the heart of an India in quest of a future…
Photos and text by Jean-Baptiste Rabouan/LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Syr Daria: the damned river
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From its very beginning till the Aral sea, Syr Daria river,a two thousand miles long river, accumulates the whole major ecological and water related problems one can ever face on earth.
A Photo story by Marc Roussel / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The idol sculptors of Kumartuli
The potters’ neighborhood in Kumartuli, in the north of Calcutta,is the fulcrum of the religious life of the Hindus. The sculptors there carry on a very old tradition: the crafting of effigies of the divinities for the end-of-year religious celebrations, the pujas.
A Photo story by Bruno Perousse / LightMediation
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« We are the anti-Taliban »
About 1 million people come to Sehwan Sharif for three days every year, to mark the death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, an ancient Sufi mystic. It is one of south Asia’s greatest parties.And an other face of Islam.
A Photo story by Matthieu Paley / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The living Gods of the Teyyam
On the borders of Kerala and Karnataka, the age-old ritual of the Teyyam stages the gods coming down amongst Man in an incredible profusion of colours and finery. An encounter with a living myth, religion and choreography passed down through history.
A Photo story by Christophe Boisvieux / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]ligthtmediation.com
Nepal : the honey hunt of the Tiger Men.
Twenty kilometers south of Mount Everest, on cliffs rising from the middle of forests of rhododendron, the last honey hunters of the Rai people face the giant bee of the Himalayas to collect the honey of ever lasting life.
A Photo story by Eric Tourneret / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
