Sujets par Zone Geographique - by Geographical Area
Easter with the Lapps
In the north of Norway, the reindeer-herding nomads await Easter to live it up in all their finery. With deer races, ice fishing competitions, baptisms and weddings, they celebrate the arrival of spring and the end of the long polar night.
a Photo story by Christophe Boisvieux/LigthMediation
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Journey in the land with no name
Heralded as the « King River of French Guiana », the Maroni courses through a land of adventure. Secret African traditions, gold mining fever and the struggle to survive, all simmer underneath the canopy of the emerald Amazon and an illusory French flag. The law of the forest prevails in this unknown wilderness.
Photos by Remi Benali/LightMediation Text by Heather Robinson
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« Gun City »…Making a living with weapons…
In the Philippines, they call this city « The Gun City. » For more than a century in Danao, the people have lived from making weapons. Pistols, revolvers or automatic weapons, they know how to do it all by hand. The City Hall set up a cooperative to legalize this activity. But in order to make more money,thousands of manufacturers continue to produce their weapons illegally…
Photos by Patrick Aventurier/LightMediation Text by Sebastien Farcis
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Syria: 9 months of killing behind closed door
The Arab spring has turned extremely violent in Syria where regardless of Arab and international pressure the Assad’s regime is still suppressing the once peaceful revolt.
The uprising started in southern Deraa 9 months ago and now with the growing role of military defectors, the prospect of a civil war is looming.
French photojournalist Mani has just brought back a highly exclusive feature from Homs and its countryside, the centre of this ongoing revolt. This is the very first comprehensive photographic feature from Syria.
For more Pictures or Informations please contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
7th Km Market
The economic crisis in Ukraine risks to leave behind only mud on the streets lined by colored ship containers that serve as a market for 22,000 merchants that provide jobs to 60,000 people.
Photos by Andrea Alborno/LightMediation Text by Margherita Rosset
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Shongololo Express, a train called desire
From Zimbabwe to South Africa, the Shongololo Express follows an unprecedented itinerary through six countries of the African continent. A great adventure on rails, bumping in rythm on the tracks to a wild and bewildering southern Africa.
Photos and text by Emilie Chaix / LightMediation
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Peru’s Melting Gods
Sacred water on the verge of extinction
In January 2009, the National Institute of Natural Resources in Peru stated that the Quilca glacier, located at an altitude of 5,250 metres in the region of Puno, had completely disappeared. The agency believes that because of global warming all of Peru’s 2000 glaciers are destined to totally melt by 2025.
A Photo story by Andrew McLeish / LightMediation
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The war of black diamond
The arrival of the festivities will they revive the war of the truffle? A robber shot and killed at the beginning of year in the Drome region (France) makes fear the worst. Because with the economic crisis, a new delinquency of the campaigns is organized during the harvest of black diamond, the famous Tuber Melanosporum. For the gangs prepared with weapons and a special training for the dogs, the truffle robbery is a very lucrative market.
a Photo report by Patrick Aventurier/LightMediation
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New York in a mirror
Image, mirror, reflection, expression, polish, appearance, form, look, echo, mirage. New York is the Mirror city by itself. During the day, the sun uses straight avenues of the big apple as a sundial, it’s easy to follow his run with the shades of the skyscrapers. At night, the moon plays on reflectives façades. But New York is also a mirror city of human soul…
Photos and text by Michel Setboun/LightMediation
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In search of the Spirit Bear
The wildest and most mysterious place in America is without doubt the Great Bearrain forest, one of the largest coastal temperate rain forest in the world. Here, black bears are white and trees smell salmon … This 25 000 square miles of fjords and islands on Canada’s West Coast is home for the elusive « spirit bear ». A A unique ecosystem tightly linked to the cycle of salmon migration.
Photos and text Jean Robert/LightMediation
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