These are punks who are tired of the consumerist trends of thinking and despise the examples their past cultural movement idols portray.In eastern spirituality and wisdom, these punks find the inspiration to change the world by beginning with a revolution within themselves.
The Sambatra
Every seven years, the year of the Friday, the Antambahoaka who make up one of the eighteen ethnic groups on the island of Madagascar have been celebrating for centuries the biggest event that defines them: the Sambatra.
Peru’s Melting Gods
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 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 everlasting life.
Le ballet Royal du Cambodge
"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.
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.
Here, the definition of the word photography is taken literaly: to draw or to write (graphos) with light (photos).By the time, writing arts have never stopped evolving. Lightgraff is part of this process. After having used stones,reeds, inks, paints and sprays… we use light.Lightgraff is a new langage, that of light.
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.
…in the garden of Eden
Persecuted and driven out of the Iraqi marshes, where Sumerian used to live since Antiquity, the « Arabs of Marshlands » started to recover their territory drained by Saddam Hussein. After three decades, water is back and life too, as it was 6,000 years ago.
Photos by Xavier Rossi and Marc Roussel/LightMediation Text by Marc Roussel
They are young, tattooed, with piercings and shaved heads. These are punks who are tired of the consumerist trends of thinking and despise the examples their past cultural movement idols portray. In eastern spirituality and wisdom, whether Buddhism or Hinduism, these punks find the inspiration to change the world by beginning with a revolution within themselves.
Some 300 hives have colonized the roofs and gardens of Paris. But who are these new beekeepers who let their bees gather pollen in the heart of the city?
» In an autobiographical and reflexive quest, I was moved to explore a task that was the once my father’s and my grandfather’s, but will never be mine. It is not a simple quest for roots but a semi-ethnographic exploration of the mentioned event vanishing little by little: the shepherd’s world. »