En 1975, je me suis installé à Palerme, où j'ai commencé à travailler avec Letizia Battaglia et un groupe de photographes qui suivaient les faits divers de la ville pour le journal "L'Ora". À Palerme, j'aimais le bruit, la confusion qui règne dans les rues, la chaleur, la... [+]
Vezos live in the semi-dry zone of south-west Madagascar; they are members of a sea nomadic community and they live of gathering, hunting and fishing on the coralline platforms, littoral dune, mangroves and xerophilous forest near a sandy open coast. There are about 8.000... [+]
In 2006, the arrests of the boss Bernardo Provenzano and several heads of Cosa Nostra families weakened the Mafia. But now, it faces another enemy. Sicilians are mobilising to cut through the island’s historic and cultural links with the criminal organisation. Guido Agnello set... [+]
The wedding institution has knew during the past years a progressive crisis that has deeply modified his importance on the base of social life. The motivations are many. The church is loosing believers. The family is no any more a productive unit; his economy, the education and... [+]
Assister en Sicile aux très nombreuses fêtes de la Semaine Sainte n’est pas aisé mais c’est une expérience hors du commun. Chaque ville, chaque village devient la scène de cérémonies solennelles, marquées par les pas de lentes processions, le silence des prières et... [+]
Marseille paralysée par la neige Reuters 07.01.09 | 17h50 Des chutes de neige exceptionnelles se sont abattues sur Marseille et le département des Bouches-du-Rhône, provoquant une interruption totale du trafic ferroviaire, aérien et autoroutier. Si le reste de la France... [+]
While bees all over the world are dying in hoards, hives are sprouting up all over Paris’s rooftops, balconies, parks and gardens. Fewer pesticides and a wider variety of plants and trees are helping bee colonies thrive here. Jean Paucton has kept bees on the roof of Paris's... [+]
The 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans) is a sports car endurance race held annually since 1923 near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance, it is organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and runs on a circuit containing... [+]
France is the country of hunting (2 times more hunters than in the UK), and the southwest is its paradise. From the 25th of October until the 15th of November, from Bordeaux to Toulouse, a large part of the adult male population is all over the Pyrenees mountains, hunting the... [+]
France has only four Muslim schools. So the 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become a refuge for Muslims seeking what an overburdened, secularist public sector often lacks: spirituality, an environment in which good manners count alongside mathematics and higher academic... [+]
MDI Enterprise of Carros, France. As odd as it sounds, running a car on air is a reality. Proof of concept and prototype compressed air vehicles – commonly referred to as “air cars” – have been running around for a number of years. How could it be possible to run on... [+]
À l’école des sens. Paris propose des cours pour redécouvrir le plaisir de la “sensualité” en alternative au travail intellectuel. Assez des salles bourrées d’étudiants, plus de microphones, et surtout très peu de théorie. Dans les bâtiments où l’on apprend à... [+]
Douze mille personnes, selon les organisateurs, 4 500 selon la police, ont manifesté, le 25 juin 2008, à Montpellier pour « exprimer la colère » des viticulteurs du Languedoc-Roussillon confrontés à une grave crise et réclamer des aides d'urgence du gouvernement. Des... [+]
The main pillar of communism ideology was the cult of the socialist progress in the form of heavy industry, heavy machines and big chimneys. Nature as not been respected, and no care as been taken in the planning of landscapes (if such planning ever existed). Also natural... [+]
À la fois cavaliers exceptionnels, gardiens de bétail, éleveurs, propriétaires d'haciendas, les huasos sont inséparables du stupéfiant paysage chilien et perpétuent la tradition héritée des conquistadores. Avec leurs complices de toujours, les légendaires chevaux... [+]
THE STRUGGLE FOR TIME MEASUREMENT AND PRECISION HAS BEEN AS LONG AS THE HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND. When the very first second of the new year 2005, January 1st ticks off in the Southern Pacific islands of Fijis and, from there, around the world 24 time zones, few people will... [+]
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People among the clouds Forgotten by the technological world, Garos are located between Assam and Bangladesh. Although they have been converted to devout christianity, the Garos people have conserved their millinial traditions, comprised of harvest festivities and drinking rice... [+]
The sleep, a natural activity, a daily experience, is an enigma, in the physiologic point of view and because it is ours stranger familiar companion all the life long. We are little caring of a phenomenon that take one third of the everyone existence. We are absorbed by a culture... [+]
The Earth is round as a balloon. This sport has become the most widely played game in the world. Football (soccer), is more worldwide spread than democracy, Internet or market economy. Zidane, Beckham or Raul are better known in the world than Chirac, Blair, Aznar, Bill Gates... [+]
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX Avec près de 700 commerçants et artisans, 17 rues piétonnes, plus de 40 hectares d'espaces verts et de nombreux équipements culturels, Issy-les- Moulineaux est une commune où il fait bon vivre. Elle a d'ailleurs gagné près de 10 000 habitants entre... [+]
After the tragic death of the young Thomas Hickey in Sydney, riots broke out between Aboriginal people and police, taking over first place in the media. The Aboriginal community expressed anger and grief, and resentment for his history of discrimination and disadvantage. 700 km... [+]
Sakaï. The cave painter's mystery. This is the story of a forgotten people: the Sakaï. Direct descendants of the Paleolithic men, they are the most primitive hunter-gatherers in Thailand. Today, only two hundred of them still wander the southern jungles. This is also the... [+]
Since 1991, Franco Zecchin has spent a long time working on the nomads. These Indians are the eighth population he's visited. He explains to me that these natives continue to keep a spirit that identifies them with their roots, and with regard to the authorities and the... [+]
"If you want hung yourself, you must before walk for one hundred miles". Therefore Pantzrakch says resting to the saddle-back, while it withholds with decision the reins of the wet and nervous horse. There are not trees, there is only grass in this great windy space; the horizon... [+]
For us, western " terrestrials", the word "nomad" evoke bohemiens with caravans or herders with flocks. In south-east Asia and Indian Island, where insularity and vegetable's exuberance are at the top, "nomad" evoke not only the forest people but also seamen. In south-east Asia... [+]
Le pays, le nom duquel a origine du grec "ga" et "roa", c'est-à-dire "terre qui glisse", pour sa précaire condition hydro- géologique, initialement était appelé Gairo Vieux. Mais le hameau frappé à plusieurs reprises par désastreuses inondations, entre lesquelles la plus... [+]
FRANCO ZECCHIN The Man of Great Determination by Brigitte Ollier. Facing Franco Zecchin is not a demanding task. And it's just this that is rather rare, this feeling of being an equal, knowing that there is nothing at stake, and above all no wheeling and dealing. Emotionally or... [+]