The Japanese have always known how to come to terms with the unpredictable and violent forces of nature that have shaped their sensitivity for centuries. Earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and volcanic eruptions that are very common in the archipelago, are considered an integral part of their existence....

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Movaiz Haleine, Communauté Black, 241, Pacificator, Hayoe… Hip-hop groups make up almost all the music programmes on Gabon’s television. A large part of the population can identify with the lyrics that give emphasis to their daily lives and their worries. They are young people who sing and...

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When the buildings stopped growing and the small weeds took concrete's place on the streets to be built, the landscape changed. The cities' silhouette goes up and down as the stock market lines do and when the money was no longer on the move, when the money went missing, the suburbs' skies were l...

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The 1950s was an exuberant decade that saw the birth of rock’n’roll, new fashions and social mores, and a breakaway generation – as in “Rebel without a Cause”, the famous film by Nicholas Ray starring James Dean in 1955 – who became known as teenagers.

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In 2011, according to the «  Estudio de Niños Callejeros » – an official study on children living in the streets- More than 10 000 young people live in the streets of Mexico city. The streets are permanent homes for all these young people mostly aged between 15 and 25 years old. After suffering...

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The psychiatric hospital La Borda, located in the centre of Buenos Aires, is the most important of all of Argentina. It is comprised of 14 blocks and 22 houses. The 991 men who live there are for the most part chronic patients, who have lost all contact with the outside world. It is, however, easy t...

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On the 22 islands along Peru's coastline, life is regulated by the harvesting of guano - sea bird droppings. In the 19th century already, Peru exported this product in large quantities to the United States and Europe. It was a prosperous activity thanks to the exploitation of a workforce composed...

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To be commercialised in France, a seed must be registered in the official catalogue of species and varieties. This catalogue guarantees a standardisation for farmers who buy these seeds each year, since most of the seeds are hybrid, therefore non reproducible. The Kokopelli organisation, speci...

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In the beginning, there is the journey. There is the instinctive desire to realise, but not only that. There is also the desire to recount the journey in a new grammar form, really write it, more than just transcribe it. Such is the scale of the photographic challenge.

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Along the Saint Lawrence River, the oldest waterway of North America, fishing boats are becoming rare. For forty years, the fishermen have been trying to protect their activity, but today the industry is in jeopardy. Overexploitation of stocks and the rising costs of fishing are leading to the disappea...

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