Charles Ommanney is a White House photographer who followed George W. Bush, John Kerry and Barack Obama. The journalist Laurence Haïm has lived in the United States for almost 30 years, where she works as correspondent for Canal+ and iTélé. T...

09.09.2012[ read full story ]

I live with a spiritual being who has the form of a dog and who has taught me how to perceive the spiritual qualities of all animals. I am a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner studying in the tradition of Ati Yoga. One of the great teachers in this lineage, Drukpa Kunley, never went anyw...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

In 2011, 24 French soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. A black year that marks 10 years of french presence in the country, since 2001, 82 french soldiers were killed.The institution throws a veil over these men who died for France. And it is in an almost general indiff...

07.09.2012[ read full story ]

Burmese Nights, a series produced by Sarah Caron for the New York Times Magazine a year and a half ago while still a member of the Polaris agency, shows a gilded youth that has nothing to look forward to in life except enjoyment: “If you’re the son of a general, you can have anyth...

09.09.2012[ read full story ]

It only took a few weeks for the outrage movement (‘the indignant ones’) to sweep through Europe. Spain, Greece, Israel, Germany, England, Belgium, France: in each instance the same desire, the tents, a public square, pieces of cardboard, a red nose and red hands, debat...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

Yemen - "Governing Yemen is like dancing on the heads of snakes." Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh knows the country well he had been ruling for 33 years; a country at war even before its unification. Forgotten by the press, Yemen daily life is stressed by US drone ...

05.09.2012[ read full story ]

My latest work is inspired by paintings of old masters from the 15th to 17th Century (Titian to Rubens). Over a period of three centuries, these masters showed that female and male beauty of that time was represented by a fuller figure. Throughout most of the last few millennia,...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

“I had a nightmare once, I was six feet tall and I was literally scared of my own height,” says 21-years old Sofiya Cheyenne Perez.  She is just above four feet tall and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Dwarfdom is a photography essay and a short documentary that tells the st...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a people powered movement that began on Sept 17, 2011 with the occupation of Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) in the Financial District of lower Manhattan. This movement rapidly spread to many cities across United States and globally. While the move...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

In northern Kazakhstan, a futuristic city has risen from the forsaken landscape and post-Soviet rubble. In 1997 President Nazarbayev had declared that the country’s capital would no longer be located in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, but move to a small town previously known a...

05.09.2012[ read full story ]