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... [+]
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... [+]
I moved to Palermo in 1975 and started working with the group of photographers who followed the local news for the “L’Ora” newspaper. I liked the noise of Palermo, the bustle in the streets, the heat, the light, the pleasure people took in meeting with each other, in... [+]
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 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... [+]
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... [+]
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... [+]
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... [+]
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... [+]
220 000 spectators in 2002 of which nearly a half were foreigners : the most popular race in the world. Le Mans Classic is the unique rendez-vous for the nostalgic of the 24 Hhours of Le Mans. There 's only one rule in order to participate in the race : that is to have... [+]
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... [+]