Despite the Western misrepresentation of the animism of African religions, they share the belief in one God the Creator who is only accessible through the intermediaries of spiritual forces,…
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Removed from their social and cultural context, the masks, statues and ritual instruments that we admire in museums are bleeding to death from a lack of understanding. They were not…
The only belongings that slaves were allowed to take with them, as they were leaving their great kingdoms of West Africa, were their gods. They smuggled them out to the…
The Bwiti rituals originated in Central Gabon. Several centuries ago It was at once a vision of the universe, a teaching, an organization of society and a therapy. Only admitted…
Jérôme Thirriot always returned to India as if it were his adopted family. Initiated to its culture at the age of twenty while learning to play the traditional tablas…
Jean-Dominique Burton takes pictures because he travels, not the opposite. Humanity is his only subject and the portrait is the only method he uses. It is because he wanted to…
Every year, in the heart of the Southern hemisphere’s winter, Earth is plunged into darkness, face-to-face with the Milky Way, our galaxy. In order to view this staggering panorama in…
There are places that blow your mind: inspired and inspiring places that instill the conviction that here, in this place, men find themselves linked to something that can…
After travelling through Russia, Asia, and Oceania, Frédéric Lemalet was captivated – in the literal sense of the word – by Tibet: captivated by the beauty of its landscapes, and…