Every year in Mexico, millions of pilgrims travel to the Guadalupe Basilica. There on the hill of Tepeyac, the site of Aztec ruins dedicated to the goddess Tonanztin, the Virgin…
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Deidi von Schaewen travels the world looking for what man builds , anything concerning architecture, thoughtful and timeless, popular or improvised. Palaces, shanties, scaffolding, temporary decorations mounted for ritual celebrations,…
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,…
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…
My images are based in the concept of story telling. I see photography as an opportunity to tell a story through images. We live in impermanence. That is why I…
At the end of 2011 the world population has reached 7 billion. According to the datas of UN, the birth that marked this milestone took place in India, which if…
Cette série photographique dépeint la manière dont on s'approprie une ville et le désir de la découvrir à nouveau. Elle est bien sûr aussi une réflexion sur moi-même, sur l'amitié…
La Maison Française will showcase the Poche Illustrateur series, celebrating notable illustrators such as Roman Cieślewicz, Honoré Daumier, Etienne Delessert, Guy Peellaert, and Saul Steinberg.…