Jean-François Jonvelle was snatched by the hand of death with a suddenness to match the photographs that were his life. Just as that life was dedicated to capturing these stolen…
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Nearly ten years have passed since Jean-François Jonvelle’s death on January 16th, 2002, when he was carried away by a sudden illness in a little over a week. Jean-François, “Jonjon”…
Franck Boutonnet, of the photography collective ITEM, traveled to Argentina to create “Conscienza,” a photographic essay documenting a poetic and political vision of Argentina, a country unafraid to confront its…
To go away. To leave everything behind. To emigrate to another land. The dream land. The welcoming land whose wealth holds out its hand. Those who exile themselves from their…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…