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”…
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…
20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this project depicts a country in search of identity, a land and its people, stuck between a soviet past, an unrecognized…
Through an ironic manipulation of identity, Je suis Winnie l’Ourson (I’m Winnie the Pooh) seeks to arouse some thought on the stigmatisation of the Other by presenting the fears that…
December 2010. Protests take hold on a long-term basis in Tunisia and the dictatorial regime of President Ben Ali, in place for twenty-three years, is shaking under the pressure from…