Illustrations extraites du premier chapitre du webdocumentaire A LIFE LIKE MINE
Photographies : Guillaume COLLANGES Textes : Sébastien DAYCARD HEID
To offer a future to the street children of Calcutta, the association Ashalayam has opened twenty boarding schools and four night shelters. 550 children have now gone back to school or are currently learning a profession. They play cricket and rugby. They are learning to get up early again. They can (...)
Bangkok, mégapole high tech, déploie ses tentaculaires autoroutes suspendues comme autant de signes de sa modernité. Vu du dessus, un labyrinthe futuriste. Vu du dessous ? une autre vie, une autre ville, qui s’organise comme elle peut à l’ombre des voitures : petits commerces, habitat précaire. (...)
In Lima, illegal land invasions are the motivating force behind urban development. In the Peruvian megalopolis, slums are not inevitable. As a unique example in the world, the (official) perspective of becoming a land owner one day is encouraging land squatters in their group takeovers. Without (...)
For the past 15 years, Eva-Lanxmeer has been a model of a city in full transition. This eco-district was built from the end of the 1990s on in the town of Culembourg in the Netherlands and houses 1000 inhabitants in a quiet and green setting. Eco-houses with solar panels, shared gardens, an urban (...)
La rédemption d’un businessman
Il est là. Au milieu de maisons multicolores. Il est là. Entouré de ceux qu’il a rendu dignes. Ses yeux se ferment. Un instant. Le temps de se plonger dans son passé. Ses souvenirs ont la teinte (...)
The kingdom of Bhutan announced in 2012 its desire to live 100% from eco-agriculture. Having been through dark times of fertilisers, weed killers and pesticides from the petrochemical industry, the farmers have once again found under their hoes, a soil that is soft to till. Hemmed in between two (...)
Hanoï – Vietnam – december 2007 Interior. Exterior. Is a private life possible when shop and lounge form a single space - one that is entirely open to the street? Only the old metal gates, held together by precarious padlocks, allow for some semblance of privacy at nightfall. By day, the place (...)
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Le ballon d'eau est une technique peu coûteuse et écologique pour transporter l'eau potable. Les Turcs sont actuellement les seuls au monde à l'utiliser pour l'exportation de leurs ressources en eau vers Chypre. En parallèle, ils développent d'autres grands projets d'exportation d'eau en vrac (...)
Hô Chi Minh Ville explose, devient HCMV, la mégapole, la capitale économique du Vietnam, le pôle d'attraction principal pour les centaines de milliers de migrants qui arrivent chaque année de tout le pays. Portrait d'une mégapole en devenir et des migrants qui la fabriquent.
With its 600 physicians, its 19 twenty-four hours a day operating rooms, 17 spoken languages, Bangkok's five-stars hospital Bumrungrad Palace draws each year more than 200.000 patients. They come from United States, Western Europe, Gulf Emirates or South Asia for different types of surgery like short-sightedness (...)
Pyongyang dayli life and international policy tensions.
Berlin a organisé de nombreux événements tout au long de l'année 2009 en commémoration des 20 ans de la chute du mur. En octobre c'est la compagnie Royale de Luxe qui a pris possession des rues de Berlin avec ses Géants pour raconter, de manière (...)
Kokaral: Life restakes its claim
Dans la région des haors, au nord-est du Bangladesh, les inondations durent six mois. Les habitants ont appris à vivre avec ce cycle singulier qui les contraint à une demie année repli insulaire. Reportage sur deux saisons dans l’île-village d’Abdullapur.
In this huge delta in the South of Vietnam, most people live on water and depend on the river. For many of them, boats are their main vehicle, residence, and frequently their unique property.
Let’s join this trip through delta, from east to west, from boat to boat, to (...)
Edouard George is about to become the first western investor into North Korea tourism industry. We had a unique chance to follow this French national on a trip to the most secretive country in the world and witness how to do "busines" there. The 52 year old is investing in an hotel in (...)
The last drop of Bangalore
As a global information technology center and Indian engine of growth, Bangalore is experiencing severe water supply shortages. For 20 years, the city has been drip-fed thanks to groundwater pumping, which is expected to be depleted in 2025. While the water tanker (...)
In Hô Chi Minh City, an old apartment building will soon be demolished, a few kilometers away from Cholon, the Chinese district. It was built in the 70s for the Americans, and then housed the victors, who had come directly from Hanoi to replace the South administration’s civil servants, (...)
These are the zama zama, young or older experienced miners who, every week, try by their own means to strike it lucky in the South African gold mines. Coming from South Africa or Mozambique, they work and sleep in this oppressive universe. The duration of their stay is sometimes several consecutive (...)