Travelers' eyes

Marrakesh craftsman by Arnaud Contreras

Uzbekistan Coma

Fishermen from Togo

Lida Abdul

© lida abdul “As an artist who works both in performance and video art, Lida Abdul creates poetic spaces that allow the viewer to interrogate the familiar and the personal. Her work is guided by a ritualized formalism that insinuates the immediacy of myth and the playfulness of a mind seeking to understand the surrounding [...]

Wolrd Press Photo 2008

© Philippe Dudouit, Switzerland, for Time magazine. PKK fighters, Northern Iraq The winners of World Press Photo 2008 will be presented from 8/05 to 1/06/2008 at the galerie Azzedine Alaïa (18,rue de la Verrerie, 75004, Paris, France) Discover a Gallery of prize winning images +++

Free Moussa Kaka now! (RFI journalist jailed)

Moussa KAKA works as a reporter for Radio France International (RFI) in Niger. He is jailed because he interviewed rebels. He was doing his job and providing the world a fundammental right: the right to access to information. He is still jailed for complicity of destabilisation of the state !!! Free Moussa KAKA now! More about Moussa Kaka +++ Join [...]

Terakaft

Terakaft is one of the best saharan band from the “Ishumar” movement. Terakaft is a gang of guitarists, in the same vein as Tinariwen. Nothing astonishing about that if you consider that Terakaft was founded by Kedou and Diara, two formative and historical guitarists from Tinariwen. Moreover Kedou accompanied Tinariwen to the [...]

Post office

Jean-Luc Cramatte, a swiss photographer, presents his recent work: Post office , my love. He has shot around 150 post office in his country, as a documentary project. More about this project +++

Spiral Jetty: Oil Drilling Project Threatens Smithson Earthwork

From spiral-jetty.blogspot.com: Dear Friends, Yesterday I received an urgent email from Lynn DeFreitas, Director of Friends of the Great Salt Lake, telling me of plans for drilling oil in the Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty. The deadline for protest is 13 of february. Of course, DIA has been informed and are meeting about it today. I have been [...]

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died one year ago, on January 23, 2007, at the age of 74. As a foreign correspondent, Kapuscinski covered coups and revolutions in the developing world for forty years. Many of his articles appeared in a series of books that made him famous: The Soccer War, Another Day of Life, and Shah [...]