PHOTOS SANS FRONTIERES - PARTIR A LA DECOUVERTE DU MONDE ET SORTIR DES VALEURS CONNUES POUR RENCONTRER DES GENS ET DES PAYSAGES MERVEILLEUX...
Thanks to a developped human intervention, the "Stone age" has turned into the "Automation age". Most of our lives now rely in technological or virtual realities. Out of any profitability and efficiency concept, the communication based on sensitivity is facing an environment increasingly based on Politics and Economics. However, a sentimental communication remains as soon as Humans take time to think about romantism and love. A photographic portrait could be able to reflect this form of humanity. The photographer will gain this challenge as soon as the observer is able to feel any emotion (beauty, love, compassion, admiration, sadness...).
Similar to a child willing to learn and understand, necessary to develop and allow the Men a real discovery; the discovery of others.
Thanks to a developped human intervention, the "Stone age" has turned into the "Automation age". Most of our lives now rely in technological or virtual realities. Out of any profitability and efficiency concept, the communication based on sensitivity is facing an environment increasingly based on Politics and Economics. However, a sentimental communication remains as soon as Humans take time to think about romantism and love. A photographic portrait could be able to reflect this form of humanity. The photographer will gain this challenge as soon as the observer is able to feel any emotion (beauty, love, compassion, admiration, sadness...).
Similar to a child willing to learn and understand, necessary to develop and allow the Men a real discovery; the discovery of others.
Japan (Tokyo 2004) The Apprentice. Chance to attend a sumo training in one of the most famous professional stable in Japan... Created in December 1997, the ex-ozeki Kirishima manages the Michinoku-beya. This beya, located close to the Kokugikan, produces high level sumo thanks to its particularity. Fully dedicated to their sport, Sumo wrestlers from Michinoku-beya have a great mind which certainly comes from Kirishima.
2004 - Cairns rainforest (Australia). Magnet for visitors - Today, Australia’s indigenous culture has become a magnet for visitors. The Aboriginal themes presented in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony and the worldwide focus on conservation and ecotourism have stimulated a demand for knowledge and greater insight into one of the world’s oldest cultures. Aboriginal people have lived in ways that sustained their societies while conserving resources, protecting fragile soils and leaving a light footprint on the environment.
2003 - Beijing (China). Calligraphy Art - The Chinese Brush Calligraphy is one of the traditional four arts which was once an important standard for the Chinese literati in the imperial era. Calligraphy is so abstract and sublime that regarded as the most revealing power of a person in Chinese culture. The Chinese brush calligraphy can temper a person into a state in which one can apply subconsciousness got from the daily practice to control the concentration of ink and the compatibility of font and size of each piece or word.
China (Beijing 2003), Opera Make-up - In Beijing Opera, facial painting (applied to jing roles only) shows the character, age, profession and personality by using different colours. Each colour symbolizes a certain characteristic: (1) red for loyalty and uprightness, (2) black for a rough, stern or honest nature, (3) yellow for rashness and fieriness, (4) white for a cunning and deceitful character, (5) gold and silver for gods and demons. Over 1,000 painted facial patterms are used in the Beijing Opera.
Senegal (Close to Saint-Louis 1998), Hygiene Condition - In rural Africa, 19 per cent of women spend more than one hour on each trip to fetch water, an exhausting and often dangerous chore that robs them of the chance to work and learn. More than half of all girls who drop out of primary school do so for lack of separate toilets and easy access to safe water. Unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene habits play a major role in child mortality. (Women's Health / OBGYN News - September 2005)
Hungary (Budapest 1998), Face-to-Face - Hungary sent a 300 logistics unit to Iraq in order to help the US occupation with armed transport convoys. This troop had been sent although public opinion was opposed to the country's participation in the Iraq war. The parliament refused to extend for one more year the mandate. All troops have returned from Iraq in January 2005. Hungarian troops are still in Afghanistan to assist D66in peace-keeping and de-talibanization.
Australia (Tiwi Island 2004)
Australia (Tiwi Island 2004), Arboriginal Dance Preparation - The Tiwi Islands (Bathurst and Melville) are located 100 km north of Darwin. The dangerous waters separating the islands from mainland Australia have allowed the art and culture of the Tiwi people to develop in relative isolation. Already famous for their arboriginal painting, the dance makes also part of the everyday life in the Tiwi islands. Tiwis inherit their totemic dance from their mother and they traditionally paint their body for ceremony by using natural ochre pigments.
Australia (Cairns, rainforest 2004), Didgeridoo - Whilst some people believe the Aboriginal people of Australia have been using the didgeridoo for 40,000 years or more, archaeological research suggests that the didgeridoo is only about 2000 years old. The evidence of this research comes in the form of rock art studies in the Northern Territory which show images of humans playing the didgeridoo painted on cave walls starting from about 2000 years ago. Before this time, there are no images of didgeridoos or humans playing didgeridoos. Western society has only recently discovered the didgeridoo.
Australia (Cairns, rainforest 2004), Front-to-Back - At the time of British settlement at Sydney Cove (1788), about 300,000 aboriginal people, speaking around 250 languages inhabited Australia. Finding no obvious political structure, the Europeans took the land as their own. The Indigenous people were driven out of their homes and many killed. Various new European diseases spread rapidly amongst the indigenous people, killing many.
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