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1296-03: Workers take a dawn break after scrubbing jeans all night using a sanding machine in Mr Huang's factory in Zhongshan city, China. The blue dust from the jeans is a heavy irritant to the lungs.

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Medicinal cristal stones of Himalaya / 646-03: Ladakh, medicinal cristal stones. Senior amchi (medicine man) of Ladakh is watching a precious medicinal cristal stone. / India /

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Tchad: la guerre au quotidien/Chad: war, day by day / 679-36: Une attaque menée par les rebelles le 2 février dernier a fait une trentaine de blessés parmi la population. de gauche à droite : Eric (avec Béatrice dans les bras), Kadidja (mère), et Sylvain 16 ans.///An attack conducted by the rebels on last February 2, made about thirty wounded among the population. Left to right: Eric (with daughter Beatrice in arms), Kadidja (his wife), and son Sylvain 16 years / / Adré

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Angkor hightech archaeology--Archeologie de pointe à Angkor / 704-39: Ce ballon porte un systeme de mesure par laser multidirectionel en longue frequence. Il photographie le temple Bayon avec un detail et une precision milimetriques. Le rayon laser (rouge) mesure environ 2 milimetres. Le rayon laser dans cette photo a ete renforce (en visibilite) par un logiciel de traitement d'image. Bayon 3D digital archival project by Ikeuchi Laboratory of Tokyo University. /// This balloon carries a multidirectional long wave laser surveying system. It scans Bayon Temple with millimetric precision. The red laser beam has a section of about 2 millimeters in ŠVo Trung section. In this photo, the laser beam has been digitally enhanced to be more clearly visible. BayonDung/Orizon/Lightmediation 3D digital archival project by Ikeuchi Laboratory of Tokyo University. / Cambodia / Siem Reap

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Ngorongoro Crater / 732-031: An Hippopotamus playing in the water of the Mandusi swamp in the Ngorongoro Crater. / Tanzania / Ngorongoro Conservation Area

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Ebola, the bat's track / 705-01: In the bush, in order to do autopsies and to take samples from the animals which may carry the terrible virus with an optimal protection, the researchers are dressed as cosmonauts. In no time, they install bushe labs and are trying to meet at best the safety's conditions of a P4 (laboratory of maximum safety) / Gabon /

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Medicinal cristal stones of Himalaya / 646-05: Ladakh, medicinal cristal stones. Stones in jewelleries and ornements prevent from energical desorders. They also have symbolic meanings. / India /

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Tchad: la guerre au quotidien/Chad: war, day by day / 679-31: Contrairement aux affirmations du gouvernement tchadien, de nombreux enfants-soldats se battent dans l'armée. Les plus jeunes ont 12 ans./// Contrary to the assertions of the Chadian government, many child-soldiers fight in the army. The youngest are twelve. / Chad / Adré

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Un Vendredi saint à Perpignan: la Sanch / 738-26: Chaque vendredi saint, la procession de la Sanch a lieu à Perpignan, l'ancienne capitale des Rois de Majorque. Les pénitents, vêtus de grandes robes rouges ou noires, défilent et traversent la ville entre prières, psamoldies et recueillement. Ce rituel immuable depuis près de six siècles célèbre ainsi la Passion du Christ. / France / Perpignan

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Linfen,world's most polluted city/Linfen,ville la plus polluee du monde / 736-27: La plupart de ses habitants mette un masque contre la pollution de l'air./// Linfen City, in Shanxi Province, was cited as the world's most polluted city. Most of Linfen's people put a mask for the air pollution. / China / Linfen

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ABU CAMP, safari chez le Maître des éléphants / 643-24: Delta de l'Okavango, Abu camp, traversee du marais a dos d'elephants / Botswana /

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Tchad: la guerre au quotidien/Chad: war, day by day / 679-17: Contrairement aux affirmations du gouvernement tchadien, de nombreux enfants-soldats se battent dans l'armée. Les plus jeunes ont 12 ans.///Contrary to the assertions of the Chadian government, many child-soldiers fight in the army. The youngest are twelve. / Chad / Adré

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La desertification du sahel / 677-67: Dirt road between Douenza and Timbuktu. Sandstorm. / Mali /

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Chine: des toiles de Maitres à la chaine! / 674-09: Dafen: Chez le peintre Zhao Xiaoyong, spécialiste des reproductions de Van Gogh depuis 8 ans, dont il a produit environ 10 000 reproductions. Sa femme peint aussi des Van Gogh, ainsi qu'une de ses élèves. Le prix d'une toile est tombé de 80 yuan à 4O aujourd'hui, à cause de la concurrence. Bien qu'il paie lui-même la toile et l'huile, il gagne toujours de l'argent, et vient d'acheter un appartement dans le village. On le voit sécher les toiles dans sa chambre et sur le balcon, avec le linge. 30 personnes sont spécialisées dans Van Gogh au village. / China / village de Dafen, Shenzhen, province de ©Zeng Canton Nian/Lightmediation

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La caspienne, victime de son or noir? / 645-04: Plage de Chichkov, dans les faubourgs Sud de Bakou. Un cimetière de plates-formes à quelques centaines de mètres d'une plage populaire. En très piteux état, les plates-formes Khazar (Caspienne en Azerbaidjanais) et Shelf, vestiges de l'exploitation soviétique, attendent d'éventuels acquéreurs. Elles servent aujourd'hui de pontons aux pêcheurs. La Caspienne est une mer fermée, l'acheminement de nouvelles plates-formes en pièces détachées serait encore trop onéreux. Les compagnies Occidentales, BP la première, rachètent ces vestiges et les rénovent entièrement. / Azerbaijan /

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-Portfolio- Vincent Leloup: 10 ans de passion hippique / Entraînement écurie J.B Bossuet. / France /

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José Bové, nouveau candidat à la présidentielle /José Bové, a new candidate for French presidential elections / Deux cents militants anti OGM venus a l appel de la confederation paysanne et de Greenpeace ont investi une station de stockage de semences a Trebes pres de Caracassonne appartenant a la firme Monsanto qu ils suspectent de detenir des semences transgeniques. Des gendarmes evacuent Jose Bove de l'usine

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Two hundred anti GMO activists and unionists from Greenpeace and the Confederation Paysanne try to occupate a Monsanto seeds unit in Trebes, near Carcassonne, France ,April 13 in order to check if it contains Page: 17/70 Contact Thierry Tinacci - email: thierry@lightmediation.com - mobile: +33.6.61.80.57.21 geneticaly modificated seeds. Gendarmes (french military police) are pulling out the french radical farmer Jose Bove from the factory. / France / CARCASSONNE


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Grippe Aviaire, de l'Asie a l'Europe¤Bird Flu Epidemic, from Asia to Europe / 692-020: Grippe aviaire au Vietnam L'epouse et la fille devant l'autel mortuaire de Monsieur Luu, leur mari et pere. M. Luu a decede en juillet 2005 de la grippe aviaire en mangeant son poulet malade de son elevage familial (qu'il ne soupconnait pas de H5N1). Il a decede 2 jours apres l'apparition des premiers symptome. ¤ Mr Luu's wife and daughter stand in front of an altar in his memory. Mr. Luu died from bird flu in July 2005 after he ate an infected bird from the ©Dung Vo Trung/Orizon/Lightmediation family breeding business; he had not suspected the bird carried the H5N1 virus. He died 2 days after the appearance of the first symptoms. / Viet Nam /

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Grippe Aviaire, de l'Asie a l'Europe¤Bird Flu Epidemic, from Asia to Europe / 692-039: Grippe Aviaire au Vietnam. Elevage de volailles industriel dans la banlieu de Ho Chi Minh Ville.¤ Poultry breeding at an industrial plant in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City. / Viet Nam / Ho Chi Minh

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La pêche sacrée de la mare d'Antogo. The sacred Fishing. / Le poisson capturé est aussitôt coincé entre les dents, tête la première. Les deux mains sont trop occupées par le maniement du panier pour tenir le butin avec lequel ils remontent sur la berge. The captured fish is swiftly caught in the teeth, head first, because the hands are too busy with the basket as the fisherman mounts the bank.

©Â©Alain Buu/Orizon/Lightmediation / Mali / Bamba

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José Bové, nouveau candidat à la présidentielle /José Bové, a new candidate for French presidential elections / Jose Bove pose avec un nez rouge de clown en marge du forum social mondial de POrto Alegre. French radical farmer Jose Boves poses with a clown red nose.Feb01,2002. / Brazil / PORTO ALEGRE

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Visite de Laurent Fabius au Tchad / 742-01: A l'initiative de l'association "Urgence Darfour", Laurent Fabius, ancien premier ministre socialiste, s'est rendu au Tchad dans la région de Goz-Beida, afin de visiter les camps de réfugiés et de déplacés, suite à la situation dramatique du Darfour (Soudan). Duclos/Lightmediation Visite d'un centre médical du HCR dans le©Alexis camp de réfugiés de Goz-Beida. Enfant malnutri. / Chad /

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Deux Papous dans la ville: l'exploration inversĂŠe.

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La pêche sacrée de la mare d'Antogo. The sacred Fishing. / Sans qu'un véritable signal soit donné, dans une communion instinctive, trois mille hommes se précipitent dans la mare pour la pêche. Without any real signal, by a common instinct, 3,000 black bodies head for the pool.. / Mali / Bamba

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12/09/2000. SHIPWRECKS OF THE NIGHT / 282-35: Tarifa, playa de los Lances. At dawn, a fisherman found the dead bodies of two Subsaharians on the shore. Their boat overturned two days before some three kilometers away. A third body is found in the late afternoon further down the beach. In 2000, over 83 corpses are found on the beaches of Tarifa. / Spain / Tarifa

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In the backstages of Renault Formula one team during Silverstone race / 334-01 / Great Britain / Silverstone

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Astana, the Dubai of the steppes - Astana, la Dubaï des steppes / 310-01: La nouvelle capitale Astana, vue du Palais présidentiel de Nursultan Nazarbayev./ The new capital of Astana, seen from the presidential palace of Nursultan Nazarbaev. / Kazakhstan / Astana

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Les samaritains / 424-29: A Samaritan priest reveales a Torah scroll to fellow Samaritans, at dawn at the site of a Samaritan Passover ceremony, in Mount Gerizim overlooking the West Bank city of Nablus. April 18th, 2006 / Israel /

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Hi-Tech Orchids / 365-12: Everything start in Floricultura's laboratories. The european leader of the speciality use to grow 12 500 orchids embryos in tubes during 6 month. Tissue fragments containing meristematic cells (omnipotent cells including all the necessary genetic information to grow a new plant) are taken from the selected varieties. Placed, at 27-28°C, in a special nutritive ©Â© Lightmediation substract, naturally top secret, they are agitated in large swivels or onChristophe vibrating platesLepetit in order to/ support the growth of the precious cells. / Netherlands /

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Putin's little soldiers / 394-22: River exercise / Russian Federation /

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The Reindeer people of Mongolia / 581-01: Sanjim ride's his reindeer on their summer range, e is the male elder of the Tsaatan Tribe who nomads, who live high on the border of Siberia and Mongolia. The southernmost nomadic reindeer culture, the Tsaatan people depend on the reindeer for cultural and economic well-being. The ailing health of the reindeer populations poses a threat to the Tsaatan's livelihood.

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The Lord Ayyappa pilgrimage / 564-05: Martial dancing of Petta-Thullal may become transes difficult to control. / India /

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Bwiti: dances with the spirits. / 510-16: Singing and dancing all night, initiates are falling in transe. / Gabon / Libreville

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Les chercheurs d'or en Amazonie / 133-01: Patrouille de l'armée Française sur le fleuve Maroni / French Guiana /

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10/00/2003. SHIPWRECKS OF THE NIGHT / 282-02: During the day, men and women carry illegal goods by sea between Ceuta and Morocco and a night, they carry illegal immigrants. This is risky. In 2003, a dozen people, mostly Subsaharians died. The crossing costs 800 Euros. / Spain / Ceuta

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Mogadiscio:la Pompei somalienne reprend vie-Mogadishu:the somali Pompei comes to life / 715-01: Mogadiscio, février 2007: De la Cathédrale, il ne reste que quelques ruines. L'édifice religieux construit dans les années 1930 pendant la colonisation italienne n'a pas résisté à quinze années de guerre civile. /// Mogadiscio, february 2007: Only some ruins remain from the Cathedral. The religious building built in the 1930's during the Italian colonization did not resist to fifteen years of civil war. / Somalia / Mogadiscio

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French writer Bernard-Henri Levy in Darfur / 771-03: French writer Bernard Henri Levy in Darfour/Soudan in the village of Khour-Syal, village attack by the Janjaweed.The Islamic government regime in Khartoum is supported by the "Arab"Muslim tribes known as the Janjaweed militia (armed men on horses) who massacre the "African"Muslim tribes who are at odds with the government in Darfur and in the neighbouring country of Chad.According to UN estimates, nearly 200,000 persons have died from this war and its consequences, and more than 2 million people have been displaced. / /

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Mahajirines: yesterday "Allah's migrants", today with chains on their feet / 749-14: Some children stand with their chains although a sandstorm is going on. The teachers are away. / Chad / Near Abéché

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Disneyland Paris: dans les coulisses de l'usine à reves/Eurodisney, Behind-the-Scenes / 798-01: : Each night after the park's closing, maintenance is carried out on the rides' fastened down parts; here in this photo, along the rails of the park's flagship attraction "Big Thunder Mountain" they are checking the cogs that pull the trains and the brake blocks placed along the ride.///chaque nuit après la fermeture du parc à lieu la maintenance sur les parties fixes des attractions ; ici sur les rails de l'attraction phare du parc « Big Thunder Montain » ou « train de la mine » on vérifie les crémaillères tirant les trains et les patins des ralentisseurs ©Vincent répartis sur Leloup le circuit. //Fedephoto/Lightmediation France /

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Darfur violence / 768-07: DARFUR, SUDAN. EXCLUSIVE. In the region of Amarai, in the village of Khortial where more than 50 people have been killed.the photograph a women, Fatma Moussa Nour, 30 years old, walking in front of her house. Three of her children have been killed during the attack.

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Darfur violence / 768-22: CHAD. A women and his son at the hospital of Djabal an UNHCR camp, near Goz Beida.The Islamic government regime in Khartoum is supported by the "Arab" Muslim tribes known as the Janjaweed militia (armed men on horses) who massacre the "African" Muslim tribes who are at odds with the government in Darfur and in the neighbouring country of Chad. / Chad / Goz Beida

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Australie : au pays des "crocs" / 567-30: Saltwater crocodiles, crocodile d'estuaire (crocodylus porosus) Australie. Territoire du Nord. crocodiles / australia /

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-Portfolio- Vincent Leloup: 10 ans de passion hippique / sélection DDB / France /

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1071-33: Jallikattu, the indian bull fighting. An agitated bull runs through the crowd during the Jallikattu bull taming celebrations in Palamedu.

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1228-15: Snowy owl in Canada during the winter. It's an arctic bird who live in the extreme condition; 45° celsius below zero/// Harfang des neiges, vivant en arctique. Elle peut résister à des temperatures très basses, moins 45° celsius.

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1217-01: Bordeaux. CEA's CESTA center. The Megajoule Laser's experimental chamber with its concrete shield. This sphere 10m in diameter and 10cm in width weighs 140 tons. 240 laser beams will converge on it to trigger nuclear fusion experiments on tiny quantities of deuterium and tritium. The square windows are designed for laser beam access and the round windows, for diagnostic tool access. The Megajoule Laser or MLJ is the tool used in the CEA's Simulation programme to guarantee the reliability and the safety of nuclear weapons, without resorting to nuclear tests which France decided to stop in 1996. ///Bordeaux. CEA. site du CESTA. ©Hubert Raguet/Lightmediation La chambre d'expérience du Laser Mégajoule dans son enceinte de béton. c'est une sphère d'aluminium de 10m de diamêtre, de 10 cm d'épaisseur et de 140 tonnes. Vers elle, convergeront 240 faisceaux laser, qui serviront à déclencher des expériences de fusion nucléaire sur d'infimes quantités d'hydrogène. Les hublots carrés sont destinés à faire entrer les faisceaux laser et les hublots ronds les appareils de diagnostics.


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1169-01: Stampede on the flight board. Observing intense bee activity from inside the beehive. Loaded with pollen, foragers return from their morning round. White or orange pollen, each bee concentrates on one flower species. A forager weigh 100 milligrams and can fly with a load of up to 70 milligrams (40 mg of nectar and 30 mg of pollen). One million flights are needed to obtain 10 kilograms of honey./// Bousculade sur la planche d'envol. De l'intérieur de la ruche, on observe l'intense activité des abeilles. Chargées de pollen, des butineuses reviennent de leur vol matinal. Pollens blancs, oranges, chaque abeille se concentre sur la récolte d'une ©Eric espèce de fleur. Une butineuse pèse 100 mg et transporte en vol une charge de 70 mg répartie en 40 mg deTourneret/Lightmediation nectar et 30 mg de pollen. Lors des grandes miellées, on peut compter plus de 25 000 sorties d'abeilles en une seule journée. 800 000 à 1 million de voyages sont nécessaires pour obtenir 10 kilos de miel.


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1004-42: The young tigers arrived on 2003 and 2004, have discovered freedom in the wide reserve area.

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908-11: It snowed that night; it was the first snow of the season, a sign for the commencement of the hunting season. The air is cold, the foxes' fur is thick and their footprints are easily identified and followed. Early in the morning, after a few bowls of salty tea, Birlan and his younger brother, Tas-Tuluk, are already mounted on their horses. Quietly they leave the house by the river bank, and start making their way to the black mountains in the north.

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879-01: Ura is a shaman who came to her calling late in life at the age of 50; previously she had trained and practiced as a medical doctor for twenty years. Now 65 she is shown here whilst in trance during a shaman ceremony at her home in Northern Mongolia.

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861-05: Asmara: women with white tunics are praying in the early morning in front of the Enda Mariam church during the Meskel religious festival

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1372-49: Russie-Mineurs en peine : Isolateur d'instruction de Lebedeva (Préventive), Quartier des mineurs, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie. Dimitri, 13 ans, est le souffre-douleur des adultes détenus avec lui dans cette fameuse cellule N° 90, dénoncée par Amnesty International et l'Observatoire International des Prisons (OIP), et tristement célèbre pour les traitements infligés par des prisonniers « matons » sur les mineurs : sévices, viols, humiliations, tatouage des prisonniers considérés comme inférieurs... Ceux-ci dorment à tour de rôle. Il y a que 6 lits pour 24 personnes...

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1017-51: Les Himbas : Peuple d'eleveurs semi-nomade vivant dans la region du Kaokoland au nord de la Namibie.

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1265-41: Jordanie: visite du site de Petra.

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1263-2: 20070827 - Paris-Elysee: Nicolas Sarkozy preside la XVe conference des Ambassadeurs.

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1211-01: Le Mime Marcel Marceau au theatre Antoine en compagnie de sa troupe

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964-01: Restoration of the fresco "Reparation after a Corsican attack" (1664). /// Restauration de la fresque "Reparation de l'attentat des corses, 1664". 05/2005

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948-031: Charlotte et Kirill avec un jeune renne.

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883-01: Un Yakusa met ses prothèses pour dissimuler ses phalanges coupées.

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Agent Orange, Victimes contre Compagnies chimiques americaines - Agent Orange victims v.s chemical companies

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Sambatra Antambahoaka. Rite de la circoncision

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1533-07: Caroline, 31 ans, Policière. « J'ai fait mon tatouage par amour, à 24 ans. Avec mon futur mari, nous sommes allés main dans la main chez le tatoueur et avons choisi de réaliser la même pièce, comme pour sceller notre union : ce dragon qui couvre mon dos? Ce fut symboliquement aussi fort que l'échange d'alliances quelques mois plus tard à la mairie. Depuis nous avons divorcé. Et j'ai sérieusement pensé à avoir recours au laser pour gommer toute trace de ce tatouage. Mais peu à peu je me suis réapproprié ce dragon, il est devenu une partie de moi. »

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1473-44: A float pays tribute to the Indians as crosses the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro during the Salgueiro Samba school parade.

ŠGenaro di Paola/Lightmediation


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La course Red Bull Crashed Ice a Québec /// Red Bull Crashed Ice race in Quebec City

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The last Oriental Baths

ŠPascal Meunier/Lightmediation


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1425-54: Olympic student volunteers learn to smile and stand straight at a vocational school in Beijing, which is getting ready to host the 2008 Summer Games.

ŠJustin Jin/Lightmediation


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Nihangs, the last Sikh monks warriors

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1578-1: John McCain Senator from Arizona and presumptive Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the upcoming 2008 election in united states, at US embassy in Paris. /// Le sénateur de l'Arizona John McCain, futur candidat républicain dans la course à la Maison blanche lors de son passage à Paris, photographié dans les salons de la résidence de l'ambassadeur des Etats Unis

©Georges Merillon/Lightmediation


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Hampi, beautĂŠ capitale- Hampi, capital of beauty

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Lyon: fete des Lumières

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