At 4,090 metres in the Bolivian Andes, Cerro Rico in Potosí has continued to swallow human lives since 1545. Edgar, a 42-year-old miner, dreams of a different future for his son.
In Sokodé, Togo, initiates of the Tem people handle fire with bare hands in a ritual that weaves together technique, faith, and the memory of the savanna
In the valleys of Pakistan's Chitral lives the Kalasha people: a polytheistic religion, an ancient language, rites that resist the passing of time, in a community that grows smaller year by year.
In the Yucatán, Mexico, inmates convicted of serious crimes work, study, and receive psychological care: one of the most advanced models of rehabilitation in the country.
Rishikesh, amid woods and ruins, the ashram where the Beatles meditated in 1968 reveals walls covered in psychedelic murals, stone domes, and an energy suspended in time.
In Kabale, Uganda, the traditional midwife Alice attends home births far from any hospital. Among her patients, a professional obstetrician. A story on the border between clinical safety and cultural trust
In the ring she was a hurricane: technique, aggression, relentless pressure. Outside it, a woman able to inhabit opposing worlds without ever giving up who she was. Four years to find out
In the south of Madagascar, where the earth hides precious gems, I encountered a world of contrasts: beauty and exploitation, extracted wealth and lived poverty, stubborn humanity.
Early morning in Isaan: 13 degrees bite into the skin. An invitation to breakfast, road dust and the Mekong. Between broken languages and BeerLao, I realise that every world is enough unto itself.
Cluster bombs suspended like an artificial sky. Below, prosthetic limbs and silence. At the COPE centre in Vientiane, war is not memory: it is ground, present time, and a question that never finds an end.
