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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.

Portraits become acts of presence. Ten young women, between tradition and modernity, reclaim visibility in a space where expression is often denied.

Temporary spaces inhabit the street for just a few hours. Food, gestures, relationships. Then everything is carefully erased, and life goes on.

TOBEES — a project born from the meeting of music and nature, where the hum of bees becomes musical matter and the sonic experience opens up new forms of awareness.

In the heart of Ladakh, among passes above 5,000 metres and extreme conditions, the BRO builds and maintains the world’s highest road network: a fragile balance shaped by human labour, ingenuity, and determination.