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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.

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.