Stories to Share

Argentina Bolivia Chile Uruguay

Georgia

Russian Exiles in Tbilisi

Stories of some young Russian voices from across the border trying to build an opposition

South America Notes

Recorrido, para los anònimo de la fe

Through Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile to document and support those who dedicate their lives to others.

Culture South America Notes

Chile

Slight, and in the wind

Like a mirage in the desert, a long, messy expanse of little ones and crosses and fluff, where life and death bark alike.

People South America Notes

Bolivia

The last ones at the border

Faces of men and women marked by time, by the living eyes you must glimpse between the furrows of rough skin

Life South America Notes

A label does not solve the problem

I was raised with a lot of certainty and a few values ... then I started to travel

South America Notes

Uruguay

The wait, the departure, and now there is no stopping

Every day, we start again. The journey is long. But after the first few meetings, the heart is already a little heavier.

Stories of life lived

Stories to understand the complexity of the world, step by step

Paseador de perros

Paseador de perros are young girls and boys who walk several dogs at the same time, along the streets of Buenos Aires.

Morocco

Balak, Balak!

In Fez, Morocco, there is a free clinic that takes care of donkeys, mules and hinnies, the real driving force of this city

Unrestrained poverty

We met Jorgelina, 65, who from Monday to Friday opens her Comedor Micaela to the poorest families in the barrio La Boca.

Life South America Notes

Uruguay

The giant leap

Those who live on the street know what the giant leap is. And Roosevelt, who today has a first name but also a last name, did it twice.

Mexico

Mexico and sparkling drinks: the other side of a culture

In Chiapas, Mexico, the consumption of sparkling and sugary drinks by the local population is alarming.

In the life of people

Ordinary stories of extraordinary people worth knowing

Italy

The last witch

A bit like doctors, sorceresses and psychologists, they arrived where official medicine did not come or arrived too late

Serbia

Jovanka

This is the story of Jovanka, the mother of Goran, a Serbian paratrooper who died in 1999, in Kosovo, during a NATO bombing raid

Ukraine

The sons of Maidan

They are mercenaries of the ideal called soldiers, volunteers, heroes, violent or brave, but also fathers, sons, comrades, and brothers.

Murphy’s Golden Rules

In Micheal's Irish Pub in Nong Khai, Murphy's Golden Rules, the ten rules of lived life, lay down the law

United States

We Are Not OK

Homelessness doesn’t define a person: a project dedicated to those people without a house in Skid Row, Los Angeles

Guardians of traditions

Getting to understand traditions through their fascinating stories

Ethiopia

Omo Valley and the ethical dilemma of photography

When is it right to take photographs? A reflection arising from a trip to the Omo Valley

Monks by the sea

On the island of Koh Phayam, there lives a group of Buddhist monks, some 30 souls known as the Sea Monks.

Italy

Scasada del Zenerù

On 31 January, in Ardesio, the 'Scasada del Zenerù' is celebrated: word-for-word, the 'send away the big Jannuary'.

Senegal

Alida Vanni - Luciana De Michele

Secret initiation in the sacred forests of Casamance

Every thirty years in the sacred forests of Casamance (Senegal), hundreds of young diola boys become men through the initiation of the Boukout

India

Widows with no identity

Varanasi, the sacred city of India, turns out to be a gateway to paradise for many but a hell on earth for these widows

Places tell their stories

Getting to know the world through places and their stories

Hell’s market

Looking for an answer in Khlong Toei Market in Bangkok, where light finds no space and, faintly, is coloured with red

China

Giant fishbowl panda

What is life like for the six pandas in the Beijing Zoo, one of the few places in the world, where these animals live in captivity?

China

Old replaced by new

Shanghai is imploding to burst with modernity, but the risk is to lose its soul.

El sol de mañana

"Now you must explain to me why you want to enter the Villa." "Because beauty starts from the bottom," I replied, staring at him straight in the eye.

Burkina Faso

Clay poetry

African women are many working hands: they are the real strength that Africa can count on. And they are the creators of this poetry made of clay.

Coexistence is possible

Stories to inspire sustainable coexistence among the Earth's citizens

Brazil Cuba Ecuador Mexico Peru

Pathos

These photographs are fragments of an intimate and personal journey and represent the author's view of the ambiguities and contrasts of the Latin American continent.

Cameroon

With my hands in the mud

White fish, born to move through the dark mud of the forest White, slimy, elusive fish that turned black as soon as they were removed from the earth.

Moken, a life at the water’s edge

Without names, without documents, without nationality, timeless. Free. This is the life of the Moken, the last nomads of the sea.

Mondulkiri, immortal encounter

The story of an encounter with a Mahut and his elephant Kropun in the jungle of Mondulkiri, Cambodia.

United States

High Line, melancholy and undisciplined beauty

The High Line is an urban park built on the remains of an elevated railroad that can take you across Manhattan's West Side at a height of 9 meters.

Kaoh Trong, the Island of Kings

Kaoh Trong: a 10 km island resting on a sandbank in the middle of the Mekong. Two ancient pagodas, rice fields, banana trees, and pomelos.

Cambodia Notes

#09 | From Santiago de Chile to the Carretera Austral

The second short clip on the road of the series is dedicated to the long mission of the non-profit organisation MotoForPeace in South America. We are in Chile.

Chile

Latin American Notes

#18 | The mission must stop!

The fifth - and last - short clip on the road of the series is dedicated to the long mission of the non-profit organisation MotoForPeace in South America.

Bolivia

Latin American Notes

Kompong Cham

Kampong Cham has the largest community. They are the Cham and are of the Muslim faith, though with Hindu influences.

Cambodia Notes

Tarantulas as a beauty elixir

Tarantulas are one of the most characteristic dishes of Cambodian cuisine and also a powerful elixir of beauty - they say.

Cambodia Notes

Our own space (in the world)

Eventually, by trying to become 'unseen', perhaps, we might even find our own space to take up. The Mekong Notes started, directly from Bangkok.