Stories to Share

Malawi

Malawi’s response to HIV

There is a widespread vulnerability in Malawi, so HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention is a real challenge

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.

Argentina

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.

Burkina Faso

Women of a different world

In Kouini, Burkina Faso, life goes on thanks to the work and strength of women

Venezuela

Calle Negra

Two years have passed, but nothing has changed. Joyce Donnarumma's reportage from Venezuela

In the life of people

Ordinary stories of extraordinary people worth knowing

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.

Greece

The Immortals of Gavdos

The island of Gavdos is probably the perfect place for such a project, the ideal land to build utopias

Italy

Lorenzo and his passion

Lorenzo, 18 years old, athletic figure, quick talker and sharp eyes, runs a small shop in Naples but would like to play football.

Italy

Beatrice

Defining Pino - Beatrice is not easy, 'I am me' he would say if asked. And indeed, this is the case.

DR Congo

Soeur Maria was not of an age

And Soeur Maria, an Austrian from Kapanga, 80 years old one day only to lose count, was there. She was always there.

Guardians of traditions

Getting to understand traditions through their fascinating stories

Italy

Scasada del Zenerù

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

India

Kumbh Mela

During the Kumbh Mela, homage is paid to the legendary urn carried in flight by Vishnu and containing drops of the water of eternal life.

Russian Federation

Nenets, nomads on the edge of the far north

The Nenets are a nomadic population of reindeer herders living in the Yamal peninsula - in northern Siberia.

Greece

The lost land of rebels and weavers

Land of shepherds and bandits, partisans and rebels. Land of strong traditions and history in danger of disappearing.

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

Places tell their stories

Getting to know the world through places and their stories

Argentina

The eternal rest between history and legend

The Recoleta Cemetery is one of the most important cemeteries in the world. Built-in 1822, it guards the stories and mysteries of its occupants.

Bangladesh

The Tangail brothel

There is a square-shaped district in Tangail, furrowed by narrow, long, right-angled corridors: the Tangail brothel

Argentina

La Boca’s colours

One morning in February, I immersed myself in its colours, also looking for the people who live here, the hues that so characterise La Boca.

Nong Khai Riverside: a tale of Emptiness

Nostalgia permeates the energy of the seen, making the unseen the protagonist of the story. We are on Nong Khai's Riverside, dressed up but empty.

China

Old replaced by new

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

Coexistence is possible

Stories to inspire sustainable coexistence among the Earth's citizens

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tanzania

The Breath of the Ocean

In Jambiani, a group of women, supported by the NGO Marinecultures, raise sponges: an activity that gives them an income and helps to protect the ocean

Water Souls

Bangkok is a city on water and the canals of the Chao Phraya fill it like a beating heart in a fluid state.

Mekong Notes

#04 | If you stand still and see no mountains, it means you stand on the mountain

One of the privileges of doing our job is to be able to tell the innermost thoughts of the people we meet.

Chile

Latin American Notes

The Sponge Ladies

The Sponge Ladies guard a fundamental heritage for the development of the local community, and the preservation of the environment

Tanzania

Jambiani 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.