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.
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.
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.
Lawyer by day and athlete by night, Cornelio runs through the Guatemalan mountains, defying poverty and isolation to build a sporting future where today there is only silence
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.
Armando Casamonica is a young boxer from Quadraro who fights against the prejudices associated with his surname, while choosing to simply be himself both in the ring and in life
In Kibigija, young people gather at the Move Zanzibar Community Center to practice sports and acrobatic gymnastics, nurturing talent and strengthening community spirit
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
In Luang Prabang, coffee is produced sustainably, linking the well-being of the land to a stable market and concrete opportunities for the local families who cultivate it
In the jungle that populates these remote mountains live the Bunong, an animist ethnic group that has lived in symbiosis with nature for over two thousand years.