Cuatro Horas

At the heart of a valley surrounded by mountains similar to the afghan ones, Cuatro Horas is a kind of lost arch, after four hours walking from Chaparra. In this mining community where 2500 souls are living, gold is a relief for those who try to escape their condition.

Whoever they are : (...)

A life like mine

A life Like mine : le blog de la série documentaire sur les mines artisanales. 

Amatuli's Notebooks

Crab fishing. The same exhausting and dangerous tasks repeated endlessly, twenty four hours a day and seven days a week, with nearly no opportunity to sleep : it is hard to imagine a tougher work, in such a remote area and hard climate. The Master of the Amatuli and his five crewmembers have (...)

Amaury, a Lineage of Founders

The Amaury foundry has been casting bronze for 90 years – the grandfather, then the father, the uncles, and finally the sons, Jean-Claude and Jean-Pierre. Before, the clientele was made up mostly of antique dealers from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. "When we were kids, we’d make deliveries (...)

Bangladesh : the great overflow

Before the end of the century, millions of Bangladeshi will be forced to leave their land because of climate change and its consequences. In the south west where populations are already affected by sea level rise and salinisation, the pressure becomes so strong that people who can afford it already (...)

Chad : Low tide in Lake

Lake Chad, the fourth-largest body of fresh water in Africa, is disappearing – and taking life along with it. Over the past 40 years, it has lost 90% of its area, shrinking from 25,000 square kilometres to just 2,500. Not long ago, the lake was bordered by four countries: Chad, Niger, Nigeria (...)

Chaussures Germaine

Dans une cour de Belleville, caché derrière un immeuble, l’atelier de Germaine est un vestige de l’activité qu’il y avait, de l’après-guerre jusqu’aux années 80.
« Belleville, c’était la chaussure » aime (...)

Contes et réalités de la forêt morbihannaise

Des métiers de la forêt au travail artisanal du bois, de la fascination des arbres à leur puissance poétique et légendaire, de la gestion des sous-bois au traitement délicat des lisières, du Land Art, enfin, à la perception du merveilleux, toutes (...)

Le Dessous des cartes diffusé sur ARTE le 5 janvier 2008

RÉFUGIÉS CLIMATIQUES

Recherches et écriture: LEPAC / Jean-Christophe Victor
Réalisation : Alain Jomier
Graphisme : Pierre-Jean Canac

Shishmaref

Since our arrival three days ago, nothing really changed (...)

The Maldives – A Nation at the Water’s Edge

Seen from the air, it is first wonder. The world in monochrome blue, unless it is green, is flooded with the sun. Thrown as by chance from winds by a celestial sower, full handles of emeralds fell again in ring into the midnight blue ocean. Lagoons make the wave flush as so many pearls scattered in (...)

Tuvalu : a polynesian requiem

After long years of hesitancy, the eleven thousand inhabitants of Tuvalu ended up facing the facts: climate change condemns the existence of their islands, of their communities and of their culture. Within fifty to eighty years, the sea level rise combined with more powerful winds and longer droughts, (...)

Working In A Coal Mine

On September 20, 2003 the town of Freyming-Merlebach, headquarters of the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL), celebrated the end of coal-mining activity. The Lorraine mines were the last still in operation in France, and had their heyday from the end of the War through the 1950s. Of the 45,000 (...)