Arnaud Contreras

L’émission Un dromadaire sur l’épaule de Véronique Marti ( La 1ère / Radio Suisse Romande), était consacrée à la Géorgie, le 23 janvier 2008. L’occasion de découvrir une très bonne émission de voyage . En France il est rarissime de pouvoir proposer ses reportages radio lorsque l’on est pas de “la maison”. La RSR laisse encore cette chance à de nombreux voyageurs. C’est ce qu’a fait Emmanuel Guillemain d’Echon. Sa série sur Tbilissi n’auraient eut quasiment aucune chance de passer en France.

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Interview par Véronique Marti dans son émission Un dromadaire sur l’épaule ( La 1ère / Radio Suisse Romande), consacrée à la Géorgie, le 23 janvier 2008. L’occasion de me replonger dans mes archives photographiques et sonores et de découvrir une très bonne émission de voyage . En France il est rarissime de pouvoir proposer ses reportages radio lorsque l’on est pas de “la maison”. La RSR laisse encore cette chance à de nombreux voyageurs. C’est ce qu’a fait Emmanuel Guillemain d’Echon. Sa série sur Tbilissi n’auraient eut quasiment aucune chance de passer en France.

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Publication de photos dans le livre “Culture, tourisme et lutte contre la pauvreté au Sahara, une approche territoriale du développement”, rédigé par Alain Laurent et Laure Veirier,  édité par l’UNESCO dans le cadre du programme le Sahara des Cultures et des Peuples.

Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died one year ago, on January 23, 2007, at the age of 74.

As a foreign correspondent, Kapuscinski covered coups and revolutions in the developing world for forty years. Many of his articles appeared in a series of books that made him famous: The Soccer War, Another Day of Life, and Shah of Shahs.

Listen to this interview originally aired in 1988

Saló de lectura. Entrevista a R. Kapuscinski (spanish)

A moment closed to the river in deep Amazonia, from the “Shiwiars Project”, by Valery Grancher.

“(…)I work mostly with media of all kinds, from video, photography, paintings, sometimes advertisement, marketing via Internet and this rebounding relationship with a reality of mediation perceived at the individual level triggers my interest, more than the one understood subjectively or in a phenomenological way, that is concomitant realities, whether collective or societal which intersect, their interactions with identity, memory, temporality, a given space. The Internet is a rather specific media because it allows strange situations as I said earlier which correspond to moments of 24hours, localized or global spaces confronted to a location and one individual experience. I certainly consider the Internet at a more symbolic level in relationship to our daily reality - I do not belong to a technological system which consists of generating new technologies to be grafted upon the Internet and thus supports the modern, progressive or positivist orders- I am only interested in the human experience brought up by this particular media. (…)

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I’m really glad about the freedom for the two french journalists working on the tuareg rebels in the North of Niger. But since they’re back in Paris. No more news from this country. Not a single line in the newspapers. Not a word on TV.
It’s was exactly the same for Afghanistan before 9/11.
I think people don’t realize what’s happening in Niger. I don’t think people understand that if our western countries don’t help Niger others will do it …

My friend Jean-Marc Durou, a photographer, falled in love with Niger 30 years ago. He has published more than 40 books about Sahara, and still wants to convince our politicians to help Niger … Just as Christophe de Ponfilly did for Afghanistan.
You can discover his work and take a few minutes in Niger.

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“Will the Fed’s shock rate cut rescue the global economy ?”
Evan Davis, BBC economics editor

Because of this kind of questions … I don’t want to listen to the radio today.
But I’ve found what to do with my banknote if in the future I can’t buy any flight ticket with them: I’ll go on the website of Marc Sky, The Dollar Artist, or on Won Park gallery.

Jupiter’s Dance, the acclaimed documentary by Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye is now released on DVD.

Synopsis:

The ghettos of Kinshasa - the devastated capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo a country politically and economically adrift - are filled with many gifted, yet impoverished musicians. Their outstanding talent, humour and vital energy are their on means of survival. Amongst them, Jupiter Bokondji, the charismatic leader of the band “Okwess International”, acts as our narrator and guide. This local Don Quixote introduces us to the Kinshasa music scene - teenage rappers, handicapped bluesmen, street children, griots ans guitar craftsmen - and describe his 20-year struggle to bring his music out of the ghetto.

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I’ve been filming, working, shooting Marrakesh, Morocco, since 1994, but I think that’s my best sequence in the souks.
People were used to see me walking slowly, taking time, and they knew I would buy nothing. So they now let me film whatever I want.

This video has been presented in various art fair.

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“Les deux journalistes français Thomas Dandois et Pierre Creisson, libérés le 18 janvier 2008, sont arrivés à Paris le 19 janvier à 15 heures et ont tenu une conférence de presse à l’aéroport d’Orly. Ils ont avant tout eu une pensée pour leur chauffeur, toujours incarcéré, Al-Hassane Abdourahman. Ils ont remercié chaleureusement tous ceux qui ont lutté pour obtenir leur libération.”

via RSF

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