Douz, Tunisia : From all times, mankind found reason to gather and interact. With modern world frenzy, we live isolated from each others even though communication and social network tools like Twitter and Facebook abound. There are still ancient way to gather and share news.
Right on the edge of the Sahara, Douz is built in [...]

All the way from India to the Middle East, women have traditionally adorned the veil, a sheer fabric to cover their hair and sometimes their face. While some wear it for purely traditional purposes, others will don it as a rite of passage when a girl grows from childhood to adulthood, as do women in [...]

The Republic of Congo’s indigenous people, the country’s first inhabitants, are under threat.  The Baka, one of 15 ethnic groups, who traditionally have lived as hunters and gathers in the forest of central Africa, confront two grave dangers.  Their traditional habitat is under threat from commercial logging and when they do leave the forest, they [...]

A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]

 
The only country that can be reached easily from Laos, a country of 6 million inhabitants, is Thailand. Between Laos and Vietnam lies the Annamite Cordillera mountain range, crossable at only six passes. High mountains equally hinder travel to Burma and China.
 

It has been less than 10 years since Laos opened its doors to [...]

The Wagenburg Story, a photo story about alternative lifestyle in a German trailerpark.
Eight people, six dogs, seven cats, three pigs, the sheeps Pauline and Mrs. Krause, two goats, two guinea pigs, the rabbit Erika and five chickens with one cock live together in the trailer park.
After the eviction from an inner city site, this community [...]