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  • Historical show, reconstitution of the Vertières Battle by a dance group in November 2003
  • A mambo, member of a secret society following the Petro rite, holds in her hand a dove to be sacrified in October 1995
  • A community of farmers from the Artibonite preparing to sacrifice a bull to the loa (spirit) Ogou Feray during the annual pilgrimage in July 1995
  • A mambo praying in the mud basin in the center of the village, during the annual pilgrimage dedicated to the loa (spirit) Ogou Feray in July 1994
  • Easter celebration. Mambos (voodoo priestesses) in April 1996
  • February 1998
  • Woman in trance during a meeting of the followers of Heviosso, dispenser of justice and god of thunder in February 1998
  • Ceremony ending initiation to the god Loko in March 1998
  • A leader of the Nyabinghi Rasta movement preaching during a ceremony in January 2001
  • Members of the evangelical church «La cruzada de poder» praying in the Plaza de Armas in September 2007
  • A Russian Orthodox couple arriving in front of the Holy Sepulchre after the Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday in April 2009
  • The Holy Fire ceremony on Orthodox Easter Saturday in April 2009
  • The receptionist of the Meridien hotel with a gas mask during a Scud alert in January 1991
  • French Foreign Legion soldiers’ footprints in January 1991
  • U.S. soldiers pose by their Abrams M1 tank on the road to Basra in February 1991
  • U.S. soldiers arrest Iraqi soldiers on the road to Basra in February 1991
  • U.S. soldiers speak near an Iraqi soldiers’ corpses in February 1991
  • Osijek, town besieged by the Yugoslav federal army in September 1991
  • Fights on the frontline during the Zagreb-Belgrade highway battle in September 1991
  • Croatian women under a bombing attack from the Yugoslav federal army in September 1991
  • January 1994
  • A woman in the area of Dobrinja crosses the street under the Serb snipers’ fire in December 1992
  • April 1993
  • Inhabitant of the Muslim area of Mostar besieged by the Croatian militias in January 1994
  • A young Somali refugee crosses a field filled with marabous storks in July 1992
  • Feeding center for the persons displaced by the civil war in July 1992
  • Rwandan Hutu refugee camp of Kibumba in August 1994
  • Funeral near the Rwandan Hutu refugee camp of Kibumba in August 1994
  • The heavily damaged cathedral on January 18, 2010
  • Children in the Carrefour-Feuille area in front of a house destroyed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake on Wednesday, November 24, 2010
  • A street kid running after a fight for bricks in the historic area destroyed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake on Thursday, November 25, 2010
  • Fire at a pig seller’s in Parc Charbon slums in November 2003
  • Anti-government demonstrators throw stones during a clash with President Mubarak's supporters on Tahrir Square on Thursday February 3 2011
  • Anti-government demonstrators throw stones during a clash with President Mubarak's supporters on Tahrir Square on Thursday February 3 2011
  • Libyan men demonstrate on the new Tahrir Square (Liberty Square) of Benghazi in April 2011
  • Libyan rebels prepare heavy machine guns before heading to the battle front in April 2011
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    • Paris at time of Covid-19, 2020
    • Paris, Notre-Dame on fire, 2019
    • New Caledonia, 2017
    • In Terra Sancta, 2008 to 2010
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    • Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011
    • Guadeloupe, 2009
    • on the steps of Che Guevara, 2007
    • voodoo in Haiti, 1994 to 1997
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    • Japan, 1999
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    • Libyan revolution, 2011
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    • Federico Fellini's funeral, 1993
    • Somalia, 1992
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    • velvet revolution in Prague, 1989
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    • students demonstrations in Paris, 1986
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    • Iquitos, Peru, 2005
    • coffee in Ethiopia, 2004
    • Haiti, Port-au-Prince, 2003
    • Haiti, Cap-Haitien, 2003
    • Etosha, Namibia, 2003
    • Jamaican Rastas, 2001
    • Provence, France, 2000
    • New Zealand, Haka, 2000
    • Colombia, 1998
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    • end of life, 1994
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