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recent work: New Caledonia, 2017

  • Young people in the district of Anse Vata, November 2017
  • Moselle harbour, november 2017
  • Tourists in the district of Anse Vata, November 2017
  • Sellers of kava, a drink with relaxing properties, during Vanuatu week at Coconut Square in November 2017
  • Noumea, november 2017
  • Lemon Bay Beach, November 2017
  • Coconut Square, november 2017
  • Stalls of Chinese traders at Coconut Square, november 2017
  • Young Kanak students in the center of Nouméa, November 2017
  • Noumea bus station, november 2017
  • Kanaks teenagers coming from northern neighborhoods, Place des Cocotiers, November 2017
  • Preacher man in the center of the city, november 2017
  • Kanak high school students in Païta, north of Noumea, November 2017
  • Noumea market, november 2017
  • Young kanak teenagers in the district of Anse Vata, November 2017
  • A heavy black smoke rising from stacks of factory SLN (Société Le Nickel) in Noumea, November 2017
  • Doniambo plant of SLN (Société Le Nickel) of Nouméa, November 2017
  • Doniambo plant of SLN (Société Le Nickel) of Nouméa, November 2017
  • Young Kanak in work placement in the workshop of the association {quote}Active{quote} (Caledonian Association for Work and Integration to Employment) in Montravel, northern district of Nouméa, November 2017
  • The statue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou at the Tjibaou Cultural Center regularly receives offerings, November 2017
  • Tourists on Matignon Accords street leading to Tjibaou Cultural Center November 2017
  • Coconut Square, november 2017
  • Due to lack of housing, the New Caledonians, mostly Kanaks, looking for work in the city built huts with recycled materials on vacant land on the peninsula of Nouville behind the University of New Caledonia and facing the downtown Noumea. The squats of Noumea would welcome today more than 8000 people in an agglomeration of approximately 160 000 inhabitants. November 2017
  • Due to lack of housing, the New Caledonians, mostly Kanaks, looking for work in the city built huts with recycled materials on vacant land on the peninsula of Nouville behind the University of New Caledonia and facing the downtown Noumea. The squats of Noumea would welcome today more than 8000 people in an agglomeration of approximately 160 000 inhabitants. November 2017
  • Meeting and press conference of members of the New Caledonian Labor Party. November 2017
  • Congress of New Caledonia, November 20177
  • During Customary Home at the Great Chefferie of Gaica - Tribe of Drueulu. December 2017
  • During Customary Home at the Great Chefferie of Gaica - Tribe of Drueulu. December 2017
  • Customary Home in Wé district in Hnatalo, December 2017
  • Inauguration of a high school in Saint Louis, December 2017
  • Party congress {quote}Calédonie Ensemble{quote} November 2017
  • The grave of Jean-Michel Nag's grandfather, cattle farmer, November 2017
  • The monument to the war dead of 1914-1918 on tribal lands in Poya, November 2017
  • In the car of Claude Metzdorf, cattle farmer, going to the Kanak tribe of Monfaoué, November 2017
  • {quote}Coutume{quote} arriving at the home of HIlaire Meumeureu-Gowé in the Kanak tribe of Monfaoué, November 2017
  • HIlaire Meumeureu-Gowé's home in the Kanak tribe of Monfaoué, November 2017
  • Aïzik Wea, brother of Djubelly Wea, the murderer of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, in his hut in Gossanah, November 2017
  • The cave of Gossanah (or Ouvea cave) hostage taking place and the assault of the gendarmes of the GIGN May 5, 1988. November 2017
  • The cave of Gossanah (or Ouvea cave) hostage taking place and the assault of the gendarmes of the GIGN May 5, 1988. November 2017
  • Claude Metzdorf, a cattle farmer {quote}caldoche{quote}, and HiIlaire Meumeureu-Gowé, a Kanak bus driver, were face to face during the events of November 1984 in Poya. Reconciled, they remember this time before the 2018 referendum that will decide the future of New Caledonia. House of HIlaire Meumeureu-Gowé in the Kanak tribe of Monfaoué. November 2017
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