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  • English Romanichel family, Jean with her son John and daughter Paris, sitting in their living room. There are 2 million Roma living across the Americas. Austin Texas, USA 2005...Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • France's ostentatious interior decorator and landscape architect, self-made man Jacques Garcia in his Norman country retreat 'le Chateau du Champ de la Bataille. He is responsible for the Parisian Ladurée teahouse and Hotel  Costes. His client list includes the Sultan of Brunei. He bought the chateau, one hours drive from Paris, at le Neubourg in Normandie, twenty years ago and faced with one of the great masterpieces of French Architecture, his self appointed task was to make it more sublime. Hardly touching the facade, he re-designed the interiors to be lavish interpretations of Baroque, recalling Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. The stylish gardens contain Roma style temples, an amphitheatre and fountains.  The chateau, open to the public, attracts 30,000 visitors per year. In 2007, with the addition of  restaurant and hotel rooms, the project will be finished.///Chateau du Champ de la Bataille interior: Jacques Garcia with his 84 year old mother "Jeanne Garcia", with his dog "Leon" and is mother's "Olymph" - Leon's fiancée in the Hunting Lounge "Salon Chasse".
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  • France's ostentatious interior decorator and landscape architect, self-made man Jacques Garcia in his Norman country retreat 'le Chateau du Champ de la Bataille. He is responsible for the Parisian Ladurée teahouse and Hotel  Costes. His client list includes the Sultan of Brunei. He bought the chateau, one hours drive from Paris, at le Neubourg in Normandie, twenty years ago and faced with one of the great masterpieces of French Architecture, his self appointed task was to make it more sublime. Hardly touching the facade, he re-designed the interiors to be lavish interpretations of Baroque, recalling Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. The stylish gardens contain Roma style temples, an amphitheatre and fountains.  The chateau, open to the public, attracts 30,000 visitors per year. In 2007, with the addition of  restaurant and hotel rooms, the project will be finished.///Chateau du Champ de la Bataille interior:  Jacques Garcia with his dog "Leon" in his private bedroom, on Louis Philippe  XV's four poster bed.
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  • Wolf C Hartwig aged 91, producer of epic films and soft-porn features, with his fourth wife, and actress, Veronique Vendell in their apartment on Avenue de Foch, Paris. Wolf Hartwig was awarded a Bambi Award from German Cinema for his film 'The Iron Cross' which was directed by Sam Peckinpah starring James Coburn with Veronique Vendell. A producer working in exploitation genres, soft porn, sex, lurid, violent and sensational features. Other films he produced include 'Horrors from Spider Island'. 'Lady Hamilton' and 'Virgin of the Seven Seas'.//Wolf Hartwig and his wife Veronique Vendell sitting on sofa, Bambi award on bookshelf with other mementos
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  • Wolf C Hartwig aged 91, producer of epic films and soft-porn features, with his fourth wife, and actress, Veronique Vendell in their apartment on Avenue de Foch, Paris. Wolf Hartwig was awarded a Bambi Award from German Cinema for his film 'The Iron Cross' which was directed by Sam Peckinpah starring James Coburn with Veronique Vendell. A producer working in exploitation genres, soft porn, sex, lurid, violent and sensational features. Other films he produced include 'Horrors from Spider Island'. 'Lady Hamilton' and 'Virgin of the Seven Seas'.//Veronique Vendell reflected in mirror and with Wolf Hartwig and painting of nude in vestibule
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  • Uncle Jimmy is an eighty year old holocaust survivor of the concentration camps. Up to one million and a half Roma were exterminated by the Nazis in concentration camps, ghettos and unmarked graves. Hamburg, Germany 2009..Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • Kai and Katinka Palm, the Romales musicians and car dealers, sit proudly on their Edsel. Tempere, Finland 2004..Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • David, his brother and brother in law, at the dinner table for Orthodox Catholic Christmas meal. Joined by his grandchildren, but the woman in true Roma tradition do not join the men at the table.  Belgrade, Serbia January 7th, 2004..Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • Walter Stanoski Winter, Sinti Holocaust survivor, resident in Hamburg..The Deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti in Hamburg 1940-45. Roma and Sinti Holocaust survivors. Conference and exhibition. Roma Holocaust "Porrajmos", the Roma word means literally "the devouring", where it is estimated that between 500 thousand and one and a half million Roma were exterminated across Germany, Poland, ex-Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s. The Roma were the first race to be subjected to experimentation by the Nazis, as part of Joseph Goebbels' 'Final Solution'.
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  • Krystyna Gil was five years old when she witnessed the massacre of most of her family at Szczurowa where 93 Roma were murdered by Nazis. Krystyna was handed to her grandmother by her mother who was killed. Five people survived the massacre, when they were told by Polish Police to run away. Szczurowa near Tarnow, Poland 1943..Roma Holocaust "Porrajmos", the Roma word means literally "the devouring", where it is estimated that between 500 thousand and one and a half million Roma were exterminated across Germany, Poland, ex-Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s. The Roma were the first race to be subjected to experimentation by the Nazis, as part of Joseph Goebbels' 'Final Solution'.
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  • Hugo Hollenreiner, a German Roma Sinti Auschwitz Holocaust survivor during the Cyganeria restaurant celebration for Roma and Sinti Holocaust survivors and families of victims. After 67th Anniversary commemoration at Auschwitz II Birkenhau. Oswiecim Poland 2011..Roma Holocaust "Porrajmos", the Roma word means literally "the devouring", where it is estimated that between 500 thousand and one and a half million Roma were exterminated across Germany, Poland, ex-Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s. The Roma were the first race to be subjected to experimentation by the Nazis, as part of Joseph Goebbels' 'Final Solution'.
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  • Roman Paczkowski, last surviving Polish Roma Holocaust survivor. 67th Anniversary. Memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti in the concentration camp at the so-called Zigeunerlager, the concentration camp hut for Roma and Sinti. Auschwitz II Birkenau, Oswiecim Poland ..Roma Holocaust "Porrajmos", the Roma word means literally "the devouring", where it is estimated that between 500 thousand and one and a half million Roma were exterminated across Germany, Poland, ex-Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s. The Roma were the first race to be subjected to experimentation by the Nazis, as part of Joseph Goebbels' 'Final Solution'.
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  • José Baptiste swimming in the river with his childen. Many Gypsies whilst called up for military service were not even given the right to vote. St.Jean du Gard, Ardeche, France 1995..Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • An old woman smokes a cigarette, taking a break from picking tomatoes. Roma Gypsies have worked as poorly paid casual agricultural labourers across Europe. Alexandria, Greece 2006...Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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  • The King of the Roma Gypsies, Florin Cioaba who leads a Christian centre movement of Roma in Romania He is also politcally active and represents 'his people' in Romania and across Europe. At his home, palace, in Sibiu, Romania
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  • John Travolta, Captain and pilot, of his own jumbo jet, salutes, with his plane and crew behind...John Travolta is pilot of his very own jumbo jet, a 1964 Boeing 707-100 series. In 2003, John Travolta flew his jumbo jet around the world, in partnership with Quantas, to rekindle confidence in commercial aviation, and to remind us that elegance and style are a part of flying. The crew are dressed in tailor made authentic uniforms from the Quantas museum. The men's uniforms are styled on British Naval uniforms and the ladies' designed by Chanel. His jumbo jet sports a personalised number plate N707JT which speaks for itself. The aircraft is named "Jett Clipper Ella" dedicated to his son and daughter. This jumbo together with his other aircraft are housed in purpose built hangars at his home in Florida, USA
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  • John Travolta, captain and pilot of his own jumbo jet, has a laugh and smile during the photo-shoot inside his plane...John Travolta is pilot of his very own jumbo jet, a 1964 Boeing 707-100 series. In 2003, John Travolta flew his jumbo jet around the world, in partnership with Quantas, to rekindle confidence in commercial aviation, and to remind us that elegance and style are a part of flying. The crew are dressed in tailor made authentic uniforms from the Quantas museum. The men's uniforms are styled on British Naval uniforms and the ladies' designed by Chanel. His jumbo jet sports a personalised number plate N707JT which speaks for itself. The aircraft is named "Jett Clipper Ella" dedicated to his son and daughter. This jumbo together with his other aircraft are housed in purpose built hangars at his home in Florida, USA.
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  • Chief Almir Narayamogo, with his apple computer, the other holds a gps reciever, they are mapping in the Surui territory, primary rainforest interior.<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
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They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
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  • August 2012: Settled Penan, Baru and Menit, formerly nomadic, but still living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, deep in the rainforest near the Kalimantan border. Forced to leave their traditional hunting grounds as they have been logged and destroyed. Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region...
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  • Kenyah elderly couple from Long Lawan in floating longhouse on the Bakun Dam reservoir. Home of the Kenyah native people who once lived in Long Geng, which was flooded by the Bakun Dam. Their community is now dispersed between Sungai Asap, Long Lewan and floating longhouses on the Bakun reservoir. Bakun Belaga region, Sarawak Borneo 2012<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991-2012. <br />
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The Bakun hydro-electric dam, which covers 700km². Construction of the dam required the relocation of more than 9,000 native residents, mainly Kayan and Kenyah indigenous peoples who lived in the flooded area. Many Sarawak natives have been relocated to a longhouse settlement named Sungai Asap in Bakun. Most of them were subsistence farmers. Each family were promised only 3 acres of land, insufficient to survive, and many families still have not been compensated for the loss of their longhouses<br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Michelangelo Pistoletto portrait against his artistic work<br />
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The artist (born 25 June 1933) is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk<br />
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In 1996, he founded the art city Cittadelarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in a discarded textile factory near Biella. Its objective, in brief, is “to inspire and produce a responsible change in society by means of creative ideas and projects.” Nowadays Pistoletto is particularly concerned with environmental issues, and to develop awareness about using only what we need and to create awareness about over consumption.
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  • Azuma Makoto with his botanical collection<br />
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On his website he says this about himself: <br />
Born in 1976. Flower Artist<br />
Azuma Makoto has been in the flower business since 2002, and is an owner of the haute-couture floral shop,<br />
“JARDINS des FLEURS” in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. He started his career as a flower artist from 2005. Also, for 2-year limited period from April 2007 to March 2009, he ran a private gallery “AMPG” in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo, to exhibit his private works. Later in 2009, he found an experimental laboratory “Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyusho” (abbr. AMKK; meaning Azuma Makoto Botanical Research Institute) and ever since then, he has been expanding art activities pursuing infinitive potential of plants.<br />
Every activity of Azuma Makoto focuses on elevating value of flowers and plants by finding unique and mysterious forms that they possess. Respecting the existence of nature and keeping its dignity, he converts and expresses these beautiful elements to aesthetic level of artwork.
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  • Artworks by Mexico's most famous living sculptor 'Sebastian Enrique Carbajal'. Photographs copyright photographer Nigel Dickinson..You can contact Nigel Dickinson at:..www.nigeldickinson.com<br />
COPYRIGHT:All photographs copyright Nigel Dickinson Photographer - All sculptures are artworks copyright Sebastian Enrique Carbajal
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  • The modern day Quasimodo of Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris, France.  Stephane Urbain is the Chief Sacristain. Apart from his other duties, he is in charge of all aspects of the bells. There are at least four masses each day everyday of the year. The bells sound on the hour and half hour, and there are special melodies played at certain times, for festivals, celebrations and events. Stephane Urbain writes and calibrates the bells co-ordinated with a computer. the days of manual bell ringers and 'clochards' are in the past.///Stephaine Urbain, Head Sacristain of Notre Dame Cathedral, in the bell tower. like Quasimodo
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  • Derry O'Sullivan, is an Irish poet originally from Bantry. A former priest who is now married with three children, he teaches at universities in Paris, France. A new translation of one of his most famous poems wins Stephen Spender Prize 2012. Dr Kaarina Hollo of Sheffield university won the Open Award in the Times/Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation - for giving fresh life to a famous poem: O'Sullivan's Marbhghin 1943: Glaoch ar Liombo, is an elegy on his stillborn brother by the 68-year-old poet///Portrait of Derry O'Sullivan inside café in Bastille.
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  • Marie de Tilly in her apartment, Rue Chaillot, Paris..Marie de Tilly gives lessons on French Etiquette. She lives in a bijou Hausman apartment in central Paris, not far from the Champs Elysées. She has trained people with these skills for several years; working across the Paris area and even takes her work worldwide, giving classes to a range of people. She is especially popular in Russia and the ex-Soviet countries such as Kasakhstan. Her skills are sought after by individuals, families and businessmen wishing to aspire to enter French High Society. Her students, whether they are Russian or French, want to learn the necessary airs and graces to blend seemlessly into Parisian haute societé. Paris, France
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  • Rune Andersen and Cecile Ruppman pose in vaulted rooms, as yet unfinished, leading north from Chateau Robernier's entrance hall..Chateau Robernier located near Montfort, in the Var, closeby to Provence in southern France. The Chateau dates back to the 16th century with parts added in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a vineyard attached with 80 hectares of land producing 200,000 bottles of wine per annum. The Chateau, bought in 2007, has been recently renovated by the new owners Mr Rune Andersen, aged 35, owner of several investment companies, including Scan-Tec, and his fiancée Miss Cecile Ruppmann who is Swiss German, aged 29. They both are resident in Monaco.
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  • Cedric Bouchard, vigneron, hipsterish in birkenstocks, sitting on an oak barrel at his champagne domain 'Roses de Jeanne'. Celles-Sur-Ource, Champagne, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Trend setters, MAISON ET OBJET, the semiannual home furnishings trade fair, which took place outside Paris February 2008, is one of the largest events of its kind in Europe and one of the most influential in terms of what new designs will make it to market. So it is not surprising that editors of design magazines and others whose work involves understanding the vagaries of the home furnishings market flock to the show. Caroline Till, trend analyst with 'the Future Laboratory', this is one of her choices of trends at the Paris Nord exhibition for Maison & Objet.///Caroline Till pictured with coloured sugar lollipops. Cordoleani and Fontana sugar objects which won the Grand Design Prize 2007. Grand prix Design 2007
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  • Derry O'Sullivan, is an Irish poet originally from Bantry. A former priest who is now married with three children, he teaches at universities in Paris, France. A new translation of one of his most famous poems wins Stephen Spender Prize 2012. Dr Kaarina Hollo of Sheffield university won the Open Award in the Times/Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation - for giving fresh life to a famous poem: O'Sullivan's Marbhghin 1943: Glaoch ar Liombo, is an elegy on his stillborn brother by the 68-year-old poet///Portrait of Derry O'Sullivan in Bastille area of Paris
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  • Paris, France 21st February 2013. Portraits of Jean-Barthelemy Bokassa, a passionate disciple of Napoleon Bonaparte, a Dandy and Parisian socialite. Ambassador for the Maison Haute Couture Christophe Lebo. He was born in 1974 in Bangui Central Africa. Jean Barthelemy Bokassa is son of Jean-Bruno Dédéavode and Martine Bokassa 1, and grandson of the Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa and his first wife Madame Hue Thi Ba, his grandmother. Jean-Bedel Bokassa also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979: Portrait of Jean-Barthelemy Bokassa wearing a Napoleonic jacket designed by Claire Chataigner of the Maison Couture Christophe Lebo, with Virginie Condette, as dressed in Napoleonic garb from the same house. She is the inspiration for his new book. In his Paris apartment..Jean-Barthélémy Bokassa est né le 30 août 1974 à Bangui (capitale de la Centrafrique). Il est le fils de Jean-Bruno Dédéavode et de Martine Bokassa 1 et le premier petit-fils de Jean-Bedel Bokassa, président de la République centrafricaine (1965-1977), puis empereur (1977-1979). Il vit en France depuis 1980. Il est auteur de plusieurs essais et d'un premier roman.
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  • Portrait of Catherine Robbe-Grillet in the salon of her Paris apartment. Including a whip used for BDSM..Catherine Robbe-Grillet, born in 1930 (nee Rstakian) is a french writer, former photographer, theatre and film actress who is well known for her writings and practice of BDSM or Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism. She wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg. She was renowned for her organisation of BDSM sessions for interested parties in high Parisian society, where she took on different roles. She had a very free and open loving relationship with her husband Alain Robbe-Grillet whom she married in 1957 (he died in 2008) with whom they recounted their adventures to each other...Her publications include L'image par Jean de Berg. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1956, Cérémonies de Femmes by Jeanne de Berg. Paris: Éditions Grasset 1985, Entretien avec Jeanne de Berg by Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Paris: Éditions les Impressions Nouvelles 2002, Jeune mariée: journal, 1957-1962 by Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Paris: Fayard 2004, Le Petit carnet perdu par Jeanne de Berg. Paris: Fayard 2007.
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  • Pintori, Via San Bernado, 68r. Mama of Silvestro Pintori - Monica Dagnino. The Best Restaurants in Genoa
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  • Isabella at home in the kitchen with her mother Ilana and 14 yr old sister Corinna. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • A woman and her grand-daughter living in a 'container camp'. This concentraion camp type environment, is close to a motorway,  but far away from public amenities, schools and shops. Before they lived happily in Vicolo Savini inside Rome itself. Castel Romano, Italy 2008..Roma Gypsies left Rajasthan in India a thousand years ago, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were pushed west by the Ottoman Muslim Empire as it moved through Persia towards the frontiers of Europe. They entered Europe in the foutrteenth century and were slaves in Romania and Moldavia until the mid 1850s. There are about 15 million Roma gypries in the world, about 12 million who live in Europe. they are Europe's largest ethnic minority. They have rich traditions and culture, their own language. They are renowned for their prowess in music and dance; they are also skilled craftsman, metal roofmakers, silver and goldsmiths. Their traveling and nomadic lifestyle which grew from a necessity to find work, and because they were often moved on from one place to the next, has given them both a liberty but also marks them as different and they are often feared by sedentary peoples, who label and scapegoat them. They are hardy survivors and live in the brunt of racism and prejudice, often marginalised, living in poverty, without proper human rights afforded to them..
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