Between January and October 2007, there had been 546 racist attacks in Russia provoking the death of 56 persons. 150 « extremist » groups are in action in Russia. Reportage in the Slave Union organization, supporter of a Russian national socialism.

Beatings, confiscation of land, administrative pressure, corruption, fabricated reports by experts... Xiditou's militia guarantees that families remain silent.

Since the 1962 coup, the militaries hold all the country’s wealth, confiscating the lands and the goods or using hard labor. The junta in power since 1989 maintains the population in a state of continuous oppression.

Those who sleep at night, no need to go there. In Dakar, night has a meaning. Jazz clubs, nightclubs, each place has its own time. Night in Dakar has a good future. After the glory of the Senghor years, the world festival of negro arts and clubs with mythical names (the Fouquet’s, the Keur Samba…), after the recession of the 70’s, the drought, the end of the international aids, after the boom of the 80’s, Dakar found the rage and sense of party again.

One week in a French supermarket.

For the French ELLE magazine.

Housed by the "Good Samaritan", Darfur's survivors get organized to live another life in the very united community of the people Arras. 

Today, Chechnya is rebuilding under Kadirov’s iron hand. In less than a year, Grozny, the martyr city has totally changed and looks like a new city.

Moroco has always been at a crossroad. Meet with Mohamed VI's generation.

France's most presitigious university makes a resounding entrance in the game of education's globalization.

Ambitious, gigantic and under international scrutiny, India has a plan: to become an economic giant among nations. After centuries of submission under the British Empire and fifty years of sluggish independance,the asian elephant has awakened. Today the economic reforms begun in 1991 are clearly visible.

For the French daily newspaper ''Le Monde'', Michael Zumstein follows the French electoral campaign.

Since April 3rd, when pro Western President Viktor Yushchenko decided the Parliament dissolution, pro Russian supporters of Prime minister Viktor Yanukovych demonstrate in the center of Kiev.

A rally to commemorate the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Beirut. February 14, 2007.

Unfairly accused of inoculate Libyan children with the virus of AIDS in a hospital in the Nort East of the country, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor stagnate in Kaddafi's jails.

Back on the events that made the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, with the atmosphere sounds took during the reportage.

In a report published on September 14, 2007, Human Rights Watch denounces the crimes and serious blows to the human rights comitted by the Central African leadership as well as the passivity of the French army. More than 260 000 Central Africans had been internally displaced.

The war in Iraq has driven nearly 4 millions people from their homes.
As many as 2 millions have fled the country, seeking safety abroad-and robbing the nation of its best and brightest, in what Refugees International calls the fastest-growing crisis in the world. As detailed in the stories that follow, the burden of coping with this exodus has fallen most heavily on Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, who have absorbed the vast majority of exiles. An inside look at those Iraqis in their new life, away from their land and too often, in total resignation.

How to seduce a rich man? In Russia, the coach has a simple answer:
No speaking, bringing out the body and nailing the fish.
In Moscow and in the most big Russian cities, this kind of business is increasing.
Welcome to Vladimir Raovski's seduction school.

A digital essay.

Shanxi province is responsible for one third of the coal production countrywide. From North to South, all the way from Datong to Linfen, all cities and surrounding countryside are devoted to coalminig industry. The greed for energy consumes its servants ruthlessly, even though they once were heroes of Maoism: only for last November, over 200 coalminers died in Shanxi province. They are usually ‘Mingongs’, illegal migrant workers. They have run away from their countryside home towards the coalmine Eldorado where they risk their life to provide an income to their family.

Commissioned by the French Ministry for Culture & Communication (National Center for Visual Arts).

Lost in the middle of some gloomy agricultural lands of Beijing’s countryside, a white stone silhouette appears, gigantic and unexpected, the replica of the Maisons-Laffitte castle (located in the Yvelines, near Paris)!

Somaliland is an unrecognized de facto state located in northwest Somalia in the Horn of Africa. On May 18th, 1991, Somaliland people declared an independent Republic of Somaliland that now includes five of the eighteen administrative regions of Somalia, roughly the region between Ethiopia, Djibouti , Gulf of Aden and the former Italian Somaliland, an area of about 137,600 square kilometres. The capital of Somaliland is Hargeisa. Although not recognized by any government, this entity has maintained a stable existence, due in part to the dominance of a ruling clan.

Since 1990, young women disapear along Highway 16, a road crossing British Columbia. It has been 15 years that the investigation doesn't go anywhere.Some women are found dead on the side of the road, some are still missing. The road of tears has become a symbol for the British Columbia natives.
Disgust by the public power's indifference, they want justice to get interested in this gruesome mystery.

Walk in Odessa's streets, for a summer discovery of the city and its inhabitants. Serie produced by VSD magazine.

Explosive and spectacular, the Arlesian bullfighter takes brillantly the option: the dub, the ritual that makes him a toros' matador. He is only 20, and is already a great hope  in his sport.

Portfolio of portraits made during different assignments for Libération, l'Express, Le Monde and Télérama.

While in the train, you can come across off-duty but armed military, on-duty military extorting passengers, women giving birth, pastors preaching, and illegal voyagers dangerously installed on train car roofs. The tracks aren’t cared for, and the train often derails. The train keeps on chugging in spite of it all. To sum it up, the “Kambelembele” is a metaphor for the Democratic Republic of Congo itself.

Video

At Huoshanzi school - Guizhou province.

From '' They just turned 80 ''
by Samuel Bollendorff.
Video 16/9. 52 mns. Mk tv Production.

The movie relates a year in the life of the Geriatrics department of the Houdan hospital.

This street with a rich past stigmatizes today the xenophobic behavior and the resentments of an exasperated population.
A strong feeling of surrender emanates from its inhabitants.

Purity Balls are an initiative of the Clearinghouse Abstinence Organisation in South Dakota, and represent one of the concrete examples of sexual abstinence among American youth. The balls are exclusively reserved for young girls escorted by their fathers.
The promotion of sexual abstinence before marriage is one of the many wars waged by the ultraconservative religious right.

Albany, January 2006.
Return to Shkodra. The city hasn’t changed: beaten-up roads, the electricity cut off several times a day. It’s cold.

Ready-to-Wear. paris - Winter 2006.
Backstage by Samuel Bollendorff...

 for LE MONDE

Oil resources are waning, gas station prices exploding, and the whole planet is coughing. Activists have found the good idea: trade in diesel fuel for sunflower oil. Simple, clean, inexpensive and... completely illegal !

A groupe of teenagers of the evangelical church called God's Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, gets together to read and study the Bible. The organization is typical for an evangelical assembly : pyramidal structure, grouping by affinities and interests out of the Sunday cult. This is how the permanent contact with the biblical principles on everyone's lives is maintained and fed.

Founded by the Nigerian pastor Sunday Adelaja 12 years ago in Kiev, the Embassy of God has become the biggest evangelical mega-church in Europe, with almost 25,000 members in Kiev alone. Present in 32 countries, with 425 churches, the goal of the church-goers here is to attain a thousand churches in 2007.

For the 4 to 5 millions muslims in France, where Islam became the second largest religion, the country has 1600 registered mosques. They are the proof of the immigrant history. Thrity years ago, they were build near immigrants working and living pplaces, largely in suburbs of the largest cities like Marseille and Paris. Slowly until now, Islam in France can be find everywhere. Larger mosques have been build and muslim communities can be find everywhere.