Award: Documentary Award

Time: January 1, 2000-March 15, 2006

P1-3: This was the first time they accepted to pose for a photographer. In order to meet them, I had to walk for 3 days. Their existence revolves around a need of knowledge and wisdom that would eventually give them peace within the Cosmos. The Koguis fight to conserve their perception of the world through their spirituality and their rituals.

P4-6: The Himbas is found in the north of Namibia . This extremely esthetical population is painted with an ochre powder that gives the woman an absolutely smooth skin. These women have never taken a bath in their lives; nevertheless they keep their intimate parts clean with smoke. Thanks to an oil extract from a special plant that grows in a deserted area of Namibia they manage to have a great smell.

P7-9: The 2 hours of suspense in an old small plane from Cayenne in the French Guyana to the abandoned town of Maripasola ; and the 8 hours in a pirogue up the river, mixed up with the need of an "impossible to get permit" took me to the reserve where the Maronis live.

P10-12: In the Tadraart, the border of South Algeria and the Lybia live the the last Tuaregs dressed in Indigo, this colour makes them called “the blue man”.