Patrick Zachmann followed Abdirissak, a young Somali immigrant, to tell his extraordinary story, from his days in Somalia at war to his life in special housing in Nanterre, where he went through the integration process to become French. |
Atomic City is a portrait of Richland, a town whose identity is wholly based on atomic weapons. The pride people take in the bomb has led to environmental and health problems making Richland look like an American Chernobyl |
Hong Kong is synonymous with a better way of life, but this place of dreams also has its hidden aspects. Thousands of its inhabitants live squashed into tiny attic rooms of 20 or so square feet |
China is presently becoming a desert. It is by taking the ‘desertification train’ from Beijing to Kashgar in Xinjiang that one can witness one of the greatest ecological catastrophes in the world |
The Maldives are disappearing beneath rubbish and the ecosystem is suffering from pollution. The government of the Maldives even transformed an entire island into a national landfill site, just a few kilometres from the spotless beaches for tourists |
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