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Articles by Didier Bizet
Orphans of history: the forgotten republic of Transnistria - photo essay
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and between the fragile borders that crisscross the former Soviet Union, the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria, which broke away from Moldova more than 30 years ago after a brief but bloody conflict, remains locked in deep political and diplomatic isolation. Interactive Home to about 450,000 people, Transnistria is a narrow strip of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, along the eastern bank of the Dniester River.
Au cœur de Nzulezu, village sur pilotis et écosystème d’exception au Ghana
«Nzulezu» est un mot de la langue nzema qui signifie «surface de l’eau» – certains locaux le traduisent aussi par «ceux qui vivent sur l’eau». Selon les anciens, le village sur pilotis de Nzulezu au Ghana aurait été fondé au XVesiècle par des réfugiés fuyant les guerres. Les ancêtres du village auraient été guidés vers leur emplacement actuel par un escargot, raconte Francis, le gérant d’une agence qui accompagne les touristes au village.
Remembering her grace - Blind Magazine
Landscapes photographed after her death, a juxtaposition of somber tones to the lively images of the far past, interrupt the reverie of this long flashback. While trying to cope with the pain, "the acceptance of grief is strange for me, unusual, disconcerting, sometimes brutal", the photographer wonders what form memory will take for the generations after this one, the last to have printed and tangible images to treasure as we try to make sense of our loved ones' deaths.
Estampas de nostalgia rusa
El fotógrafo Didier Bizet mira a Rusia a través de la melancolía y la nostalgia. Sus ojos, por tanto, van en busca del pasado, de lo que fue y ya no es, y también de los restos que de él permanecen. En sus imágenes predominan las huellas de la URSS, aunque están entrelazadas con la herencia de la Rusia imperial anterior.
Inside the theater of Moscow’s metro
The metro of Moscow is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful in the world. In 1933, the greatest architects of the Soviet era left their mark on the cityscape by creating one of the most important cultural heritage sites in Russia. When Stalin and the Communist Party’s Central Committee, the Bolsheviks, launched the development, it became a symbol of architectural prowess that was unequaled in civil engineering at that time.
Little Aral Sea Dreams - Photographs by Didier Bizet | LensCulture
It all started at the end of the 1960s. The Soviets, under the direction of Stalin’s frighteningly titled “Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature,” decided to divert the water from two rivers—the Amou-Daria and Syr-Daria—which had long fed into the Aral Sea. Their goal was to draw this water for an irrigation project that would create large cotton plantations and wheat fields across the steppes of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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More than ten years ago, while taking a class on (NERD ALERT) Central Asian security studies, I was shocked by images of the Aral Sea, once one of the world’s largest lakes, shrinking into oblivion due to resource mismanagement. Then I took my eye off that ball for a decade and turns out, it came back! (Half of it, at least.) Now, there’s even a resurgent fishing industry. People are capable of creating vast and intractable problems, but occasionally, they fix them as well.
Signs of Life
Photographer: Didier Bizet, The Aral Sea was once considered an ecological disaster, but now the fish are back. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea started disappearing after Soviet-era irrigation projects rerouted Central Asia’s two largest rivers. Over 40 years, the Aral Sea separated into two lakes, the North Aral Sea and the South Aral Sea, sectioned by a salt desert. The water’s salinity increased and the fish began to die.
The Aral Sea springs back to life
Successful recovery efforts have brought back the sea and new hope for devastated Aral Sea communities in Kazakhstan. Tastubek, Kazakhstan - The little village of Tastubek is situated in the North Aral Sea, 90km from Aralsk, a former port on the Aral Sea. This part of what remains of the Aral Sea is known as the Small Aral.
Everyday Eritrea: Resilience in the face of repression
Eritrea has received much attention in the midst of the refugee crisis, with traumatised citizens undertaking dangerous journeys to escape what has been described as a torturous life at the hands of a cruel regime. Human rights organisations have documented human rights abuses, arbitrary arrests and torture, as a result of which nearly 5 percent of the population has fled and 4,000 Eritreans continue to flee their country each month.
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