Catalog 2008

Young girls for sale, street kids that cost almost nothing. If the police or justice does intervene, it costs just a few dollars to avoid prosecution. It’s a safe hunting ground…almost.Now a group of concerned citizens has organised itself into an NGO to replace the ineffectual police in an effort to stamp out this blight that highlights the North-South divide. In Cambodia, the ‘Action for...

Small arms kill one thousand people a day. They provoke rape. They corrupt entire societies for a long time. They are sold, resold and traded in violation of international law. They fall by thousands into the hands of bloody dictatorships, armed groups that answer to no one and governments bent on genocide. The arms trade takes place in a gray area of globalization. Where bandits and "non-state...

What is it that destroys people in the workplace? It drives some to suicide. And why does this epidemic keep on spreading? France ranks number three in the world for the frequency of work related depression, after Ukraine and the United States. We met men and women who had come very close to dying. Beyong the trauma and emotion, we wanted to understand what made them so sick. All of them talked...

In 2006, Marianne Denicourt, a French actress, went to Afghanistan. While she films boys and girls learning how to read in singsong fashion, her camera is drawn to the sad, magnetic face of a young girl who no longer looks like the child of nine that she is. Nassima’s eyes convey fear. One morning we learn that she is to be married to a man she doesn’t even know. The school decides to fight...