Children. The Future of the World

Ecuador, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nepal, India, Mali, Papua, Mauritania – these are just a fraction of the countries I've visited during my many years of travel.

When planning my trips, I chose places tourists don't reach. I was interested in areas that were difficult to access, little-known, and culturally interesting. The photographs I brought back from my travels were memories of the people I met along the way. However, they also proved to be documents from places that will disappear due to civilizational progress and globalization, only to be read about in books. I lived with the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador, whose lands are being increasingly aggressively seized by oil campaigns; I waded through swamps to the Korowai villages in Papua, who build their homes several meters above the ground in the treetops. I lived with the Baka Pygmies from Cameroon, who live in the rainforest. I visited the villages of the Dogon, renowned for their astronomical knowledge. I traversed the Danakil Desert, where temperatures reach sixty degrees Celsius. I walked the streets of Kathmandu, which was devastated by an earthquake this year. In India, I visited a slum and a jugglery district.

The photographs are excerpts from the reportages I brought back from these trips; they are not just documents of places. Above all, they capture fleeting moments of encounters with people with whom I managed to become friends despite linguistic and cultural differences. I invite you on a short journey across three continents.