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THEY ARE CARE FOR LIKE HUMANS • FRANCE • 2011 36 images by Vincent CAPMAN The technology, procedures and difficulties are the same as for men and women. King of the couch or the prince of the park, our furry friends benefit from 21st century medicine.

	FAMADIHANA • Madagascar • August 2011 28 images by Rijasolo The Famadihana, or exhumation is a pillar in the ancestor's worship specific to Malagasy culture.

	Honest heroes make up an indigenous police force • Mexico • 2012 33 images by Pierre-Yves MARZIN In Mexico, in the State of Guerrero, in the south of the country, the Policia de la Montaña has succeeded in bringing down the rate of crime, thefts, rapes and kidnapping. It has also significantly discouraged drug trafficking. The unofficial police force employs close to 800 policemen, spread over 77 communities, making up for the absence of federal police, very corrupt. The community police relies on a two-year “obligatory service” for all locals, unpaid. More than a simple police force, it’s an unusual justice system grouped into one body: the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities, or CRAC for its Spanish acronym. The justice system is based on re-education rather than punishment.

	A CAPITALIST ELDORADO IN NORTH KOREA • Kaesong, North Korea • March 2007 28 images by Vincent NGUYEN The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) in North Korea. An improbable economic zone located 7 km from the DMZ. Here, the North Korean dictatorship is undertaking a capitalist experiment financed by South Korea.

	THE REBIRTH OF KARENJY, THE CAR MADE IN MADAGASCAR • Madagascar • June 2012 34 images by Rijasolo Since 2008, a French organization relive the legendary Karenjy car made in Madagascar.

	First Black Fashion Week in Paris • Paris • October 2012 24 images by Vincent BOISOT In October 2012, the Senegalese designer Adama Paris organised the first Black Fashion Week in Paris at pavillon Cambon Capucines. An opportunity to showcase the best the continent has to offer.

	Muhammad Ali's successors • Kinshasa • May 2012 27 images by Vincent BOISOT For the first time in history, female boxing was featured as an Olympic sport at the London 2012 Games. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s female boxers had some serious assets to put forward. They grew up in Kinshasa, a chaotic, violent city in which they had to learn to self-defence. With several African championship titles among their ranks and months of training behind them, they had every reason to believe in their chances. But the money to make the voyage to Algeria and the qualifying round arrived too late, putting paid to their dreams of Europe and Olympic glory.

	FRENCH MUSLIMS • FRANCE • 2011 22 images by Vincent CAPMAN From Marseille to Paris and French market towns to urban suburbs. An overview of silent French Muslims tired of having to justify their beliefs.