SLIDESHOWS

BY MAXIMILIEN BRUGGMANN

Young people

Young woman from the people of Peul-Bororo at the fountain of Ekismane (Tahoua region, Niger).

This indo girl from the village of Alto Caballero in Panama belongs to the Guaymi people.

Young girl from Cuadane - Libya

This aymara girl, with the traditional hat, lives on the Bolivian Altiplano at 4000 m of altitude.

Children in Venice - California - U.S.A.

Tuareg girl in the camp of Mechovi - Aïr - Niger

A girl from the Cuna tribe settled on the archipelago of the San Blas Islands, in Panama

This Shipibo girl is using a large banana leaf as an umbrella to protect herself against the rain - Ucayali - Peru

Young Kanouri woman of the Kaouar region - Teneré (Niger).

A baby carrier made of goat leather for the little Djamila in the camp of Toufouchi – Aïr –Niger.

Young tea picker on the way between Cisaruat and the Puncak Pass - Java-West, Indonesia.

A young Bolivian is doing his homework on the steps of the sanctuary of Tiahuanaco.- Bolivia

Indian girl from San Cristobal de Totonicapan - Guatemala

Indian children of the Powwow tribe - Calgary-Stampede, Canada

Cowboys & Rodeo

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Back to the corral

Canada - Alberta - Longview - In the morning mist

Canada - Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Saddel Bronc Riding

Canada – Alberta – Ponoka Stampede – Bull Riding

Canada - Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Steer Wrestling

Canada - Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Chuckwagon Race

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – A herd of horses

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Crossing the Nicola River

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Cowboy boot

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Quarter Horses

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Terry, the chief cowboy

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Raspberry Camp - In the morning, Jeff saddles his horse

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Wooden stirrups, high-heeled boots, impressive spurs

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Raspberry Camp - A lasso can reach up to 12 m

Canada - Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Calf Roping – Capturing a calf with a lasso

Canada - Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Chuckwagon Race

Canada – Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Bareback Riding

Canada – Alberta – Ponoka Rodeo – Bull Riding

Canada – Alberta – Calgary Stampede – Bareback Riding

Canada – Alberta – Ponoka Rodeo – Calf Roping

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – Horse herd

Life on the Ranch – Livestock near Pinedale – Wind River Range – Montana

Canada – Alberta – Highland - Cowboys go to work

Canada – BC – Quichena Ranch – Gathering a herd of cows

Canada – B.C. – Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch – The young calves are gathered to mark with the red iron

Sahara - impressions

Dunes at Saoura in the Grand Erg Occidental - Algeria

Bunch of grass - Enneri Blaka - Niger

Dead tree in a landscape of dunes of Tehouak - Niger

Caravan against the backdrop of a thunderstorm at Smara (Spanish Sahara)

Oued in the region of Mathendous - Fezzan - Libya

Trail of caravans Tan-Zoumaïtak and Tinteras-n-Elias - Tassili - Algeria

Niger – Salt extraction at Bilma

Niger – Salt caravan (Azelaï) between Bilma and Agadez

Algeria – Moul n'Aga – Landscape in Tadrart

Descent from the Edjefane pass - Tassili plateau - Algeria

The "Submarine" in the Wadi Enneri Blaka got this name thanks to its form. In this region there are many objects of rock art.

The well of Guelta Timia - Niger

Sunrise near Tamanrasset – Hoggar – Algeria

Traces of cars in the sand – Edeyen (Desert of dunes) at Mourzouk – Libya

This lunar landscape is the saline of Tegguiddan-n'Tessoum in the Niger

Algeria – Ghardaïa – Mozabite town in the valley of M’zab.

Sheep market in Ghardaïa - Algeria

Caravan of donkeys – Food supplies near Gabr'acun – Algeria

Niger – The dunes of Temet between Aïr and Ténéré

Morocco – The Kasbah of Tifoultoute at the Wadi Ouarzazate

Morocco – Woman in the Rissani oasis

Niger – Sahel – The Peul Bororo celebrating

Niger – Pulling faces for beauty – Peul Bororo

Niger – The Tree of Ténéré, a thorn acacia, today no longer exists

Niger – Chirfa Oasis – Djado Region – Kanuri woman

In the desert, vegetation is often limited to individual grasses, sparse food for gazelles and cattle, but a poetic toy for the wind - between Gardel and Djanet - Tassili – Algeria

Dunes at Erg Issaouane - near Fort Polignac - Algeria

Dunes in Erg Issaouane near Illezi at Fort Polignac, at the background Tassili n'Ajjer - Algeria

Region Tin-Merzouga in Tadrart - Algeria

Niger – Encounter with a lorry from Bilma in the Ténéré desert

Sahara – Prehistoric art

Niger – Two rhinos clash – Stone engraving at the confluence Enneri Blaka / Enneri Domo

Niger – On the western edge of the Aïr – engravings at the Tanakom site

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – Tan–Zoumaïtak shelter – «Round Heads Period»

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – Sefar site – Hunting scene

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – The beautiful shelter of Tan–Zoumaïtak (28m2) in the shape of a cupola, worthy to inspire religious sentiments.

Niger – Ténéré – a Neolithic pestle, found with its mortar

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – Tin–Tazarift site – Several people painted with brown ocher

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – Jabbaren site – Hunting scene

Algeria – Tassili n'Ajjer – Jabbaren site – Pastoral scene painted in red ocher

Algeria – Tadrart – In–Djaren site – Giraffe painted in a shelter (length: 43 cm)

Algeria – Tadrart – In–Djaren site – Alone–standing rock with 8 engraved elephants

Niger – Aïr – Upper–Tagueït site – Fresco of carved giraffes

Niger – Djado – Enneri Blaka, Site 5 – Engraving of a rhinoceros, Bubaline period

Algeria – Tassili-n’Ajjer – Sefar – Typical pastoral scene, shown at 2.80 m above the ground.

Argelia – Tassili-n’Ajjer – Tin-Tazarift – Odd "ship shape". However, the floatability is not proved.

Niger – Dabous (Aïr occidentale) – Fresco with animals: giraffes, ibexes (?) Etc. The giraffe measures 1.15 m from nose to tail.

Algeria – Tassili-n’Ajjer – Terrarart – Engraving of four cattle, very deeply worked, partly polished. In the center "The Weeping Cow".

Niger – Aïr – Tendarine – Engraving of giraffes and antelopes

Asia – Spice route

Indonesia – After a swim in the Amboina Bay, on the Ambon peninsula

India – Rajasthan – Jaisalmer – Back from school

India – Kerala – Getting ready to sow rice

Indonesia – Rice fields at Sinjar

India – Rice transplanting – Anjengo region

Sri Lanka – Kandy – Outside the Temple of Buddha

Sri Lanka – Detail of the Buddha Temple of Kelaniya Vihare

Sri Lanka – Stilt fishermen at Weligama

India – Rajasthan – The Brahmin blue city of Jodhpur

India – Rajasthan – Jaisalmer, a fortress town in the Thar desert

India – Rajasthan – Jaisalmer – The reservoir of Gadisar

India – Rajasthan – Barbati: nomadic woman in the Thar desert

India – Rajasthan – The village of Khuri on the border of Pakistan

Sri Lanka – Young man with a stack of cinnamon sticks

India – Goa – Drying peppers in front of the house

Indonesia – Banda Besar island – Open nutmeg

Tuareg

Niger – Caravan between Aïr and Ténéré

Niger – Targuia woman from Toufouchi in the Aïr Mountains

Niger – Caravan in Erg Izane

Niger – Abakaoa, chief of the Tuareg

Niger – Caravan in the evening light – Erg Izane

Algeria - A caravan leaves the village of Imenan in Tassili.

Niger - The caravan (Azelaï) continues its journey after having spent the night near the tree of Teneré.

Niger - The salt caravan (Azelaï) about 70 km from Agadéz during a sandstorm.

Niger - Nomad children in front of their tent in the camp near El Meki.

Niger - Decorated hands of a Targuia in the camp at Oued Timia.

Niger - Tuareg women take care of their goats in the camp near Oued Timia.

Niger – Young Tuareg woman at the well of Tezirzek

Niger - Aïr - In the camp at Oued Agamgam

Niger - Crossing the almost endless desert of Erg Izane.

Niger – Caravan in Erg Izane

Niger - The camp Bechar is situated at the well of Zakat.

Niger - The desert of Erg Izane doesn't seem to have an end.

Niger – Guelta Enghar – Finally again water - camp Tinfouchi

Waterhole of Eres near Temet, Niger - Canisters are filled with the precious water by the Tuaregs and then transported by camels.

The Tuareg women produce richly decorated camel covers - camp Zakate - Niger

Niger – The Tuareg chief Abakaoua from the Aïr region

Niger - Adrar Bous region - The caravan starts early in the morning

Niger – In the morning, camels are grouped

Niger – Our caravan in Erg Izane. At the front, a man shows the way.

Niger - March through the dunes of Erg Izane in the area of Chiriet.

Niger – The caravan leader Mohamed ag Boubakar with his toothbrush.

Niger - The caravan crosses the desert near the Crab’s claw - in the background the Oued Arakao.

Indians of the Northwest Coast

Canada - B.C. - Skeena River in autumn

Canada - B.C. - Vancouver Island – Victoria - Thunderbird Park - Mungo Martin House

Kwakiutl face mask (University of Colorado - Boulder Museum)

Canada – B.C. – Indian summer – Nootka Island

Tsimshian Raven Rattle – State of Alaska Museum - Juneau

Canada – B.C. – At sea - North of Prince Rupert

Canada – B.C. - Shaman’s rattle – Tsimshian – Nass River - Museum of Man - Ottawa

Canada – B.C. - Vancouver Island - Wickaninnish Bay – Pacific Rim Natural Park

Canada – B.C. - Vancouver Island - Painting on longhouse - Cape Mudge Museum - Kwakiutl

Canada - B.C. - Kwakiutl totem pole - Cemetery of Alert Bay

USA-Alaska - Evening at Sitka Sound - Tlingit Region

USA-Alaska - Tlingit Indian Nathan P. Jackson

Canada – B.C. – Bald eagle – Charlotte Islands

Pharaonic Egypt

Gold mask of King Tutankhamun (18 dyn.) – Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Pectoral – Goddess Nut mounted on a gold plate – Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun dates from 1345 BC. – Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Egypt – Medinet Habu – Young Egypt admires ancient Egypt

Ramses III and his son, Prince Kha–em–Waset – Valley of the Queens

Ramses III, queen Isis Ta-Hemdjeret and their son, Prince Amenhirkhopshef – Valley of the Queens

The pyramids of Giza – in the background: Cairo

The three pyramids of Giza – Cheops to the right, Chephron in the middle, Menkaure to the left

Book of the Dead – Papyrus with Osiris and his sister Isis – Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Egypt – Tomb of Ramose – West Thebes – Burial rite

Temple of Dendera (Upper Egypt) – Hathor Shrine

Temple of Dendera (Upper Egypt) – Roman Mammisi

Abu Simbel – Great Temple – Ramses II, Re–Horakhty, Amun–Re and Ptah

Incas - Peru

The giant fortress of Sacsahuamán – Cuzco

The imposing entrance to the Palace of Ollantaytambo.

Detail of the wall of the Palace of Ollantaytambo.

Detail of an uncu, precursor of the Indian Ponchos.

Two of the seven snakes of the Street «Calle de las Siete Culebras» - Cuzco

Panoramic view of the sacred city of Machu Picchu, seen from Huayna Picchu.

The famous Baño de la Ñusta, the bath of the princess - Ollantaytambo

Golden idols of the Inca Period (Golden Museum, Lima)

Alpacas and lamas in front of the impressive wall of Saqsayhuamán - Cuzco.

The vast archaeological complex of Pisac, one of the imperial «capitals».

Three ulltis or conopas, carefully polished alpaca figures made of black basalt used as votive offerings to the pachamama.

The salt of Maras is still extracted like in the days of the Incas.

Ingapirca in Ecuador was one of the most beautiful monuments of the Inca empire and also the border town in the north.

Inca pottery, small pot of 17 cm in height, with the shape of a human head with stylized braids.

The mysterious Intihuatana of Machu Picchu.

The sacred city of Machu Picchu, seen from Huayna Picchu.

Brittany and Normandy

F - Brittany - Region of Audienne

F - Brittany - Evening at the seaside

F - Brittany - On Ushant Island

F - Brittany - Fisherman in the Gulf of Morbihan

F - Brittany - Lonely tree in a rape field

F - Brittany - Cornwall Festival in Quimper

F - Brittany - View from the Saint-Mathieu lighthouse

F - Brittany - Sunset on the Atlantic

F - Normandy – Mont St. Michel

F - Brittany - Farm in the south of Exmes

F - Normandy – Landscape near Sommervieu

F - Brittany - Artichoke harvest

F - Brittany - Menhir alignment in Carnac

F - Brittany - Costume Festival in Pont l'Abbé

F - Brittany - Nightfall near Roscoff

Provence - Southern France

F - Provence - Lavender field at Sénanque

F - Provence - The Rhone and the bridge of Avignon

F - Provence - The roofs of Moustier

F - Provence - L'Arlésienne festival in Arles

F - Provence - Detail of a wall in the village of Tende

F - Provence - Vineyards with the village of Les Baux in the background

F - Provence - Field with summer flowers

F - Camargue - Transhumance in the Rhone delta

F - Provence - Spring is here...

F - Provence - Lavender in July

F - Provence - In the streets of Barjols

F - Provence - Cart resting at La Palud-sur-Verdon

F - Provence - Gypsy in Ste. Marie-de-la-Mer

F - Camargue - Transhumance in the Rhone delta

F - Provence - Backyard in Sospel

F - Provence - The picturesque village of Moustier

F - Provence - Lavender fields in mid-July

F - Provence - Blossoming almond trees and vines in spring