The beginning of the so-called "Arab Springs", the subsequent revolts, the first free elections in the Maghreb, the illusion of something new and different, before the chaos in the whole area, the difficulties due to the unstable neighbors ...

The Highland games are events held in spring and summer in Scotland and other countries with a large Scottish diaspora, as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Here you can see the games at the Bute Island.

in a small arena in a remote village in the Colombian district of Armenia we follow a cockfight.  Strange world closely linked to betting .

The Buenavista village in the forest in the Cali district was a real open-air laboratory for the study of malaria with the main malarial plasmodia present in situ and carefully studied and monitored by doctors from the University of Cali and the WHO. Who knows where Livingstone is now, the little boy who waited for us every morning and spent the day with us, who knows if he remembers diving into the river from the railway bridge to show how good he was!

A major pollution problem in the most of sub-Saharan African Countries  is caused by gasoline being smuggled in. In the case of Benin it is gasoline coming directly from wells in Nigeria and not sufficiently refined. Transport is extremely dangerous because is done  first by trucks, cars, barges and then, for widespread distribution, with motorcycles or carts. Petrol can be found on every street corner at prices about 40% lower than the official ones. Recently the Beninese government is studying a way to reduce illegal sales but there are undoubtedly many problems related to the fact that a large part of the population lives thanks to this parallel market.
In these images the warehouses on the border between Benin and Nigeria, transport and the distribution network.

In Erdenet,a mining town in northern Mongolia, there is the fourth largest copper mine in the world. The city was founded in 1974 and up to 1990 over half of the inhabitants were Russians who worked there as engineers or miners.

In Auvergne, in the heart of France, there is a bison farm. The owners, Mathieu and Christelle Peron, decided years ago to start a breeding, "bisons d'Auvergne", now over 300 heads of American bison. Free to graze on large territories.

During our trip at the border between Arizona and Mexico in the Sonora desert, we interviewed institutional figures and families of illegal immigrants, visiting symbolic places such as the wall that divides Mexico and the United States or like the Pima County Medical examiner, marching in the desert south of Aricava and looking for both those who are preparing for the crossing and who is was forced to return.

A Erdenet si trova la quarta miniera di rame del mondo. La città fu fondata nel 1974 e fino al 1990 oltre la metà degli abitanti erano russi che vi lavoravano come ingegneri o minatori.