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Flying over the west coast of Greenland on assignment for Le Monde #pourlemonde #greenland #articpolarcircle

Le Temps Magazine. Here is one of my latest trip from Erbil to Mosul following the banks of the Tigris river along with Guillaume Perrier expertise and words: Je salue tes rives, ô Tigre, depuis une terre lointaine/salue-moi en retour/Ô Tigre, rivière de verts jardins/Je salue tes rives, où je cherche à étancher ma soif [...]» Les vers du grand poète irakien Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, décédé en 1997, viennent à l’esprit d’Ali Baroodi, lorsqu’on lui demande ce que le Tigre lui inspire. Le fleuve, majestueux, traverse sa ville, la grande cité du nord de l’Irak, ravagée par la guerre contre les djihadistes de Daech. Sur sa rive orientale, la vieille ville, les quartiers où s’est concentrée la bataille finale. En face, la plaine, les nouveaux quartiers et l’université où la vie a repris son cours. Ali Baroodi, enseignant à l’Université de Mossoul, vient souvent y siroter son café au Book Forum, un café littéraire ouvert en 2017. «Le Tigre, avec l’Euphrate, a donné naissance à ce pays, à cette identité, cette terre de Mésopotamie. Mais son histoire récente est un drame», souffle-t-il. @t_letemps . Thanks to @sony.france for the support. #mesopotamia #rivers #tigris #tigrisriver #irak #mosul #climatechange #dryingriver

Make an IMPACT NOW, for Humanitarian Relief! I am honored to be a part of this new flash print initiative spearheaded by @Vital.Impacts with the photographers of @NatGeo. 100% of profits will be donated to @directrelief who are allocating these funds to the regions in the world in most need of humanitarian aid. They are working in Ukraine now to provide medical aid to people affected by the conflict. Act now. It ends April 20, 2022. See all the images and get involved today at vitalimpacts.org/collections/impact-now (link in profile.) Thank you to @cansoninfinity for donating all of the paper for this sale. #vitalimpacts #ukraine #peace #humanitarian #solidarity @paoloverzone @iantehphotography @davidemonteleonestudio @paleyphoto @nicholesobecki @benedicte_kurzen @ciriljazbec @habjouqa @vincentjmusi

Make an IMPACT NOW, for Humanitarian Relief! I am honored to be a part of this new flash print initiative spearheaded by @Vital.Impacts with the photographers of @NatGeo. 100% of profits will be donated to @directrelief who are allocating these funds to the regions in the world in most need of humanitarian aid. They are working in Ukraine now to provide medical aid to people affected by the conflict. Act now. It ends April 20, 2022. See all the images and get involved today at vitalimpacts.org/collections/impact-now (link in profile.) Thank you to @cansoninfinity for donating all of the paper for this sale. #vitalimpacts #ukraine #peace #humanitarian #solidarity

When Ukraine still had their cadets in the Crimean Peninsula. Days prior the 2014 annexation by Russia. #supportukraine

In 2021 I was invited on a couple of occasion to photograph the neighborhood of Sous la Rose also known as Le Chemin du Mauvais pas in Marseille. The opportunity for a Mediterranean like me to come to Marseille a city I’ve cherish and visit since my childhood. I want to warmly thanks @cabanegeorgina for giving me this opportunity to make these images and start with a new body of work. The project will evolve further on into 2022. Sous la Rose. Marseille, 2021

Sous la Rose. Marseille 2021. Aire de jeux de la Verrerie. @cabanegeorgina

Sous la Rose. Mario aka le Renard. Marseille, 2021 @cabanegeorgina

Sous la Rose, Marseille 2021 @cabanegeorgina

In 2021 I was invited on a couple of occasion to photograph the neighborhood of Sous la Rose also known as Le Chemin du Mauvais pas in Marseille. The opportunity for a Mediterranean like me to come to Marseille a city I’ve cherish since my childhood for various reasons, one of them being these electric evenings spent with my father as we were to come to the famous Stade Vélodrome and watch the Olympique de Marseille perform, a team which won in these days the Champions leagues. I want to warmly thanks @cabanegeorgina and @dimitriarcanger for giving me this opportunity to make these images and start with a new body of work. The project will evolve further on into 2022. Denis ans his cat Waddle in ref to Chris. Marseille 2021

Boyz hanging out by the shores of the Shatt al Arab. The once-vibrant waters of Basra (also once called the Venice of the Middle East )are now undrinkable and fetid. The Shatt-al-Arab river that runs through it, is now so polluted it threatens the lives of the more than 4 million inhabitants of Iraq‘s second city. The level of salt in the river's water, which is measured with graduated cylinders, is 250 times too high for the water to be drinkable. A hundred times higher than in the 1980s. Basra, Iraq. #iraq #mesopotamia #rivers #water #shattalarab #climate #environment #tigris #euphrates #mediumformat #climatechange #basra #shattalarabالبصره #mesopotamia

A woman is navigating on a Mashoof (traditional wooden boat made in the Iraqi Marshes) carrying reeds along the waters of the Hammar Marsh. In 2016, the marshes were placed on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. But the region's unique biosphere, its ancestral culture and its economic balance, which rests on fishing, buffalo farming and the cutting and gathering of reeds, are once again in danger of disappearing due to the recent drought in the region. Iraq A woman is harvesting reeds inside the swamps of the Hammar Marsh. After cutting the reed, the stalks are gathered into bundles of 1.2 meters length. Shaking and combing them out cleans them from the residues of leaves and plants as well as from too short stalks. Hammar Marsh. Iraq