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2 juin 2014

Wenka

I'm currently writing a lesson plan on graffiti and street art, the idea being to teach the kids what the point of each is and how to tell the difference. As there are a lot of tags here, I wanted to start off with pictures of graffiti around their home...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, box, house, kawéni, mzungu, car, photo, village, kids, letter, street, wenka

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26 mai 2014

Kids

Adults in Mayotte don't really like the camera lens. There is a belief that being photographed removes a part of your soul, but it's usually closer to not liking white tourists taking photos of "locals" doing "local things". Which is fair enough and perfectly...

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Tags: clothes, photo, camera, children, kofia, kids, muslim, local, boubou, coran

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6 janvier 2014

Overseas Women

There was a national photography competition in France not long ago, whose title was: "Overseas Women". As the Mahorese people didn't like the results, saying they weren't representative enough of women in the French overseas territories, they had their...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, women, photo, work, hair, computer, ferry, jasmine, smartphone

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15 avril 2013

Who let the kids out?

Last Thursday, I was called in to replace a sick colleague on a school trip. The idea was to take a class of 14-year-olds to visit the remains of a sugar-cane factory, a copra dryer and a museum about ylang-ylang flowers and vanilla. Two teachers, twenty-nine...

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Tags: mayotte, girl, class, pupils, school, boy, photo, coconut, ylang, students, oil, vanilla, distillery, copra, jimaweni, mtsangamouji, museum, soulou, sugar, trip

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15 décembre 2011

Bouéni Jolie

You often see girls and women here with m’zindzano on their faces. It’s a beauty mask made from sandalwood ground on a pure coral table, mixed with a little water. The table is made of one piece of coral, and often weighs 3 or 4 kilograms. It is the fine...

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Tags: mayotte, ceremony, coral, mask, photo, beauty, boueni, mdzindzano, jewellery, cosmetic, mzindzano, paste, sandalwood, skin

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7 novembre 2011

Photo albums

Underwater photo of anemones and little fish, taken by a colleague's daughter with an underwater camera. I've just added a photo album to the blog, called "Blue Lagoon". It shows photos of the lagoon, above and under the water, some corals and fish, sandy...

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Tags: lagoon, newspaper, strike, coral, fish, beach, sand, album, photo, underwater, bag, bin, dark, people, rubbish, town

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