Category: General
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Memories of Rodrigues
This CNN video showing the opening of the net fishing season (“ouverture la peche la senne”) in Rodrigues brings back childhood memories of how the family traded in fish. Catches from the “battages”—the fishing sorties—usually reached us late in the evening. We then had to clean and pack the fish quickly before they could be…
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Tahara’a Hotel
Since our first days in Tahiti, I had been obsessed with getting a perfect picture of the abandoned hotel at Tahara’a. But in the blink of an eye, time had passed, and our two-month stay was coming to an end. And a combination of temperamental weather and other holiday occupations limited the time I could…
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Views from Arue hillside
In Tahiti you feel like you can capture a great photo by just pointing your camera in any direction and pressing the shutter button. But for these ones, I had to climb up the steep hillside of Arue.