Stéphanie Buret
Haytham Pictures
Geneva, Switzerland
Swiss Press Photo Award 2017, 3rd prize
Visa Pour l'image 2017, screening
Visa Pour l'Image 2015, screening
2017 - Swiss Press Photo, 3rd prize, 2016 - Travel Photographer of the Year, 3rd prize, 2015 - International Photo Awards, 1st prize, 2015 - International Photo Awards, 3rd prize
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Looking for the White Paradise almost lost
Stéphanie Buret
Swiss Tourism has 100 years old. People are gathering on swiss mythical mountain tops after having climbed easily with the best technologies. An urban revolution can be indeed seen in the swiss Alps. Mountain is desecrated.
The beauty of the White Paradise is emphasized by the drama of the global warming.
Swiss glaciers are melting so fast that blankets are needed to cover Rhone Glacier during summer to protect it.
This dramatic tension sublimate The White Paradise almost lost.
Futuristic Utopia
Stéphanie Buret
Futuristic atmosphere along the Yellow Sea where they was nothing 10 years ago, that’s Songdo ! 60 kilometers from Seoul, Songdo is the new playground of Cisco, the compagny that created the « ideal city » in 2003. This first big « Smart City » has now copies around the world.
Songdo has been designed with sensors to monitor temperature, energy use and traffic flow. A lot of these innovations are designed with the environment in mind.The waste disposal system is also impressive. There are no rubbish trucks trawling the streets or vast bins dotted around blocks of flats. Instead, all household waste is sucked directly from individual kitchens through a vast underground network of tunnels, to waste processing centres, where it's automatically sorted, deodorised and treated to be kinder to the environment.
But apartments are all the same in big towers ! Korean famillies love the ultra-security even if they are controlled by the digital dictatorship.