"Tour de France" in the chapter Around the world

Since few years the University of Geologie of Grenoble is closed. A security company was looking after this building. Since few weeks, no one anymore.... Doors have been open illegally. Inside, everything is there : cupboard, computer, books, blackboard, distributor of snack....and the light is always on after some much year. 
Near to the center of Grenoble, people are curious about this place, and homeless people see this builiding like a new possibility to stay somewhere.
"University of Grenoble" in the chapter Lost places

During february, I have been to Marseille to work on a beginning of a project with the saxophoniste and musician Renaud Vincent.  We realise this video. It's a work in progress. The central inspiration come from the network of public transport. We work during 10 days around the line T1.


EINSTEIGEN BITTE... from Meslop on Vimeo.

 Few new pictures in the chapter "Around the world".
 I was in february in the Island of la Réunion, a french Departement situated has side of Madagascar.

 New folder in the chapter "Lost places".
 Pictures come from the island of La Réunion.
 I'm not sure about the past of this place, but I expect that was a       
rum or sugar cane factory.

4 new folders in the chapter "Lost Places" : Siemenstadt, Teufelsberg, Animal Food Fabrick, Urlaub Dorf

 

Come a new folder "Autumn" in the chapter "Street of Berlin"

You can discorve, in the chapter "Around the world", one of my first pictures that I took during a trip in South America in 2005 . I post some other in "Lost places", about the cimetery of train in the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia).

In the early 19th century coffee and cacao were introduced in islands of Sao Tomé and Principe. The rich volcanic soils proved well suited to the new cash crop industry, and soon extensive plantations, known as "roças", owned mainsly by Portuguese companies, occupied almost all of the good farmland. By 1908, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which remains the country's most important crop.

The roças system, which gave the plantation managers a high degree of authority, led to abuses against the African farm workers.

 After a period of transitional government, São Tomé and Príncipe achieved independence on July 12, 1975. All Portuguese companies leave the island sudently.
Today, buildings are still there, with no one who really take care of it.

Pictures are visible in the folder "Around the world".