They pull at the black tarpaulin surrounding the stand. They try to peek inside.
Guillaume Herbaut // Femen: The New Amazons
Femen is a new feminist group. The women use their bodies as a weapon to fight sexual tourism and to educate women…
Guillaume Herbaut // Mexico: The Caravan for Peace
From June 4th to 11th, the poet Javier Sicilia organized the “consolation caravan,” a march for peace across 3000km in Mexico.
Guillaume Herbaut // Prypiat, the Ghost City of Chernobyl
Prypiat was evacuated just one day after the nuclear disaster. It has become a ghost city, where the nature grows everywhere.
Guillaume Herbaut // Novy Ourengoy, The Capital of Gazprom
There is a city in Russia that only lives to the rhythm of Gazprom, one of the world’s largest energy companies
Guillaume Herbaut // Auschwitz Souvenirs
Today, the Auschwitz concentration camp is becoming a tourist destination like everywhere…
Guillaume Herbaut // Saturday Evening Chernobyl Youth
Every weekend, the youth of Ivankov, the main city in the third contaminated zone, meet at the Antalys discotheque…
Guillaume Herbaut // Poliske
Poliske, the second biggest agglomeration in The Zone, was once was a paradise, now a nightmare and a prison…
Guillaume Herbaut // Bazar
A small village with ruins and bumpy ways, keeps its name, Bazar, after its slave market in the 13th century…
Guillaume Herbaut // Doors of Pripyat
Families deserted Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster, leaving only doors of their flats as the last family portraits in this ghost city…
Guillaume Herbaut // Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture
At Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, Christian Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alexis Mabille and Maison Martin Margiela display exquisite detailing, entrancing colors and innovative textures…
Guillaume Herbaut // Hashima
It was a coal mine, a paradise for its habitants, but since its closure in 1974, Hashima is become a forbidden place….
Guillaume Herbaut // Grounds of Chernobyl
The forbidden Zone is no place for humans, the ground is highly radioactive and visitors’ fear compels them to constantly look down at the ground…
Guillaume Herbaut // Chernobyl Riviera
Strakholessie, the riviera of Chernobyl, a little city located just 200 meters from the Chernobyl’s forbidden zone, is becoming a new paradise for the Ukrainian nouveau riche…
Guillaume Herbaut // The Black Gold of Chernobyl
Each week, 200 tons of contaminated metal is trafficked out of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to factories in Eastern Ukraine and then to Turkey and China…
Guillaume Herbaut // Putin Generation
In Russia, more and more people join « youth organizations », with friendly slogans and huge fairs. But under the so called spontaneity, everything seems to bear the mark of the Kremlin master.
Guillaume Herbaut // Iran Twitter Revolution
Before the presidential elections in May 2009, the new place to resist and communicate, outside the streets of Tehran, has become Twitter on the internet…
Guillaume Herbaut // Nine Floors in Prypiat
A building on the border of Prypiat became a symbol–I could see a summary of Soviet society and the story of Prypiat…
Guillaume Herbaut // La Montana
La Montaña is home to 80% of the Guerrero indigenous people. They are marginalized and poor. Military and paramilitary servicemen and narcos take the population hostage…
Guillaume Herbaut // Crimea
After the conflict in Georgia and Ossetia, Crimea holds its breath. It is dependent on Ukraine, but predominantly Russian, and would like to return to the bosom of Russia proclaiming its autonomy…
Guillaume Herbaut // Evening of Graduation
Each year at the end of June, many evenings of graduation take place in Russia. Students get dressed up to officially say goodbye to childhood…
Guillaume Herbaut // La Oroya, Toxic City
La Oroya, a city near Lima in Peru, is, according to Blacksmith Institute 2007 report, one of the 10 most polluted cities of the world.
Guillaume Herbaut // Toxteth, The Black District of Liverpool
When slave trade was abolished, former African crew members hired on English boats settled in Toxteth…
Guillaume Herbaut // Slavenazi
Dimitri Mikhaïlov is the regional leader of the Slavic Union, also known as SS, a group that believes Hitler was Russia’s enemy, but his ideology was fair…
Guillaume Herbaut // Asgarda, Return of the Amazons
Katerina Tarnouska founded a movement called Asgarda. 150 women of all ages get trained to fight and learn the Amazons’ spirit…
Guillaume Herbaut // The New Chechnya
Ramzan Kadyrov, 30, son of former president who was killed in May 2004 in a bombing, has just been officially elected President of Chechnya by the parliament…
Guillaume Herbaut // Ciudad Juarez
Since 1993, about 400 women were murdered in monstrous conditions in Ciudad Juarez. Juarez is one of the world’s most passed through border points…
Guillaume Herbaut // Ukraine’s Cossacks
We the Cossacks exist since the beginning of times, we are a free people and we have always been fighting for our freedom against the Ottoman Empire, against the Polish, then against the Russians…
Guillaume Herbaut // Highway Of Tears
Since 1990, young women disappear along Highway 16, a road crossing British Columbia, a wild region of mountains and forests, on hundreds of kilometers
Guillaume Herbaut // Slavoutich
After the Chernobyl power plant explosion and the city built to house the power station’s workforce evacuated, the Soviet government built a new town 60 kilometers away…
Guillaume Herbaut // Chernobyl 2005
In 2005 , I came back to Chernobyl’s Zone. I wanted to see how the contaminated area had changed since my first trip in 2001.
Guillaume Herbaut // Hiroshima
60 years after a bomber dropped the first US A-bomb on Hiroshima, 85,000 “Hibakushas” (survivors) are living in Japan…
Guillaume Herbaut // Urakami
On August 9, 1945, an A-bomb was dropped on the city of Urakami, nearby to Nagasaki. The victims became “Hibakushas”: “survivors”. They endured severe psychological as well as physical sufferings…
Guillaume Herbaut // Shkodra, Vendetta in Albania
10,000 people are affected by vendettas in the North of Albania, living shut away for fear of reprisals from the opposing family, as a civil code strictly dictates revenge…
Guillaume Herbaut // Oswiecim
Between World War II, 60% of the population in Oswiecim was Jewish. Oswiecim is the town where the extermination camp of Auschwitz was established..
Guillaume Herbaut // Odessa, Arcadia Beach
Odessa, the mythic Ukrainian city located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea is forever the main vacation destination in the ex-soviet countries…
Guillaume Herbaut // Tchernobylsty
Former inhabitants of Chernobyl, the Tchernobylstys live amongst themselves, united by the remembrance of misery and loss of loved ones.
Guillaume Herbaut // Far Right
During 3 years, from 1996 to 1999, Herbaut photographed the Front National ‘s nebula, the far right French party of Jean-Marie Le Pen