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First of all we would like to wish you a Happy and Successful 2008!

A new year is always a good excuse for changes, so in a move to be closer to our clients and to photography passionates, we decided to build a new website. Our new homepage will be regularly updated with news from our photojournalists, portfolios and bios of each one, tearsheets of published work, slideshows, and of course, the stories we tell with images.

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Below there's a list of our latest stories. This time we have a special focus on China as photographer Pedro Guimarães shot a lot of features in the country everybody talks about these days.

RECENT FEATURES

PHILIPPINES - MARINDUQUES MORIONES FESTIVAL

Every Holy Week, Marinduque is invaded by Moriones (Roman soldiers maskers) celebrating the story of Longinus, a centurion blind in one eye assigned for the crucifixion that speared the body of Christ and had his sight restored by a shed blood droplet.

ARGENTINA - LOS GLACIARES NP

Comprising a vast area of the Argentinian Patagonia, the Los Glaciares NP hides some of the most impressive South America landscapes including the Perito Moreno glacier and two amazing peaks: Cerro Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre.

TIBETANS

A portrait gallery featuring common tibetan people.

DAILY LIFE IN TIBET

After occupation by China since 1950, the Han settlers have now outnumbered Tibetan indigenous, creating a problem that the exiled Tibetan Government defines as chinese apartheid, denying Tibetans equal social and economic status in their own land.

CHINA - SPECIAL ECONOMY ZONES

Special Economy Zones ( SEZ’s ), invented by the former head of state Deng Xiaoping’s, pioneer of “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”, are places where the government of the PR of China gives investment “special economic policies and flexible governmental measures”. Usually located in medium or big coastal cities like Shenzhen or Shanghai ( the Pudong area ), SEZs are oriented for foreign trade and the only rule seems to be the “invisible hand” of the market. This wild capitalism spots inside a communist country are, in fact, the engine of China’s booming economy

SLEEPING CHINA

When China is asleep.

SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP

China is the largest market in the world. Everything is produced and everything is sold. Fast growing economy brought a new class of consumers that helps pushing the country towards liberalism.

CHINA RELAXING

Taichi, massage, gym. Busy China can relax too.

NIGHLIFE IN LHASA

Along with the Chinese, nightclubs came to Lhasa. Monks meditating in monasteries may well not be the most famous attraction. Lots of alcohol, loud techno music, Eastern Europe erotic dancers and African dj’s are now a common place in Lhasa.

MACAU, ASIAN LAS VEGAS

Macau, a tiny special administrative region of China appears to have overtaken the famous Las Vegas Strip as the world’s top gambling destination.

WE ARE GETTING RICH !

The growing economic power of China brought new consumer needs, unthinkable some years ago.

IT'S A FAKE WORLD

In China not only clothes and watches can be imitated, so can be landmarks and landscapes:”Window of the World” is a theme park in Shenzhen, where some of the world’s wonders are reproduced at smaller scales.

CHEUNG CHAU BUN FESTIVAL

Cheung Chau’s Bun Festival, which draws tens of thousands of local and overseas tourists every year, is staged to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar. This island’s quirk is the children dressed as legendary and modern heroes suspended above the crowds on the tips of swords and paper fans.

BUILDING CHINA

Driven by its high economy rates, China is rapidly transforming its urban landscape and worksites are allover the country. Buildings arise almost one day from another, millions come from the country into the crowded cities.

CHILE - NAVIMAG - CRUISE ON A CARGO SHIP

Every year, thousands of backpackers wanting to go up or down the Chilean canals pay 200USD to share a ship with cattle and other kinds of cargo. The journey takes 4 days very likely to include a stormy night on the infamous Golfo de Penas.

CYCLING EUROPE

From traditional Amsterdam to Florence, the cities are turning bicycle friendly hoping for a more healthy society. In a crescent environmentally aware Europe, worried about health and the everyday rising price of petrol, European society is turning to cycling as one of the simplest and most effective solution for its problems.