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Joel Saget is a Paris based photographer, working for Agence France Presse. Here he selects his favourite
shots of all time revealing an intriguing insight into his endlessly fluctuating life and work.
Madina, a young Chechen woman prepares a meal on the day of her 18th birthday (27 January 2000) in a
basement where she lives in Alkhan-Kala, five kilometers from Grozny. Russia braced for new incursions from
Chechnya on this day and heightened its security after a separatist warlord vowed on national television to
bring a brutal partisan war to Russian soil.
A Palestinian boy looks through holes made by Israeli bullets in a door (2 May 2001) in the Rafah refugee
camp, near the border between Egypt and Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials said the Israelis, overnight, used
tanks and bulldozers to penetrate Palestinian-controlled territory, damaging a mosque and destroying 17
houses and a number of sheds and chicken-houses.
Horse back.
Adult-doll production in Courcelle-les-Lens, Northern France. Latex covered molds come out on an assembly
line at the Domax company, 17 December 2004. This production is unique in Western Europe and each adult
doll can be purchased as a blonde, brunette or redhead for a price of EUROS 300 or USD 380.
A picture taken on October 12 2010 shows Paris’ Eiffel tower by night.
A Ghanaian refugee who fled Libya protects himself from the rain as he waits for a bus to Jerba ariport at the
Tunisian refugee camp of Choucha on March 15 2011. The United Nations said on March 10 that more than
250,000 people had fled Libya to neighbouring countries since the revolt against Moammar Gadhafi started in
mid-February.
Italian director Mario Monicelli poses on March 20 2008 in Paris.
The pack rides past a Crucifix during the 196 km and 13th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race run
between Rodez and Revel, southern France on July 17, 2010.
Police officers patrol in Villiers-le-Bel, outside Paris, 29 November 2007, a few days after the death of two
teenagers in a crash with a police car. President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed in a television interview to track
down the "yobs and traffickers" he accused of fomenting several days of unrest in the high-immigration
suburbs of Paris. Sarkozy reaffirmed his government would take a tough line towards those behind the two
days of violence, which left more than 120 police wounded, some by gunfire, in France's worst unrest since
nationwide riots in November 2005.
Aerial view of the Tenom Mosque in North West Sumatra taken 16 January 2005. More bodies were pulled
from the rubble in Indonesia 16 January 2005 pushing the tsunami death toll up by almost 5,000 as aid
workers continued to find terrified survivors and Jakarta retreated on a deadline for the withdrawal of foreign
military missions. The casualty figure in Indonesia stood at 114,978, a number expected to continue rising as
the full extent of the December 26 disaster was slowly being grasped three weeks after the waves struck.
A homeless woman stands beside dozens of tents which crowd rue de la Banque, 04 October 2007 in Paris
near the Bourse, set up by protesters of 'Rights to Housing' (DAL). The tents are set up at the foot the Ministry
for the Housing Crisis, a building where for many months members of DAL as well as homeless African
families have been staying.
A patient is pictured 01 February 2007 in the yard of Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris.
Canadian singer and poet, Leonard Cohen, is pictured on January 16 2012 in Paris. Leonard Cohen's new
album Old Ideas was released in France on January 30.
A French soldier of the 13e BCA (Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins) carrying a carpet bought in a market as he
takes part in a patrol near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 7, 2010. Afghanistan.
An Afghan girl waits in a queue during a CIMIC (Civil Military
Cooperation) operation on February 16 2009 in Dawlatkhel, in
the Alassay valley.
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