00:23It's the following series that started in 4 years with Villars
00:29where I create a story on several years and generally it's children who, year after year, evolve or create a
00:38story.
00:52Here, the challenge is generally double.
00:54The challenge will be physical because there is still a lot of pente,
00:58you have to work from the morning to the evening,
01:00and the meteor because we are in altitude.
01:03We are not at 2000, but we are relatively high.
01:07And so, as usual, I would like to play with the rain, the wind, the rain, etc.
01:14So, it's always complicated for me.
01:32If there is a lot of rain, of course, it will disappear more.
01:35We already see that the rain will repose.
01:38I love this moment because, finally, it's a moment where nature reprend its rights on what I've done.
01:42I love this moment.
02:03So, as soon as I will, the new world, the new world, the new world, the new world, the new
02:05world, the new world, the new world.
02:10An event that brings together 150 corgis from nine countries to figure out whose short legs are the fastest.
02:21This year dogs came from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and even the
02:30United States.
02:32What started as a race between friends dogs now turned into an international event.
02:37Everything started during the pandemic. We had a race with friends. We thought that we should look at the best.
02:45We saw that the corgis is going to be in the world. We thought that there will be something else
02:49to come.
02:50We believed that the 15 corgis came from the 40-year-old and the 150-year-old.
03:00This year's winner is a dog who came all the way from California in the United States of America.
03:07We came just for this event. It's not often you get to go to Europe for a corgi festival.
03:16But it's not only about speed. Corgis can show off their talents not only on the racetrack but also in
03:22the catwalk,
03:23where they can sport the best costumes their owners have created.
03:29Others can put their noses to the test in the best nose contest.
03:33Or show off their vocal skills at a mighty-ass voice barking show.
03:38The barking showdown was exactly what Duke, a dog from the United Kingdom, the home of corgis, had come for,
03:45unsurprisingly.
03:49However, when the showtime came, he got a bit shy.
03:54We tried to get him into the barking competition, but even though you just saw it, like, he barked so
03:59much.
04:00As soon as he's in the spot.
04:01Yeah, stopped, did not bark a single thing. He's known as the quiet corgi now.
04:07The second place winner in the costume competition was Vetra, or, in English, a storm.
04:13A dog from Latvia who transformed into a mushroom.
04:16We Latvians are mushroom pickers, and this is what we are famous for.
04:21And then, actually, the creative idea came from, well, what Latvians are very, like, super proud of.
04:27Oh, they are proud of their chanterelle picking. And we actually went to chanterelle picking last year, and Vetra enjoyed
04:35it a lot.
04:36So, that's actually, the idea came from that. So, Vetra became a chanterelle.
04:41One of the oldest participants, 12 years old Ozis, will return next year.
05:01The one who is coming back, for sure, is Clefis.
05:05We enjoyed very much. Actually, we wanted to attend the last year as well, but he was very small, like,
05:10eight months or something.
05:11So, we didn't do it, but... So, it's his first corgi race this year.
05:14But, hereafter, we'll be every year, most probably.
05:31Many times, when people think of Afghanistan, they just think of the headlines.
05:36But, there's so much beyond that. So, my intention was to just solely focus on showcasing the people.
05:45Because, at the end of the day, they're far more similar to you and I than we may have seen.
05:50We just haven't been exposed to photographs and stories like this.
06:01My name is Daniel Malikyar. I'm an Afghan-American visual artist.
06:05My family is originally from Afghanistan, and my parents immigrated to the United States in 1979, just before the Soviet
06:12invasion.
06:12And so, growing up, I sort of had this dual experience where, at home, I was always shown and got
06:23to experience the beauty of our culture through the food, through the music, through all of the different stories that
06:31my family would tell me.
06:32But then, when I'd step outside, the experience was entirely different.
06:37It was driven through narratives of what you saw in the headlines.
06:41And so, I always sort of had this longing to bridge that gap and gain a deeper understanding of both
06:51where I come from, but also myself.
06:53It felt like a piece of me was missing, in a way.
06:56So, I believe that this project, in a way, was me sort of trying to just gain a deeper understanding
07:05of what my roots were and almost fulfill and document the missing void of those stories.
07:25Afghanistan is a country that has many different ethnic backgrounds, thousands of years of history and culture.
07:35And I think in today's day and age, it's very difficult to discover new places and new things and tell
07:45those stories because of how interconnected we all are through globalization and technology.
07:49And Afghanistan, I think, is one of the few places where there are so many unseen human stories and places
07:59that deserve to be shown to the world.
08:04I was in a taxi cab very early in the morning, leaving Kabul on my way to a rural village
08:11to photograph a fashion subculture that I had discovered.
08:15And just as we were making our way out of the city, I noticed these massive globs of color kind
08:21of dancing in the distance.
08:23It almost felt surreal in a way.
08:24And I knew right away that they were balloon sellers and they were just on their way to work in
08:28the morning.
08:29And you see them scattered throughout the city from time to time.
08:32But it's very rare that they have all of their balloons with them because they sell them throughout the day.
08:38So I got very fortunate to make that photograph in that very, very brief moment in time.
08:43And oftentimes I feel like the most special photographs are almost presented to you.
08:50The photograph of this beautiful Kyrgyz girl milking a yak took place in the Palmira Mountains in Afghanistan.
08:59And the Kyrgyz people, they're nomadic.
09:03So they travel three to four times throughout the year, typically.
09:07And it's in search of the best grazing land for their cattle.
09:10And so in the mornings and in the evenings, they milk the yaks.
09:15It's a daily ritual.
09:16And a lot of the livelihood revolves around the yaks.
09:19So I got very fortunate that I happened to document this moment of a beautiful girl, Sharga, as she was
09:28milking the yak in the afternoon before they were tied down for the evening.
10:00And it's a daily ritual.
10:01We saw that most were limb, head and facial injuries.
10:05Head injuries were the most severe, with one in ten meeting criteria for more severe trauma.
10:11Despite this risk, our data reveals a safety gap.
10:14Only 1.8% of these children were documented to be wearing a helmet.
10:27This research clearly demonstrates that e-scooter related injuries are rising.
10:30And there needs to be clearer, consistent regulation and greater public awareness.
10:34Given the number of privately owned e-scooters in this study, we need retailers to pass on the legal guidance
10:39at the point of sale.
11:09We'll see you next time.
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