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Brandoli Javier Manzano, Journalist and photography lover. I have lived since 2010 South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico, Italy, Thailand. I now live in the United States, New York, since April 2025.
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A sex shop in the desert
The first image one has of the sex shop is a small bar Roonie, flimsy chairs and hundreds of panties, bras and underwear hanging from the ceiling. On a case there is a trophy that holds a set of lingerie XXL.
Erg Chebbi Dunes: the home of the Berber
In southeastern Morocco, on the border with Algeria, is one of the doors of the Sahara, Berber land. It is without doubt one of the most beautiful places I've encountered on the planet. A perfect evening, sitting on the dunes. The photos speak for themselves.
The circus of children with AIDS
Perhaps this post will be understood only with the eight pictures and the holder. There are many stories that raisins and some stories that you stay. The circus of children with AIDS is one of those stories that hit you, by Javier BRANDOLI.
Tortuguero, Costa Rica: spectra at night
Suddenly, I look left and right, and see other huge leatherback sea or by tracing back the beach. Spectra seem to crawl at night. Equal performance for tourists, that moment is unforgettable, real.
In the guts of a story
“Desplomado, snoring. Are 10:15 morning. I try not to make noise and grab the pen on the table and put my name, Name and signature, as I did when I was here last time (as it will no). All very quietly so as not to wake. Call the elevator and when the doors open man, the security guard of a public building where they are settled land claims, continues with his head on his shoulder removed and still achieve a final hear snoring "
Africa: the "city fish" shampoo
The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de "lujo" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.
Music between sadness
Libya is and will be more than just a crazed dictator who believes he deserves to be King of Kings.…
South Africa Correspondent: goodbye to the sycophants of papo
(...) Correspondent work takes you away from the prominent papos sycophants who prowl the newsroom; of that market with the drool and news (...) of those who admire the amount of hours over the quality of the words; of pats on the shoulder when your subject is shaken by the social gatherings; of the miserable than ever tremble at the keyboard ...
Ithaca: Ulysses Island quarrelsome
«The homeland of every travel writer can be none other than Ithaca, where the best of captains…
Cave Soplao: a world of eccentric "sculptures"
A little-known cave is a global reference caving. In Cantabria, una sorprendente cavidad llena de formas inimaginables que fue antes una explotación minera es el consejo de esta semana de "Naturaleza VaP". Place of great beauty.
Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx
On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".
The cracking of the Perito Moreno
In honor of that surprising and interesting blog that our partner Gerardo Bartolomé is writing "from Patagonia",…
South African Cinema: bites in consciousness
A child raped by boyfriend, having AIDS, his mother; a view of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (created to grant amnesty to all who will plead guilty after apartheid) that uncovers the brutal torture and betrayal at the time of the racist regime.
The protagonists of the revolution
The inside story, Unamuno would say, converted in History with a capital. The challenge of a people that faces…
Sailing with Malaspina
"Del 30 July 1789 until 18 September 1794, the Spanish Navy officers Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra led an expedition around the world geopolitical ..." Two centuries later I got on the boat. A day with Malaespina.
The woman from my balcony
The woman from my balcony is just a story I see from my window. A woman, like so many here, living on the street, keeping your belongings in a culvert and waiting for her life consumed. Llevo un año mirando lo que hace "la mujer desde mi balcón".
A China, an Angolan, a South African… cardboard and rabbits
Cape Town is a city created the world remains, lives arrivals from afar, opposing cultures, Goodie, meaningless laughter, desires. It is the history of Angolan driver who wants to be millionaire, the synagogue, the Muslim Quarter and the smell of species.
Aran Islands: when the sea rebels
«The Islands of Arán, one of the most desolate landscapes on Earth and also one of the most…
South Africa: cigarette, theft and hugs
Back to walk down the street with guys who follow your trail asking you to give them something to justify their steps (are often hungry types, others with faces and, almost always, with serious alcohol problems); up to a new, empty bus because whites continue to use their cars and their minibus blacks ...
The fucking "evil of Africa"
Back to Africa. Maybe back to Africa unless all imaginable Africas. In my Africa, on your skin, There are bars in which fuses look, linen napkin restaurants and painted lines on roads. All that awaits me back in Cape Town: European complexion, however, observed a black soul.
Great Zimbabwe: historic stones in black Africa
The Great Zimbabwe are the ruins, probably, most important of a civilization in sub -Saharan Africa.…
An avalanche on Mount Everest
Clearly, in VOD are in love with the Himalayas. See an avalanche of snow from Everest…
Lausanne: Zeus has the Dream Team
The sneakers with Jesse Owen humbled Hitler; revive the basketball final in Los Angeles 84; Eric Moussambani bathing suit ... All exciting sports history, from classical Greece, is in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
