The Sowers of Joy

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In the great tradition of traveler-photographer books, Sowers of Joy is an ode to nature, a unique encounter with otherness, an opening onto the world, a quest for meaning, a humanist enlightenment, a family album where love, resp ect and benevolence shine on every page.

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Photographer Caroline Riegel is diverse: both scientist, artist, explorer and humanist. Humanitarian, she became involved with the ICRC in South Sudan, then in 2012 created the THIGSPA association which works in Zanskar (school construction, solar, water tank ...) * Author, she has published in France several stories, including SOIFS d'ORIENT and MEANDRES D'ASIE (Phbus editions, award-winning) which recount her great initiatory journey through Asia along the water: two years alone exploring universes where man adapts to various forms of water, on horseback, donkey, camel, on an Indian bicycle * Director, Semeuses de Joie is her first multi-award winning film broadcast on France 5 and Ushuaa TV in France. A second film "Zanskar, the promises of winter" is being produced with ARTE. * Speaker, Caroline has given hundreds of conferences with her films and books in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec. * Photographer, Caroline has been exhibited many times for her B&W work, including the Paths of Photography in 2018. Caroline is also a member of the Socit des Explorateurs Franais as well as the Socit des Grands Barrages in France. Matthieu Ricard is a French essayist and photographer. After obtaining a PH.D in genetics, he became a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He resides mainly at Shechen Monastery in Nepal. As a translator from Tibetan into French and English, since 1989 he has been the French interpreter of the Dalai Lama. In 2000, he founded the humanitarian association Karuna-Shechen. Sin then, he has been part of the Mind and Life Institute, an association which facilitates encounters between science and Buddhism.