Like many press photographers, Didier Lefèvre (1957-2007) takes hundreds more shots than are ever published. Suddenly Afghanistan, a distant land, a foreign culture, a courageous and resilient people seem closer, more familiar - more human. Turning its pages, the reader begins to understand what it means to lose everything as a refugee of war, to cross mountains to help someone you never met, to feel the intense responsibility of being the only one able to capture the last moments of a child’s stolen life. Didier Lefèvre’s photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert, tells the powerful story of a mission undertaken by men and women dedicated to mending the wounds of war.Īn unflinching and gripping photographic memoir, The Photographer takes you on a breathtaking journey through the best and worst humanity has to offer in times of war. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. With Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier Guibert lives in Paris with his wife and daughter.
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