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Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo | 
 enlarge | Creators: Nicolas De Torrente, Simon Robinson, James Nachtwey
Publisher: de.MO
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 437933
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0974283657
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780974283654
ASIN: 0974283657
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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Product Description
Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo is a collaboration between VII Photo Agency, Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF), and de.MO. Introduction by Simon Robinson, who has covered Africa for Time since 1999; foreword is by Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of MSF. Extraordinary photographs document the crisis in eastern Congo where the death toll is the highest ever attributed to war anywhere in the world since World War II. Violence, war-related hunger, and disease continue to kill 1,000 people every day, and almost four million deaths have occurred in the past five years. Also recorded is the response by the MSF, a medical humanitarian organization delivering aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries.
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Hard work, gentle package February 15, 2007
Photo Politico (Washington, DC United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The great photography aside, the book presentation is innovative but very ginger. I'm afraid of cracking the spine on this beautiful work of art every time I want to read it. The whole package is held together with a heavy-duty rubber band (cool concept) and the book itself is just bound pages. It is a keepsake that I will treasure but can't return to too many times for fear of breaking it.
The photography is not VII's best showing. Many of the images are quiet and misreable in tone. The photographers move through brothels and hospitals, measuring the awful toll of the senseless and endless war in the Congo. As far as a full panorama of the conflict goes, this misses the target. Still, if you are a fan of reportage then this book is a must.
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