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Didier Lefèvre December 1, 2009

Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Photojournalism, Publications, Publishing , trackback

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

By Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier. Translated by Alexis Siegel

Into War-Torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders.

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Part photojournalism and part graphic memoir, “The Photographer” tells the story of a mission of mostly French doctors and nurses who traveled into northern Afghanistan by horse and donkey train in 1986, at the height of the Soviet occupation, led by Dr. Juliette Fournot, who spoke Dari, dressed as a man and commanded the respect of the French and Afghans, including the village chiefs and local warlords..

The narrator and photographer is Didier Lefèvre, who passed away from  heart failure in 2007 and never saw his contact proofs enter this strange and powerful new fictional world.

This book is worth looking up for the inisight it gives into the illuminating power of photography and the work of photographers.

The graphic novel tells the first person account of Lefevre’s journey  into 1980′s Afghanistan with MSF.

Didier, quoted from The Photographer, accurately nails what the photographic process is about:

“But of course being able to produce a technically good picture doesn’t mean you’ll make great pictures. For great pictures you really have to tear your eyes out. I want to pour all my energy into improving my photography. I want to take good pictures.”

The book has been reviewed in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/books/review/Hedges-t.html?_r=1

Medecins Sans Frontiers have a story about The Photographer on their site also:

http://doctorswithoutborders.org/events/exhibits/thephotographer/

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