The Photographer : Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (Paperback)

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: Cybils nominee Summary: Photographer Didier Lefevre was offered to accompany the MSF (the original French version of Doctors Without Borders) on a 3 month mission to Afghanistan in 1986 when the Soviet-Afghan War was raging. The book tells of his journey from Pakistan to the m...

from clfisha

There is something truly wonderful that only comics can bring to a memoir, perhaps its the visual immediacy or the blending of fact and realistic fiction that provide a unique emotional resonance but whatever is The Photographer is an amazing example. It takes the tale of Didier Lefevre's trip to...

from deslivres5

This graphic novel chronicles a journey of French photographer, Didier Lefèvre, to Afghanistan in the late 1980's with Médecins Sans Frontières to set up a field hospital. The trials/tribulations of the journey start in Pakistan and continue on the return to France. I found the format, of includi...

from deslivres5

This graphic novel chronicles a journey of French photographer, Didier Lefèvre, to Afghanistan in the late 1980's with Médecins Sans Frontières to set up a field hospital. The trials/tribulations of the journey start in Pakistan and continue on the return to France. I found the format, of includi...

from Dreesie

This graphic memoir tells the story of Lefevre's 1986 trip into Afghanistan (and back out of) with Doctors Without Borders. He was the mission's photgrapher. This book was begun thriteen years after the trip, at Guibert's suggestion. Lefevre's journal of the trip was lost in a move, so he had his...