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Biography
Cédric Gerbehaye
Born in 1977, a journalist by training, Cedric Gerbehaye is a Belgian photographer, member of VU’ agency.
After a noticed work about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he often goes to the Congo to cover the conflict. In 2008, his report «Congo in Limbo» earned him three of the most prestigious awards for photojournalism: the World Press Photo, the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Amnesty International Media Award. Those prices give him an international acknowledgement and make him one of the most gifted photographers of his generation.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a decade of armed conflict has caused the death of more than 4 million people, the displacement of one million civilians, and let the country wounded.
Today, the population still suffers from the consequences of those troubles: malnutrition, diseases, but also murderous violence perpetrated by active milicians in spite of the signature of peace agreements in 2008 and the establishment of a new national army. In Eastern Congo – in the regions of Ituri and Kivu bordering Uganda and Rwanda and lust after for their great mineral resources – rape as a weapon of war and forced recruitment of child soldiers are common practice.
Faced with this disaster, Congolese people can do nothing but live, as the book shows it through images of daily life in Kinshasa and of a crossing of the country along the Congo river.
It is a weak and drained part of the world, forgotten by the international community that Cedric Gerbehaye shows with the precision and the engagement of the great photographers, never lapsing into sensationalism.
Today, the population still suffers from the consequences of those troubles: malnutrition, diseases, but also murderous violence perpetrated by active milicians in spite of the signature of peace agreements in 2008 and the establishment of a new national army. In Eastern Congo – in the regions of Ituri and Kivu bordering Uganda and Rwanda and lust after for their great mineral resources – rape as a weapon of war and forced recruitment of child soldiers are common practice.
Faced with this disaster, Congolese people can do nothing but live, as the book shows it through images of daily life in Kinshasa and of a crossing of the country along the Congo river.
It is a weak and drained part of the world, forgotten by the international community that Cedric Gerbehaye shows with the precision and the engagement of the great photographers, never lapsing into sensationalism.
photographs by Cédric GERBEHAYE
From 02/06/2010 to 31/07/2010
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From 02/06/2010 to 31/07/2010
Galerie FAIT & CAUSE
58 rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
Opening hours : Du mardi au samedi de 13h30 à 18h30
Entrée libre
Phone : 01 42 74 26 36
contact@sophot.com
www.sophot.com
