The Photographer (comics)
| The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (Le Photographe) | |
|---|---|
The cover of the American edition | |
| Date | 2006 |
| Page count | 288 pages |
| Publisher | Dupuis |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre |
| Artists | Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre |
| Colorists | Frédéric Lemercier |
| Original publication | |
| Issues | 3 |
| Date of publication | 2003–2006 |
| Translation | |
| Publisher | First Second Books |
| Date | 2009 |
| ISBN | 1-59643-375-2 |
| Translator | Alexis Siegel |
The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders is a nonfiction graphic novel by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier. The Photographer tells the true story of Didier Lefèvre, a French photojournalist, who accompanied a Médecins Sans Frontières mission during the height of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1986. The book interweaves Lefèvre's black-and-white photographs and Guibert's illustrations—combined with captions and word balloons—to create the narrative.
First published by Dupuis in three volumes from 2003 through 2006, The Photographer sold 250,000 copies in France and won the Essentials of Angoulême award in 2007. It has been translated from the original French into 11 languages. First Second published the English edition in 2009.