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This book is a collaboration between VII Photo Agency, Doctors Without Borders and DMO. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries. VII Photo Agency was designed from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution hub for some of the world's finest photojournalism, VII has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century. The death toll from the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the highest ever attributed to war in Africa or indeed, anywhere in the world since World War II. Almost 4 million deaths have occurred in the past five years. Aid agencies say that violence, war-related hunger and disease continue to kill 1,000 people every day. The conflict, fueled by mining for gold and minerals used for cell phones and computers, continues each day. VII photographers have documented the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo and the response by the international community and MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in color and black-and-white essays.

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Ron Haviv contract photographer for Newsweek, has confronted risk in order to bring attention to our less fortunate neighbors. Gary Knight contract photographer for Newsweek, concerned primarily with human rights and issues of crime and justice. Antonin Kratochvil photojournalist, produced work that has appeared in magazines and other publications worldwide. Joachim Ladefoged has worked in more than 25 countries, winning international recognition for covering war, conflict and ordinary life around the world. His pictures have been published in the New York Times Magazine, GEO, Le Monde, Spiegel, Newsweek, TIME, Mare, Liberation, and French National Geographic. James Nachtwey contract photographer for Time Magazine, has devoted his life to documenting wars, conflicts, and critical social issues. Simon Robinson has covered Africa for TIME magazine since 1999, first from Nairobl, Kenya and now from Johannesburg, South Africa. He has reported from over 35 countries in Africa and the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Yemen. In 2003, he was TIME's acting bureau chief in Baghdad. Nicolas de Torrente is Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the United States. Before joining the US office in early 2001, he worked extensively for the organization, first as an administrator and head of mission in Tanzania and Rwanda, and later as an emergency coordinator in Somalia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan.

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