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By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (Storm Over Bangui) comes a graphic documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photos and illustrations.
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Marc Ellison is currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, though this award-winning photojournalist's favorite subject is Africa. Difficulties of reintegration of girl soldiers in Uganda, practices of female genital mutilation, topics on child marriage in Tanzania, sex workers facing the prevalence of AIDS in Mozambique, health challenges in Sudanese refugee camps, and the use of reality radio to help farmers in Mali are just some of the sensitive topics that Marc Ellison has focused on in his work with
60 Minutes, Al Jazeera, The BBC, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Toronto Star and
Vice. A House Without Windows is his fourth work in comics journalism. Check out all of Marc's works at marcellison.com and follow him on Twitter at @marceellison.
Illustrator, watercolourist and self-taught caricaturist, Didier Kassaï was born in 1974 in Sibut, Central African Republic. He is known for his humorous watercolors and his active involvement in the drawing of the Central African press from 1994 to 1997, notably in the biblical press of the Baptist Mid-Mission and in the satirical daily
Le Perroquet. In 1998, he participated in several residencies and festivals in Africa, Europe or the United States. He is the co-author (with Olivier Bombasaro) of
Gypépé the Pygmy and
Adventures in Central Africa with the Editions Ivoiriens Classic, he has also signed with several collective albums, some of which are in France. In 2006, he won the Africa and Mediterraneo Prize in Bologna for his work:
Azinda and The Forced Marriage as well as the "Vues d'Afrique" contest at the Angoulême Festival with
Bangui la coquette. His first solo album,
The Odyssey of Mongou was published in 2014 by Harmattan BD. The following year, he published
Storm Over Bangui, published by La Boîte à Bulles (of which excerpts were previously published in
La Revue dessiné), an album soon to be followed by
Pousse-Pousse (L'Harmattan), which won the Best Project Award at the festival Algiers in 2009.
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By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (Storm Over Bangui) comes a graphic documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photos and illustrations.
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"Told in a style that mixes photos and illustrations, the valiant Didier, pencil in hand, approaches whoever is willing to talk to him, with only empathy and understanding, going where probably no one has dared to go, inside the warring zones of Bangui, at the Central African Republic."
