Marcus Bleasdale – Rape of a Nation | LensCulture

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Rape of a Nation – Photographs and text by Marcus Bleasdale | LensCulture

An unflinching, outraged report about the ongoing human tragedy occurring in the Congo—along with a video interview with the photographer behind these powerful images

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marcus-bleasdale-rape-of-a-nation

The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy. It is fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is countless more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me and our children and our parent, if we had the bad luck to be born into the world this book portrays.