Jane Evelyn AtwoodSentinelles de l’ombre (Signed)

"In June 2000, Handicap International, one of the founders of the 1992 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), sent me to Cambodia to photograph the effects of mines on the population. I discovered a country of extreme poverty, ravaged by thirty years of civil war and the brutal regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which followed the armed conflicts led successively by France and the United States in Indochina and In Vietnam. I traveled on almost non-existent tracks, accompanied by an interpreter and a driver made available to me by Handicap International. I slept in huts or in a room rented from a farmer who had no other income than what I paid him for the night. Like everyone else, I learned very quickly not to stray from the beaten path. (...)"

- Introduction from the book, translated from French

Softcover under dust jacket, 17 x 24,5 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other than very little wear on the dust jacket. Text in French. Signed by Jane Evelyn Atwood.