JOSÉ NICOLAS

Bilingual French + English

12 x 17 cm / 24 pages / January 2017

isbn : 978-2-35137-210-4

Text: Sophie Bernard 

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When José Nicolas left Toulouse to try his hand at photography, he met Bernard Kouchner who had recently founded “Médecins du Monde” (Doctors of the World). The humanitarian association was active in many places – from Lebanon to the China Sea – and Nicolas spent two years travelling the world in their company and learning his trade.

In 1994, while following Opération Turquoise in Rwanda, he was seriously injured. He spent several months in hospital, from which he emerged with the desire to become independent and give new impetus to his work. But he remains guided by the same desire to bear witness, to bring a humanist perspective to his documentary work, as shown by the delightful Cambodian images in this book.