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For 30 years and with deep journalistic passion, French photographer Pascal Maitre has put this most exciting continent on his agenda. His watchful and incorruptible eye has found gorgeous, captivating images in places where political and social upheaval shook the world. The pictures were published in big-name magazines such as GEO, Paris Match, L\u2019Express, Stern<\/em> and National Geographic<\/em>. In his photographs Maitre subtly uses angle, light, contrast and colour to document Africa, touchingly, full of magic and fascination, with a deep respect for the African people. Amazing Africa\u00a0<\/em>is the work of one of the most outstanding photographers of our times.<\/p>\n

PASCAL MAITRE ABOUT AFRICA
\n<\/strong>In anthropology this is known as the gift and the return (or counter) gift. The people that I shall present in the following texts gave me a great deal. The time has come for me to give something in return. Through three symbolic characters, this is also, of course, a tribute to Africa or, rather, to different versions of Africa, all close to my heart. Therefore I invite you to take this book as…<\/p>\n

\u2026 A BOOK THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO AFRICANS<\/strong>
\nAll of them. Because this pluralistic, complex continent, all too often a subject of caricature, harbours exceptional men and women. From Nobel prize winners to peasants. From nomads to businessmen. My work as a photojournalist has brought me mostly in contact with down-to-earth people, attached to a particular place. Beings connected to the sky and the earth, seekers of water in the heart of the desert, of spirits in the bush. Fighters and poets. Kalakoa, the Touareg, is forever etched in my memory.<\/p>\n

\u2026 A BOOK THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO “FIXERS”<\/strong>
\nThey are often spoken of. The kidnapping of journalists, the taking of hostages, have put the people we call \u2018fixers\u2019 on centre stage: people, without whom our work in the field would be impossible. I like to refer to them as \u2018openers\u2019. Thanks to them, we obtain authorisation which even the diplomatic corps would have difficulty acquiring and we are able to work in war zones \u2013 it should be noted also that these people are often
\nkidnapped at the same time as journalists and that they also risk their lives. They are the ones who give us access to information, who allow us to reach places and scenes which we transform into photographic eye-witness accounts. The difficulty for journalists in the field is to gain such access.<\/p>\n

The rest of the job, taking photographs, is not the hardest. I can never say enough about how much I owe these men and women who have taken risks for me, who have allowed me to enter their lives, who have opened their hearts to me. Moreover, I no longer talk of \u2018fixers\u2019, for these people have a family name, a first name. The stories built with them, for manyyears now, have become stories of friendship.<\/p>\n

Ajoos, my guide in the hell of Mogadishu, is one of them.<\/p>\n

… A BOOK THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN OUR REPORTING<\/strong>
\nSometimes we forget. The nameless people in our photographs are real historical actors. The men and women who haunt our pictures remain heroes, sometimes tragic and sometimes happy, of a story in which the photojournalist is physically present, but of which he is only a witness and not an integral element.<\/p>\n

My wish was to present, in these sketches, people out of the ordinary, because everything in Africa \u2013 the land, nature, beliefs, the way life is lived \u2013 generates important and beautiful characters. The magnificent and heroic Burundian, Maggy Barankitse, is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous and captivating images, full of magic and fascination.
\nFor 30 years French photographer Pascal Maitre, who works for
\nbig-name magazines such as GEO<\/em> or National Geographi<\/em>c put this
\nmost exciting continent on his photographic agenda.<\/p>\n

Pascal Maitre<\/strong><\/p>\n

24 \u00d7 33,3 cm
\n348 pages
\n147 double-sided photos
\nEnglish\/French\/German
\nHardcover
\nISBN 978-3-901753-41-1
\nSeptember 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2265,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[38,36,416],"product_tag":[497,453,539,411,560,565,557],"class_list":{"0":"post-2298","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-nature","7":"product_cat-photography","8":"product_cat-reportage-en","9":"product_tag-africa","10":"product_tag-conflict","11":"product_tag-development","12":"product_tag-fine-art-en","13":"product_tag-nature","14":"product_tag-reportage-en","15":"product_tag-war","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAmazing Africa - Edition Lammerhuber<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.lammerhuber.at\/en\/books\/amazing-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amazing Africa - Edition Lammerhuber\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gorgeous and captivating images, full of magic and fascination. 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